Bashing or Advertising?

Finally an entire day with internet!  And so my next installment of Chinese Brand Sniping is on it's way.  We'll keep it short though, pictures always speak louder than words.

It's like the Bulls estranged cousin.

Still can't figure it out?

This one goes much better with jaeger.

Stage 2

I'm skeptical that there are many folks who actually look at this blog, however I would feel remiss if I didn't send a congratulations out to the UVM graduates of 2010, they all helped make my senior year there an exceptionally special time and so I hope their years were equally wonderful.
So best of luck to you all in the future, and if you are one of the aforementioned grads and are actively reading this send me an email sometime, It's been a long time since I've talked with most of you.

Coming to Life

  So I think I've mentioned before that we tend to have an extraordinary amount of free-time here in Taigu; 16 hour work weeks and what not.  As a result the usual ridiculous schemes and ideas that people come up with but never actually pursue tend to get a fair amount of attention.
  Towards the beginning of this semester we started a "TV night" where the American teachers would all get together and watch a select few shows week to week, to get our American TV fix.  One of the early mainstays was Family Matters, which we naturally felt inclined to because of our extremely close knit group here.  That eventually spun off into belting out the theme song while group hugging at dance parties.  Not too long after that Dan and Gerald began getting creative and actually wrote a script for a Taigu spin-off of Family Matters.  From there each teacher was assigned a role and the following is just a taste of things to come.



It's Not Jackie Chan sitcom intro from Gerald Lee on Vimeo.

Actual footage has already been shot and we hope to have a full length pilot episode done by the end of the semester.

Anyways, what started out as a joke has now been fully fleshed out in reality

If I could take it back...

  I definitely would!  I believe I've cursed the Red Sox this season by implying that NongDa had a better curve ball than Josh Beckett.  If I had only known the consequences...oh the shame.  Though I guess in terms of my usage of the word the Red Sox still do have a better curve ball.  I expect to be told nothing here, but under .500 after 30 games?!

I'm a man of my word

  So I created this blog so that all of you (4 people) could be kept up to date on my goings on in China.  Lately however I've been off the blog; for like a month at this point.  So here I am, back again!  I could chalk the absence up to having some extremely moody internet (which is half the truth) but it's really been a combination of nice weather and video games that have been keeping me away (I won't go into detail on which of those two has been more time-consuming).

  Anyways, a while back I began a segment on Chinese Brand Sniping (an homage to Brad's old "before the recession" posts, I always got a chuckle out of those) and the Riich company.  Well today I have a special treat for you.

  When looking for these kinds of labels one usually expects well..one knock off, and with this particular item we've found several.  I say "we" because this really became a group effort, scouring China from Taigu to Taiyuan to Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan.  And who would have ever thought that Oreo's would inspire such admiration (for copying is the highest form of admiration...right?).

 Everyone's favorite fatty snack, apparently popular is Spain as well.

   Anyways, enjoy the pictures:

The Original; it came to inspire a use similar to being punked: "o-copped"

Look closely, yup definitely missing an "O"

My own personal find from Wuhan

And Boom Goes the Dynamite!

  Unfortunately I have no pictures but we also stumbled across "Olino's," or James stumbled upon them in Beijing.

  Don't worry either, I've got others.  All in good time.