Yearly Archives: 2006

2008: The Year of Manners

For anyone that has been to China, and certianly for those of us that live here, one of the hardest things to deal with is that many [not all] Chinese people seem to have a complete lack of any sort of manners. Near every day walking to or from the bus stop I pass no …

March 7, 2006
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Movin’ and Shakin’

Well, we’re all moved in to our new apartment. After a few hiccups and finally having to agree to having a rent increase after six months (I knew that 1,000 yuan thing was too good to be true), we moved in Thursday. Last night shortly before meeting Cam and Maeve for some dinner in our …

February 25, 2006
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Corporate Responsibility: Again

Continuing the conversation of an earlier post about cheap labour in developing countries, I wanted to post a video I found on my friend Rick’s (highly improved!) site – Panda Passport. Essentially the video shows how employees are exploited by a factory in Shenzhen, China, that produce goods for more developed nations – in this …

February 21, 2006
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No Press For The Wicked

It is never far from my mind that I should perhaps watch what I say on my site about China. When I first arrived in this country little more than a year ago and befriended Mask of China blogger Derrick, I had him instill a bit of fear about who might be watching me. Though …

February 20, 2006
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Lower The Red Lantern

So I was just reading my buddy Chris’ blog and realized it’s all stopped. The maddening fireworks going off every five minutes have finally ceased. I won’t say that I’ll miss their fight-or-flight instinct inducing bangs, but I do have a bit of that sense you get as a really great party is dying down. …

February 18, 2006
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Google Woes

Right… so I FINALLY get off my ass and write Google Adsense an e-mail about why my Google Ads haven’t been working, they sort it out and I suddenly realize that I was contemplating boycotting Google for its giving in to the truth editing, ‘masses protecting’ Chinese government. THEN I realize that Blogger, the site …

February 17, 2006
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Baby, Baby

Welcome to the world Dakota Justice Wright (the smaller pinkish thing in the picture), born February 3rd to my bestfriend CJ (the larger pinkish thing in the picture). I generally don’t like reading about other people’s friends having babies, so I’m going to assume you all don’t particularlly care about his – unless you know …

February 16, 2006
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Ciao Entry

Well, I’ve been a bit shit at posting, and I hate that I’m now a blogger that is posting that statement. I mean, like it’s your problem I’ve been verbally constipated. Hell, I should be thanking you for even making this part of your day. Thank you. I guess it’s not so much a lack …

February 11, 2006
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Haerbin There, Done That

Well, the party’s over folks. For us Future School peoples anyway. We’re all back at school today, making up for Christmas Day. It went quickly though, and I’m home now trying desperately to post about my trip to Haerbin 哈尔滨, also known as the coldest place I’ve ever experienced. All my thoughts of “Hey, I’m …

February 3, 2006
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New Year’s Redux: More Bang, Less Suck

Welcome To The Year of the Dog Today I begin my second journey through the noisy, exciting and sometimes dangerous world of the Chinese New Year. Though last year was simply amazing, in that I had never seen anything like it before, this year has afforded me an experience even more unique and rewarding – …

January 28, 2006
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Mad(e) In Canada

The following is my response to an e-mail forward sent to me by my friend Katie in Canada about Canada losing jobs to lower wages in developing nations. The original FWD is below. I think my perspective is perhaps biased because I’ve met people here in China who work at these factories that build things …

January 28, 2006
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