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Rio de Emocion

Kotora's adventures into academics and climbing the social and professional ladder

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    Chickens in bags, group drinking and no chocolate anywhere in sight

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    , 09-19-2013 at 04:51 PM (Rio de Emocion)
    From the first moment I set foot in the capital of this glorious People's Republic, one thought dominated my mindscape: Beijing is a giant Chinese restaurant. The most prevailing smell after smelling exhaust fumes waste is most likely to be soy sauce.

    Three weeks in China now, I've been spending most of my time in a town a hundred kilometers further to the north. About 350,000 live here, which is about one residential block in BJ.

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    Where meow-meow? You eat meow-meow?

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    , 09-03-2013 at 11:53 PM (Rio de Emocion)
    There's nothing like a ride on a Chinese train. As soon as you enter the smell of hundreds of smoking, spitting and drinking Chinese people enters your nostrils and your first thought might be to just throw up. Though with the prospects of riding this smoking red dragon for two and a half hours (standing places too - the trains are filled to the brim with people), it's a good idea to start adapting to this place!

    And adapting is easy in China. I'm crossing traffic at random, spitting ...
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