The Journey is the Goal

Right now it is around 11:30 in the morning and I have just finished playing a few rounds of Unreal Tournament 2004. While I was playing I was pondering some of the ads that appear on TV in Shenzhen. I only receive two English channels, both of which are from Hong Kong being ATV World [...]

Since around 11:30am today I seem to be feeling the effects of a bug I contracted from someone or other. I can’t remember how long my nose has been running for, but my throat has started itching today and I’m already starting to feel quite drowsy. I had a sleep today between I think around [...]

I write this after having just completed Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow on my Nintendo DS Lite. I am surprised how my portable gaming devices have come along since arriving in China. When I first arrived I came with little in the way of electronics: a digicam with 3 memorysticks totalling 544MB of space, my two [...]

I have few memories of my youth, much of what I know of my very early years I have been told by my parents, but in this fog which I am told is my history, a handful of profound events or themes remain. One of these themes I remember from when I was in either [...]

I have not posted for quite some time; this is not to say I have had no desire to post but rather my health has been and continues to be in a poor state. Wrought with a lack of appetite and a staccato of chest-pains, I have since found calm enough to add to what [...]

In Taipei over the course of, well, for all I know, it’s entire history; there have been protests and mass demonstrations. Not over the opening of brothels near schools, or over government indifference towards racism or sexism, or over the closure or destruction of symbols valued by the public, but rather over who occupies the [...]

Though I live in Shenzhen, I make an effort to follow the news from my home city in the Sydney Morning Herald. In truth, I don’t follow SZ news at all as I don’t really have an option to do so. Granted there is the Shenzhen Daily, but it’s rare that any of the shops [...]