- SSAB – August 1, 2023
- SSAB – August 2, 2023
- SSAB – August 3, 2023
- SSAB – August 4, 2023
- SSAB – August 7, 2023
- SSAB – August 8, 2023
- SSAB – August 9, 2023
- SSAB – August 10, 2023
- SSAB – August 11, 2023
- SSAB – August 14, 2023
- SSAB – August 15, 2023
- SSAB – August 16, 2023
- SSAB – August 17, 2023
- SSAB – August 18, 2023
SSAB – August 1, 2023
Back in the Beej, hard to believe. GF with the pick up and pizza.
Eeesh, am knackered!
Missed a day?! …ish
Why is the measuring system the USA uses called “Imperial” when they were the ones that rebelled?
Decent food on the flight over. Dreamliner on the way to Seoul. It’s a long flight! Five bottles of wine aaaand out.
Succession and Sex and the City on the way over. Wasn’t committed to the time it would take to watch a movie.
Comparison of airports
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Have a good once!
SSAB – August 2, 2023
This is jet lag.
Beijing humidity!
First day back, only one password forgotten… the most important one.
Up at midnight, walking, stretching, lifting weights.
Got a track for you, Airplane Jam Pipa with Punk Rock – it… is rough.
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Have a good one!
SSAB – August 3, 2023
State if the jet lag: 8pm bed time, 1am wake up. Eating times are all off.
That song sucked. I’m sorry for wasting your time.
Snapchat any good? Taking a look at its spread around the world. Tiktok difficult to use in China, need to use web version but good luck logging into an associated account.
Humidity 89%! AQI? Does it even matter?
Ordered some of those Skins compression garments, will try them out.
Work is busy, is this all there is for the next couple months?
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Have a good one!
SSAB – August 4, 2023
State of the jet lag: down at 11pm, up at 4am.
End of the week, does it matter? Working tomorrow! Ha!
Scheduling language lessons, some packages will expire.
Workouts in…
1.8 km run
50 60 or 65 pull ups plus push ups and squats
1.6km
Plus another 10 pull ups 100 push ups and 150 squats
Evening workout was slow and steady kettlebells, didn’t want to do it but figured I’d get a small workout in.
Library card for the win! Newspapers and magazines available online! Sweet!
Sounds of the morning for you.
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Have a good one!
SSAB – August 7, 2023
Asleep again! May need to work on a new schedule. As a result, a location shoot!
How was morning class?
Earthquake in Shandong! Apparently felt in Beijing.
Humidity cooling so it’s getting bearable
Workouts in! And oh did I hurt after Friday’s workout! Compression tights in!Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com
Have a good start of week!
SSAB – August 8, 2023
New day new whatever! First day in a loooong time actually able to sit back and do nothing! So what did I do?
Booked two podcasts! One in Urdu or Hindi I don’t know and another in English. I’ll let you know more as they unfold.
Crown Royal Black for the evening, a heavier version of the original whiskey sold in Canada. Canadian Club had the big money marketing, but Crown Royal is the nation’s whiskey. Or is it without an “e”?
Hot n humid, when will it end? And when it does, what will we say then?
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Have a good week!
SSAB – August 9, 2023
Spray on compression?
Second attempt wearing compressions
Is this schedule sustainable or is this just for now? Working out, eating healthy, working all the time?
How do you choose a language to study?
What sort of schedule should you create?
The rent decision… staying put! Travel plans, work is busy, and I could always move later on.
Workouts in! Lunch and after Ukrainian class!
How was class?
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Have a good one!
SSAB – August 10, 2023
Are the EVs spying on us? Probably.
Another shopping day over, another lovers’ day over in China
How was Hindi class?
An idea… interview teachers for the vlog?
Spray compression, what was the idea?
Ibn Battuta once said “Travelling—it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land… it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
What do you think?
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Have a good one!
SSAB – August 11, 2023
Workouts in! Friday means… pull ups but not going for a hundred
Sustainable lifestyling?
How is my Chinese going? What’s it like to learn a language where you can’t just read write and speak all at once?
Have a clip for you from my Hindi class…
Michio Kaku’s Quantum Supremacy book is in… do I even have the time? How could I schedule in a reading day into my week?
Have a great weekend!
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SSAB – August 14, 2023
Workouts in! But wow going slow! Had to stop for water a few times during the run and dogged my way through the 100 doubleunders and 4 rounds of bench jumps, one arm push ups, and half pistol squats.
Weekender, an introduction to microphones and too many beers!
China has had some crazy weather, Tornadoes, floods, heavy rain. Why bother saying it’s climate change?
Chinese class and the others I signed up for, what’s up? Instead of booking only one class a week, I’m going to shove them all into one week and crush through them. We’ll see how this goes.
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Have a good one!
SSAB – August 15, 2023
Chinese class, how was it and how is it going?
Arabic, ever tried?
I have not been getting out very much but I see a lot of other people are out and about. I guess the city and the country are open again… but there’s coronavirus on the horizon!
Pollution is back in town!
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Have s good one!
SSAB – August 16, 2023
Hey, I have been doing things in Beijing! Eating different foods!
Baozi 包子youtiao 油条, doujiang 豆浆
Jianbing 煎饼 and kao leng mian 烤冷面
Jiangbaojiding 酱爆鸡丁
Pollution didn’t smell that bad
run outside
6.44 kms
100 double unders
4 rounds of
10 bench jumps
5 one arm incline push ups each arm
5 half pistol squats (5 each side)
Question, which would you rather have or do after a workout:
food
nap
stretching
compression gear
Episode 40 in the works!
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Have a good one!
SSAB – August 17, 2023
Thursday night reading night?? I’d really like to get back into reading more.
Reading $100M Offer, the romance books I brought from Canada, and lots of comments on my language vlog. Did I tell you about the time I bought a bunch of Stephen King books?
Question: does learning another language lead to more job opportunities?
And can ChatGPT fix your grammar?!
Put some mustard on it
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Have a good one!
SSAB – August 18, 2023
Episode 40 recorded! Have a look for it in a couple weeks!
Episode 41 next week?
Workouts in!
2kms
7 rounds of
5 pull ups
10 pushups
15 squats
2 km run
+ another 4 pull ups, 8 push ups, 12 squats
Post work workout: 28kg Turkish get ups, plus carries
Then podcast…
Getting cooler in the ‘Jing
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Have a good weekend!
SSAB – August 21, 2023
Is COVID back?!? Again?!?
Some apps to consider:
-Readwise – email summaries of your readings
-Snipd – Podcast player, also does AI transcriptions! Hello productivity boost!
Begs the question…
How much of this tech do we need? How do we simplify?
AI won’t replace any one person, just those who don’t use it.
Current ChatGPT hack: record podcast, have otter.ai transcribe, take transcription and put into ChatGPT telling it to use this text and create a more balanced, better laid out, etc. article. Works a charm.
Forty hours a week is part time for an entrepreneur, the key difference is that working double that isn’t stuff you necessarily hate, cause it’s all building something up for yourself.
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Have a good start of week!
SSAB – August 22, 2023
Qixi Day, Chinese Valentine’s Day… again?https://www.chinahighlights.com/festivals/double-seventh-festival.htm
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Voice box is gunky… like before I had the ‘vid the other times.
Confucius says…
Quote: 学而时习之，不亦说乎？
Pinyin: Xué ér shí xí zhī, bù yì yuè hū?
Translation: “Is it not a joy to learn and constantly apply what you have learned?”
Quote: 不患人之不己知，患不知人也。
Pinyin: Bù huàn rén zhī bù jǐ zhī, huàn bù zhī rén yě.
Translation: “Do not worry that others do not know you; worry that you do not know others.”
Quote: 己欲立而立人，己欲达而达人。
Pinyin: Jǐ yù lì ér lì rén, jǐ yù dá ér dá rén.
Translation: “Help others achieve what you desire to achieve, and assist others in reaching their goals as you strive for yours.”
Editing on your phone, yes it takes a while.
Delta M3 reading: creating materials for your students. In theory, language courses should be able to be modified and specialized for each student after a preliminary test.
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Have a good one!
SSAB – August 23, 2023
More cameras up on the compound, and an email about a background check? Nothing suspicious here…
Two kids, I’m not sure if they’re making fun of my Chinese pronunciation or what.
Try whatever it is you want to do or accomplish for a year and see how it is after that. So what do I want to accomplish in the next year?
Another pcast episode scheduled for tomorrow night, then will get to work editing!
How about that quantum computing book?
The Turing test
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. – Max Planck
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Have a good one!
SSAB – August 24, 2023
Episode 41 recorded
GOLD moving
Prigozin dead, or did he just make it look like it? The life and times of a working traveller!
Tough getting up this morning, not just the rain! Workouts must’ve kicked in.
Friday night will be a night off! I think. Saturday? CBD beer fest?
Finger taps on a keyboard – new track!
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Have a good one!
SSAB – August 25, 2023
If you knew you could hit a financial target in six months, would you do what’s needed to get it done? If it meant you didn’t have a social life, but you could keep your health up, would you do it?
Apparently my website has been busted and I haven’t really been paying attention to it. Oops.
Working on Episodes 40 & 41! Piece by piece, will get these done! But… who’s next?
Workouts in!
Lunch time changed it up a little:
-Run 2 km
-10 pull ups
-20 push ups
-30 squats
Then:
-Run one lap (800 metres?)
-10-20 pull ups
-20-40 push ups
-30-60 squats
TOTAL = 70 pull ups, 140 push ups, 210 squats + about 4.4km?
10 – 2km
20 – 800
20 800
20 800
After work slow kbells, lots of carries and hangs
Tuna, pasta + laoganma
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Have a good weekend!
SSAB – August 28, 2023
Last week of August already!
Workouts done, but afternoon was a bit gentle cause of nature’s call.
5km
500 skips
Wide stance lunge step ups – good for that hip joint
Two-arm pushups with alternate leg lifts
The value of an hour a day – how much can you progress in a year?
Construction and those cameras
Saw the Barbie movie – not bad!
Oppenheimer comes out August 30, 2023
Is school really all that bad? So what if it doesn’t teach you finance, or driving, or house management, but if you didn’t receive a basic education
How do I get a mugshot?
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Have a good start of week!
SSAB – August 29, 2023
Feeling sniffly, not sure if it’s all the construction work or something else brewing…
The Trump card!
Blacklash?!?! Trump is a brutha now?!? The idea of being arrested to fit in.
Prigozhin: an out for the war?
Chinese classes: how are they going and what’s the plan? Done with one package of Chinese lessons.
Figuring out a bit more of Automator… convert to mp3 = modifying built-in services.
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Have a good one!
SSAB – August 30, 2023
That six-month target… maybe not as easy as I thought it would be
-Mid-Autumn Festival Sept 29th
-National Day break Oct 1 to 5
Hulk Hogan on Joe Rogan – imagine if that was your day job?!
Workouts in:
-6.5kms at lunch, double unders, one-arm pushups x10, bench pistol squats x10
-after work: slow kbell lifts and movements
Posting the notes from my translation classes on my language substack. Will also be renaming that soon. (stevenslanguagevlog.substack.com)
Japan and their dirty seawater! China bans fish imports! HUGE hit to the industry.
Elephants! 44,000 plays?!? And how will I deal with my creative projects going forward?
And how are those pcast episodes coming along?
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Have a good one!
SSAB – August 31, 2023
That’ll do it for August!
Apple autocorrect is terrible and iOS lags Android. And to install apps is even worse.
Chinese translation class, one more to go.
It was hungry ghost festival yesterday
Raw or cooked? I’ve heard arguments for both.
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Have a good end of August!