Category: Blog

  • The End of September and Beginning of October (2022)

    A no-brainer title to be sure but I find it even more difficult to express my thinking in words these days and often choosing to create more spoken form content than written. The worst part is that I started this blog post three weeks ago with the intention to simply publish something already and then…

  • September 2022 Audio Blogs

    September 2022 Audio Blogs

    ARCHIVES SSAB – September 1, 2022 That’s an 18-hour day. New month! Count down begins! New podcast episode recorded. Another one lined up. Gotta take advantage of the timing! Questioning those who are saying to post more on social media and that artists / creatives will reign supreme in the coming years… but they need…

  • August 2022 Audio Blogs

    August 2022 Audio Blogs

    ARCHIVES SSAB – August 1 2022 Humidity and connection issues! Knife Sharpener actually sings! Compound clarified with pesticide! New month! Civic holiday in Canada, Dauphin’s CNUF and Folklorama kick off this week. Looks like it’s in full swing, I’ve never seen another city put on a show for each culture in the city. Food, traditional…

  • July 2022 Audio Blogs

    July 2022 Audio Blogs

    ARCHIVES SSAB – July 1 2022 Happy Canada Day! Though I know it seems to be a bad thing to say these days. Accomplishments? Honestly? I don’t know! Canadarm on the space station, James Naismith invented basketball, Chris Hadfield – an astronaut in space who played guitar and wrote a few books, Wayne Gretzky, Tim…

  • Some Thoughts Before My HSK 5 Test

    Some Thoughts Before My HSK 5 Test

    So it’s Saturday morning, July 16th, 2022 and I’m a few hours away from partaking in my third Mandarin Chinese language proficiency test, the HSK 5. It’s been just over one year since I took the HSK 4 test and scored 67% overall on the test, with my scores being 71 in Listening, 76 in…

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