Chris - ProfilesArchive

About Me

The light comes in much too early every day. It wakes me up, but it won't chase these dreams away.
Myspace Contact Tables

My Interests

playing bass, UK Basketball, golf, visiting the motherland again, finishing college before I'm 30, the Pittsburgh Steelers, random facts, a nice bourbon, finishing the solo album, fighting the good fight, the double rock, Parliament Lights, and some other stuff I can't remember.

I'd like to meet:

whoever

Music:

Superchunk is the greatest band ever.

Movies:

Caddyshack, The Empire Strikes Back, Glengarry/Glennross, American Psycho, Dune, The Golden Child, Pulp Fiction, Lean on Me, Boyz N the Hood, Hoosiers, The Last Dragon, Happy Gilmore, Better Off Dead, Evil Dead/Army of Darkness, THe Big Lebowski, The Burbs, My Blue Heaven, most kung fu films... I know, it's an odd mix.

Television:

Curb Your Enthusiasm, Daily Show, Family Guy, My Name is Earl, Simpsons, Kids in the Hall, Arrested Development, MST3K, Conan O'Brien, Colbert Report, The Office

Books:

Mostly stuff for school, as well as a book or two I picked up while in China.

My Blog

All Canadians love Rush

So this is my last day up north. I checked out the campus at UBC, and unfortunately I am having my doubts as to my chances of getting into the graduate program up here. I mean, I'm still going to a...
Posted by Chris on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:11:00 PST

Canada, eh?

Well, it seems the only time I post a blog is when I'm in a foreign country. We just got into our room at the hotel in Vancouver. The view from the room is incredible. We're overlooking the bay and...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:58:00 PST

Time to go home

Well, today is my last full day in China. Today we had dim sum with about twenty or so of my relatives. So that was kind of interesting, a few of them spoke some English which was a bonus. The food wa...
Posted by Chris on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 01:37:00 PST

I need some water

More on that in minute. My time in China is drawing to a close. One more full day left and then a travel day on Sunday. Today, my grandfather took us to the Shanghai aquarium, which is right next ...
Posted by Chris on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 05:07:00 PST

Psychos or drunkards without guardians are prohibited to take taxis

So, that was an interesting thing I read on the rules posted in our taxi today. It was a full day today. My grandfather met us at our hotel at around 9 AM to go to the Shanghai Museum with us. This...
Posted by Chris on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:52:00 PST

Another hot day in Shanghai

So I've been enjoying Shanghai quite a lot. We haven't had to get up at some early hour to head off on a sightseeing tour. Don't get me wrong, I've had a blast seeing all the historical and natural ...
Posted by Chris on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:50:00 PST

A nice, relaxing day in Shanghai

Today was the first day on this vacation that I actually got to just chill and relax. After breakfast, my uncle and I ventured down to Nanjing Road, which used to be the central commercial area befor...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:11:00 PST

A recount of the last few days aka Crouching Tiger, Hidden Rowan

So, here's what I've been up to the last few days...Day One (8/11)This was basically a travel day. We went to the Museum of Chinese History in Beijing. It had a lot of artifacts from the various dyn...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 06:25:00 PST

Back to civilization

So, we just got to our hotel in Shanghai. I'll keep this one brief, well at least brief as far as I'm concerned. The last four days in Huang Shan and its surrounding area was incredible. I climbed a m...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 01:24:00 PST

Nothing like good news after a long day

So, as I mentioned earlier, there are only three TV channels in English at the hotel and the first channel I saw when we got back to the hotel was CNN. And if anyone has been watching the news today,...
Posted by Chris on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:34:00 PST