Merry Christmas!
Gifts/or somethings worth revisiting, current goal is to find new things next year, but some of these are due to repeat:
Books:
One China, Many Paths
To The Storm: The Odyssey of a Revolutionary Chinese Woman (makes me feel like a child when I compare myself to the people in this book: intelligence, willpower, experience)
The Hedge Knight
A Game of Thrones (He dreamt an old dream, of three knights in white cloaks, and a tower long fallen, and Lyanna in her bed of blood)
Selected Poetry of Rabindranath Tagore
Blogs:
Danwei
Magazines:
The London Review of Books (seems like my education [the parts worth mentioning] consists mostly of this magazine)
Movies:
Bourne
Election, Triad Election
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Smiley's People
Language Police:
"Mikhail Mikhailovich, I challenge you to a duel!"