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  • 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…

  • To Move or Not to Move

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    Weren’t you supposed to move to Shanghai? I sure was, and I still am, but since accepting my new role at Ubisoft Shanghai back in May (and then starting to work for the studio at the start of July), we finally (hopefully) have more of an idea of when that’s going to happen. Indeed, ever…

  • To Shanghai

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    I’m moving to Shanghai. Well that’s something. After six years here in Montreal, we’ve (my wife and I) decided to embark on a new adventure, and one that involves a return to Asia. It’s not a return to Japan, that I think many would have expected, but rather a return to China, which is how…

  • PauseTalk, Five Years Later

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    It just hit me today that five years ago this month I held what I then called the “final” edition of PauseTalk (Vol. 85) in Tokyo — here’s the post I wrote to mark that end. That event took place on March 2, 2015, and a few weeks later (on March 31) I would be…