The Culture Blend
Reflections on the joy and the pain of starting a business, raising a family and just plain living life as a foreigner in China.
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Most Recent Posts from The Culture Blend
Five Tips I Learned From My Career as a Chinese Supermodel
Posted on 29 January 2013 | 4:16 am
The Funniest Thing I’ve Seen in a Chinese Toilet All Week
There was a sticker in my urinal yesterday. I’m not entirely surprised to see random things in a urinal. In fact I usually don’t give it much thought. Cigarette butts are almost a given. Those little pink moth ball smelling discs wrapped in a plastic . . . sure. I’ve even recently seen toilets filled [...]Posted on 18 January 2013 | 7:34 am
How to Install a Kitchen Faucet in China
I’m a do it yourself kind of guy. Call me crazy but I see absolutely no value in paying a trained professional my hard earned money to invade my home for up to an hour while he completes a simple task that I could clearly do myself in seven to ten hours for twice as [...]Posted on 14 January 2013 | 11:22 am
Bootylicious: Language Faking Gone Horribly Wrong
I am a fully confessed language faker. I’ve owned it. Embraced it. Even written about it in front of the whole internet and everybody. Rarely does a day go by that I don’t find myself in a Chinese taxi or convenience store nodding like I understood what I just heard or taking a 50-50 stab in [...]Posted on 6 January 2013 | 5:47 pm
The Blog Post I Didn’t Write
I nearly wrote a blog post this week but I didn’t. It would have been a good one too. Funny. Witty. The “makes you think while you’re laughing” kind. Too bad you’ll never get to read it . . . because I didn’t write it. I started to. I’ve even got the notes I made [...]Posted on 26 October 2012 | 6:01 am
