ramblings of an expat Kiwi living in one small corner of Beijing

November 2008

Nov 30, 2008 wangbo

And from 京报网 we have one very clear reason why Yanqing County is definitely the

This weekend must be the first time ever we’ve been out shopping and come home

First, let’s just get the grumpiness out of the way: I hate Zhongguancun, and I

The trouble with this article is that whether I open it in Firefox or Explorer,

Nov 22, 2008 wangbo

So sometime yesterday- I don’t think either of us remember exactly when- Roubaozi and I

Nov 20, 2008 wangbo

I was just starting to translate an article about some kind of “energy resource grass”

Nov 20, 2008 wangbo

Somehow a bunch of random stuff all came together just before dinner inspiring me to

Nov 20, 2008 wangbo

On Tuesday evening, in preparation for a Christmas party, two of my students performed a

Really, in this day and age, we still have to put up with this kind

724 years ago, so the legend goes, Hamelin was rescued from a plague of rats