Tag: Beijing
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Finally a week off!
As you may be aware, China is celebrating its own new year this week, the Year of the Dog. That means a few things: some time off, cleaner air, and… an empty Beijing. I haven’t been in Beijing for Spring Festival (as the Chinese New Year is called, because it markets the beginning of the…
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Another late post but alive and well in Beijing
Just posting to keep things going. I’ve moved back to Beijing and took up a job with another company. Don’t feel too bad about leaving the last place as I’ve just heard that the lady in charge has (again) replaced her assistant. Sounds like it wasn’t a bad thing to leave that place after all.…
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And so ends 2016 and onto 2017… again, and again, and… again
It’s hard to believe that 2016 is over already with two Christmases done (Julian and Georgian calendars) and two of the three major New Yearses (sp?) are done and over with (again, Julian and Georgian calendars). All that’s left is the Lunar New Year, more commonly referred to as Chinese New Year or, here in…
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A Bad Week Gone Good, Part 3: Sending Money Home
Moving along onto the third part of the trifecta of disasters that all seem to occur within a one week period, I now introduce to you the complication of sending money home. I’ve been in Beijing for over two years now and, overall, I find it to be a good place to place. It works…
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A Bad Week Gone Good, Part 1: The Computer Breakdown
To say the last couple of weeks were a challenge is to understate the little bit of anxiety that has crept up in the morning with full knowledge that as soon as I got up it would be go go go. There was one week in particular that was not very good but not entirely…