I’ve been here a couple days now, and i think i’m starting to understand the traffic a bit. Initially, my hypothesis was basically “holy fuck, there are no rules, you just fuckin dodge people and honk lots”, but over time i’ve come to see a few patterns. It seems to work pretty well [...]
Today’s been a good day so far. it’s 13:41 right now, and i’m back relaxing in the hostel. I woke up at about 6am this morning, after a rough sleep. Well, the first few hours were ok, but then the french guy on the bunk across from me fuckin snored so hard [...]
Well, i made it. I’m sitting in my bunk in a hostel right now, getting ready to go to sleep. The flight took 12 long hours, but i got some ok sleep so i guess it wasn’t too bad. it was weird that it stayed daytime for so many hours in a [...]
Wednesay, april 25th 2007: Railway club (downtown vancouver), Joey Only and David Rovics (radical folk singers). Joey starts at 10pm, i’ll be there after 9pm.
Thursday, april 26th: Midnight Mass bike ride, i think it’s meeting at Grandview park on commercial drive at midnight. i’ll probably be there a bit before.
Friday, april 27th: [...]
After much searching, i’ve finally stumbled upon some good birding sites for china. It seemed like there wasn’t that much available, but i think it’s partially a language barrier. once i found some english sites that linked to the chinese language ones, i could choose the english version of some of the sites [...]
I guess i’ve been neglecting the blog for a while, but prepare for a whirlwind. i have 8 days left until i leave for Shanghai. I’ll be spending a few days there just wandering around and doing the touristy thing, then i’ll be meeting up with my classmates from SFU on May 3rd [...]
During a break between classes today, i got a call on my cellphone where the guy started with “Hi Jeremy, I’m the lawyer for so-and-so and…”, whereupon i interrupted him to say “you have the wrong number”, since my name is definitely not Jeremy. He just continued though, and said something like “oh no, [...]
In the past few days i came across several well-written (short) articles about Israel and Palestine, and i thought i’d pass them along:
Israel’s right to be racist about Zionism
Without Borders, about the content of israeli and palestinian schoolbooks
How Palestine became “Israel’s Land”
Beyond Munich: The UN Security Council Helps Disarm a Prospective Further Victim of U.S. [...]