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Shenzhen Zen: 02/01/2004 - 03/01/2004
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One American vs 1.3 billion Chinese. Guess who wins? Cultural misunderstandings abound and hilarity occasionally ensues. This ain't no Lost in Translation, though. It's the real deal. Wednesday, February 25, 2004. There's a live re-creation of Genghis Khan and his horse back hordes in a Chinese rodeo arena, though I don't think Genghis employed fog machines or wore a fire helmet and I swear that the lip-synched soundtrack, complete with the sounds of clashing swords, grunts, thuds and screams was identic...
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Shenzhen Zen: 06/01/2003 - 07/01/2003
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One American vs 1.3 billion Chinese. Guess who wins? Cultural misunderstandings abound and hilarity occasionally ensues. This ain't no Lost in Translation, though. It's the real deal. Monday, June 30, 2003. Posted by Justin @ 6:56 PM 0 comments. Links to this post. Sunday, June 29, 2003. Mother and father work making Amana fridges for $14.75/hr. in a factory in rural Iowa and are worried with good reason about being able to sustain her tuition if the plant gets moved to Mexico. Links to this post. Then I...
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Shenzhen Zen: 08/01/2003 - 09/01/2003
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One American vs 1.3 billion Chinese. Guess who wins? Cultural misunderstandings abound and hilarity occasionally ensues. This ain't no Lost in Translation, though. It's the real deal. Friday, August 01, 2003. Yes, but it's beautiful," replied S. If it was mine, I'd chuck it out the window! Signs in the school bathrooms. "Water is the source of life. Don't let me tearing.". Posted by Justin @ 9:05 PM 0 comments. Links to this post. What would Jesus, Elvis and REM do? Simon's got Hong Kong - and much of th...
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One American vs 1.3 billion Chinese. Guess who wins? Cultural misunderstandings abound and hilarity occasionally ensues. This ain't no Lost in Translation, though. It's the real deal. Friday, June 08, 2007. And so it's time to say goodbye. I was hoping to make 400 posts in nearly four years, but will settle for 397 and the memories. Shenzhen Zen is retiring, and relocating under a name to be announced later. In Hong Kong, John Berthelsen and Lin Neumann who hired me despite the stain on my resume that is...
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Shenzhen Zen: 09/01/2003 - 10/01/2003
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One American vs 1.3 billion Chinese. Guess who wins? Cultural misunderstandings abound and hilarity occasionally ensues. This ain't no Lost in Translation, though. It's the real deal. Tuesday, September 30, 2003. Down we go.Floor. By. Floor. By. Floor. By. Floor. By. F.l.o.o.r. Frequent stops, especially at the 8th (housekeeping business); 3rd (mystery floor, home of the "young girls in jeans, tennis shoes, dwarfed by their oversized white lab coats...There's the callow youth of a security guard snoozing...
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One American vs 1.3 billion Chinese. Guess who wins? Cultural misunderstandings abound and hilarity occasionally ensues. This ain't no Lost in Translation, though. It's the real deal. Wednesday, June 20, 2007. Son of SZ Zen: Hua Hin Hoo-hah (Thailand Remix). What he finds in June 2007 is himself servant-free, ass down, right leg shredded at the knee and foot and pinned under a rented 120 cc Honda on a dirt road that he has foolishly tried to navigate in an attempt at personal transportation. That he ...
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Shenzhen Zen: 06/01/2004 - 07/01/2004
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One American vs 1.3 billion Chinese. Guess who wins? Cultural misunderstandings abound and hilarity occasionally ensues. This ain't no Lost in Translation, though. It's the real deal. Thursday, June 24, 2004. Money, it’s a gas/Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash. I've just tried to open a simple checking account at three Hong Kong banks and have found the process akin to trying to join Skull and Bones or the Illumunati. Not that I wasn't warned. A coworker at The Standard. After waiting in li...
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Shenzhen Zen: 05/01/2004 - 06/01/2004
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One American vs 1.3 billion Chinese. Guess who wins? Cultural misunderstandings abound and hilarity occasionally ensues. This ain't no Lost in Translation, though. It's the real deal. Saturday, May 22, 2004. As Jeff and I watched the three makeshift stands doing business near us, a large blue government-looking van pulled up and disgorged three poker faced guys in blue uniforms and wearing what appeared to be oven mittens. It was the Shenzhen BBQ SWAT team. Silently and quickly they each sprinted to a st...
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Shenzhen Zen
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One American vs 1.3 billion Chinese. Guess who wins? Cultural misunderstandings abound and hilarity occasionally ensues. This ain't no Lost in Translation, though. It's the real deal. Wednesday, June 06, 2007. If you are reading this blog it's largely due to a Chinese photographer you've likely never heard of. I was in Boulder, Colorado in July 2003 mulling over whether I should take a blind leap to teach English at a summer camp in Shenzhen, China a city I'd never heard of until seeing a "Help Wanted - ...
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One American vs 1.3 billion Chinese. Guess who wins? Cultural misunderstandings abound and hilarity occasionally ensues. This ain't no Lost in Translation, though. It's the real deal. Tuesday, May 22, 2007. Lost (in the) Supermarket. When I moved into my Hong Kong shopping center cum. Expired leases and raised rents are the explanations, though the space where the latest one closed is supposed to be reoccupied by another grocer, in, "oh, not sure, maybe . two, maybe three months? To visit this office!