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Lu and I made a quick stop to Guangzhou pre-xmas where we met up with some of Lu’s old classmates Wang Ge (Gary), Lu Jun and Lu Jun’s girlfriend. Lu Jun and his girlfriend were rocking the new nerd glasses style that couples are wearing in Guangzhou now, so Lu and I took our best stab at wearing them well:

After Guangzhou, Lu and I flew from Hong Kong to SFO and then onto Missouri where we have been spending some time with my parents. Unfortunately, my Mom’s parents haven’t been doing so hot, so we wanted to spend some good time with them and our other family members like Brad, Tracy, Andy, Joe and my cousin Brittany’s new baby, who has my name!

Throughout this trip, we have been making many notes about post-economic-disaster living in America, noting all the highway adverts that are blank, how much midwest folks are consuming, and the huge amount of food served by restaurants.

Lu has documented this on her blog in Chinese and English. Here is an enticing one we took in a Walmart near where my grandparents live I will call “Lu Big Pants and I’m not talking about Koolhaus’ CCTV building”:

We are having fun here and its been a nice change of pace from the freezing dry weather in Beijing. Also, I don’t want to sound negative about American culture in the midwest. I’m trying to understand this place from a different vantage point now after living in China in order to offer comments, criticism and hopefully contributions to make it better — most of my family still lives here!

Today, I’m with my mom in the basement of my parents house going through old things, applying the kinkade principle to my parent’s old stored goods, and revisiting past memories. From nathan:

less is more. Do you want to uncomplicate your life? Start divesting yourself of material possessions, stem consumerism, live as consciously as possible. Live free

I’m still thinking about this last year. It has been an interesting year which I will post more about tomorrow and talk more about 2009 plans. Be safe tonite and see you in 2009 my friends. Also, watch out and not get to into some party like this (via Ian:

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