Category Archives: Shopping

Not dead, just busy (with a hint of laziness) 0

So I must be a bad person for not updating at all in July yet (there goes that promise to blog every week…). Truth be told, I have been pretty busy, although not so busy that I can say that I honestly haven’t had time or opportunity to blog. I am not like most typical [...]

The Beijing Life 0

It’s been a busy couple of days. On Saturday, Fan Wei, Meng Meng, his wife, and I had dinner at a restaurant (Wang Shun Ge) famous for its fish head (I’m pretty sure the English translation is just “Fish Head Restaurant”). Although I have never been a big fan of eating fish head, the one [...]

Bumming Around 0

With not much to do here, I finished Heroes through Season Five, and have been reading about options and futures in the meantime. Tomorrow, I’m going with my cousin Fan Wei to get a new pair of glasses and a little shopping at Xiu Shui Jie and maybe a movie afterward.

Shanghai, take two. 0

Woah, I can’t believe it’s almost been a week since I arrived in Shanghai. I’ve been hanging out with Ben Wang for the past couple of days. On Friday, we visited his friend at Shanghai International Studies University. It was about 45 minutes out of the city (aka the middle of nowhere), but the campus [...]

Back from the Caribbean! 0

Wow, the last week seemed to fly by. We drove with another family to Florida on Christmas Day, spending the night in a hotel along the way, and boarded the boat at around 5:00pm the next day. We had gotten pretty lucky when we booked our tickets; although we originally booked a room with just [...]