Mei Guan Xi（没关系）

Yeah, easy for you to say.
Today, I opened up our application to my friends and started soliciting their feedback. A part of me is relieved that we made it this to milestone, but to be honest, my mind is much more preoccupied with “what if this app sucks and no one likes it?”
Of course, […]

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The topic of “do you like living in Shanghai?” inevitably surfaces in conversations with expat visitors and friends alike. I tell everyone I really like it here. It’s true. I wouldn’t rather be in any other city. Those who know me know I have a perpetual grass-is-greener-on-the-other-side syndrome, so this is no small […]

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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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Before leaving on her trip to Shanghai from Taiwan my friend asks me, “anything you want me to bring from Taiwan?”
I couldn’t really think of anything worth toting over because you can pretty much get anything you want these days in Shanghai. So the only answer I could come up with was “how about some […]

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I decided recently that it’s a good idea for me to get some exercise outside ‘early’ in the morning (aka 10am) considering that I may atrophy away at any moment now. Coincidentally I was informed that I should be careful because exercising outside in polluted air can be quite harmful. Apparently so says here […]

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I enjoy reading year-in-review lists - what can I say, I am a list kinda guy. I make lists for everything - actually I think it borders dangerously close to a disorder. haha
Anyway, I was watching a CNN year-in-review program last week and I realized since moving out here these lists have taken on a […]

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