I don't really care what y' all think but this is not about you so if you do comment or not...it really won't make a diference...I don't give a " choose your own expletive" about points. I miss "Kingbee" because he listened to me and always gave very insightful opinions. I know others do too so its not just me he doted on...

I have only been here for less than a month or so and so far I have lived through the racial bashing tournament, the political rallies and I think we are now participating in the "gay" target shoot discipline. I am not complaining, this is part of the site's charm along with people with real problems and top notch humor. So this is my very concentrated attempt at introducing something fun and less controversial in keeping with the JU variety tradition. You have all heard the stereotyp...

The value of words is severely undermined in China. You hear things like, "my English is not very well," "how big are you?" "I have 3 brothers and 2 sisters..(mind you this is a scientific impossibility in a country that has a well monitored one child policy, what they really mean is, I have 5 cousins and that their parents were born way before the Cultural revolution, along with their siblings.)" Thus, a hubcap is "beautiful", along with an icecream and a puppy. Granted, beauty is in th...

17. I left my heart at the pawn shop For he liked to belong to many, cheaply He liked to be used, again and again Squeezed, prodded, bargained for Devalued, evalued, bartered for He liked to be special to someone For a while Till they moved on To another He liked to feel at home Yet knowing, tomorrow, He might be at home, elsewhere He has been on the shelf For far too long now, my heart Sure he’s been tried on and a...

Today I ordered a soup I only knew 2 characters of out of the five that were printed- I didn’t know it actually said “nasty smelling soup that’s going to taste good but will contain a long thread of human hair that’s well ..not yours and afterward..u will explode into an long episode of diarrhea.” Needless to say, I continued to eat because(1) it was delicious and (2) I didn’t want to add to my already outrageous bill of culture shock therapy by trying to brave the world outside my apartme...

In China, loneliness is a choice one makes, with so few foreigners to go around some schools that hire foreigners actually have “dinner partners, fuck buddies and general friendship guaranteed – true love not included.” Listed as one of their lucrative perks they have on offer. There are times, however when the loneliness creeps up on you, like the chilling cold that starts from the inside and it hits you when you least expect it, this loneliness. On a cold shabby winter’s day which is ever...