Category: Blog
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If not China, then where?
I said it a few months ago that if the Coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown doesn’t resolve itself by June then that’s when things would become worrying. And that is slowly becoming the reality. I’ve made posts on Facebook indicating that things are starting to look a bit more desperate here in Beijing, despite the…
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Finished HSK 4 Books
I should be honest, I haven’t completely finished the HSK 4 books (both shang 上 and xia 下) but I’m pretty close. There are one or two more things I need to do in order to actually have finished the books. The first is that I have to go through both books and re-do the…
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Springing along
Things have been busy for me as of late and, if you haven’t seen by now, I’ve started a podcast! It’s the first new page I’ve added in a long time so I encourage you to take a look and have a listen to my new form of media! The Steven Sirski Podcast 😀 Why…
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Thoughts after roasting coffee
I was nervous, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Here I was holding a bag of green coffee beans, noticing how tiny they looked in comparison to roasted beans. This is it? I thought. Just put the beans in the pan and fry them? No ceremony? I kind of had the feeling that this is…
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Chinese Changes – May 2020
I’ve done this type of post a few times before, notably in 2018 an 2019 in which I look at some of the things that I’ve seen change over the year in Beijing and in parts of China. Although the current situation has China and the world dealing with the Coronavirus epidemic, things were normal…