Category: Blog
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Looking for coffee in all the usual places
Sunday morning. Want to get up but completely unmotivated. It’s the last day of the weekend, after all. Though, that doesn’t really count these days since my work has been cancelled for the foreseeable future. Workout? Ugh, I did that yesterday. Japanese? Yea, no, Japan trip isn’t happening any time soon. Coding? No brain power…
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Picking Up Programming
If you’ve looked through any of my recent posts, you’ll see that I’ve been focusing on studying Mandarin Chinese and Japanese, the latter of which I was only planning on studying for six weeks before a trip to Japan. However, due to the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak here in China, my trip to Japan has been…
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Six Weeks to Japanese: Progress Report #3
This will probably be my last progress report for a while on my attempt to learn some Japanese as it looks unlikely I will get a chance to go to Japan any time soon, especially since the number of Coronavirus cases in Japan has increased significantly in the last few weeks. This is too bad…
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An update on what’s going on
We’re now a few weeks after Spring Festival has ended and, even though the official holiday has ended, things are moving slowly. Beijing is still really quiet these days since many of the migrant workers who would’ve returned from their hometowns have been prevented by travel bans. Further, the 14-day self quarantine means that, even…
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Quotes from my Father
It’s been a few years since my Father passed away but his memory lives on. Since the day I heard the news I’ve been compiling some quotes or other things I remember him saying at some point. Since he was a writer and newspaper editor himself, working at an Canadian agricultural newspaper, Grainews, his entire…