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More Cultural Observations

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005

Yesterday I received my first ‘thing’ given to me by a girl in a short skirt in Beijing. It was a brochure for a new Asian noodle restaurant that I guess has opened up in Wu Dao Kou. The girl in a short skirt marketing scheme is a staple of business in Japan…

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Musk is Everywhere

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

I just got invited to attend Multimedia Entertainment China 2005 by Heather back at New Media BC…

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An even more Chinese Thanksgiving

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

It was a while ago, but here is the low down on the Canadian Thanksgiving Gala Danna and I went to. It cost 398 RMB per ticket which was pricey but I told Danna the proceeds would go to charity. Which they did. She was even happier to learn that all the money would stay in China and help out the Special Olympics and Cancer Research respectively…

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I was the only white person there

Saturday, October 29th, 2005

Today was wasted, largely spent in bed for my own safety. However tonight I went out to dinner with a number of Tsinghua School of Economics and Management MBA classmates. I was invited by SeungHae Ahn, a Korean classmate…

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Of bananas and eggs

Monday, October 17th, 2005

One interesting bit of jargon I’ve learned while in China is what it means to be a banana or an egg. A banana is yellow on the outside but white on the inside and is a term used by mainland Chinese to describe Chinese who grew up overseas. An egg is white on the outside but yellow on the inside and is a term used by mainland Chinese to describe Westerners that are very much interested in Asia/China…

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