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The things we store

August 11, 2016by expatlingo 1 Comment

Around 2 am one sleepless night in Hong Kong, I realized the waste of storing a first-generation TiVo for eleven years. So while in the US this summer we visited […]

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An expat’s non-transitional spring of bliss

March 1, 2016by expatlingo 8 Comments

  The skies are blue and Hong Kong’s spring sunshine has warmed me up. But something is missing? It’s March and yet I don’t have a nagging ball of worry in […]

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Toggling the Europe-Asia brain switch

June 23, 2015by expatlingo 17 Comments

Although we will be living in the Netherlands for a few more weeks, I just took a quick trip to Hong Kong in order to organize parts of our upcoming […]

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Is no knowledge truly wasted? Or was Dutch a big time suck?

June 9, 2015by expatlingo 17 Comments

When I decided to study Dutch last September, I thought: What the hell, we could be here awhile, I might as well take the intensive class. As the result of […]

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Moving back to Hong Kong

May 26, 2015by expatlingo 41 Comments

In 1986, an entire season of the American TV series Dallas was written-off as merely a dream. A key character, Bobby Ewing, had been killed off at the end of […]

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Entering the darkness of the unknown as smooth as water

August 17, 2014by expatlingo 14 Comments

In seven hours my American summer will end. In sixteen hours I’ll be arriving in the Netherlands. I’ve spent the day in a flurry of activity: packing, buying last-minute things, […]

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Everything is Awesome! … if you’re out of the country when the movers arrive

July 8, 2014by expatlingo 23 Comments

All of our worldly belongings (minus the items left in storage-purgatory nine years ago: ladder, first generation Tivo, beige computers) have left Hong Kong and are on a cargo ship […]

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Revenge of the Serial Expat

February 25, 2012by expatlingo 8 Comments

(Created using Strip Generator)

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