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Super Bowl 2012: Hong Kong Style
By Steve on February 7, 2012
Spent a Tim Tebow-less Super Bowl in Hong Kong watching one of the most exciting, nail biting, last minute cliff hanging games in a long while. Too often in Super Bowls past the game looked…
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Lan Kwai Fong Movieland Shuts Its Doors
By Steve on January 27, 2012
My old video store here in Hong Kong just closed and I’m feeling a little nostalgic. Throughout the late 1990’s the Movieland video store in Lan Kwai Fong was like my second home. Walking into…
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Thank you for (not) Smoking!
By Steve on January 23, 2012
It’s been 5 years this month since I smoked a cigar. Now let me just say…I loved cigars alot! Whether with friends in Hong Kong or sitting on my back porch in Boulder Colorado with…
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Walking Across England: Our Upcoming Adventure!
By Steve on January 20, 2012
This summer my son Gabriel and I will walk across England. Literally! On the morning of July 6 we will set off from the village of St. Bees on the coast of the Irish Sea…
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Mainland China Students Irk Some At American Universities
By Steve on January 13, 2012
A recent blog article I read grabbed my attention today. It highlighted the complaints many local American students have with foreign Chinese undergraduates* studying at U.S. universities. Complaints such as: “They don’t come here to…
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Iowa Caucus results: My thoughts
By Steve on January 5, 2012
I popped over to The Whiskey Priest (you gotta love that name) yesterday afternoon to meet up with the “Republicans Abroad” and watch the results of the Iowa caucus live. (Late evening in America is lunch time…
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Cocktail Reception On Board the U.S.S. Carl Vinson
By Steve on December 29, 2011
Tammy and I had the most wonderful evening this week as we attended a cocktail reception on board the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Carl Vinson which is in Hong Kong for a few days. If you…
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Another year of “The War on Christmas” is over…Thankfully!
By Steve on December 27, 2011
I may be dating myself but I’m old enough to remember when saying “Merry Christmas” wasn’t considered a pejorative term. And to wish someone“Happy Holidays” was not seen as “selling out” or diluting Christmas in any…
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7 Life Lessons from Star Trek
By Steve on December 6, 2011
I’m a bit of a Star Trek fan. But I have it under control now…honest! Yes, I admit when I was young I would use my lego set to create an arsenal of phasers neatly arranged on my window…
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China News Still Not “Newsworthy” in America
By Steve on December 2, 2011
Obama greets troops in Australia Living in Hong Kong I am sometimes amazed by what International news is important in this region versus what is deemed front page news in America. Being a bit of a “news…