I started this blog in the fall of 2003, right before I moved from San Francisco out to Shanghai. Clutching my two degrees in finance and film studies from UC Berkeley and three years of high-tech corporate experience, I decided to go to China to “broaden my vision of humanity,” as it were…and to basically grow up. My original intention was to stay in China for a year, then return to the US for law school. Somewhere between sending in my apps and getting responses from the schools, I ended up getting swallowed up in the giddiness and energy of this city. The faucet of booze and decadence facilitated that love affair, and before I knew it I found myself unable to leave.

This site has evolved from a clunky site combining old-school frames and Livejournal, to a more elegant Blogger driven platform. After Google nuked its Blogger service in December of 2006, I made the move to WordPress. In all of its incarnations, I hope that it has served as a humorous and sentimental and heartfelt chronicle of my experience being an American in Shanghai. Both it and I have grown tremendously, and our mutual foundation is plush with symbiotic adventure. I hope it continues indefinitely.

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