Almost as good as sex
One hour foot massage followed by a two-hour body massage. Float off the bed as if being held up by a strings – a bag of limp bones.
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Year: 2007
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Typhoon Wipha
I go around the world to find the next big one – Typhoon Wipha is on her way to Shanghai with winds at 125 mph – suppposedly the worst typhoon to hit China in a decade – so we slogged through flood waters, pouring rain, and now who knows what – it is hitting at midnight but thus far it is sending squalls and tons of rain in advance of its arrival.
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Guan xi – that’s what it’s all about
The word here is phonetically guan ji, which means relationship, and that is the second most important element to knowing the Chinese people. Sometimes nothing else matters but that – or at least that is what I’m learning from my sources.
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Language barricade
When I was in Istanbul, I could sit for hours and listen to the Turkish language – which by the way was nonstop as those people talk a blue streak – here in Shanghai I love the language too but it amazes me how much people just take for granted that they can’t understand us and we can’t understand them – last night a woman was discussing her husband right in front of him –…
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Superman panties
I’ve taken to only traveling while wearing my superman panties – something about knowing the man of steel has my back makes me fly a little more comfortably.
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Love and marriage go together like oil and water
Not to be spending too much time biased towards the negative on the marriage issue, i’m just an observer writing what I hear. The women last night were bemoaning marriage. One said her beau wants to marry her sooooo bad, but she is hesitating because he’s not that smart even though the sex is phenomenal. Another who is married said the single life is the way to go – girls just have more fun. The…
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Underneath a harvest moon
On the 20th, it will be the harvest moon in China and time to eat mooncakes – when I was in Hong Kong it was the same time of year and the mooncakes were intricate and delicious. Last night, I asked for moon cakes and of the 15 people sitting at the table only one other person – an American ex-pat – would take a bite of it. Moon cakes to Chinese are like fruitcakes…
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And the Filipino girls say…
Just like Turkey’s Mediterranean coast where the Russian girls travel for summer love – Shanghai has its Filipino girls – they fill the nightclubs as singers because they speak English and work for cheap and they come as prostitutes for the militia and other dignitaries. And the natives say, they make it bad for the rest of us because some creepy old 70 year old man can have a gorgeous young Shanghai woman or Filipino.