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half chips, half rice

If you think I'm hot, you should check out my sister!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

About Me

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I am Welsh.
but I teach English.
at a Japanese school.
in China.
where I am learning Chinese.
confused?!?
me too.

My Interests

eating salami outside

rockin and or rolling

trains

being on trains

sleeping on trains

thinking of interesting things to do on trains

certainly NOT trainspotting

borscht soup

vodka (ooh who's been to Russia?!)

anchors and all things nautical (pirates welcome!)

sugar/yeast-free diets

listening to the rain whilst in bed,

dancing til dawn yee hah

Chinese medicine and acupuncture

love, and how it makes everything go whoah

lust, and how it makes everything go grrrr

old furniture (chairs are the best)

vintage dresses (yes please)

Hoummus (THE best foodstufff EVER invented possibly?)

Chinoiserie

buttons

Foreign LAnGuAgES anD SLanG (WeLSH & EnGLiSh fluEntlY, GErmAN & FrEnCH QuItE wEll, A SPRInkLinG OF SPANisH & ItALiAno Am NoW LearnInG ChinESe MAndarIiN)

singing (i try)

festivals of all shapes n sizes

Yoga (and falling asleep in a great yoga class)

riding on motorbikes with hunky men

glitter

photography

tropical fruits (current faves: lychees, papaya, mangosteen and dragon fruit...YUMMOSA)

charity shops/thrift stores/op shops -whatever u want to call them, I will shop in them until the day I die...

records

listening to damn good music

dancin like a boffoon to great choons

trips on ricketty old trains to cool new places

feelin real swell yee haa!

You are Magic Mushrooms!

You don't mind taking a little mind trip - even if it leaves you with a ripped up stomach.
You're keen on sitting back and checking out the visuals. Or talking with your cat.
And you're up for the orgasmic powers of shrooms, as soon as your lover stops looking like an alien.

he he he funki porcini!

I'd like to meet:

...the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centrelight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'... '

Music:

old StuFF, New StuFF, aLL kinds of stuff...

currently love listening to...

Joanna Newsom

ARAB STRAP

Euros Childs

Boards of Canada

Brigyn

Antony and the Johnsons

Arcade Fire

modest mouse

super furry animals

dusty springfield

radiohead

U2

The Cure

PJ Harvey

lemon jelly

Stevie Wonder

Movies:

the fly

Harold&Maude

Songs from the 2ndFloor

Lost inTranslation

Morvern Callar

a Bugs Life

Reykjavik 101

HumanTraffic

Amelie

Jesus' Son

Trainspotting

The Last Great Wilderness

Stealing Beauty

Tilsammans

The Wicker Man

1flew over the cuckoo's nest

Cinema Paradiso

Roman Holiday

Dancer in the Dark

28 days later

Y dyn nath ddwyn y dolig

gadael lenin

Hedd Wyn

In the mood for love

House of flying daggers

Television:

mainly comedy, like LITTLE BRITAIN, the Office, league of gentlemen, nighty night, smack the pony, monkey dust, also decent interesting documentaries, Magic Roundabout,Angelina Anaconda,Trisha (she rools), Jools Holland, Sex&TheCity (just for the shoes)

Books:

"toast" Nigel Slater

"under milk wood" Dylan thomas,

"ham on rye" Charles Bukowski,

"on the road". "big sur" Jack Kerouac,

"1984" George Orwell,

"wuthering heights" emily bronte

"wide sargasso sea" jean rhys,

"jane eyre" charlotte bronte,

"cysgod y cryman" by Islwyn Ffowc Elis,

"Change your life without geting out of bed" by Saki,

"catcher in the rye" and "franny and zooey" j.d. Salinger,

'the curious incident of the dog in the night' great that...

graham greene's stuff (cheers helenaa)

Arthur Miller,

Tennessee Williams' plays and poems,

ed thomas "house of america" (wicked anglo-welsh playwright)'s stuff is awesome,

history books,

cookery books,

old children's illustrated fairytale books

Heroes:

Taid *(my grandfather) David Lloyd Roberts, such a legend.

My Blog

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds...and the rain

...it must be said that listening to Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds whilst walking in the freezing disgusting  rain here in Shanghai really does dampen your spirits...literally. So I shan't be doing...
Posted by half chips, half rice on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:11:00 PST

bochau cochion...<rosy cheeks>

"nadolig llawen ichi gyd... i deulu mawr y byd... ynghanol swn y dathlu, a oes na le i'r Iesu neu ydi'r llety'n llawn o hyd? "   wel...dyma fi, yn japan.mewn sdafell sbar gyda criw onglog o bobo...
Posted by half chips, half rice on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 05:28:00 PST

last nite a DJ shaved my wife...

waa me so excited, my long lost buddy Hedy from me good ol' Bristol uni days is arriving in Shanghai this Sunday and I cannae fookin wait to see her!! And we're off to Hong Kong for a dirty w'end next...
Posted by half chips, half rice on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:41:00 PST

xie xie guys...

so I just wanna say a big THANK YOO to y'all who made my birthday this year so special and fun, it was definitely a memorable one, and probably THE most hilarious one I've had in a while... Got up&nbs...
Posted by half chips, half rice on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 02:16:00 PST

i wish these words was what i wrote innit...

Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup,They slither wildly as they slip away across the universePools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind,Possessing and caressi...
Posted by half chips, half rice on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 04:23:00 PST

hot puppies

yo everyone listen to the HOT PUPPIES - their song "green eyliner" makes my world go round and i am in love with it (they're on here!) today is a damp and dreary day here in shanghai, but i am happy a...
Posted by half chips, half rice on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:34:00 PST

Radio Radio! Gimme Gimme! (The Donnas - cool song)

if you are clinically bored tune into me rabitting away in welsh about my life here in china on bbc radio cymru (ho ho ho) here's da link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/noscript.shtml?/radio/aod/cymru_a o...
Posted by half chips, half rice on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:04:00 PST

singing for my supper (literally)

well bloody ell here i am bloggin again!  just to update y'all on what a fabulously musically active week i've had! it all started off last thursday evening at windows (some bar here in Shanghai)...
Posted by half chips, half rice on Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:36:00 PST

the last big weekend for a while

ok, all this excessive drinking must soon come to a halt as it:s starting to kill me (softly)..had THE silliest and maddest weekend though, cooked a feast of a mexican beanie chilli friday night for s...
Posted by half chips, half rice on Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:59:00 PST

je suis a la dentiste eeek!

so here i am at the ultra futuristic japanese dentist here in shanghai nervously waiting for my appointment. not sure if this is blog worthy but what the hell...whoever reads it must be as much o...
Posted by half chips, half rice on Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:55:00 PST