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To China & Back- Not

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To say that December 2008 was a bloodbath for the advertising agency is an understatement. It was a pre-christmas week that saw many tears, sacrificed 401K’s and retirements, and many a paranoid programmer such as myself waking up clutching the next hot programming langage’s manual to his chest for fear of soon going obsolete. [...]

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Posted in fish&grits, travel on December 28, 2008 | There are currently No Comments

I have. You have. They have not.

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In Shanghai, I wasn’t Chinese. I was dollar bills. And sure enough, I acted like it. Dining at ritzy restaurants, dancing in decadent clubs, partying away pompously. I wasn’t the only one. But that’s no excuse. Those with Euros and dollars fling it like toilet paper. Like paying 100 kuai to get in the door [...]

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Posted in rice, travel on September 23, 2008 | There are currently 4 Comments