The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

All of the music files and sound tracks from this week's Episodes all compiled into one place. Rain (Sept 6), Beat Mix (Sept 7), Morning Storm (Sept 9), First Test Beat and The State of the Drum (Sept 10). Enjoy!  //  stevensirski.com

Full week of Episodes from September 6th to 10th, 2021. 

Labour Day in Canada, just another work day in China. // Mid-Autumn Fest coming up, time to eat Moon Cakes. Starbucks' hit or miss attempts at the dessert. // Got a haircut, what's it like? A digression on getting a haircut in Beijing, China. // Have a great week! // stevensirski.com

Getting close to that day to mark going around the Sun! Talking about getting out of China, but is it easy to get back in?  //  Talking to former Chinese teacher of mine, she's currently in CAMBODIA and working ONLINE. Wasn't that my goal FIVE YEARS AGO?!?!?  //  Spent the morning studying Chinese, current study plan includes 20 minutes of character study, 15 minutes of intensive listening (at Tims, because I get "free" coffees there), back home, 30 minutes of class note writings, 25 minutes of reading then 25 minutes of reading out loud.  // Afternoon was spent updating some blog posts for May You Make Your Movie. Happy to get those done.  // How often do you clean up your computer desktop or phone storage? Spent the afternoon going through those things.  //  Worked on a soundtrack this weekend but nothing polished. Thought I'd post it anyway, have a listen!   // Vereniky and kubasa for dinner!  // stevensirski.com

Interesting Chinese 'class' today as I spent the morning watching a movie. The English title is 'Let the Bullets Fly', Chinese title is 让子弹飞, rang zi dan fei. But I didn't just watch it, I WATCHED IT INTENTLY in an effort to follow along and learn a few words. These are the words I picked out: 冤, 公平, 吹, 寡妇, 县长, 可怕, 诛心, 爽快, 麻子, 硬, 穷人, 土匪, 惊喜, 剿匪, 体面. The story itself was rather interesting and the movie did win a bunch of awards. Overall, I recommend it. // Maybe I can do this for Russian, too. // Have a good one! stevensirski.com

THUNDERSTORM to start the day, still did morning walk and Chinese characters but GOT SOAKED! // Some Russian grammar practice and then prepped A1/2 practice test. // APP research for audio and video. Found some. // Time to vlog? // Got a massage gun! Good for some things. // Hope Thursday is well. Another spin around the sun about to start. // stevensirski.com

Another spin around the begins!  // Teacher's Day, so make to wish all of your teachers a happy day and a good start to the new school year!  //  Was able to get some Chinese character review in plus some Russian vocab and grammar. Took a look at the TORFL Elementary Test and, though it looks kind of easy, there were some key words I didn't know in such a "simple" test.  //  Afternoon was spent researching how to use Python across a variety of projects and programs, notably Blender. Was hoping to use it in Final Cut Pro but it looks as though that's no longer the case. :(  //  Workout in the afternoon with the weight vest, gotta slim down that midsection if I can!  //  Dinner was lamb skewers from a nearby Xinjiang restaurant!  //  Overall, a good day, hope yours goes well too!  //  Oh, and you might notice a couple extra tracks appended to this episode! The opening was a trial run using the BandLab APP, the second was recorded with Garageband. This seems to be an annual thing I do to record something on the drums but then never post it. Well, here it is! Enjoy!  //  stevensirski.com

End of August, school must be back, kids tryina hustle me to buy some popcorn while I'm on the run! // Deload week! I'm not even sure how to do one. // Looked at some practice HSK 5 test, they don't look as intimidating! // New vid up on YouBoob. // Received good news: nephew baptized. Received bad news: an Uncle passed away. Vichna pam'yat! Memory Eternal! // stevensirski.com

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ALLERGIES! WHHHYYYYY?! Hay fever in Canada, but where I live in Beijing there is little chance of that! // Made a 3D well in Blender! // Focusing on HSK5 vocab every morning now. Aim to write the test early 2022 so gotta get those characters done. // Low months coming up, not least because I've got some vacay time coming up! // Hope Tuesday is going well for you! // stevensirski.com Just found out I can make paragraphs when using the anchor.fm website version, but not in the APP version!

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A new month! Coming up to another spin around the sun! // Big news: Vaccinations are NOT required, but highly encouraged. More importantly, when is Universal Studios going to finally open its Beijing location? // Guessing my Chinese reading is at about a Grade 6 or 7 level since I'm able to read some types of comic books. Not that I read them that often. // Might have some busy weekends in Sept, when will I be able to record another PODCAST Episode? Some people are interested on being on. // Playing around with the website as I want to make it easier to navigate! // Hope Wednesday is good to you! // stevensirski.com

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Out and about, met another guy who is working at the Universal Studios lot here in Beijing. Departure will be later this month. // Not much language studies done today as I had cleaners come over. The guy looked rather young, I guess I paid for training. // Cut short cause I gotta walk and dodge traffic! // stevensirski.com

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A free medical check up means this morning was spent navigating a Chinese hospital in broken English and Chinese! I can't remember how complete checkups are done in Canada, all in one place or all over the place? This hospital was very organized and had very little useless chatter. // It's Friday, probably your end of week but I work tomorrow. Not too much going on these days! // Have a great weekend! // stevensirski.com

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Thanks for listening!