Beijing Art District 798

by Duncan Leung December 30, 2009
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So internet is extremely sporadic and crappy here at my grandparents place… because they actually don’t have internet, and I’m mooching it off a neighbor who hasn’t passworded their network- the thing is, its really shotty and I couldn’t get access all day today. I guess I shouldn’t be complaining at all since I’m at [...]

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Leaving, On A Jet Plane – Hong Kong Bound, Round 2

by Duncan Leung December 28, 2009

Well, I’m off to Hong Kong again tomorrow. I’ll be gone from December 29 – January 9 so hopefully expect some more pictures updates from me (most likely after I’m back though, since my grandparents don’t have internet access =\ sad).
-Duncan
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A Beijing Christmas – Christmas Lights At The Birds Nest

by Duncan Leung December 24, 2009
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Hello! Yesterday was an intense day of fun with smallgroup (actually it was kinda more like meeting up with different members of smallgroup at different places; heh)- I guess I should have taken more pictures throughout the day to guide the post along; and it definitely would be more fun to look at pictures than [...]

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A Walk Through 中关村 – Life In Beijing Through Pictures

by Duncan Leung December 22, 2009
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It’s been a pretty good week so far- yesterday I ran my errands so that I could go on a photo walk today. I didn’t head out as early as I wanted to (I wanted to catch the sun-rise) but I think I had some bad food last night because I woke up this morning [...]

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A Six Month Recap on Search and Digital Marketing

by Duncan Leung December 19, 2009

Time has flown by! I left Champaign-Urbana (Illinois, United States) and arrived into Beijing on June 1st, not knowing anyone, and without having even secured an internship. After about a week of interviewing and waiting, I entered into the Search Engine Marketing industry for the first time as a Search Marketing Analyst with adSage. I’m [...]

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Microsoft China’s Juku Microblogging Troubles – Stolen Code from Plurk

by Duncan Leung December 16, 2009

So many of you have probably heard of the accusations from Plurk, that their code was stolen and used by Microsoft China’s recently launched microblogging platform Juku. It’s definitely a biting blow to Plurk, since their service was first suspended/blocked in China, only to have Microsoft China create a blatantly similar service.
The latest update is [...]

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Two Week’s Notice (or more like one) – End of SEM/Social Media Internship

by Duncan Leung December 15, 2009

Well, I put in my notice that I won’t be continuing on with SagesGroup after my internship. It was a really really difficult decision because they made an extremely generous offer, and I’ll be leaving some great friendships at MeshTop- but I’ll definitely hope to keep in touch with them.
I’ll let you guys know where [...]

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The Last Hero – 剩斗士

by Duncan Leung December 13, 2009
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During lunch breaks, I grab lunch with my project manager, and a group of developers on my team, and they love teaching me random Chinese phrases. Somehow the conversation was about dating and marriage, and it turns out that I’m the only one on my team that isn’t dating or married. They were pretty surprised [...]

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Wordpress Chinese Display Problem Fixed – 我可以用中文写字!

by Duncan Leung December 13, 2009

This is exciting! I finally figured out how to write in Chinese! Previously, the Chinese characters would just come up as ‘???’; after installing and uninstalling some plugins (which didn’t work), I came across someone’s blog which explained his fix for getting Chinese input to display on his (her?) Wordpress blog. It pretty much involved [...]

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Hong Kong Fashion – Man Bags

by Duncan Leung December 8, 2009
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This is a very delayed post of some pictures that I had taken while I was in Hong Kong doing a visa run. The date that I have labeled on these images are from 2009.10.28- aish. I’m a bad blogger.
Anyhow, when I was in Hong Kong, I noticed that quite a lot of dudes were [...]

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