Chinalbeit

Chinalbeit

Chinalbeit is a hodgepodge of comments about China, life, philosophy, travels, friendship, love, cute fluffy kittens, apocalyptic nuclear holocaust and other issues dear to the author’s heart.

Chinalbeit’s editor is a 25 year-old American male who has been living in China since September 2005.  Though technically banned from international travel for smuggling fruits and vegetables across State lines, he managed to acquire a passport through underground channels (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints of El Salvador) and now resides in Shanghai, China spreading his unique brand of chaotic functionalism throughout the citizenry.

Prior to coming to Shanghai in November 2008, he lived in Beijing for three years.  He began by teaching English to children too young to possibly be capable of learning a language.  After growing tired of this endeavor, he began teaching English to older students who were capable but didn’t want to learn English, so that they could go abroad to study in a country they didn’t want to go to, because they failed a test that they didn’t want to take, so that they can perform jobs in the future that they don’t have any interest in.  Luckily, he was able to find a job in Shanghai more suited to his sociopathic tendencies (consulting).

Though our dear editor has previously tried to manage a blog many times before, he has always been too lazy to take the process seriously.  However, after nearly four years in China and nothing to show for it except a few more scars on his face and a few more gray hairs on his head, he has decided it’s time to preserve these precious memories in order to discourage future generations to avoid making the same life choices he has.

Update on 12/24/2009:

Your venerable leader of the Chinalbeit revolution has moved on from his career in consulting in Shanghai to the more relaxed and alcohol-friendly environment of a State-owned enterprise in Dalian.  As the first officially recognized employee of a State-owned enterprise in the city of Dalian, he carries a heavy burden on his shoulder, mostly to prove that he can consume potentially lethal amounts of bai jiu at Monday night receptions and still make it in early enough to punch the clock before eight o’ clock and promtly take a 4 hour nap in the locker room. 

But more seriously, he has returned in a more philosophical mood.  Gone are the wide-eyed days of oggling the differences between his home culture and his newly adopted land.  Now 26 years old and past his sexual prime, it’s pretty much all downhill from here, so the tone of our conversation must change as well.  Of course, for job-related reasons, I cannot divulge the identity of the State-owned corporation that I work for.  If I did, I couldn’t share the dirtiest stories, and that’s what you all want, right?