Great night, despite everything (or the one thing).

Yay for Gin!

... it's just that currently MySpace and Facebook are blocked. And livejournal, like most blog sites, is blocked intermittently.

So if you know anyone I know who's not on livejournal, please tell them that I'm not ignoring them, I just can't reply to their messages.

Stuck here 3 more weeks....

I travel. A lot. And I like to read books. But books are f'n heavy and eat up your luggage weight allowance. I seem to travel a lot to places that don't write books in English. And I'm not that interested in the kind of books available at airports ( Read more... )

There are many many differences between China and the US. But there's one that I notice all the time that I find pretty amusing ( Read more... )

Apparently I go to the bubble tea shop enough that I now get extra bubbles ( Read more... )

Driver #2 was particularly proud today after getting me back from the client site in 10 minutes. This is for a drive that normally takes 30-45 minutes. And this wasn't due to lack of traffic either.

Nothing like riding down a dotted line at 120 km/h, passing cars, blinking lights, and spamming the horn.

After arriving last night, I got to spend a few hours walking around getting to know my neighborhood. Here are a few first impressions ( Read more... )

Apparently no one at my company (except myself for some reason) was aware of the Chinese working week schedule. I just had to explain why the client was insisting on a two hour lunch break ( Read more... )

The client signed!

Kickoff will be Feb 16th in Shenzen!

I'm the happiest tech-lead evah!

Would anyone be up for seeing Waltz with Bashir tomorrow after work?