Mexico - Acapulco, Pacific Coast, Mexico Jump to the full.entry .&.travel map Acapulco, Pacific Coast, Mexico I´m not sure it was the best idea to stay out partying and saying goodbye to all my international friends the evening before I was to leave for Mexico for a month, then chasing down 5:00 AM airport shuttle bus, but hey, I´m not one to prepare things especially well so this fits right in with the norm. Once Simon, Edgar - a Mexican friend that we found out was on our same bus and flight - and myself had landed.Foreigner.

Housewarming party - Spaghetti Roast - Xi'an, China concert, Jump to the full entry .&.travel map Xi'an, China We didn't do much during the last couple of days. I finally found a frying pan! This sounds stupid, but it was actually a good find. Woks are used here for cooking everything, and are sold everywhere. And it took a bit before I found a simple frying pan, but now that is organized. I can cook. I headed over to a flower store before the party just to pick up a few more plants. I got some nice bamboo for really cheap the day before, so I went.

McCain picks foreigner for Veep The wire services are all reporting that John McCain has picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. Leaving aside the controversy surrounding the firing of an Alaska state trooper and the possibility that this pick will bring the bribery trial of Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Internet Tube.s, to the fore, I love how this brings things full circle. The dumb Republicans have picked someone who couldn't even serve because Alaska wasn't a state when she was born! It's not even part of Amaruka! Foreigner tickets.

The Republic of Cape Town? Don't joke This morning Gareth Cliff jokingly referred to ?The Republic of Cape Town? with its ?President? Helen Zille. I decided to go a web search to find out who else viewed my home this way, and if perhaps there was some nascent separatist movement I didn't know about. In doing so I came across Zukiswa Wanner's article suggesting that Cape Town, run by Capetonians [who she labels as only white], is a deeply segregated place, and with the flood of white immigrants from the rest of the country. live.

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Idol Headlines for 8/29/08 Concert review?American Idols Live?American Idols Live? the live ?victory lap? for David Cook, David Archuleta and the rest of the ?American Idol? season 7 finalists, proved on Thursday that the hierarchy of those final 10 singers was hardly a case of luck or chance. Everyone on the Ford Center stage had degrees of strong talent, but as the three-hour concert pressed forward and the Jumbotron counted down to the winner, it was clear why some went home earlier than others. And while Archu. Tickets.

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Got Chinese legal questions? New site gives free answers I just stumbled across a new Web site dishing out answers to all your China legal questions - for free! The rather IM-ishly named 15minutes4u.com believes that most legal questions us foreigners have about China could be answered in under 15 minutes of a legal professional's time and they are striving to deliver just such advice - and did I mention it's free? The questions are answered by ?a group of experienced legal professionals practiced or law students studied in China, US or other juris. Tickets for Foreigner.