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Humorless heat hassles Hashers

Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 6:08 AM by will
Back when he lived in Singapore many of Imagethief's friends used to run with the Hash House Harriers, the "drinking club with a running problem". Imagethief, being a solitary, sober runner used to give that miss. But it did sound like a sloshing good Read More...
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The baby is coming next week, pinhead!

Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 6:51 AM by will
Although his wife may disagree, Imagethief believes very deeply that Homo sapiens should have a gestational period of 241 weeks. Forty weeks is simply not long enough for first-time parents to come to grips with the reality of having a child. The funny Read More...
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Let me tell ya about Edison Chen's dirty photos

Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:17 AM by will
With the possible exception of Disney villains, Imagethief cannot think of a group of people that more richly deserve their miserable fates than Hong Kong celebrity Edison Chen and his cavalcade of cupcakes . If I sound unsympathetic here, that is because Read More...
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2007 best-of-Imagethief and statistics

Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:01 PM by will
There is no such thing as a dull year in China. 2008 is well underway and already looks like another whopper. We're only a month in and we've already had the biggest storms in half a century. The Olympics, the mother of all China events, is now a scant seven months off. God only knows what will happen in between. Read More...
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Ich Bin Ein Beijinger: Beijing reloaded

Posted Sunday, January 27, 2008 9:26 PM by will
I pinch-hit for Kaiser on the back page of That's Beijing's January issue. Thanks to my stint in Shanghai it's the first time in nearly a year that I've written something for them. Fittingly, I wrote about moving back to Beijing from Shanghai. The column Read More...
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When Chinese press conference cliches go wrong

Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 6:43 AM by will
Imagethief has always been annoyed by the Chinese inclination to festoon press conferences with flowers. Spokespeople get corsages. Dais tables and podiums get bouquets. You'd think you were at a wedding if weren't for the fact that everyone is bored Read More...
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Pardon me if I don't salute China's plastic bag ban

Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 6:35 AM by will
To look at the news surrounding China's recent announcement of a ban on thin plastic bags you'd think the gates to environmental heaven had just swung open. I'm sure I could see those very gates if the air outside my office windows wasn't full of nitrogen Read More...
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Chinese innovation brings us one step closer to green eggs and ham

Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:09 PM by will
Yes, it's more fluorescent, green pigs. Details here (AP) and here (Xinhua). It used to be when you saw a green, glowing pig you automatically assumed a nuclear accident nearby. How times have changed. Naturally, this will all yield great benefits for Read More...
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Your very own model truss and other Olympic merchandising genius

Posted Friday, December 28, 2007 5:42 AM by will
When Imagethief read the words "model truss" in the headline of an article on China.org.cn , he had an immediate flashback to the hernia repair operation he had nine or ten years ago. In fact, I never needed a truss (it wasn't that bad a hernia), but Read More...
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Gumby's love child named Shanghai World Expo mascot

Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 5:56 AM by will
Via Danwei , here is the new mascot for Shanghai World Expo: Who appears the product of cross-breeding plasticine TV legend Gumby... ...with Izzy, the 1996 Atlanta Olympic mascot: Gumby and Izzy both being somewhat gender-neutral, the only remaining question Read More...
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Secret Santa's revenge

Posted Monday, December 17, 2007 12:06 AM by will
A few days ago Imagethief, in maximum Grinch mode, wrote a long rant on the miserable office ritual of " secret santa " gift programs. In that post I agonized about how awful I am at buying cheap presents for people I don't know. It seems I'm not the Read More...
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I hate secret Santa

Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:09 AM by will
Imagethief likes the holiday season. He is not one of those December curmudgeons who bah-humbugs his way through Christmas. Give me trees, tinsel, candy canes and a big dinner with my friends. My dad used to roast a goose for Christmas. How traditional Read More...
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China moon photos: That's all the conspiracy theory you can manage?

Posted Thursday, December 06, 2007 2:35 AM by will
It must really chafe the Chinese Department of Moonshots, or whatever bureaucracy owns the lunar program, that Chinese netizens have been questioning the authenticity of their moon photo. Surely they would have expected to be derided by arrogant foreigners Read More...
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Hairy crabs, the hill of pain and the boulevard of a thousand massage touts

Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 6:14 AM by will
Imagethief went for a hike with some good friends on Sunday. Hiking is one of the things that I was sorry to give up when I moved to Shanghai, and that I've been most eager to rediscover upon my return. In Shanghai you can drive for days through the industrial Read More...
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Further adventures in glamorous international travel

Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 10:17 AM by will
Having arrived in Macau, the romance continues. First was immigration, where the lines crawled as officers stamped arriving passengers in with the indifferent sloth that seemed circa Vietnam, 1996. My immigration officer painstakingly inspected every Read More...
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