In the recent two months I have been experimenting with healthy living, and I found that having a bike makes healthy living a whole lot easier. What is more surprising though is that by riding my bike daily to get places, I see many parts of life in a completely different light. Originally I thought [...]
I took a week-long trip to Yunnan, spending 5 days in Xishuangbanna and the remaining 2 in Kunming, the capital.
XiShuangBanNa (Jin Hong - capital city)
This is China’s mini Thailand. XiShuangBanNa is a self-governed area, populated by a majority of the minority group Dai, as opposed to Han which composes most of the Chinese population. [...]
In the past fitness to me was easily measured - does my body look good, and can I run x miles at y speed? Getting into shape was just as simple: work out every other day - as I talked about in this post - and run the days between. But as [...]
Nanjing! Nanjing! - City of life and death - was not an emotional roller coaster as most films like this tend to be. There was no happiness. There was no point that I felt like jumping for joy. If you know anything about the Japanese “rape of Nanking,” then you know that it was one [...]
If you’ve followed the earlier parts to this series, one, two and three, you are ready to move on to actual learning! Ideally, the early game should last no more than 3 months, meaning that you are ready to start sounding like an idiot in front of groups of strangers native to the language within [...]
