Mei Guan Xi（没关系）

As some of you know wordpress is officially blocked in China…thus I’ve been using a proxy to get to it. Alas, as I have been building up more and more Chinese readers, I thought it was best that I just get my own domain, thus avoiding this problem altogether. If you read this blog […]

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Since getting an ayi (maid) I’ve been getting lazier and lazier with chores around the house. It’s gotten to the point where I am even too lazy to put my plastic bottles in the recycling bin in my building.
Then I found out from my ayi that there are people willing to come to you and […]

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I am a little late to the party since this ‘news’ is at least 2 months old, but doing a quick search on Google News for “china space moon” clearly shows that it didn’t quite make the splash that it did here in China.
In a nutshell, China sent a satellite traveling a quarter million miles […]

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Updating the blog has been on my to-do list for a while…and finally signing on to post today did I realize that it’s been a full 2 months. Looking back to October 1st, it seems so long ago, not because 2 months is really that long, but that I’ve simply lost track of the alternating […]

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It’s that time of the year again, National Independence Day in China is on October 1st…and for the occasion, people get the whole week off. Well, sort of. Actually, it’s a 3 day holiday, which happens to fall on a Mon, Tues, Wed this year. But to promote tourism and consumerism (gotta […]

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Well, given that the Thailand Tsunami was a big catalyst to Youtube, I thought I’d do my part to help out the youtube copies in China like Tudou, 56.com, youku, mofile, etc but you know what I realized? citizen journalism just isn’t there yet. Which means across these top video sites in China, I […]

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As I reflect on this past year, still with much of the bright-eyed excitement intact, I realized how much I have grown and expanded my horizon in a myriad of ways.
What brought this on was today I read an article a friend sent to me about how this woman and her adopted chinese daughter of […]

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One of my friends sent me this WSJ article(subscription req’d) written by an expat living in Shanghai.
I’ve read his previous articles and I totally identify with 90% of his experiences - though this particular one, I can’t say I completely agree with it.
The jist of the article is about how there are different expectations from […]

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I pondered whether I should stray from the original thrust of my blog – which simply is geared toward consumer/business observations in China, but I’ve decided that this is a pretty big decision, and given that another purpose of this blog is to update my friends and family…so here goes.
So yeah, I quit my job. […]

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Spring is definitely here - the past few days have been long t-shirt or short sleeve weather during the day so a few of my friends and I decided to take a small trip out of shanghai and go BBQing. Yep, that’s right, BBQing in China. Who would’ve thunk it?
This place is called […]

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