Squareface @ 31°North

(And why are you not?)
Some mornings, in the early seconds before wakefulness, I see in my mind a hot bowl of hei mee — prawn noodles. The bright yellow noodles in a pastel blue plastic bowl, swimming with shelled prawns, fried onions, and deep fried pork lard in steaming hot brown soup. And then I can [...]

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The first fall.
Waiting to see if it’ll blanket.

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Okay. It’s been a long hiatus.
I remember not too long ago I was nagging friends to continue blogging even after they started working and didn’t buy into the excuse of “no time”, “too tired”, “don’t wanna face another computer after a day’s work”. Little did I know I would mutter these excuses to concerned online [...]

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Does it mean I speak impeccable English, can be referred to as an English grammar handbook, spout bombastic English vocabulary, or authorized to correct your English? Barely. If I’m qualified to do anything, it is to show you how ugly my graduation photo and certificates are (name and id numbers have been unskillfully removed by [...]

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I just sat for my final paper in university, possibly the very last one of my life. It was for my Shakespeare elective. Everyone left the exam room complaining about it, because the final mini-essay question was not in the text at all, nor did he give us any clue that he’d drop such a [...]

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Welcome to China. Since we cannot sh**t everyone who speaks of Ti*et or the Ti*n*nm*n m*ss*cr*, we have taken the liberty to clean the Internet for you! Proudly known as the Great Firewall of China, net nannies in China have helped BLOCKED sites that may contain misinformation. In the past few years, we have banned, [...]

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I received the following text message from my class representative:
“通知：周四没来拍照的同学请发一张个人生活照到＊＊＊＊＊，最好是风景照，照相馆的人会负责PS上去”
(Notice: Those who didn’t join us for photo-taking on Thursday, please send a casual photo of yourself to *****. An ideal picture would be one with scenery as background, as the photography studio staff will be responsible for using photoshop to place you in the faculty [...]

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I’ve been offered a full-time position with the company I’ve been working for in the past 2 months. It’s been on my mind the entire weekend, including my sleeping hours. 
Spent 2 hours on the phone on a long distance call with my mom, who went on in circles about my work, the salary, house rental, [...]

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Realized this May 1st holiday was the first time I spent it in Shanghai. Made it a point to go out to look-see, and told myself, never again. Though I probably still will come next national holiday.

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My macbook may be the one single possession in my life that saw through a month of research, scouting, and waiting. I’ve read up, compared prices, and waited for the best offer before bringing it home. Impulse buy, this is not.
I was hesitant at first, buying  a macbook in Shanghai. Forum users were skeptical too, [...]

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