Yearly Archives: 2006

vLog.01: Chuar!

Here it is, the first vBlog. Some friends and I headed out onto the mean streats of Dalian in hunt of some Chinese BBQ, better known as CHUAR! As summer approaches, there’s nothing better than a few good pengyous, a couple of cheap pijius and a load of skewered random rou. Formica tables, dirty grills, …

April 9, 2006
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YouTube, I Tube, We All Tube: Banana

Ok, sometimes I just don’t know where the blog post titles come from. Last night a few of us met down by Olympic Square for some BBQ. In the course of stuffing ourselves full of meat and beer, Rick, the man behind Panda Passport, mentioned a site called YouTube.com. I sort of yaya’d it at …

April 5, 2006
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Pizza & Beer Wine

Yeah, so I’ve sort of become a tad dependent on Walmart pizza. I discovered it a couple weeks back nestled right next to the freshly steamed Bao Zi (steamed bread stuffed with meat) and it’s become nearly a daily thing. It’s a sad fact that I have absolutely no motivation to cook for just myself, …

April 3, 2006
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That’s Fantastic

The other day it dawned on me that this new found BitTorrent technology that I’ve been utilizing to bring me the latest episodes of all my favourite TV shows from back home might actually be able to add some nostalgia value to my free time. So it was that I did a quick search for …

April 2, 2006
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Loose Change 911

[Torrent Link] 911 Loose Change I would never really classify myself as a conspiracy theorist. I remember reading the Operation Majority crap when I was a kid and being totally engulfed in the idea that there was a world of things happening that we, the public, weren’t allowed to see. Secret things like alien presence …

March 29, 2006
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AIDS In China

Right, so I’m becoming a little too accustomed to posting about stuff I’ve read on other people’s sites, especially the ever interesting and insightful EastSouthWestNorth Blog. But if ideas had to be original, we’d all be in short supply. As such, I just finished reading “Being Alive Is Not Just An Instinct“, ESWN’s lastest post/translation …

March 27, 2006
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A Lil’ Somethin’ For Everyone

If you come to my site for news about me… I’ve finally settled into my new routine. Teaching at a primary school as opposed to teaching at a private language school does comes with some differences. 1) More kids. At Future School I was teaching class sizes ranging from 5 to 19 kids at various …

March 26, 2006
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Inboxinated

Hey, always in a rush to add little gizmos to my site that make it just the coolest thing since sliced bread (and you thought it was sliced bagels!), I’ve set up a Daily E-mail Update. So, if you like reading my site, keeping posted on what’s going on with me in China, but can’t …

March 23, 2006
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Do On To Others …

Right, so does anyone else think the world is just stupidly retarded these days? And I don’t mean to throw the term retarded out there to offend anyone with special needs, as they are certainly more abled than the planet at large. I just read about this case in Afganistan, where an Afgan man is …

March 22, 2006
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Worth A Thousand Words…

The Humanaught’s Photo Gallery So, it’s finally up. It’s not complete, it’s got a few kinks, and there’s no Dalian section (bit ironic I think)… but my photo gallery is finally complete enough that I’d thought I’d put a link on here for it. Check it out, and leave some comments about what you think.

March 19, 2006
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Putting The Rough Back In The Diamond

Maybe about a year ago I was talking to my friend Matt about “old nobility” versus “nouveau riche”. To be honest, being from a country with a limited amount of direct history, these two terms were, well, foreign to me. I mean, I’m sure Canada has some nobility attached to it, but most of the …

March 19, 2006
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New Apartment: The Tour

Download the video (if it doesn’t play above). Hey, so I finally got around to taking some photos, and even making a little video, of our apartment. It’s pretty sweet. For 1000 RMB ($142 CAN)/mo. we have a 2-bedroom, approx. 100 sq. metre place. Seventh floor, but hell, I need the excercise. [LEFT] The livingroom, …

March 15, 2006
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