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Impractical Shanghai
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I’ll See Myself Out: Notes on That Time I Square Danced to Chinese Punk Music in the Park
09 May 2013 3:07 PM | 5 Comments -
I’ll See Myself Out: Notes on Stuff, Self, Place and Ridiculously Sudden Life Transitions
25 April 2013 11:56 AM | 13 Comments -
I’ll See Myself Out: Notes on Being a Tired Hermit With Possibly Unrealistic Expectations
15 April 2013 12:27 PM | 17 Comments -
I’ll See Myself Out: Attempting Shanghai Nightlife (for Burnt Out Recluses)
19 March 2013 1:36 PM | 18 Comments -
It’s Beginning to Look Not Even Remotely Like Christmas: Faking Festiveness in Shanghai
25 December 2012 4:41 PM | 13 Comments -
Notes on Not Running Away Again: Dealing Sensibly With a Shanghai Winter
30 November 2012 2:25 PM | 18 Comments -
You look very terrible, Miss Mary: Unsolicited Advice for the Laowai
19 November 2012 4:44 PM | 15 Comments -
Managing Your Plague in China: Brief Notes on my Stupid Cold
15 November 2012 1:09 PM | 8 Comments -
Strangled Gasps of Creativity (or Why I’ll Probably Never Be a Published Author)
05 November 2012 10:58 AM | 28 Comments -
The Grass is Always Less Hazardous on the Other Side: I’m Cheating on China in my Head Again
29 October 2012 12:27 PM | 22 Comments
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Archive for June, 2010
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Boxha Cafe in the rain
In the interest of creating mental escape routes for the rainy season, I’m starting a new category exclusively for cafes in Shanghai to duck into out of the rain. Since…
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(101 things about Shanghai) Grim, grim, grim meteorological tendencies
Shanghai in June is pretty grim. So is Shanghai between November and, say, March. Or maybe April. May and October can be quite nice, with skies you can actually see…
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Decoding the Putonghua Parallel Universe
A few months ago I was in the middle of a speaking exam with a very capable university student who was explaining at great length to me the plot of…
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(101 Things About Shanghai) Asking Permission to be Legal Laowai
Today I did what every foreign expert must do at least once a year (or like last year when I changed jobs and visas about three times in as many…
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Despo(t) 2010: Stan!
Also in this series: Death By Exposure and Despo(t) 2010: The Axis of Awesome In our quest to avoid the crowded pavilions at Shanghai Expo 2010, we embarked…
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Shanghai Despo(t) 2010- The Axis of Awesome Pavilions
Also in this series: Death By Exposure and Stan! We went back to Expo on Saturday for a stubborn second round of heat stroke and agoraphobia. The first…
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Death by Exposure: Expo 2010, Part 1
Also in this series: Despot 2010: Axis of Awesome and Stan! After we spent the first day of the Dragon Boat Festival being slothful, alternating dragging our bodies…
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(101 Things About Shanghai) Economical Military Presence
On the 6:44am Line 1 metro out of Shanxi Rd, half the cars are filled with PLA soldiers going to work at People’s Square. They occupy the centre aisle, standing in perfect…
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Redemption and Delivery
One of the things I really liked about Istanbul but never took advantage of due to sheer terror of using my (self-perceived) inferior Turkish skills was the culture of delivery….
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Perks of living on the 16th floor
You can see fireworks five blocks away.
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Fast, But Not Exactly McDonalds
Sometimes when I come home from work, I’m absurdly hungry- maybe I worked through my lunch break, maybe I covered ten kilometres just pacing and monitoring in class. It has been…
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People in the Mornings
On Jiashan Lu in the morning there are streams of bicycles weaving down the road and its crowded sidewalk, pedalled by parents carrying their children to school. On our street,…
