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Back To The Future

I have to admit that 90% of my motivation to write an entry comes from the fact that I have a legitimate reason for using that title. Hehe. Well into using a couple bottles of China’s finest pijiu to wash away the week’s hardships last night I got a phone call from my old manager …

April 15, 2006
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China Rises: 坐下中国

So, has anyone in Canada, or the US caught any of this China Rises special? I’m not sure about dates or times, but it’s a combo project of the NY Times and CBC.ca (and some other guys – Germans I think). You can check out some information here and if you dislike commercials or don’t …

April 12, 2006
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Soapbox: Smokers

Always one to step on my little soapbox here, I just read an article on CBC entitled “Anti-smoking crusader takes on final campaign” and if you’re a smoker and feel it is your ‘right’ to be able to smoke in public places, please read this and educate yourself. This is not an issue of civil …

April 10, 2006
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Lights, Camera…

Ok, so the YouTube thing didn’t work out for my vBlog idea. However, having already strung together the first entry, I’ve decided to go ahead with it anyway, bandwidth limits be damned. Take a lot of meat, a lot of beer, a few friends and a rather steep video-editing learning curve and you get… The …

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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