Restaurant Review: Aquavit Bistro
So I’m thinking of starting a new series of posts to go along with Maria and I’s exploration of the many varied restaurant options in New York City. We’ve always loved food, perhaps think of ourselves as foodies, and it was just Restaurant Week. I’ve also always felt like I may have missed out on [...]
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Posted February 8th, 2011 - 12:37 am by sean
Categories new york city,restaurant reviews
Tags food, friends, restaurants
1st Trip to Ikea, Brooklyn
So what with trying to find a new apartment and all, and said apartments being most likely studios, and not that there’s anything wrong with that because we like studios, because we don’t like superfluous interior walls, because we like, large (or rather not too large), open spaces, because we prefer small but well laid [...]
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Posted February 4th, 2011 - 7:42 pm by sean
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2nd Post of 2011
Yes, I know, it’s almost the end of the first MONTH but I’ve been busy. The majority of that time was spent interviewing with companies for a job. I signed up with a tech recruiting agency, two of them actually, though in reality, one still. It’s weird. I ran into something like this before back [...]
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Posted January 27th, 2011 - 11:42 pm by sean
Categories new york city
Tags apartment, brokers, food, job, lawyers, programming, recruiters, restaurants
First post of 2011
Let’s see, what was written last? So it’s obviously been a while since I’ve posted, and a lot of things have happened since, hence the been a while since I’ve last posted. I mean, that was half way around the world ago, and last year. As I write, it is the middle of the night [...]
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Posted January 11th, 2011 - 2:30 pm by sean
Categories new york city
Tags adventure, apartment, beijing, computers, food, friends, holiday, movies, Ohio, post-china, public transit, rant, running
How to ship boxes from China to the US
This is incidentally also “Countdown once again – 2 Days.” So we had originally been planning to take all our stuff with us on this move back. When we first made the move over some year and a half ago, we managed to fit into 8 suitcases, including carry-ons. We had a little trouble with [...]
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Posted December 22nd, 2010 - 6:40 am by sean
Categories china,reference
Tags china, reference, tips, travel
Countdown once again – 4 Days
It’s that time of year again, or rather that time of the year and a half. We are counting down the days until we leave. I guess we hadn’t formally announced any such things yet, and though the rest of the inter-webs know already, the blog is sadly still officially ignorant of certain important matters. [...]
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Posted December 20th, 2010 - 2:42 am by sean
Categories china
Tags apartment, blog, business, comfort, computers, engagement, International Festival Chorus, lawyers, MBA, moving, nostalgia, NYC, Ohio, travel, visas
Shanghai December 2010
And as I had alluded to 2 posts ago now, even more things happened and one of them was that Maria and I got to go to Shanghai together finally! I had only been there once before in my entire life, and I’m not sure it counts seeing as it probably happened about 15 years [...]
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Posted December 14th, 2010 - 3:39 am by sean
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NYC November 2010
So as I had alluded to in the previous post, lots of things happened, and this is kind of a make up post in an all out of order sort of fashion. What had happened was, my China visa had proper expired. As in, no more entries, no more days allowed in country, stay any [...]
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Posted December 14th, 2010 - 3:30 am by sean
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Updating on the train
Huh, apparently I have 4 WordPress Plugins to update, plus a new Core version to upgrade to. Since I’m connected to the internet through my cell phone’s tether through my VPN in the States, I’m thinking I’m gonna hold off on any major internet work that’s actually important and meaningful until later. I’ll be back [...]
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Posted December 13th, 2010 - 12:07 am by sean
Categories china
Tags adventure, family, friends, holiday, International Festival Chorus, travel, vacation, visas
IFC Messiah Concert 2010
And just to plug me and myself and those that I sing with, the annual International Festival Chorus Handel’s Messiah Concert is coming to town. December 5th, Sunday, 2010, at the International School of Beijing way the heck out in Shunyi. Free transportation is provided on the day of the concert to and from, leaving [...]
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Posted November 10th, 2010 - 3:09 pm by sean
Categories china
Tags International Festival Chorus, music
Looking for a new project
I think I need someone to count on me again. While Maria was away, there was purpose in the music project I recorded for her, something she waited for, something I knew she’d be disappointed if I didn’t do. It was important, though only because I deemed it so. And though now I have lots [...]