Posted in china, fun on September 26th, 2006 No Comments »
Apparently, China’s ancient military prowess is still inciting such fascination that some modern western man tried to join the Qing dynasty army. I have to say that this German art student planned his enrollment very well since he even made his own cool and authentic-looking uniform!
Posted in china, fun on September 19th, 2006 No Comments »
I have a $300 Palm Tungsten T3 with a gorgeous slide-out 320 x 480 pixel screen, a powerful 400 MHz Intel XScale processor, and loads of software that turns my T3 into an organizer, a game console, an entertainment player (plays mp3, avi, mpg). It’s literally a computer in your hand. Whenever playing bejeweled, sudoku, […]
Posted in china on September 14th, 2006 No Comments »
Here’s an article I wrote once critiquing a famous Chinese novel. It is kinda funny, but sorry no translation for non-Chinese-speaking folks ’cause it’d be very hard to do it the right way. That’s partly why no Chinese had won Nobel literature prize until very recently (not that my writing would win anything soon either […]