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Category: Personal

  • Social Media Update

    Social Media Update

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    If you follow me via my social media accounts on Facebook, Instagram, and/or X, you may have noticed (or maybe not, who knows with the way the algorithm goes these days) that I haven’t been posting much these days. I’m sure I’m not alone in hitting social media fatigue, but add to that recently reading…

  • The Next Phase of JeanSnow.net

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    For a while now I’ve been thinking about what I would like to use this site for, and I now know what I’ll be doing. As is proclaimed in the tagline I’ve been using for a few years now, I’ve been “blogging since 1998,” starting the year I moved to Tokyo. The first post on…

  • Say Hello to Lupin III

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    On this Lunar New Year’s Day, I’m very happy to share that we’ve welcomed in a new family member. Please say hello to Lupin III, or Lupin for short (which I pronounce the Japanese way as “rupan“). Lupin was rescued in mid-December in nearby Hangzhou after being hit by a car and not being able…

  • 84 Days

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    This is something that I meant to write back in June, when we actually left the hotel and moved into our apartment, but indeed, after an 84-day stay, it was quite something to finally really start what felt like our new life here in Shanghai. That 84 days was made up of an initial 2…

  • 1997

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    It was 25 years ago this week that I first went to China, which makes it that much more interesting that it coincides with me moving there now. Back in the summer of 1993, I was two years into a Mathematics Specialization university degree, and I was dealing with the fact that I did not…

  • 3 Weeks Later

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    We landed in Shanghai on Monday, March 28, and as I write this it’s Sunday, April 17, and so the last day of our mandated three-week quarantine period. As I had described in my previous post, our first two weeks were to be spent in a government-selected hotel. Once that was done, we moved to…

  • In Shanghai

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    It took much longer than we had initially expected, but here I am, sitting in a hotel room in Shanghai. How long did it take? I accepted the offer for my role at the Ubisoft studio in Shanghai back in May of last year, and I imagine my first contact with the studio was in…

  • PechaKucha

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    I’m happy to say that I’m getting in the PechaKucha swing of things again, getting involved with the PechaKucha Night series in Shanghai in the lead-up to our move there. This is not to say that I left PechaKucha completely behind after I left Tokyo and the organization back in 2015. I’m still a strong…