2011

2011-10-22

my new iPhone 5

It comes in a nice looking box. iPhone 5. There is even an information guide and all the places in the world to contact Apple. If there was a real iPhone 5 then this would be somewhat of a clone but since there is not it is just the China iPhone 5 idea thingy that Continue reading

2011, Dalian China

288 Yuan, Cambodia, campus village, China aircraft carrier, China iPhone 5 clone, DAISlive, Dalian American International School, English as a second language, English as an additional language, ESL, iPhone 5, iTerrell 5, Libya, North Korea, Saudi Arabia
2011-10-16

What happened to capitalism and what happened to communism?

At first we thought it would be a luxury hotel. Then someone said it was going to be a winery still others said a display home. Whatever was going up at such a rapid rate was looking quite interesting. It was going to be kind of French as there is a large development going on across the street Continue reading

2011, China, Dalian China, Jinshitan, kai Fa Qu

“Chateau De Bourdeux” “Naichano Land Limited” “Golden Pebble Beach” Jinshitan “Jinzhou New District” Dalian “Liaoning Province” “Hepinglu Road” “Tangfend Spring”, Blueberry Farm, Campus VillageJinshitan, Dalian American International School, Haichang Land Limited
2011-09-17

A new ‘old’ French Village’ in China

The end of another week though a short one at that; a short work-week actually, with the Moon Festival school closure Monday. School as always is an amazing place to be. I had students in my after-school-activities group perform their first newscast that we aired throughout the upper school the following morning. Next week we Continue reading

2011, China, Dalian China, Jinshitan, kai Fa Qu

academic technology coordinator, Busyb Bee Store, campus village, Chateau Bordeuax, DAISlive, Dalian American International School, Dalian China, Jinshitan, Kangaroo Bar, Moon Festival, Pebble Beach National Resort
2011-09-03

A Chinese Wedding

The Wedding! Someone else’s style. Finally taking a weekend off from our full-tilt life. I think we took a weekend off several months ago in NYC and since then we have been on the go throughout months in Australia and now for a month in China. Today is five weeks since arriving on a Saturday Continue reading

2011, China, Dalian China

Blueberry Farm, Campus VillageJinshitan, Chateau de Burgundy, China Martial Arts Hall, eChina-Dalian, Golden Pebble Beach Grape Valley vineyards, Golden Pebble Commerce Centre and the Golden Pebble Ocean Hot Spring, Golden Rock Park, Goldn Pebble Beach, Jinshitan Kangaroo Bar, Kai Fa Qu, Mao Zedong Badge Exhibition Hall, Model Art School, North Korea Friendship Bridge, Oriental Yosemite, Waxwork Museum
2011-08-21

Dalian Days and Dalian Nights

Three weeks? I thought it was just a few days ago that I wrote a bit of a blog. It has been such a full-on section of life with non-stop everything. I look out the window and see (and hear) the 24 hour a day building across the street with eight cranes in one area Continue reading

2011, China, Dalian China

Aussie Rules Footy, Blueberry Farm, Brooklyn, campus village, Chateau de Burgundy, China’s aircraft carrier, Courtney Sale Ross, Dalian American Internatinal school, Dalian Golden Pebble Beach National Resort, Decathlon sports store next to Ikea, Golden Pebble Beach, Jinshitan, Kai Fa Qu, Silicon Valley of China, the Dalian expat pub and pizza diner, the former C.E.O. of Time Warner, widow of Steve Ross, Zhonshan Square
2011-07-23

My China Links

I grew up surrounded by bits and pieces and stories from/of China. Clifton Park New York in the 1960s was/is a long ways from anywhere. I left ‘the farm’ when I was about 16 or 17 – there was a blurring effect toward the end of the 1960s. Firstly I went to Orlando Florida then Key Continue reading

2011, China

Cambodia, China, Clifton Park, Kiaugsi, missionaries, Nanchang, Round Lake, Vietnam
2011-06-28

colour

For decades I could not understand why fashion houses were not beating down my door for advice and why Narda for so long has thought (and mentioned) something about my colour coordination not being up to snuff and today my doctor said I was colour-blind. Something about not seeing stuff in the blue-green spectrum. I Continue reading

2011, Australia
2011-06-25

Integrating technology within a new environment

Integrating technology within a new environment has many facets. 1. What is available: hardware, software, knowledge of staff, time to learn and integrate more, finding commonality – this can be the largest task; one favours Mac or PC, Android, Ubuntu, Windows, Open Source, Microsoft, Adobe, laptop, Zoom, iPad, Blackberry, Firefox, Opera, Explorer, Open Office, Safari, Continue reading

2011, Australia, Dalian China, technology in education

Dalian American International School, integrating technology
2011-06-21

Melbourne Again!!!

After nine years in New York I am back in Melbourne. Continue reading

2011, Australia

Australia, China Eastern, LA Dodgers’ pitcher, Melbourne, tofu e-book
2011-06-19

Shanghai Still!!!

We had a good stay at the Grand Mercure with a special interest in the loo: heated toilet seat, massage/vibrate, spray wash in various directions – dry; if this was not China (blocking youtube) and not the Shanghai Airport (blocking my uploads to my server) See the video clip, not of anything more than the Continue reading

2011, China

Australia, China, China Eastern, Grand Mercure, Melbourne, Shanghai, Shanghai Airport, Victoria, youth of China
2011-06-19

Shanghai again

We left a few hours late from JFK. At one point they said the airport was closed due to rain and lightening. By the time we got to Shanghai at 10 pm 14 hours later we were pretty stuffed. Fortunately the airport has storage lockers and we were able to leave behind three large suitcases Continue reading

2011, China, New York City

Grand Mercure hotel, North Pole, Shanghai
2011-06-15

The ‘to-do-list’

It is one of those moments when one realizes the suitcase is still ten-pounds overweight, the last-minute list has few things crossed off of it: ‘Go to Hoboken and change the insurance policy from home-owner to four young computer guys from India are renting our house’, ‘redirect mail to Australia’ which would be fine if Continue reading

2011, New York City

China Eastern, Hoboken, Jersey City, last-minute list, Melbourne to Adelaide, ten-pounds overweight, vegetarian meals
2011-06-14

145 Blocks

Narda and I left at the same time, 7.15. She got to St. Luke’s School at 8 I got there at 11.30. She took the train I walked which proves the subway is faster than walking 145 blocks. this is a youtube clip which of course does not work in China – where we are Continue reading

2011, New York City

145 street, Broadway, Harlem, New York City, St. Luke’s School, St. Nicholas Avenue, Yankee Statium
2011-06-12

Seven More Days

I started keeping track with 19 weeks to go. We were hired via Skype whilst in Shanghai on our return from Christmas in Australia; 31 December 2010, we left New Year’s Day 2011 for NYC. When we heard those last words ‘we would like to hire you both’ we jumped up and down on our Continue reading

2011, Dalian China, New York City
2011-06-12

Tofu homepage

Created a tofu homepage to accompany my misguided e-book desire to share not only tofu recipes but a whole lot more. Like why was I making tofu in a foreign meat-eating country to begin with. So yes there are stories, including the day a herd of cows broke through a fence and ate my tofu Continue reading

2011, tofu
2011-06-12

Harlem

like all moves, it was not easy, until it was over, then it seemed easy… by comparison. It was the lead up to moving that was the long process ~ a mere six months. A lot longer than eleven years ago when Narda helped me move out of my home in Christies Beach, South Australia Continue reading

2011, New York City

Harlem, New York City
2011-06-12

Tofu E-Book Cover

Having been a tofu manufacturer for eight years in South Australia gave me some wisdom, crisis, regrets, insanity, good products, sense of success, sense of failure, and now more than twenty years after making my last batch of tofu commercially I still wonder what it was that I was doing. It was not being a Continue reading

2011, tofu

e-book, tofu
2011-06-12

First Steps to Dalian

After being interviewed via Skype in Shanghai 31 December 2010 for jobs at Dalian American International School – we flew to New York the next day – first of January 2011 – we have taken the for-real step of getting there. Today, almost five months later, the shippers collected our many boxes, about 40 of Continue reading

2011, Dalian China

China, Dalian, Dalian American International School, Harlem, Shanghai, Skype
2011-05-11

Five more weeks

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