For the last month or so I've been keeping my eyes open for a Chinese teacher. I've had a few ads up here and there, along with answering any likely looking ones I see myself.

Two films I've watched the last couple of days.
Breaking News (大事件）is good stuff, Richie Jen is much more convincing as a crime boss than you'd expect if you knew him from his day job as a pretty pop star and you get all the Hong Kong shoot shoot kick kick stuff you'd expect, along [...]

I spent the Spring Festival of 2002 in Harbin, studying Chinese. As damned near everyone I knew had had the much better idea of going somewhere with average daily temperatures above -15C, I spent a fair number of the evenings of Spring Festival of 2002 in an internet cafe where they had good heat and [...]

Vocab I got from reading a 南方周末 article suggesting the Audit Department become responsible to the People's Congress (hey, it was a slow day at work...)
It's not all completely new to me - some of it is stuff I recognize but don't know how to use, or could read but didn't know how to pronounce, [...]

Two photos from the balcony around 7.30pm, just after a storm. These are the colours that come out of the camera, but to be honest they didn't seem quite that dramatic . . .

A tip from a friend sent me off hunting for CDs by 姜昕 (Jiang Xin). She was described to me as a kind of female Xu Wei, and the CD I picked up had him listed more than once in the credits. It is similar kind of stuff - guitar driven vocals, nice lyrics if [...]