August 3, 2005
I can understand being inspired by your favorite TV celebrity in naming your kid, but I think that it's very easy to go too far.
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I can understand being inspired by your favorite TV celebrity in naming your kid, but I think that it's very easy to go too far.
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I already del.icio.us'ed him, so this time I should just write up an actual entry for this weblog I'm really enjoying, Beijing or Bust, by a filmmaker living in Beijing. From his latest entry:
2:25-3pm
Lunch. The “Western Dining Room” serves salmon, quesadillas, beans, garden salads, cheese bread pudding, among others. Delicious food and civilized sittings. The Chinese crew eat Chinese stir-fries out of plastic meal boxes while squatting in the corridors.3:30pm
First shot after lunch. Have nothing to do after laying the cable before the shoot. The male and female leads, both well-known stars from America, passed by me on their way to the set. They carry this air around them which makes them stand out. Or is it just in my head?
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When I was living in Tianjin and spending too much time surfing the web (how little things change!), I ran across a gallery of pictures taken during President Nixon's 1972 visit to China. I saved a few to my computer, blogged them, and even did a redesign of this site based on them. Well, Bingfeng Teahouse just re-blogged them, so I thought I'd post my favorite one here:

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Micah Sittig's Chinese improves and worsens with the phases of the moon. He enjoys non-fiction books, bicycling, foreign languages and ethnic restaurants. He is an inveterate globetrotter, but can always be found at micah@earthling.net