Category: Blog
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Finally a week off!
As you may be aware, China is celebrating its own new year this week, the Year of the Dog. That means a few things: some time off, cleaner air, and… an empty Beijing. I haven’t been in Beijing for Spring Festival (as the Chinese New Year is called, because it markets the beginning of the…
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Droning on the Farm
So last year I had the chance to do some work on my Uncle’s farm again (first time in years) and it so happened that he had a new-ish drone in his possession. He actually had two, but he crashed the first one, then his son-in-law crashed another, and so the drone that I actually…
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My family in the Ukrainian news
So you might recall that last year I spent some time on my Uncle’s farm again helping out around there. I neglected to write about it because my life was kinda flying by in an uncontrollable spiral at the time and didn’t really want to bother thinking about it too much, nor make it “happy…
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Quite busy, thinking what to write
So my new job has kept me quite busy and despite my best efforts to mentally sit myself down to write, it simply isn’t happening. I mentioned a while back that I was thinking of taking this blog in a new direction to reflect my more sedentary / settled lifestyle instead of all of the…
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Approaching 2018
Well here we are folks, another year has elapsed and the time to flip the calendar to another January and to another year. 2017 will go down in my own life as a very trying year: losing my father, losing my job, and losing my passport (actually, all those kinda went together). But, given all…