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Two nights ago, I tried some dog. Actually it was at a Korean restaurant so the title might not be 100% appropriate.
I was not particularly impressed. The dog soup wasn’t that great; certainly not in comparison to the crunchy rice bowl thing with beef I had. I’ll stick with beef I [...]

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Ok so here’s the story.
On Wednesday morning, under somewhat unclear circumstances, I started vomiting, a lot. Unclear because I’m not sure what caused such terrific distress to my stomach, but at this point my best guess is taking too much of an expired decongestant.
So, around lunchtime when this hits me [...]

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The taxis got it covered. I’m told that next week Beijing is going to do a trial run of dramatically reducing the number of cars on the road. This I want to see. I feel like I should take a cab across town just to see if it’s faster without all the other [...]

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This week has been quite busy for me. Last Saturday I said goodbye to nearly everybody I knew socially in Shanghai. On Sunday morning, I headed out to Shanghai Pudong airport with my all of my material crap in tow, and checked in (significant overweight baggage fee, as expected) for my flight to [...]

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A few things that I want to put out there:

I accepted a job in Beijing, starting on May 14
I’ll be visiting Chicago for a few days next week (evening of 1st to morning of 6th)
My desire to stay in Shanghai dropped precipitously after giving notice, as I was pulled from the interesting projects.

I think that’s [...]

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In the last day I’ve read that China is trying to curb the growth of online game addiction from a couple of sources. The BBC and Ars Technica both have articles citing this article from Xinhua.
My reaction to the headline was to wonder how they plan to enforce such policies, and apparently [...]

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How do I say “please stop talking to me because your breath is making me nauseous” without being too impolite?

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Is this what I’ve got to look forward to if I stay here for a long time?
Only sometimes, I expect, probably not so different from now. There will be times when stuff builds and gets me down, and times when it just won’t get to me. We’ll see.

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This morning as I rushed off to work due to waking up late, I stopped by House of Flour (Shanghaiist mention)) to get something to eat for breakfast since I had heard good things.
They have tasty baked goods! I really enjoyed the croissant and muffin I had this morning, and now I wonder if [...]

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I had another gross experience on the train today. Not quite as gross I think as the last one, but, even so, you may consider not reading the rest of this post if you thought the last too disgusting.
Today I was taking Line 4 back from the Shanghai Train Station to my [...]

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