Sorry I havent posted in a while. This year has been busy for me, I have battled with depression yet again, and more recently I have had surgery. It is the latter I am writing about today. This all started years ago when I hurt my shoulder in racquetball. This followed a torn tendon with basketball…
Well it has been a while since I written on my blog. This is due to a couple of reasons, stress, being busy, and slow internet. Where I am at in China does not have DSL but ADSL which is a little slower. It slows down more if there is a lot of traffic like…
So this past November a coworker of mine and his wife graciously invited me and some of my friends to go to Macau with them. Macau belonged to Portugal, but like Hong Kong, was given back to China in 1999. It is also under the “one China two systems” policy that Hong Kong is, which…
Sorry for taking so long to start posting again, I have sick pretty much this entire month. Anyways, I recently made a couple trips to Hong Kong as it is the closest city to Shenzhen where I am currently living. Hong Kong is a harbor city of 7.2 million residents on a small series of…
A gallery of a trip to the local wet market (aka farmers market)
Recently I visited the city of Guangzhou. It is the third largest city in China at around 14 million in the metropolitan area. Jason, a local here, took me and a couple friends to the city with his family. We took the train there which was a comfortable two hour trip. As soon as I…
After spending some time in Bangkok, I decided to travel up north to Changmai, Laos, and the longnecks…
Thailand is located in Southeast Asia, it is one of the few countries in the world that have never been colonized. Bangkok its capital (whose full official name is Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit) is the most visited city in the world. It is a country of smiles, where English speakers are easy…
On my trip to Thailand I realized I will be able to experience animals in a way I have never before. This included a trip to a elephant preservation park, a tiger breeding area, and a random encounter with a lemur.
It should come to no surprise that there are Walmarts here in China; after all most of the merchandise they sell at Walmart in America is from China. However the Walmart in China is nothing like a Walmart in America. There are differences, lots of them. For one the place is packed every weekend, it is…
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