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The Razr thin line between sad and happy

Hey, for anyone that’s following along. I’m all hooked up with a new phone. It’s a sweet little Motorola Razr. It’s loaded with all sorts of goodies that makes having lost my phone in the first place a bit less painful. I was able to keep my original number, and oddly enough, all the money …

July 21, 2007
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Free Oiwan Lam

The day before yesterday I wrote a post over at Lost Laowai called “Porno links rubbing HK the wrong way“. The post outlined the situation one HK resident, Oiwan Lam, has found herself in. Oiwan is a writer/media activist who founded Interlocals.net and also heads up the North-East Asia desk at Global Voices Online. A …

July 19, 2007
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My Overly Mobile Mobile

My first act as a thirtysomething has happened. The marker of things to come. That thing that makes you realize your mind was a terrible thing to waste… I forgot my damn phone in a taxi yesterday. I’m not 100% on how it happened, and only came to the conclusion after tearing apart my bag, …

July 19, 2007
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Dao By Design

So, yesterday I entered my fourth decade on this watery rock. I’m officially 30. The Big Three-Oh (My-God). Meh. I had a friend ask if I was freaking out about it at all, and really, I’m not even a little. You hear about it, they make Hallmark cards for it, people generally fuss over it. …

July 17, 2007
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Linktastic: Conan, Dirty Water and a Baby

I’ve shied away from my Bloglines RSS reader for the past few days in an effort to get some serious work done on my secret project (if you here that buzz, it’s just the suspense), and now going through it I’m realizing there’s just a crapload going on. First, a big mazel tov for peer-see‘s …

July 13, 2007
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Alright, Time To Vote!

As I announced a week or two ago, the 2007 China Blog Awards is on, and voting is going full-force. So, be sure to take a trip over, check out the categories, and cast some votes. I’m currently being beat (in no small amount) by Shopgirl, so please: Go vote for me Don’t let me …

July 6, 2007
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Copycat Fight in the Newsroom

I really enjoy reading great blogs like Positive Solutions and Beijing Newspeak. Having worked in various newsrooms during my previous life as a (cough) journalist (cough, hack, spit), it’s always quite cool to get a peak into what it would be like working in a “Chinese” newsroom. However, none of their posts ever included descriptions …

July 6, 2007
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Will I Ever Leave China?

This is a question that is continually asked of me by friends, family and – perhaps most often – myself. Will I ever leave China? The short answer is: Yes, God yes! The long answer, however, is a little more complicated. The truth is, I’m starting to like it here. Now before the boys at …

July 5, 2007
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Looking Back At My Life In ESL

So, today is officially the first day of the next ‘phase’ of my life. It’s hard to chunk stuff into nice little boxes, called “phases”, but as my memory tends to work best when I remember defining moments – lets call this one. Yesterday ended my run as an ESL teacher; a roll I somehow …

June 29, 2007
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Things that go “squeak” in the night

I was working late on the computer yesterday, and after being quite certain I’d dosed my eyes with a suitable level of radiation, I decided to turn in. Maggie, having to be up bright and early (oddly, at the same time as myself – but she requires something stupid like 10 hours of sleep), had …

June 28, 2007
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