Entries by AlanPaul

Hong Kong photos — Disney

Photos of two weeks ago trip to HK still coming… Disney was fun. One morning I took the boys to Space Mountain, which they rode about 5 times in a row while Anna and Becky went in search of princesses and found all these characters. I think J & E rode Space Mountain 20 times […]

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Last column

New one already out today.. I can’t keep up. Lots of this will be familiar to regular blogstigators, but I think I cast in a different light. THE EXPAT LIFEBy ALAN PAUL The Freedom AbroadTo Try a New TuneNovember 9, 2007 I have a band in Beijing, Woodie Alan. The moniker is a joke, reflecting […]

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Woodie Alan photos/video

We had a great gig Friday night at Jianghu Jiuba, the little hutong bar I have written about before. Saxy Dave was out of town so we played as a quartet and had a whole bunch of friends jam. Joe Bisell, the 17-year-old guitarist who plays with us regularly, sat in for three songs in […]

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Hong Kong photos — Lama Island

We spent an afternoon/evening on Lama Island when we were in Hong Kong. It is a 30-40 minute boat ride out into the South China Sea and really a very cool place. You arrive in a pretty densely packed little commercial center, walk about 15 minutes up and down some hills, past little farm plots, […]

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RE:

Someone wrote: My family are moving to Beijing from NYC. How bad is the air in Beijing lately? Do people with little kids (we have to toddlers) live in CBD area at all? thanks! can’t find your contact information. would like to email you if you don’t mind. I have to respond this way because […]

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Eli won an art contest

The winter show for second and third grade is the Snow Queen and every kid in both grades drew a poster in art class. One was selected in a contest to be reproduced and put all over the school and that was Eli’s. he is really proud. I took this image form the school website, […]

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Hong Kong photos

Kids asleep, so I can throw a few pics up before crashing.. the surprising thing about Hong Kong is how beautiful it is in parts.. such a dense urban environment on a tropical, mountainous island.. These pics are from the Peak and the Star Ferry and the Kowloon landing, across the harbor from Hong Kong.

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Dulwich Ball

Dulwich held first-ever chairty ball last Saturday night. I was on the committee, charged with booking and dealing with the band. I sat through an awful lot of meetings and booked the Rhythm Dogs, a really good r&b band. I had to do a lot of unpleasant haggling. But I enacted my payback –pulling a […]

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That’s What Love Will Make You Do

Woodie Alan performing Little Milton’s “That’s What Love Will Make You Do” last Saturday, November 2 at the Orchard, Beijing. The video is shaky and some of my neighbors may be embarrassed by their dancing, but I like the performance. You have no idea how exciting it is for me to teach Chinese musician Little […]

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