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16 Candles x 2 = Some Serious Wax

So, it’s my birthday — and shaping up to be one of the best ones I’ve had in years. As mentioned in the previous post, my best friend Cory arrives from Canada today for his first visit to China. I leave in a couple hours to grab the... ...full story at Humanaught

from Humanaught on Thu, Jul 16 2009

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15 Aug 08 visit Troy Cory Show 5900-01 "Beijing 2008 - 20 Years Later"  »  YouTube videoVRA5900-01 Troy Cory Show 5900-01 "Beijing - 20 Years Later - 1988 to 2008" "Knock, Knock, Who's There?" About China's Open Door Policy. Players: Troy Cory, Joey Adams, vp Al Gore, Josie Cory, Shanghai 1997. Troy Sings, Smooth Sailing. / A VRA LookRadio...
04 Apr 07 visit Standard Chartered needs a better Chinese name  »  bokane I’m getting ready to go to Hong Kong for a couple of days for visa reasons — not the usual visa run, as I’ll explain later — but first a quick post: At my soon-to-be-former job today, we did a report on the four foreign banks...
02 Aug 09 visit Trippin on HDR  »  Humanaught Well, I’ve been back from travelling for nearly a week now, and am only just getting organized. I plan to post a full summary of my and my friend Cory’s summer travels around China’s tourist triangle, just as soon as I get all my photos...
03 Jul 08 visit Canada Day BBQ in Suzhou  »  Humanaught Ok, I’m a couple days late in posting it - but Happy Canada Day! This year’s Canada Day marked the fourth I’ve been in China for, but the first I’ve celebrated - and what’s better, we did it properly with a BBQ and beer! I...
05 Sep 07 visit The One Where TaiTai’s Mate’s Dad Goes to China in 1971  »  Sinocidal A couple of years ago I was talking to a friend’s father, back in the UK, about life in China and he mentioned that he’d traveled there a couple of times in the early seventies. Naturally I was very interested to hear of his experiences,...
05 Apr 09 visit From the Granite Studio Archives: Mao and the Marriage Counselor, The Hundred Flowers Movement of 1957  »  Granite Studio I’m still in Pingyao so here’s one more from the archives.  It’s one of my favorites. —————& #8212;——– “People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.” - Somerset Maugham ...

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