Two and a half years is a loooong time between blog posts, holy hector...
I'm back in China! Sort of. I'm in Chengdu for 2 weeks, then rollin the UK for some PhD research action. Yes, a lot has happened in the last 2-and-a-half flangdang years. Lemme give you a brief rundown.
In 2008 and 2009 I was teaching English at Sichuan Normal University. Woo. I also moonlighted as a part-time teacher at a private English teaching centre in Chengdu (with semi-official approval, I must add... Although at one stage, when the police raided- em, er, yeah.) There was an earthquake (May 12, 2008), an Olympic Games (approx. 9 on the Richter Scale), and a not-much-else. Anyhow, about mid-2009, I was gettin pretty sick of teaching English, and, as one is prone to be, suddenly realized it was time to do my PhD. So I wrote to UWA in Perth, Oz, and yeah, Bob is your uncle, coz he's certainly not mine.
So why am I back in Chengdu? Well, part of my scholarliness involves doin' some stuff in the UK, so this blog technically becomes Chinaukameripies, but it doesn't quite have the same ring to it. And you are right, Chengdu is not in the UK, so I am avoiding the question. The Chengdu bit is coz an acquaintance of mine is getting married here, which is a fantastic excuse to roll on back for one more assault on the infamous hot pot while watching a motorcycle drive into oncoming traffic. I should've taken a photo.
In the two and a half years since using blogging software like Worldnomads, uploading pictures has not gotten any easier nor user-friendly. I finally got some photos onto Picasa, and Worldnomads refuses to display them. Instead I get the broken little box above. Here's the link for the first photo...
Yes it's the "Get Oxided" Shirt.
Okay, I'ma rollin out for some 糖醋排骨 at the SNU's cafeteria, spot you's all inna bit!
