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I came to China with very different expectations. It was vacation (OK, so I did two boards meetings, two business proposal, four business meetings and one financing proposal and a time to find some of my past. Instead, what I found was deep mourning, then anger then perplexity.) Woke up…

I’ve been searching for this word for every, luster of pearls, 皪 (li4), for some reason, the Mac input system doesn’t find have it, but it can be displayed http://hk.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?dss=1&wdqchi=%E7%9A%AA&wdqchim=3&wdrst=0 Thank goodness for the old fashion, non-pinyin way of finding words, http://chineselanguage.org/dictionaries/ccdict/view.php?query=76AA&encoding=text&mode=bushou〈=en&beijing=pinyin&canton=jyutping&meixian=pinjim&sound=0& fields=bushou,mandarin,english Part of the problem might be the…

Trying to find an address in China is kind of tricky because everyone’s handwriting is sloppy and the different regional accents make trying to figure out the tones and the words hard. For instance, my mom pronounced wu2 as “hu2” so mixes these two sounds. 苏州市 su3 zhou1 shi4 Suzhou…

Talked to a buddy who lives in Ho Chi Minh City. Fascinating place with a good T+L guide There are some amazing hotels: http://www.travelandleisure.com/hotels/list/vietnam-asia/awards * Evason Ana Mandara & Spa www.sixsenses.com a T&L 500 winner on Ninh Van Bay* Park Hyatt Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City* Caravelle Hotel, across the…

A common day trip from Shanghai is to see Suzhou. I have never actually been there but http://wikitravel.org/en/Suzhou is actually quite a good guide. It takes about two hours with no traffice to get there. It is 86 km from Hongqiao and 120 km from Pudong Airport. It’s famous for…

!http://www.smartshanghai.com/pix/flyer116435779621881112122.jpg! Wow talk about massive construction, but the underground road on the Bund is going to make it an amazing place. Nice night and some great pictures. “Sun with Aqua”:http://www.smartshanghai.com/venue/2602/SUN_with_AQUA_shanghai. Some great sake and terrific sashimi particularly when you hang with someone who has lived in Japan.

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Found another piece of the mystery. Dad had remember the name of his street as “Nagala lu”. Well, we found it by going to the a police station and was told there are only two elementary schools in this area so a quick walk and we found it. Nagala is…

I just love the lyrics. It’s about the bright future ahead: What day is it? And in what month? This clock never seemed so alive I can’t keep up and I can’t back down I’ve been losing so much time Cause there’s you and me and all of the people…