http://balugabay.com Mon, 24 May 2010 10:31:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, I get back from the great wall (a very cool must-do, though we were at Badaling, and i heard samatia (spelling?) is cooler.  I decide I'm hungry, so I wander down the street from my hotel, and stumble into a little shop.  The lady hands me a menu in ... http://balugabay.com/?p=149 Hey guys, So, I've come to the end of another big trip.  Tomorrow, I head out to the Great Wall for a day, and then on Tuesday, I fly home to the United States of Facebook and Wikipedia-ing Representative Democracy.  Beijing has been busy-- 1) I checked out the Forbidden City.  It ... http://balugabay.com/?p=147 Hey everyone, First, lol goes out to Dave Safe.  I saw a comment from sforzisi or something similar, and it looked similar to your last name, so I just figured it was you.  My B.  Also, my facebook is blocked until next tuesday, just an FYI.   Today I went to the Panda ... http://balugabay.com/?p=145 What up guys, So I'm chilling here in Cheng Du at an internet cafe.  For those of you guys who don't know (everyone), Cheng Du is in Western China in the Sichuan region.  Now, some of you are going, hey, Sichuan, they put a red pepper next to sichuan dishes on ... http://balugabay.com/?p=143 What's up guys, So I'm here in China, and I can firmly say that while it's AWESOME, it's also totally an adventure. One example: I arrive in Hangzhou airport planning on catching a quick bus (about 2 hrs) to Suzhou to meet up with my friend Ruolan at our hotel, PingJiang Hotel.  Sounds ... http://balugabay.com/?p=141 Hey Guys, writing from Thailand this time around.  This time it's to both update you all as well as explain balugapoker.com's mysterious disappearance.  Basically, the site had been inactive for a while (for a few reasons) and was only serving to sell books, which (due to pirating and the books permeation ... http://balugabay.com/?p=138 What's up everyone, Haven't updated this in a long time, been kinda busy trying to figure out where I'm going to be and what I'm going to do. At the moment I'm on Koh Phagnam, an island in Thailand that hosts the Full Moon party (which was last night). ... http://balugabay.com/?p=137 hit me up if you're there! We're celebrating my best friend Zach's entrance to professional baseball. Shabooya! I'll be back in time for LOST :) Andrew http://balugabay.com/?p=136 I cashed for the third time in three attempts at the FTOPS Main Event last night.  Booya.  So far I think i'm averaging like.... $500 in profit each time.  This time I took like 598th for a solid 980 or so, which is like 180/hr UNTIL you take off the ... http://balugabay.com/?p=134 So first today, while half the field got byes, I drew this guy who's online name is xMonsterxDongx, which is pretty hilarious.  As an aside, you'd think that once this guy became pretty well known, he'd change his name, but no, I asked him, and he'll be MonsterDong for the ... http://balugabay.com/?p=132