Tianjin – Summer 2010
These are photos of Tianjin. I went with my mother, Doug, and sister in the Summer of 2010 when they came to Beijing to visit. This was only my 2nd time visiting, the first being when the IFC went and sang the African Sanctus there. We hired a driver to take us around during the [...]
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Posted July 17th, 2010 - 8:51 pm by sean
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Yonghegong
Maria and I took a walk today (it’s also her birthday!), along the Second Ring river and the little park that’s there and seems to run at least the length of this northern portion of the road, then got to Yonghegong, the Buddhist Lama temple in Beijing. It’s been quite a long time since I’ve [...]
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Posted April 8th, 2010 - 5:59 pm by sean
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Connections Bar & Grill
So it’s been a very long time since we’ve posted. And it may be even longer until the next post. Nor will this post be very substantive as far as its text is concerned. To summarize though… Our visas still haven’t been processed. We need to leave the country again come March 15th. My mother, [...]
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Posted February 7th, 2010 - 7:09 pm by sean
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Seoul Photos
Seoul was lovely, though we both thought it looked very much like any major city in the US, specifically San Francisco. By the time our trip was over, we were calling it San Francisco. We were quite lucky with the weather, which was gorgeous. A funny story though, we had trouble finding trash cans while [...]
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Posted November 26th, 2009 - 12:53 pm by sean
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First Snow in Beijing
It was an early snowfall this year. Apparently it’s good fortune. If it snows in November, it means the next years harvest will be bountiful, or something like that. It came on real fast, completely out of the blue. Incidentally, the mosquitoes are quite hearty and are STILL around somehow. And it looks like it’s [...]
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Posted November 8th, 2009 - 2:42 am by sean
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Tsinghua and Beida
These photos were taken when we first went to visit the two campuses. Maria had arranged to sit in on some of the classes at both schools, and we wanted to be sure we knew where she had to go. It was also on the way to ZhongGuanCun where we tried and failed to purchase [...]
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Posted October 21st, 2009 - 1:42 am by sean
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Cows………..
So my father is partners with this company that has a dairy farm up in the northern part of Beijing. It’s very rural up there, very pretty, and apparently the government is trying to attract some big name companies to move in for the sake of saving the environment and all, with somewhat limited success. [...]
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Posted October 13th, 2009 - 10:26 pm by sean
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Carmel 2009
So this time next week, we’ll be in China! Ah! It’s a little overwhelming actually. Exactly three days time left since it just became Friday. And what a Friday it’ll be. We have lots of last minute finalizing we need to do, plus packing. There’s lots of logistics and telephone related errands to run before [...]
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Posted September 18th, 2009 - 12:19 am by sean
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Eggplant Dinner
This was a dinner I cooked for Maria while still at Bunker Hill Towers. In case you couldn’t tell, I’m in the process of re-importing all my images into my new blog now. I thought the meal was wonderful: pan fried eggplant, zucchini, and broccoli rabe stacked then baked with fresh mozzarella and basil on [...]
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Posted September 6th, 2009 - 2:33 am by sean
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Downtown LA @ Night
These photos were taken from the view of my apartment in Downtown LA, at a building called Bunker Hill Towers. It’s kinda stalker-ish I realize, but I think the city looks lovely at night.