I continue to walk the streets of Shanghai and snap the odd photo with my iPhone. I really don’t have much time to be a tourist or even a drunken expat…

I’m currently living in Shanghai, moving here was not part of my master plan, but I literally was not doing anything productive, so now I am here…

A long, long, time ago I lived in Beijing. In fact Muskblog was started prior to my exchange semester at Tsinghua University so that my classmates and friends could follow my exploits…

One thing you quickly learn living in Wu Dao Kou is there are a lot of people in the street that want your money. Some are beggars and some are selling stuff. You get offered all kinds of things from Japanese perfume to hard drives. People whip it out of a pocket or a bag; some have entire carts full of stuffed dogs or even live dogs. Some are more aggressive than others; amongst the most aggressive sellers are the flower girls…

I’m not the biggest Christmas person. I think it is too commercial. I try to do less commercial things at Christmas such as send Christmas cards and make a big Christmas morning breakfast for everyone…