Far East Cynic

Shocked! Utterly Shocked!

This would never happen in Hong Kong or Korea……….(walking away laughing out loud…..). Guess they could not drink on duty so the “ugly ones” never had a chance to get prettier…….. Subscribe in a reader

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Top 10 ten lists………

The thing I hate about the time after New Year’s is the return to normalcy. That wonderful period between just before Christmas, and after New Years, is kind of an unreal state. Only essential things get done, otherwise people are just marking time at work. Because of the amount of

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Playing on the wrong side……

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C.S. Lewis and the ACLU

This year is definitely not starting out according to plan. The S.O. and I were supposed to go to the shrine today to say intentions for the New Year. Turns out she still did not feel 100% plus it was freezing rain today. So we stayed inside, at home. Talked

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Day one

Well its the first day of the new year. It’s kind of hard to believe that we are in the second half of the decade already. It only seems like yesterday that I was in the states, enduring a quiet new years and plotting my escape from drudgery. Now it

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