askland on June 11th, 2009

This is big news: Speaking Mandarin saved me 25 cents today. I was at a well known food establishment today (I won’t say the name, but it rhymes with “McFonald’s”). I am practicing my Mandarin (week two of lessons, yeah!) and asked them “How much?”. Then said, “Lower price, is it ok?”. Of course I [...]

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askland on October 14th, 2008

*Someone just wrote me and said “this could’ve been a C-flat”. Ouch, that’s bad!* I finally got to ride the elephants! That was one of the things I wanted to do while visiting Thailand. This was my first full vacation since relocating to China with Cirque Du Soleil. We spent three days in Bangkok and [...]

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