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	<title>Cloudy in Beijing</title>
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	<description>Blogging about my time in China</description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t stop believin&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Life is crazy.
Stuff just happens. And often times it can leave you blown out of your mind.
I've always told people I wanted to be a foreign correspondent working in China. But I didn't really think it was going to happen, what with the newspaper industry dying and all.
It's been frustrating at times. One of my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudychina.com/2010/07/04/dont-stop-believin/</link>
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		<title>Lazy Monday</title>
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It's kind of a common sight to see workers take naps on the streets in Beijing. I spotted these two fellas dozing off on their cart today. People walked by as if it wasn't a big deal. Instead, onlookers saw me, thinking it was strange I was taking this random photo.
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		<link>http://cloudychina.com/2010/06/14/lazy-monday/</link>
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		<title>Karaoke competition</title>
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The foreign students at Tsinghua University rocked the mic at last night's karaoke competition. More than 40 of my classmates participated, all singing Chinese songs for us in the audience.

Many of the contestants sang really well, with little accent in their singing voices. Some students were so impressive that they immediately won the hearts of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudychina.com/2010/06/10/karaoke-competition/</link>
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		<title>Chinese TV trash</title>
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Whether you respect them or not, gold diggers can make good TV.
This happened with Ma Nuo, a 22-year-old model who gained fame by appearing on the Chinese dating TV show, If You Are The One (非城勿扰).
When it came to the kind of man she wants, Ma notoriously said she would “rather cry in a BMW [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudychina.com/2010/06/08/tv-trash/</link>
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		<title>The Star Trek car</title>
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Notice something interesting about this car? (Other than the fact it's not supposed to be parked there.)

Only Star Trek fans would notice this. But the logo on the back of the car is strikingly similar to the one seen in the famous sci-fi franchise.

As any fan would know, all Starfleet officers wear an insignia badge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudychina.com/2010/06/06/the-star-trek-car/</link>
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		<title>Red banners</title>
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Seeing a big red banner in your neighborhood is not always a good sign in China. In some cases, it can essentially mean: "Get out now!"
There are a good number of these particular red banners in Laogucheng, a rundown area of homes in Beijing's west side.  A developer is wanting to bulldoze the place and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudychina.com/2010/05/29/red-banners/</link>
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		<title>My cousin</title>
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Last summer I spoke with a former foreign correspondent to get some tips on how to make it as a journalist in China. He summed up the challenges as so: "Basically, its like trying to be an actor in Hollywood," he said.
"There are only a few people that get the big jobs like working at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudychina.com/2010/05/23/my-cousin/</link>
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		<title>School violence</title>
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In the past weeks, the hot topic in China has been a series of student killings at the country's elementary schools.
Since March, there have been at least five attacks involving lone men usually hacking to death children at a nearby school. The latest attack centered on a merchant who killed seven kindergarten students.
Now everyone is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudychina.com/2010/05/21/school-violence/</link>
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