Author Archives: haonowshaokao

Slowed down and sped up

Posted on 01/09/2010 by haonowshaokao

For the last two weeks the internet has been going crazy about pitch-preserved sped-up and slowed down music. First someone called Shamantis took a track by popular hate-figure Justin Bieber and stretched it to 35 minutes. The result sounds like … Continue reading →

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Tan

Posted on 29/08/2010 by haonowshaokao

It’s been a long, generally hot summer in Beijing, and I’ve been riding around on my bike, hatless, for much of it. As a result I’ve picked up a highly unfashionable tan. Chinese people usually want their skin to be … Continue reading →

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Moving, again.

Posted on 27/08/2010 by haonowshaokao

Moving house is supposed to be one of the most stressful experiences in your life. I don’t really agree. This week my lifetime total of house moves reached 27, and I barely noticed, especially as this time I didn’t have … Continue reading →

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Adult Life

Posted on 23/08/2010 by haonowshaokao

This time last year I must have known that coming back to China was a big life move, even compared to all my previous travels, but I seem to have been too busy with writing my thesis, organizing my journey, … Continue reading →

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What I do for a living

Posted on 12/08/2010 by haonowshaokao

After five years of on-and-off English teaching in the Czech Republic, the UK and China I came back to the UK in search of something to study. A year-and-a-half later (the year-and-a-half when I didn’t write anything here) I had … Continue reading →

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The Male Nurse

Posted on 02/08/2010 by haonowshaokao

This is the first in an intended intermittent series of posts about bands I loved in the 1990s who have little or no internet presence. In an era where every passing whim of band have a professional website and a … Continue reading →

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Xiaobei vs The Alleykitten

Posted on 21/07/2010 by haonowshaokao

I was at work a few days ago when I got a strange call from V. She’d been having lunch at home when she heard a strange noise from outside. Xiaobei rushed out of the back door and started barking. … Continue reading →

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Xiaobei

Posted on 15/07/2010 by haonowshaokao

I’ve never been much of a ‘dog person’. It’s probably got a lot to do with the alsatian which hid behind a fence and barked at me every time I walked home from school, the duck-murdering rage-syndrome springer spaniel which … Continue reading →

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Hello….

Posted on 12/07/2010 by haonowshaokao

…is it meat you’re looking for?

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Rude English

Posted on 07/07/2010 by haonowshaokao

I’ve always been perhaps too entertained by foreign language words and products name which are rude in English, but the joke is getting a bit weak now. What I really want to hear are some English words which are unintentionally … Continue reading →

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