Having lived in China for a year now, it has been interesting to see how many Asian flavored “slurs” pop up in the American language. Sayings and attitudes that made sense before seem a little more foreign now. Because the American homeland IS slowly becoming the foreign place to me now. It’s the curse of the Expat.
Continue reading “Expats in Asia and The Price of Tea in China”
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Clips from Valentine’s Day 2009 at the Sands Venetian, Macau (SAR) China. This is some of the cast and myself handing out balloons to customers at the Venetian before the show. It was very hard work handing out balloons to the pretty ladies. 🙂
A little girl asked her father: “How did the human race appear?” The father answered, “Many years ago there were monkeys from which the human race evolved.”
Two days later the girl asked her mother the same question. The mother answered, “God made Adam and Eve; they had children; and so was all mankind made.”
The confused girl said to her mother “How is it possible that you told me the human race was created by God, and Dad said they developed from monkeys?”
The mother answered, “Well dear, it’s very simple. Your father told you about his side of the family and I told you about mine!”
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My fingers are actually sore from doing site updates for several online communities over the last week. There are many downsides to running online communities. It’s a financial black hole, it always needs attention, there are always security updates to do and I get my share of stalkers who a lot of time on their hands and not a lot of direction for more worthwhile pursuits.
But, there are moments that make it all worthwhile. I have a small number of strong friendships that have developed from these communities; and no matter the state of my personal life I make sure the best I can that the communities trudge on.
Today someone posted this note from one of my communities that provides free supp0rt for a serious illness. We’ve been running this for about 7 years now and it’s blossomed into a very special place. These members are somedays just fine, and other days can barely sit up to get to their computer. I was very touched by her comments, here it is:
I have opened a forum for my website at http://forum.conradaskland.com
It’s against my better judgement to open a forum on a personal website, but I can’t keep up with the number of email questions I’m getting now. Hopefully the forum will allow people to exchange resources. I receive many of the same questions via email – so this is also a way to answer people in detail and en masse.
I run many other online forum communities but have never had one on my own site before. This will also be a test area for me to try new forum functionality before bringing live to other communities.
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Performed Live in 1995 at the Frankfurt Opera House, with the Ensemble Modern conducted by Sian Edwards! First ten minutes of City Life by Steve Reich.
Roses are #ff0000, Violets are #ooooff, All my base are belong to you.
My geekiest Valentine’s Day ever – upgrading software on 8 community websites. Woohoo! My geeky Valentine’s Day gift to them.