China Stories

It's been two years since I first started working in Thailand and already, I was having fun. Thailand was paradise for me and living here means a lot to anyone but meant hot sex for me. At the time, I worked at a university in northern Thailand as an Advanced English teacher. As a result, I enjoyed the university students, my co-teachers, and every so often, a local girl. It was during my third year of teaching when our u...

I was flying into Shanghai for a business conference and still felt like shit from the giardia I contracted on the last leg of my hiking trip through Nepal. Not to mention that I was shaken by the turbulent ride over the Himalayas, having watched the snowy peaks of the mountains, like a bed of nails below us, as the plane’s cabin violently shook, and passengers screamed. The plane sliced in through the smog, and several p...

The young waitress approaches our table with all the enthusiasm of a slug on tranquilizers. She stops beside me, not bothering to say a word or make eye contact, and slams the bowl of noodles down so hard that a wave of hot soup splashes onto the table-top. “Hey!” I bark, loud enough to get her attention over the war-like clatter of cheap metallic bowls and raging voices all around us. She turns back, tired eyes blinking...

“Where are you going?” “Shopping.” “Shopping? What do you want to shop for?” “Well, it’s been a while since we bought anything for the ‘tickle trunk’. I thought it would be fun to find something new for me to wear. Besides, I’m in a mood to be a model again.” My grin betrays my pleasure. “May I join you?” In a short time, we are walking down one of the main shopping streets in Shanghai. As we pass a lingerie shop, “Wait!...