Last week I went with a friend to the local art district in Beijing, 798 District. You may recall I had visited the area about 18 months ago and took some very nice pictures of the area. In an old industrial area, it has many works of art distributed throughout the few gridline streets it [...]

With winter coming to slow close I’m very happy to see the temperature creeping back up and out of the below freezing range. Life is a lot nicer when I don’t have to wrap my head in scarf just so my face doesn’t freeze off with frostbite. However somebody had forgotten to tell our building [...]

One of the things I’ve had to deal with since changing my position is handling schedules, especially when it comes to arranging meetings. I’ve always been one of those people that arrives to everything early, or at very least will get there early and then wait around to the starting time. I’ve always seen it [...]

Sadly, things aren’t going to get any better for either me, or Facebook, here in China, with negotiations to get it back up stalling after much promise. …But Japan, India and Korea currently have popular local alternatives to Facebook, and the Chinese government has no intention of lifting its ban on the site. The site [...]

One of the less enjoyable part of my new position within the school is the amount of traveling I do. Truth be told, I don’t actually travel that much, on average once a week, although it always seems that when I do travel it’s around the same time. Whether it is a meeting, going for [...]

I heard it’s darn cold in Korea at the moment, so I’m more than happy that it hasn’t become too cold here in Beijing. While the morning walks have certainly required me to bring out my big,thick scarf,I can still get away without gloves on my walk home after work. I wouldn’t mind a bit [...]