Three Reasons to Watch AMC’s “Into the Badlands”

Two weeks ago, following a tragic episode of The Walking Dead (WARNING: SPOILERS), resolved on Sunday, AMC premiered Into the Badlands.

Credit: Film Combat Syndicate 

Snapshot Sundays

白酒: the Spirit of China

Baijiu lands stateside

2011. Chinese New Year at my future in-laws, and ZJ’s childhood home. First sip, and it burns, really burns. The second and third warm me, cheeks flushed, helping me to forget the biting Shaanxi cold closing in. A 炕 in the corner of the long room (there’s another room on the opposite side of the courtyard…it’s the kitchen), serves as the outpost during the days and well into the evenings. I slide off the heatable brick bed for meals, tag along with future sisters-in-law and nephews to explore the lake situated in the basin below 仁安村, to soak up some Vitamin D, and  greet the curious of the first non-Chinese visitor to Union Village.

Random Observations

Travel Thursdays

I never really wrote an in-depth post about our “honeymoon” in Yunnan, mentioning the trip and posting a few photos when I accepted the Liebster Award.

“Honeymoon” hence forth will be in quotations because the trip included my youngest sister, and friends, who were also colleagues of mine at Xi’an International Studies University.

I’d describe it more as a trip that just so happened to precede our wedding ceremony.