Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 12th, 2008
Just when I’d met China halfway and accepted the lunar cycle, I got this email explaining the “Cycle of Organs”. It is hands-down the strangest list I’ve run into in six years of working and living in China:
一、晚上9-11点为免疫系统（淋巴）排毒时间，此段时间应安静或听音乐 。
二、晚间11-凌晨1点，肝的排毒，需在熟睡中进行。
三、凌晨1-3点，胆的排毒，亦同。
四、凌晨3-5点，肺的排毒。此即为何咳嗽的人在这段时间咳得最剧烈，因排毒动作已走到
肺；不应用止咳药，以免抑制废积物的排除。
五、凌晨5-7点，大肠的排毒，应上厕所排便。
六、凌晨7-9点，小肠大量吸收营养的时段，应吃早餐。疗病者最好早吃，在6点半前，养
生者在7点半前，不吃早餐者应改变习惯，即使拖到9、10点吃都比不吃好。
七、半夜至凌晨4点为脊椎造血时段，必须熟睡，不宜熬夜。
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 25th, 2008
Writing this on the plane back to Shanghai, after an extended weekend of sorts in Beijing. First things first, I’ve got to give some love to the new airport here. It involved a leap of faith to head to Terminal Three (Shanghai Airlines hasn’t updated its ticketing system to let passengers know… ahem… where exactly […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 17th, 2008
With nothing else newsworthy anywhere else in the country, Xinhua appears to have dispatched its entire workforce to Beijing to crank out articles like this, this, this, this, this, this and this about the 两会. This has made NewsinChinese possibly the most boring site on the Internet. Great reading for those looking to polish […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 13th, 2008
I don’t run many regression analyses these days, but the economist in me can’t help but feel a sense of schadenfreude at the recent economic troubles in the West. I think this is mostly because the problems with subprime loans and the housing market have been fairly obvious since 2005 and there’s no excuse for […]
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