February 2007 - Ryan McLaughlin

Road To Wedlock VI: åˆ°äº† (arrived)!

Alright, I had big plans to be able to squeeze in a post giving the details of the wedding sometime during the last few days of being in Suzhou between tropical islands (Hainan – Koh Chang) … alas it was not meant to be. So, this is all I’ve time for at the moment – …

February 22, 2007

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Off To Get Married

Alright, just shutting down the computer and we’re off to catch our shuttle from Suzhou to Shanghai Pudong Airport (PVG) to meet my parents. As might be expected, I’ll not be online much these next few days. In case you all get lonely, I’ve asked the other writers at Lost Laowai to pick up my …

February 13, 2007

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Road To Wedlock V: Right, The Ceremony!

Alright, I know this “Road To Wedlock” series has been taking up a lot of the focus of this blog lately, but it’ll all be over by the end of the week! Then, apart from wedding photos, video and pictures from the honeymoon… I’ll be back to less nuptial posting and more “What the hell …

February 12, 2007

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The Sex Is Back: Return of Chinabounder

Hey, I meant to make mention of a new post I did over at Lost Laowai earlier this week… but I forgot… but anyway… here’s a sample: Anyone active in the China blogsphere back in August surely remembers Chinabounder and his rather conspicuous blog “Sex And Shanghai“. The blog received some rather heated attention (making …

February 8, 2007

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So Gay

Thanks for The Peking Duck pointing me to this link before it was too late. I had no idea I was at such a great risk of becoming gay! I was ill-informed about the evils lurking in my iPod – iGay more like it! One of the most dangerous ways homosexuality invades family life is …

February 8, 2007

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All Moved In…

…and back online! The thing I hate most about moving, even more than the physics-defying process of packing and the bleach-burned skin from cleaning, is the re-setting up of Internet. This move is the fifth place I’ve lived in China, and the fifth time I’ve had had to install, transfer or otherwise pray for a …

February 5, 2007

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Road To Wedlock IV: Lord of the Rings!

They’ve arrived! The wedding rings are in-hand (but will have to wait 2 more weeks to settle on fingers). We ordered the rings online via Gillett’s Jewellers – a company out of Australia that has a very slick Website with loads of helpful information regarding rings, wedding rings, different metals, various gems, etc. We decided …

February 1, 2007

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