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Living in Beijing - My Beijing Life: April 2009
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Sunday, April 19, 2009. Beijing Blog Reader's Choice! Don't get excited. I didn't win an award. In fact, I don't think Beijing-ren can even read my blog yet. But since I have some random followers in Korea, Mongolia, Hong Kong, Laos and other parts of Asia, I'll count that as a win. I guess that subject was a bit dickish and at least partially misleading. Here is the list of potential topics:. Silly Exercises Old People Do. More Street Food Posts. Ultimate Frisbee in Beijing. 煎饼, pronounced jianbing.
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Living in Beijing - My Beijing Life: January 2010
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010. Counter Strike Players of the World Unite. Every country I've visited in Asia has one thing in common: Counter Strike. Whether located in Thailand, Indonesia, China or Korea, Asian internet cafes are always full of people playing Counter Strike. I've walked past closed office storefronts and have seen teams of employees yelling through headsets while playing Counter Strike. And those are the considerate employees! That remains to be seen. Are poised to take these communities ...
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Living in Beijing - My Beijing Life: April 2010
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Monday, April 26, 2010. Electric Bikes in Beijing. Most of my friends in BeiJing use bicycles as their primary mode of transportation. Sprinkle in a few subway, bus and cab rides and you can get pretty much anywhere, and generally quickly. Veronica commutes to work on a single gear bike every day. Plus her bike has a pretty cool bell! Last November, our friend Jared convinced us to invest in an electric bike. And I thank the stars for this every day. Why not just use your feet? There are actually a huge ...
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Living in Beijing - My Beijing Life: October 2009
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009. Flat Metal Korean Chopsticks. I'm happy to report the tales are not tall and the legends are true. Seoul is pretty awesome. And its celebrated with some special foods (namely a dessert), dancing and games. Kinda makes me want American Thanksgiving to involve more games somehow. like darts or Starcraft. We hope to expand to cover more games in the future. If only we could get a network to cover our tournaments. Not spitting wherever you want? Oh and Korean Souju is as cheap as C...
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Living in Beijing - My Beijing Life: May 2009
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Sunday, May 24, 2009. A few weeks ago, Veronica, our friend Kim and I went on a trip to a few places in Malaysia and to Bali in Indonesia. I'm going to include some pictures and stories here. It was a great time. I highly recommend it. As it turns out, Indonesia (and to a lesser degree Malaysia) are the Caribbean for Oceania, but probably cheaper and more fun! I'm starting with Malaysia and will post about Bali later. We also spent a chunk of time at a meromictic. Posted by The Author. I don't understand...
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Living in Beijing - My Beijing Life: March 2009
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Sunday, March 29, 2009. If you aren't NBA, you don't matter. Basketball is HUGE in China. And I'm not just talking about Yao. Most Americans know of Yao Ming. Pretty much everyone in the world does. The guy is gigantic. Its hard to miss him him. But can you name any other Chinese basketball players? How about cities in China with professional basketball teams? For shame. All Chinese males under the age of 25 can name (what they believe to be) at least 30 US cities. Which ones? Basketball magazines on the...
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Living in Beijing - My Beijing Life: Words With Friends Accomplishments
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Friday, September 16, 2011. Words With Friends Accomplishments. I've been playing a lot of Words With Friends on Facebook and Android lately. Its been driving me crazy lately that they've added 39 accomplishments but haven't provided anyway to see all the accomplishments you've gotten or which remain. Here are some of the ones I've found so far. So there are three big questions that remain:. 1: This is already more than 39 (41 to be exact! What accomplishments are left? And which of these are official.
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Living in Beijing - My Beijing Life: November 2009
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009. Someone robbed our house! I admit, that title is a bit misleading. No one stole anything from our house. Don't worry. However, someone did steal a potential new apartment from us! Or So We. Thought. We met with our Realtor the day after he gave us the bad news and he showed us the perfect place; a better location and a better apartment for less money per month. I tend to be a "prepare for the worst case" sort of person, but things really fell into place on this one. Also in th...
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Living in Beijing - My Beijing Life: June 2010
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Saturday, June 26, 2010. Visa Run from XiaMen to JinMen (Kinmen). I'm writing this blog post from my friends' house in Thailand, so it is clear that I didn't get a chance to do a fun visa run I just heard about. The standard (read: low-cost and/or fast) Visa runs from Beijing are generally thought to be:. Sleeper Bus to Erlian then cross into Zamen Uud, Mongolia. Sleeper Train to Hong Kong. Flight to Seoul, South Korea. Flight to Busan (Pusan), South Korea. If I had more time (read: if plan better in the...
