Category: Encounters

  • 龙庆峡

    It’s been 16 years since all my cousins are in one city. The family took a trip out side to Long Qing Valley, an well known area for Beijingers to escape the heat. It was a fun trip.

  • Yan Tai

    Making a brief stop in Yan Tai.

  • Kitchen Salvadore, Seoul

    Mike took me to The Kitchen Salvadore. Here I am ordering up a storm. The place is a Japanese owned Italian chain, in fact I think there’s a kitchen salvadore in Shanghai though I’ve never been. Simple food, good conversation, It was a very good night.

  • Westin Chao Yang

    This place always makes me forget bad things about Beijing.

  • Duan Qi Rui Mansion

    After GLB, bunch of us went to Duan Qi Rui Mansion, a historical landmark in Beijing

  • Pretty cool link

    Google Search in realtme

  • 152 days of Beijing Air

    So over the weekend, I thought it’s time to change the air filters in my purifiers. Beijing, being the most polluted city I’ve ever seen, made me so conscious about my lungs that I bought 2 purifiers and 2 air washers for my 90 square meter apartment (each machine is capable of covering 50 square […]

  • HeShen Manshion

    So in Beijing nowadays there are not many famous courtyards left. One of the few survived ones is the HeShen Mansion, or known as Prince Gong Mansion. So towards the back of his mansion, he had a massive storage building. To mark what’s stored where he asked the builders to build all these different windows […]

  • Work Work Work

    Vivien is one of our favorite account executives back in Ogilvy days. Last Sunday was her wedding. Of course, being in advertising, despite weeks of scheduling and planning, I still had to work the whole weekend for clients on her wedding date. When I finally finished with everything, I rushed over, and all I saw […]

  • Goodbye 2012, Hello 2013

    2012 went by in a haste, before you know it, apocalypse came and went, and people are already posting “12 12 12 12:12” messages on facebook. Looking back, 2012 have been a perplexing year. On one hand, Shanghai had been extremely kind to me, and It has become my favorite Chinese city so far. On […]