Tales of a Chunjie Agnostic

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Chunjie is a time to catch up one work, fulfill my jiaozi quota for the quarter, and to write snarky blog posts about the holiday season while pretending to work on my laptop.

Five people you meet on the Beijing metro…

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I’ve been riding the subway more. I don’t know why. I’ve never before been particularly masochistic nor do I generally enjoy close physical contact with strangers. But it seems an economical way to get around the city now that every available road surface is jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive. Having spent quite a few commuting hours below ground now, I’ve started to distinguish a taxonomy of my fellow passengers, including several species which I find it best to avoid.

A good customer service story — in Beijing, no less.

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Mistakes happen. No restaurant is perfect. But I judge a restaurant’s service not by their mistakes, but by how much they seem to care about fixing them when things do go wrong.

Annnnnnddddd…..we’re back.

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Back from summer break and looking forward to a new semester…plus tales from the Forbidden City tour touts.

My 345th fail while living in China: Buying a basketball

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I haven’t done a good “Dear China, WTF?” post in quite some time, so sit back and let me tell you about the “Adventure of Buying a Basketball.”