The Journey is the Goal

Having worked in China for over a year now I would say that during this time I have become significantly desensitised to practices which, back in Sydney, we could classify as being ‘wrong’. Now you could say, ‘it’s a different culture and things work differently here’, but I’m not one of those people who think [...]

Today I experienced a day unlike any I’ve ever experienced before. Since arriving in Beijing the temperature has hovered around 2-7 degrees C, that is, around fridge temperature. An environment at this temperature has its advantages and disadvantages. One of the advantages is that items left at room temperature could be loosely described as being [...]

Today has been a busy day for me as this morning I went shopping and among the things I bought were the remaining mugs in a mug set of which I bought one last month. Here is a photo of the mug I originally bought.

Not terribly remarkable. I should’ve been more careful when I took [...]

Right now it is around 11:30 in the morning and I have just finished playing a few rounds of Unreal Tournament 2004. While I was playing I was pondering some of the ads that appear on TV in Shenzhen. I only receive two English channels, both of which are from Hong Kong being ATV World [...]

Tonight I write after what has been a long though interesting day. My day began at roughly 1pm when one of my colleagues, Jared, invited me out to go to the promenade that goes through the centre of Taoyuanju (桃源居 TYJ), the district in which I live, in search of clothing to wear on Halloween. [...]