Tag Archives: Nostalgia
NYC: Columbus Circle

It takes some guts (and stomach) to be a New Yorker

by on 24. Sep, 2010 in New York

The New York Magazine’s Daily Intel profiles a resident of my beloved city every week and one the survey’s final question is always: What makes someone a New Yorker? My answer: a true New Yorker is someone who, even when physically 180 degree around the world, thinks about what they are going to eat in [...]

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Ni hao, zhong guo

by on 26. Aug, 2010 in China, Travel

12 hours in China, and I am already exhausted of Chinese toilets, the unhealthily reliable constant: dirty squatters, urine everywhere and no toilet paper. Even plumbing within private households blows. Strangely, dirty toilets in China smell differently from dirty toilets in America, and I am becoming conditioned to associate this unfamiliar odor to poop. Maybe [...]

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