The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

The wind! The wind! Where is that wind? 大风day yet… is it all that bad? Workouts in, two parts: -60 pull ups push ups n squats, holding 5kg plates or weights-then a bike ride from HuiXinXiJieNanKou to Shuangjing about one hour-30 more pull ups with the weight vest, push ups and squats Got a new video recorded on the vlog, should have that up soon. Need to finish up Harbin! Markets bouncing, GOLD...

Rally! Then a fall! This is a traders’ market for sure! A pause on tariffs! Ninety days of relief puts us into July: another bad time for the market. China should import more! The point seems to be that China has built a walled-off country within which it EXPORTS to the world, but doesn’t really bring anything in, ie IMPORTS, like the US does. Is this protectionist or just a smart move? Or is it M...

Oh the visa registration… all through WeChat or use the browser? Markets still pulling back. Remember Benny Lewis, Fluent in 3 Months guy? Heard a podcast with him. He’s gone through some life changes Having trouble with the BLCU course, will I finish it in time? Morning run done, and a workout to boot!7km done in about 50 minutesLegs and chest today in the gym. And given all of the technology tha...

Anyone else notice the VPNs get troublesome around 9.30pm? Futures bouncing! Good time to trade? Or time to get out? SLV podcast recorded, let the editing begin. iShowSpeed meets Da Zang Wei, the Rainbow Unicorn song guy. And MORE TARIFFS! Ok, so you tax / put a surcharge on something coming into the country. So why would a country “retaliate” if they were trying to beat the trade war? Truth Socia...

Market route continues, when will it end? Chinese stocks also slammed. When to sell?-drop through the 10-day moving average, 2% with substantial volume https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/when-to-sell-stocks-clues-5d49d60d?mod=itp_wsj,djemITP_h Sell half or go to cash, but live to trade another day. New schedule begins, no more Monday 9pm finish, but now a 2pm start. Got some things done this weeke...

iShowSpeed goes to Hong Kong… interesting camera angles. Interview done! Look for it on the vlog soon. Back in Shuangjing, windy and a sandstorm? Workout in! Busy day! Up at six, out for a run, back to stretch, to the gym for the 100 pull ups with 5 kg, then breakfast, then off to DongZhiMen to meet up for a vlog recording. No languages done today. MARKETS SLAMMED! AGAIN! Donate to the show! PayPa...

Let the weekend begin! Welp, no double bottom just yet as MARKETS SLAMMED! AAPL drops by $20, OIL crushed, US markets DOWN, CAD UP. Dollarama UP with a PERFECT cup with handle formation! Should’ve been watching… but how do you know? US taking aim at Quebec and its Bill 96: trademarks, contracts, and work all in French! One of the provinces that has always been very proud of its culture and heritag...

What did Google do? ANOTHER AI model? NotebookLM, let’s have a listen. Run done in the morning SLV Podcast Episode 34 is up and out! Last couple of 9pm finish times as next week the schedule changes. What type of bike should I get? SHOULD I get one? Thinking… old job apparently has placements in Canada, too. COULD open a business here in China for the visa, then move between Canada and China for m...

Beginning of April! Liberation Day tomorrow, or is it a delayed prank? GOLD still popping! But energy lagging, something has got to give. Double bottom on the S&P500?  Heat is off and it is a bit cold inside but warm outside. Remember those Chinese courses I signed up for? Yea, gotta finish those. Spent the morning working on one of those. Spent the evening working on Episode 34 of the Languag...

End of the month and a shortened week! Getting tired of all this running around. Who is iShowSpeed (Darren Jason Watkins Jr.) and why is he here? 陽光彩虹小白馬  Scott Payne and going undercover, first full Joe Rogan podcast I’ve listened to since Trump. Markets roiling, what’s going on? Who knows! Slow start to the day, but still got the workouts in. Is my lack of motivation this schedule and rou...

End of week, Steve, do you do any marking? Hotel seems kinda dead. I guess people go home on the weekends, or at least not here.  Markets getting hit. Why? Who knows! Workout in, 8 minutes per kilometre? Have I not been running the correct distances all these years? 105 pull ups210 push ups315 squats-Did some with 5 kg plates, rest were body weight. Did some video editing - change of direction for...

Not liking this working till after 9 pm, making me think what next semester would be like. COLD outside. STILL. Language bots are working alright, need some refining. The goal is to build up something that can be sent each and every day, is topical, appropriately graded for a particular level, and to be cheap to implement. I might create a website that tracks all of them, or maybe just the better...

Got the NeZha pins! Very understanding customer service. Workout in! Legs and chest + a 40 minute run… on the treadmill. Have I really been running 6.44 kms for the last few years or was that all a lie? Post-workout brunch AND took dinner to go! Some colleagues used to HATE when people did this from a breakfast buffet! Language podcast up! Episode 33! Paid into my Canadian bank account but… how do...

I swear these days fly by faster… but maybe it’s just cause I’m moving more. Working on Episode 33 of the Language Vlog podcast. Should have it up soon. New vids up on the vlog. In touch with another guest for the big podcast. Gotta get those older episodes done already! This weekend!? TSLA and AAPL bouncing, along with other big names. Got those Agents KINDA working. Some tweaks and simplificatio...

Back in the Changping and certainly feeling better. Microphone stand brought in! Hope it works. Spent much of the weekend working on an Agent - A Chinese and Russian Agent by way of Zapier’s automation. I want a daily email in my target language. Some big concert this weekend, and still some girls showed up to class with makeup on and piercings in their face they didn’t have last week. Canada head...

It’s the Solstice! Happy Spring! Nice day out aaaaaand… first sunburn already? WHY? Walked home from the university recording yet another walk n talk / lookaround vlog. Watched El Estepario Siberiano’s video about how much he makes through his CHANNELS! Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. He makes more of his money from MERCH sales through his channel. Instagram? Nothing. (He uses copyrighted work.)Tik...

Hey it’s 20/2025! Tomorrow’s the solstice! Feeling much better! Bit of a workout in as well today. Getting things done despite bouncing around between classes etc. Can’t help but think that modern tech sure makes things a lot easier than ever. But, is this sustainable? No. Something will have to give at some point.  LOTS of tech shares oversold, including AAPL. SHOULD’VE held onto BYD! That stock...

They’re released! The JFK files are released! Who has time to go through them?! What was the other set he was going to release? Doubts on peer-reviewed journals: https://www.wsj.com/business/media/scientific-journals-quality-publishers-6399fc95? https://www.wsj.com/science/whats-wrong-with-peer-review-e5d2d428? Should I write a book about teaching English overseas? It might be funny, or it might j...

Tuesday is the new chill day - nothing going on. Lunch with the colleagues, talking about ages, life experiences. Most are in the 20s, but the other English teacher is a bit older and was teaching at a university in the Philippines before coming over here. Her FIRST TIME in China! Still feeling rough, but managing. No real strength. Big university beside the hotel and LOTS of Hello Bikes there… ca...

The luck of the Irish and it’s St. Patrick’s Day! Sick on the weekend, was it the snow, the students or the tanghulu? Painful day so barely a token work out. And Canadian energy getting a reprieve. How’s gold? Donate to the show! PayPal link below! https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA ***Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com And on Notion: https://stevensirski.notion.site/SSAB-Th...

Beware the Ides of March! Or something like that. Thanks Shakespeare. (It’s tomorrow.) Back in Shuangjing, went for a run, feeling rather sluggish. This is a new schedule I’m getting used to. Stock market correction, so what? Good time to buy. China turning around. GOLD over $3000 USD, Bitcoin down to $84,000 USD. Vlogs are’t landing, a couple hundred views, so very little generated by way of adse...

Selfies with essays? The new way to learn names aaaand figure out who actually knows what they’re talking about. How do you deal with an unresponsive class? Let em go! They barely got through the warm up, I don’t know if they actually understood they had a test, and only one out of three group leaders actually turned up! 😂😂 Dropped by the campus bookstore aaaaand… bought a Russian textbook in Ch...

SSAB - March 12, 2025Up at 530 or so. Getting used to the new routine.  Edited a podcast and posted it. Videos up and out! Podcast up and out! New vlog on the YouTube channel about my first impressions back in the classroom. New podcast out, Episode 31, on Spotify for the Language Podcast. Workout in. Chest and legs. Am I doing enough? Run done! only 5.5 km cause I wanted to get to breakfast.  Can...

Someone’s smoking on my floor… Up at 5.45 to get things done: Russian, workout, stretching aaaaand breakfast! Came back at lunch to record the latest Language Vlog podcast… only seems to be in the hotel that my throat doesn’t hold up. Classes going as well as you could expect, today talked about topic sentences, supporting details and organizing ideas in an outline. Gotta remember, these kids have...

Back at it for another week, what am I even doing? 5.45 for the success? Get up! Morning routine: Russian, working out, running.  Morning workout done: 20 min bike+Chinese reading, circuit work, 45 min run… was it 6.44 km or less? Back to Changping. Only takes 50 minutes to get here on Mondays, but took an hour and a half on Friday. New Substack up, new video up, gotta work on the language vlog pc...