My Apartment in Macau

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Friends back home were asking what my living conditions are like in China so here are pictures of my apartment on the island of Taipa in Macau, China (SAR). These are pictures of the place before I moved in.

This is the view from my living room windows. Just over the river there you can see mainland China.

Taipa is the island next to Macau. My island of Taipa has a large expat community (lots of Westerners) so it’s very comfortable and not much of a culture shock. I have two large grocery stores within a 30 second walk and plenty of great restaurants – Italian, Mexican, Portuguese, Thai, American, Indian, Chinese and French.

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How to Eat with Chopsticks

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How do you eat with chopsticks? I’ve been shown so many times and I just don’t get it. I’m tired of Chinese people laughing at me and bringing out the silverware.

The guy in this picture is making fun of my chopstick skills. He’s a chopstick pro. But he’s a drummer; he’s used to holding sticks.

I bought 10 pairs of chopstix today. I’m ready for action. Please help me…

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Arriving in Macau

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(Here should be some really cool pictures of everyone at the Montreal Airport yelling “Macau! Macau”. But I was too tired to take them.) Welcome to my most mundane blog post EV-er…

On March 23, 2008 the Cirque Du Soleil artists for “Macau I Cosmos” flew from Montreal, Canada to Hong Kong for relocation. Here’s an uneventful post about our initial relocation. The photos are with my old camera from the 1800’s, they are horrible, and none of them are the least bit interesting.

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SpeedTest.net

Check the upload and download speed of your internet connection at SpeedTest.net

Even from China I was able to locate a close server in Hong Kong for tests. In China we’re all having very different experiences between our actual connection speeds and the speed advertised by our common provider. I’m at 9386 kb/s download and 465 kb/s upload.

Macau Typhoon Warning – Neoguri

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqyplJg233Q

For current, up to date Typhoon Level warnings for Macau and Hong Kong from the Hong Kong Observatory please visit:

(Update 07/09 – New Link for Typhoone Warnings in Macau:
http://www.smg.gov.mo/www/cvm/typhoon/fe_typhoonmain.htm ) 

http://www.smg.gov.mo/e_index.php

(Chinese TV report of Typhoon Level 8 “Neoguri” that hit Macau on April 20, 2008.

My first level 8 typhoon warning. Yipee! Reminds me of the hurricanes when I lived in Miami (hurricane parties are the best).

Friday, April 18 2008 – The Macau Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) yesterday issued a tropical cyclone warning for typhoon ‘Neoguri’, the earliest period at which such warnings have ever been issued.

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Legend of 1900 – Playing Love

httpv://youtube.com/watch?v=lgXW6XDnhXA

From the movie Legend of 1900 – “Playing Love”. During a recording session a piano player gets distracted by a girl looking into a window – he starts daydreaming and plays his love for her on the piano.