Thursday, August 13, 2009

waiting for you 等着你回来

This video is strange and terrifying. I would have never interpreted the song this way.

For all you china people who can't access youtube: the video is a scary interpretation of the 白光 song. It's really not all that exciting, but I'm always looking for another excuse to listen to this song again.

Does anyone else obsessively listen to the one track? Why does listening to the same song over and over feel so great? Is it a building of the familiar that makes us so attached to a particular song? repetitive ingraining of familiarity...?

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

the last couple of weeks


the pacific from the other side


sweet cherries


SF symphony at dolores park




rollercoaster at Santa Cruz


The view from the smallest park in SF


Harris and Vicente playing chess



using pretty light to trace something


video
I let these kids attack the piano. 加油!

Friday, July 17, 2009

do da stanky leg

I recently found a job at a summer camp. I'm working as a teaching assistant in a 4-week language summer camp where the children are taught in Mandarin and encouraged to communicate using Mandarin, which means I must speak Chinese for 8 hours each day. I'm happy.

During dismissal yesterday I saw two of my students dancing while singing, "do da' stanky leg" and came home to find this on youtube. Am I really late on this stanky leg thang?








Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Carrie Koo Mei, 顧媚, 顾媚, gù mèi



Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Avril's Screechy Voice Transcends Linguistic Divides

Avril Lavigne recorded the refrain of her hit in eight languages: English, Japanese, Portugese, German, Chinese (Mandarin), Italian, Spanish and French!

See a compilation of Avril's 8 versions (turn on your unblockers, china friends). It's worth it.

我知道你喜欢我! 不是一个秘密![加老外口音]
No es un secreto! Yo quiero ser tu novia! [apply gringo accent]

Monday, June 22, 2009

the city and a birthday














mmm green onion biscuits and GRAVY











happy birthday, Harris!



charlie and the monkey king (孙悟空)

Monday, June 15, 2009

san francisco

A lot has happened since I last posted. Blogger is blocked in China and so it became more difficult for me to post.

I moved to San Francisco last Wednesday. Here the sky is blue, the air is incredibly fresh, people dress great, everyone is pretty, the food is delicious and mexican food is cheap!

I'll be sure to take more photos in the near future. It's just, I've been too excitedly dazed to remember what a camera is.



cloudy day in beijing


siberian sunrise






delicious


fun


my brother!!


a tiny cone of delicious ice cream


a bookstore i passed had a summer sale: free books! you were allowed to take 2 books on the rack. I picked one and it was extremely uninteresting, but the drawings were nice. and it felt nice cause it was free...