Posts Tagged ‘pandas’
This blog needs more photos.
I wish I had all day to blog and find appropriate images to accompany my words. I realize how visually drab this thing is. (Because the sentiments expressed are so serious. I am a very serious person, obviously.) So here are some Asia- and Asian-related images I have on my computer at work that my [...]
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Tags: china, engrish, pandas
This is so belated because I was sorta sick last week, and also I was having a dumpling jones that was eclipsing all other urges (i.e. my urge to blog, my desire to complete a task at work before allowing myself to go in search of dumplings). It’s my sister’s year. Oxy.
Now I am craving [...]
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Tags: beijing, china, chinese, diplomacy, food, pandas, taiwan
Costume ideas.
I’ve developed a peculiar dread of the holiday known as Halloween. A few years ago I went out three nights in a row with three different costumes, and ever since I’ve been convinced it’s an overblown evening that ends up being a source of stress more than fun. Nothing will ever compare to the epic [...]
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Tags: art, irksome, japanese, malaise, pandas
That questionable ad with the Chinese-accented panda couple has been taken off the air after viewers complained. Bye bye, Ling Ling’s Bamboo Furniture Shack.
From the NYTimes article:
Vinod Gupta, the chairman and chief executive of InfoUSA in Omaha, the parent of Salesgenie.com, said in a telephone interview Tuesday that a commercial featuring two animated pandas speaking [...]
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Tags: chinese, irksome, media, pandas, south asian, tv
