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Jun 07, 2010 | Post by: emmelin1 3 Comments

Romp.

The insanity must stop. The plastics are scuffed and the ghosts of their fruition haunting my room, still sitting in various corners in their respective bags. And I thought that having Saks one block away or Magnolia Bakery on the other end of the crosswalk from work would be dangerous.

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May 23, 2010 | Post by: emmelin1 4 Comments

Images: romanticizing La Ville-Lumière de l’Orient

Photographs have an amazing ability to frame the world.  They portray what words lack to describe and what videos too quickly overlook. They tease the senses and goad the imagination. They interpret the milieu. They also force us to live in the moment, take a breath of fresh air, consider

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May 16, 2010 | Post by: emmelin1 4 Comments

China’s World Expo an expo to the world

Nba Nchara is an official from the Ministry of Information on Culture and Tourism in the Republic of Equatorial Guinea. Officials from his country sent him to Shanghai last month to represent Equatorial Guinea at Expo 2010 and educate patrons about their nation and its offerings. Swearing by the automated

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Mar 12, 2010 | Post by: emmelin1 2 Comments

Day or two behind…

I’m a day or two behind on blog updating, namely because I failed at relaunching the new theme and everything got destroyed. But it’s more or less fixed now and I’m going to group days two and three together since day three was… well, retail therapy. Lynds and I checked

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Mar 10, 2010 | Post by: emmelin1 2 Comments

Dulce de leche and the golden arches

It’s almost 2 a.m. my time—the peak hour for being out and about in Buenos Aires—but Lynds and I decided that our lack of sleep on the redeye over here necessitated an early night back to recoup for the rest of the week. Sidenote: the Mickey D’s golden arches are

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Jan 11, 2010 | Post by: emmelin1 No Comments

“Wait, I forgot that people can have manners…”

January 2nd, 2010 One of the first things that friend/flatmate who is here with me in Hong Kong said when someone didn’t cut her in line to get on the metro or the bus. Interesting. Well, to be honest, I kind of forgot that too, and I’d only been in

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Jan 08, 2010 | Post by: emmelin1 No Comments

Somethings new

Everyone always says that you learn something new every day. I feel like being here makes me forget one thing and learn a million others. As flatmate said when we were in Hong Kong, we’ve forgotten manners. That’s one way to look at it. Or you could say that I’ve

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Jan 07, 2010 | Post by: emmelin1 No Comments

FTChinese.com multimedia: December 2009-January 2010

My multimedia projects for FTChinese.com December 2009-January 2010

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