Love will keep us together

Aug
16
08

Today marks Maggie’s and my 18 month anniversary. I didn’t think it was a thing to be celebrated - Maggie set me straight.
Though it’s a lot more just a quirk that my wife like’s to celebrate things, I found it interesting that 18 (yāobā) is considered lucky by Chinese superstitious mumbo jumbo.
In addition to that [...]

A reminder of the way things were

Feb
14
08

Maggie returns home today after spending the Spring Festival holidays at her parents’ place up in the North East.
For the last nine days I’ve been thrown back into a lifestyle I had nearly forgotten - bachelorhood. Now before images of me out all night sniffin’ coke off the scarred ass of a 50 kuai hooker [...]

Happy Birthday Baobei: Chinese calendar be damned!

Apr
17
07

It was Maggie’s birthday on the weekend. Actually, it was last week sometime. She turned 27. Wait, no it was 28.
Despite what you may think of her husband, I am not as inconsiderate as may be gleaned from the above collection of confusion. You see, Maggie’s Chinese (for those not following along), and as such [...]