You And Whose Army ?

I got off the bus and walked towards the bar­racks. I showed a piece of ID to the orderly who was stand­ing by the huge metal door and he let me in. Behind the doors were about a hun­dred peo­ple, all my age, anx­iously smok­ing cig­a­rettes and mak­ing small talk.

Losing My Religion

I knew Chris­tian­ity, Islam, Judaism, Bud­dhism, Hinduism—and that was about it. I was—and I still am—clueless about Pen­te­costal­ism, Angli­can­ism, Bap­tists, Methodists, Lutheran, Pres­by­ter­ian, Pentecostal/Charismatic, Episcopalian/Anglican, Seventh-Day Adven­tist, Born Again etc. And what the hell is “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”? A bunch of peo­ple who believe they will even­tu­ally end up in Heaven because they have the longest reli­gious group name ever???

Games Without Frontiers

— Dare to go explore the world ?

— Sure !

It started with a joke. We were both young adults, both sick of our current …

One, Two, Three, What Are We Fighting For ?

Cana­dian pol­i­tics. Two main par­ties : the Lib­er­als and the Con­ser­v­a­tive. So, the Lib­er­als must be right-wing – cause in France, being called a Lib­eral is a bad word, much like being called a Social­ist in Texas. Oh, they’re fairly left-wing ? Alright. But what about the Con­ser­v­a­tive ? What a stu­pid nickname !

The World For Dummies

–I swear to god, you’re not speak­ing French. We’re all Amer­i­can here, we don’t under­stand your stu­pid lan­guage.
– Let’s speak Chi­nese !
– Not when we’re drunk ! Speak Eng­lish or get out !
Since I don’t …

Sicko(s)

I like Michael Moore. Sure, his movies are biased but since I’m left-wing, it doesn’t really hurt my feel­ings. On top of that, being an opti­mistic per­son, I do believe his inves­ti­ga­tions can make waves. But this time, I left the movie the­ater with mixed feel­ings. Since I’m famil­iar with both the Cana­dian and the French health care sys­tem, I knew Moore wasn’t telling us all the truth. And thus I started won­der­ing about the US health system .

What We Sell To Coca-Cola Is Available Humain Brain Time

See, back in France, it was quite sim­ple. I had a small black & white TV with a bro­ken antenna I had to trap between a pile of books and the edge of the couch in order to get a clear recep­tion. I only watched TV when : 1) I was copy­ing Chi­nese lessons 2) I was draw­ing 3) I was pluck­ing my eyebrows.Well, yeah. What was I sup­posed to do ? Watch it ??

Funny, How ?

We were three friends sit at a small wob­bly wooden table, set half on the side­walk, half on the curb side of the dusty road. We just came back from a bar where my roommate’s Chi­nese boyfriend was per­form­ing and we were starv­ing, crav­ing for a plat­ter of jiaozi. It was a hot and humid night in Nan­jing, China.