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Hi guys. So a while ago, China started blocking blogspot (adding it to the list that includes youtube, livejournal, and wordpress, among I'm sure a billion others I would never look at anyway), so I haven't been able to update. Right now I'm at the Hong Kong airport sipping on a 芒果沙冰 and, although it is heinously overpriced, it is pretty tasty. Im leaving for Taiwan in about half an hour, and I'm pretty excited, although I'm missing out on a holiday weekend in Shanghai. No big deal right? Anyway, since I'm outside of the mainland, I'm going to super take advantage and just overload my brain with youtube and update my blog every three seconds. Just kidding, but I will update hopefully everyday.

For my Middlebury readers, I was just on a Cathaway Air flight and there was some show or movie on in the plane. I woke up from my nap to see Ethan Hawke's smiling facial hair-clad face on it and almost yelled OMG ANDREW MAY! But it wasn't him. The resemblence is disturbing though. Is that spelled right?

Anyway, since my blog is mostly about random thoughts, here is my one that I wanted to mention a long time ago. Chip flavors in China are nuts. Even normal brands like Cheetos and Lays (classif flavors in the US right?) have nuts ones here. So of course there are Shrip Chips. That kind of goes without saying. But for others... well from what I can gather from my poor Chinese, looking at pictures, and reading hilariously translated English, here are some of the more interesting ones. Lays has a mixed seafood flavor, a shrimp flavor, lychee flavor, blueberry flavor, and cucumber flavor, among plenty of others. Personally, I'm too scared to try most of those. Lays still has its original though. I've only seen original Cheetos here in foreign import supermarkets. Instead they have flavors like roast hotdog and Brazilian barbeque. So weird right? Anyway, interesting fact for you. I have to run to catch my flight now, but expect more soon! I was even thinking about taking a survey/query of all the local markets to log all the interesting flavors. Look forward to it!