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logo changes

Bear with the ugly thing up top; I’m still trying to tweak it in Wordpress. Don’t have much time now though – must meet the others at Shijie Zhichuang for our lunch at Ikea. What’s an Ikea doing in Shenzhen? What’s an Ikea not doing in Shenzhen, is the question. The [...]

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pimsleur never recommended this

After my Walmart escapade of the day, and even after the school workers who showed up unannounced at my door to install security bars on my windows (in the process worrying me immensely as I watched their crazy-dangerous methods of doing so on the 4th floor), a more-or-less impromptu CTLC group reunion was arranged for [...]

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lost in language and location

At a sushi lunch today with Kami at the nearby Garden City megamall, I conversed with her of the difference in educational learning between knowledge acquisition and analytic work; of Kami’s thesis work on collapsing specialized knowledge towards an interdisciplinary base, and of our preferences between Murakami, Mishra, and Borges. Then I shopped around [...]

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