Reflections on Chinese Men
Chinese men. Interesting creatures really. Often times easily mistaken for women due to the way they dress (skinny jeans, Louis Vuitton “murses,” Vertu “designer” cell phones, etc.), their mannerisms (“V” for victory hand signals), the style of their hair (long, colored, pink). Other times borderline homosexual due to the “camaraderie” they exhibit towards their fellow [...]
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Posted April 4th, 2010 - 4:56 am by sean
Categories china
Tags Chinese people, Connections Bar & Grill, rant
Perforation
Maybe Sean is rubbing off on me. Today I feel like treating this forum like a diary. I wrote an entry, but then I deleted it for being overly confessional; I guess this replacement is kind of personal too, though, so maybe that’s just the way of it, today. :) Either way. I am pleased [...]
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Posted March 29th, 2010 - 7:06 pm by maria
Categories china
Tags b-skool, comfort, food, job, movies, running
Some Milestones
As of March 25th, Maria and I would have been in China for six months. As of February 15th, Maria and I would have been in a relationship for two years, and we just celebrated today, rather belatedly, on March 27th. I’m surprised at how quickly the time went by. It doesn’t feel like six [...]
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Posted March 28th, 2010 - 3:28 am by sean
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Hong Kong
I’ve been doing a decently good job of keeping up to date on my little writing project, though I’m a couple of days behind at the moment. I do intend to catch up though. I did think it appropriate though to now touch on some other random things that have been going on in my [...]
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Posted March 19th, 2010 - 3:04 am by sean
Categories china
Tags business, vacation, visas
The Psychologies of Blogging
…or “why I suck at it.” So it’s quite late, and I’ve been tossing and turning in bed for a good while now. The issue is that I’ve been all of a sudden sick again, and it’s not been that great of an experience. I really do believe it’s due to the sudden changes in [...]
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Posted March 8th, 2010 - 3:21 am by sean
Categories china
Tags apartment, blog, business, Connections Bar & Grill, epiphany, IFC, job, racing, rambling, travel, visas, West Campus
Chinese New Year 2010 2
So it’s been over an hour, and it’s still not finished. So much for peace and quiet? Here’s the video by the way! I watched for 10 minutes, recorded 8 minutes, got bored and stopped watching, cropped it down to 2 minutes to upload, and spent 15 minutes figuring out the Flash embed stuff.
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Posted February 14th, 2010 - 1:01 am by sean
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Chinese New Year 2010
So it’s my first Chinese New Year spent in China actually, since I was little anyways. I wasn’t sure what to expect, and I’m still not entirely sure what to expect seeing as the festivities go on for a week apparently. I knew there were going to be fireworks, but not like this, and not [...]
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Posted February 14th, 2010 - 12:31 am by sean
Categories china
Tags Chinese New Year, Connections Bar & Grill
Onward to Seoul, again
Which must mean that once again, our visas are about to expire. Apparently it’s gotten a lot harder than it used to since the Olympics for someone to get a F or Z visa. The F is the “foreigner in the country but looking for work” visa that would have let us stay for up [...]
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Posted January 13th, 2010 - 12:48 pm by sean
Categories china
Tags china, Connections Bar & Grill, rambling, visas, weddings
Practical Beijing
After three months, I have figured out how to get most of the essential bits –for my conception of “living well”– in place. I can buy food; I can buy office supplies; I can mail things; I have a Western gym; I can re-charge my subway card. I’ve decided to record some of this in [...]
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Posted December 30th, 2009 - 8:39 pm by maria
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Some forward momentum
So there’s been some progress, as can be noted by my and our general absence from this blog. First, my IFC (International Festival Chorus) Messiah concert has been postponed until the 19th of December. Apparently they’ve been having more and more problems getting government approval to perform Handel’s Messiah in a public venue, and it [...]
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Posted December 6th, 2009 - 9:57 pm by sean
Categories china
Tags apartment, Connections Bar & Grill, family, movies, rambling
Onward to Seoul!
Having successfully hopped, skipped, and jumped over to Korea for the sake of sorting out our visas, I thought I’d put down some of my thoughts on the entire process and Korea in general. 1) Everything’s expensive there, basically the same price as in the US, but in won, which makes everything looks horribly expensive [...]