The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

Giggle giggle!

Grow up!

I sound like my father: eat here. It's cheaper.

Couldn't justify going out to eat, just not needed as I have food available.

Construction again?!

Chinese classes... Sun Tze and his ancient language... Apparently he talked a lot and his disciples just wrote down an abbreviated form of what he said.

How to scare your teacher and find a hidden camera.

Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a good one!

Colleague Lewis passed away.

Expat liabilities.

When do you end? What are you fighting or working so hard for? Why don't you have it now? What more do you need?

Ukrainian class, how was it? Finally a happy teacher! Haha From Kharkiv, a trip down memory lane.

News or music for language learning?

Lots of resources!

And another sandstorm!

Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a good one!

Would you rather have a really busy day with no breaks or a slow day with lots of breaks?

Rotator cuff damage? How?!

Reading Ukrainian... slooooow!

Chinese class was speaking not writing.

Working from home is awesome! How could I ever go back?!

Finished reading South China Morning Post! Next up, Financial Times weekend edition!

Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a good one!

AI everywhere! Notepad?! Need to sign in... not sure I'm okay with that.

Knocked out for the weekend with that Subway Sickness!

Workouts in today, but was feeling a lot slower.

Middle of April already?! Warming up here in Beijing.

SSP38 is up so have a listen if you haven't already.

This year marks Year Number 3 of the big cast, Year 2 of the small cast.

Newsletter will be out soon. Language Vlog Newsletter was sent out this weekend.

Why bother doing all of this?! Well,... in three years' time...

Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a good start of week!

SSP38 IS UP! Spotify Google Apple now!

Song Wang joins me on the podcast to talk about life as a commercial and voice over producer here in Beijing. From how she got started, to her wedding day pitch, to her future work and travel plans, this episode will interest those who are curious about those advertisements you see allll the time.

Sick! Take the subway ONE TIME without a mask aaandd... feeling it now.

Power outage... knew something was wrong.

Workouts done n done... spent the afternoon doing sets of pull ups, push ups and squats in between meetings.

Twix bars... 250 calories?!

Podcast clips before and after... have a listen!

Show notes up on stevensirski.com.

Have a good weekend!

Episode 38 editing... welp, may just have to switch up the source microphones.

Gold... when it seems obvious... it is? But it isn't?

Takeaway Thursday, what did you eat today?

Masks no longer compulsory, but encouraged!

Why wasn't ChatGTP made in China?

Show notes n.tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a good one!

Another sandstorm or is the other one still going? Hard to tell.

Troy's Team and learning martial arts

Half day work day.

Episode 38 getting finished up!

Beijing to Europe 2023: Berlin? Frankfurt? Warsaw? Kyiv? Lviv?

Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a good one!

People's War? Taiwan theatre to open? South China Morning Post not too optimistic.

Working on SSP38... these mics were supposed to make my life easier!

Another sandstorm! And windy!

Chinese classes resume

Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a good one!

Drum track for you, a little something I played over the weekend... was thinking of renting a drum kit.

Heya Happy Easter! Christos Voskres! Voistiny Voskres!

Fell asleep after dinner! Almost missed my Ukrainian class!

Lessons lined up for the rest of the week.

Back to work full on from now until June at least.

Working on SSP38, should be done this week.

Newsletter out! Overall, how was Hong Kong?

Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a great start of week!

Can you hear how tired I am?

What would've I done differently?

-Planned the hostel / hotel situation a little better

-possibly booked my tickets earlier

All up only would've saved about $500 CAD, or about 2200 RMB.

Probably would've stayed further outside of the city (but keep in mind taxi fees)

What about bringing tech n work with me?

-Got stuff done the first weekend, but the hotel shuffle destroyed both my sleep and productivity

Also, always out and on the go, typical of someone in a new place. How could this ever be addressed?

Lots to do this weekend to catch up, finalize, prep and get into the next thing.

Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a great Easter weekend!