OCF heads up

I love OCF…(speaking non-sarcastically )
04/17 As of today, the OCF is now using a improved, more secure account
storage and authentication framework. Among other things, this
transition brings faster and more reliable Windows printing and
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forbidden kingdom review (spoiler-free)

Saw this yesterday, kind of stupid actually, even if you go in with low expectations like i did.  It’s the kind where you walk out thinking it’s alright, then your opinion decays over time. (Just remembered that it’s a kids movie, can’t judge it the same as an adult movie)
-Jacky Chan vs Jet Li fight is [...]

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Tibet

Perhaps the most hopeful moment in recent Han-Tibetan relations came shortly after 1980, when the Chinese Party Secretary, Hu Yaobang, went on a fact-finding mission to Tibet and returned with severe criticisms of Chinese policies. He advocated a two-pronged solution: Chinese investment was needed to spur economic growth in Tibet, but at the same time [...]

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British food

kinda looks like this, and slight variations of it, such as sausage and mash(ed potatoes), some meat (pot) pie/pudding of some red meat, with brown sauce over it served with either mashed peas or more mashed potatoes….
yeah this week (back from EU) has been a curious week for me, waking up not tired at [...]

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porridge recipe

ingredients:
1) brown rice + plenty of water
2) burdock root, cut into long thin strips (牛蒡）
3) some kind of ground meat (chicken is healthier, pork goes better with the taste)
4) yamaimo (mountain yam), peeled and cut into big chunky pieces （山药）
5) Job’s tears (i thought this went by a different name, can’t remember right now), preferably actual [...]

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[Jackie Chan is]“an elderly junk dealer in 21st-century Boston and an itinerant fighter, specializing in the “drunken fist” style of combat, in a mythic ancient China.”
[Jet Li] also plays two parts, both in the mythic past: the mischievous Monkey King (who uses — what else? — monkey kung fu fighting techniques) and a monk.”
The reviews for [...]

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the lost post…(edited with links and new stuff)

i’m still not sure what your timetable is, but hoping you still have time, here’s that post, updated with more stuff…also i have to repeat that i haven’t been there in a long time, and nowadays restaurants and bars change overnight in china, and new ones pop up everyday, and this is about the extent of [...]

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sally!

i’m wasting 2 rmb/min. and hard work getting around the great firewall of china to try to read your recommendations for shanghai and you don’t have any?
yes apparently my blog is blocked by the great wall of china…

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