28 Jan 2012
Hugging a panda is 1000000000000x more fun when you’re awake/alive.All I want to do is take some sleeping tablets and cuddle up to a panda bear.
Go to Chengdu Panda Research Base and do it!(Source: jessinchina)
Go to Chengdu Panda Research Base and do it!
28 Jan 2012
Hugging a panda is 1000000000000x more fun when you’re awake/alive.All I want to do is take some sleeping tablets and cuddle up to a panda bear.
Go to Chengdu Panda Research Base and do it!(Source: jessinchina)
27 Jan 2012
Everyone in China wears puffy clothing, and Shanghai has a mega ultra 70s Futureland skyline.THIS IS WHAT THE FUTURE WAS SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE!
PUFFY. FUCKING. VESTS!
Move here?(Source: whereisthecoool)
26 Jan 2012
I’ve had a pretty great Australia Day in China: hugged a baby panda, went to two Lunar New Year festivals, and I’m about to watch a Sichuan face-changing opera
But nothing beats getting back to the hostel in time to catch the final 5 in Triple J’s Hottest 100. M83’s Midnight City always makes me feel amazing and Gotye is around the corner! Might be my favourite year of songs yet.
Actually, maybe hugging a baby panda beats this. But only just.
18 Jan 2012
I haven’t had the time to look into SOPA but I can say that now I’m experiencing it in China, internet censorship is the WORST. I can’t look at anyone’s tumblrs, I can’t use Facebook, I can’t read any Blogspot or Wordpress blogs, I can’t even Google the weather without having to wrestle my way through Chinese-language Baidu or - worse - Bing. Emails to my parents take hours to get through, and half of the emails they send me bounce back. You can use Google Hong Kong, but type ‘facebook’ into a search and suddenly you can’t search for anything at all. I loved that the hostel in Shanghai was cheeky enough to provide a proxy program for travellers missing Facebook, and I did manage to find an excellent VPN app for my iPad, but the two weeks at Shanghai University without wi-fi or proxies was very isolating.Wikipedia goes dark. SOPA!
Perhaps China’s censorship is at the extreme end of the scale, but any step in that direction will inconvenience those with innocent intentions, while failing to prevent piracy.
I’m so glad I’ll be in Hong Kong and free of the Great Firewall in less than 4 hours!
(more about my travels at jessinchina.tumblr.com)
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5 Jan 2012
I'm putting all my photos up at jessinchina.tumblr.com
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I don’t want to put them here so my parents and family won’t read this and cramp my style, and China has blocked the website you use to reblog things from yourself so I can’t post them here without having to do everything twice… so follow me there! China has cool things you want to see!
Incidentally, China has also blocked .tumblr domains but not tumblr itself for some reason, so I can’t visit any of your blogs. :(
4 Jan 2012
I’m in Shanghai.
I always thought earmuffs were old-fashioned and for show, but it turns out they feel like delicious hot toast on your ears.
It’s cold.
I miss Facebook.
2 Jan 2012
So apparently I can not only hug a baby panda in Chengdu…
I can also spend a day volunteering to feed and clean up after the pandas. 600RMB, or approx $94.
“Your Keeper work may include:
Feeding the panda (fresh bamboo, apple, panda cake)
Cleaning the enclosure to give
Collecting and weighing the feces (this is the most effective way to determine the health of the panda).
Cleaning bamboo.
Cleaning the panda.
Weighing fresh bamboo.
Weigh the bamboo after the panda eats to know how much they have eaten, and so on.”
I have 2.5 days in Chengdu. And I can’t say I’ve ever cleaned a panda before.
Good idea?
1 Jan 2012
Just saw a status update by my best friend.
“Nothing like spending New Years Eve watching one of your best friends who is extremely drunk, break into her own house, wearing nothing but her bikini. Yep. Fun times :)”
Allegedly this was me?!? I mean I was in a bikini but I have no memory of this.
Happy New Year children.
31 Dec 2011
I was so confused when I watched Grease for the first time. Mum had to explain to me that yes, it really does end like that.darthvegan replied to your post: Fun Fact #231: I would rather eat my own dick than ever watch Grease again.
People can say what they want, but the moral to that shit was: change every aspect of yourself and the tool who has been ignoring you will finally like you back.
31 Dec 2011
Pretty much got everything I ever wanted by the end of this year.
Got into Law, went to Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and London - alone! - drove around the British countryside with a friend, swam with sharks, met so many awesome people, I even made Grandad’s yearly family bulletin.
2012, with its trips to China (Shanghai, Hong Kong, Chengdu, Xian, Harbin and Beijing), Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and hopefully - maybe - an application for exchange, is more than welcome.
Tags: #Reservoir #Melbourne #Bogan
