by Kevin Thom | Oct 7, 2009 | China 2009
I went to bed around 8:30 last night, and woke up fully refreshed at 4 in the morning. So, I figured I’d make a little walk down to the Bund to try to catch the sunrise over Pudong’s spectacular futuristic skyline. The only problem is, there was no way to...
by Kevin Thom | Oct 7, 2009 | China 2009
Well, here I am again. Dad and I have arrived in Shanghai. The sterile white of Pudong airport was a soft buffer into the country after spending 14 hours in the bizarre perpetual twilight of the Air Canada 777. We took the maglev train from the airport into the city....
by Kevin Thom | Sep 23, 2008 | Personal
I’m not sure if I mentioned it before, but I’ve been taking Chinese lessons. So far, I’ve had five lessons. I’ve hired a tutor to teach me once per week for an hour. At first, I was wondering if an hour would be enough, but by the end of each...
by Kevin Thom | Jun 16, 2008 | Random Thoughts
Here’s something cool I found through Zura’s blog. It’s Wordle, which makes word art from text you paste in. In this case, it’s my Asian Wrap blog entry.
by Kevin Thom | Feb 27, 2008 | BS Detector
I love it when someone gets caught trying to scam the rest of us. It happened this week when China’s official news agency was forced to apologize for awarding a “photo of the year” award to a Photoshopped image of antelopes migrating peacefully...
