One of the fun things about being a parent is dressing up your child when they still don't know any better.


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See if you can recognize the hand in this picture posted on That's Shanghai's website - Urbanotomy.

To read the full entry, click: Fancy Hi-Tech Street Reading


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In a recent conversation, Evan was throwing around a travel idea about hiking some other mountain. While pouting, I whined, "But.......... that's another Evan-type vacation..." He raised his eyebrow, "and what exactly is an Evan-type vacation, may I inquire?"

Let me think, oh here goes:
- long hikes, very long hikes (6 - 9 hours?), but with the most ( Read more... )

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I'm in Shanghai for my first secondment to a client office. We were supporting the client from our end for a few days straight where I ended up working from 8am -- 4am on my birthday, and continued at 9am the next day until it was an hour before my own birthday party ( Read more... )

It was quite the whirlwind holiday during our one-week break for China's GoldenWeek National Holiday. With our favorite couple, Pete and Monica in town from Shanghai, we hiked, camped, biked and ate our way through 小五台山 Xiaowutaishan in Hebei and also in Beijing. We are back at work today and tomorrow and have spent the day catching up with our ( Read more... )

September 23, 2010
The day after Mid-Autumn Festival where you can see the moon and Jupiter at the bottom right of the moon


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“The Chinese capital has always functioned in a register of productive and tolerable clamor: busy, frenetic, and congested, yes, but manageable and irresistibly interesting.”

Evan Osnos of The New Yorker

On some days, when I narrowly miss being hit by an electric bike, a Mercedes-Benz, and a bus -- all in the span of 100 meters, I imagine ( Read more... )

Since Fall has begun, our days have been shorter. We spent the first day of our three-day holiday for Mid-Autumn Festival biking from outdoor store to outdoor store in preparation of our upcoming hiking and camping trip at Hebei Province’s 小五台山 (Xiao Wutaishan). When we left the last store to bike home at around 6pm, the sun was already setting ( Read more... )

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