The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

COLD! Uruguay, shenme yisi? Buying land in Canada vs other places. Shoplifting is a problem in Canada Trying to coordinate with freelancers, this is a bit of a challenge. 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-The-Audio-Blog-of-Steven-Sirski-00acfe34...

Cold and rainy turning to slush! Oh Winnipeg! Stuck around the house today to get some things done. A year’s worth of mail and other clean up jobs. Cost of perogies has gone up! $9 per dozen! Used to be $6! Never did go for a walk but did go out for a drive to Grant Park mall. Shopped at Co-op… they used to be just a gas station, now grocery store that replaced the Safeway. Cash register lady was...

Back in the peg! Or, as some people like to say, Winnipeg Pegged. EL oh EL Flair airlines, who’s it for? Those with very little luggage and those who book ahead of time. I did not. Otherwise an uneventful flight. Did I even finish yesterday’s episode? Talked to a business student at SFU, last term at university then off into the job world. Something about a co-op instead of a term ending? My advic...

SSAB - November 18, 2024 Canadalanded! How was the flight? Korean Air… movie selection was a little… well, very Korean. Watched Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning. Had the whole row to myself! Eight hour forty three minutes total flight time. Vancouver Aquarium with the family… Unionpay did NOT work. Grey Cup on Sunday, Winnipeg Blue Bombers lost 41 to 22 or something. Brutal. Jonas Brothers? Have...

Work done and dusted for another couple of weeks! Markets… down! Mid-November pullback or signs of a further correction? Workouts in! Morning: 20 min on the bike (reading Chinese) Shoulders, Rows, Deadlifts Finishing arms Afternoon: 6.46 km in 1hr 13m 39s Rounds included Pull ups: 10, 14, 14, 14, 24 Push Ups: 20, 28, 28, 28, 48 Squats: 30, 42, 42, 42, 72 Plus lunges, duck walks, step ups Some old...

To Canada on Saturday! Should’ve booked hometown tickets earlier! Taiwanese class done for a while! ChatGPT can do spreadsheets, but what’s the prompt?? What’s the difference between import and export and an Amazon Fulfillment business? I’m a little lost why people would still need an importer/exporter based in China. Donate to the show! PayPal link below! https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale...

Cleaning up the phone and prepping for Canada. Ooofs, 3-4%ers roughly going - but what’s the choice? GOLD, USD, OIL and BITCOIN… how they interact? Prepping a language vlog: can language and culture be separated? Workouts in! Morning: 26 min on the bike while reading Chinese Bench (26.5 kg each side x 5 reps) Squat (30 kg each side x 5 reps) Finishing arms Came back early to start work and… had to...

Less busy, but smoggy day. looking at ticket back to Canada. Just a short trip this time. Packing up some things. Chinese done, Taiwanese class done, Russian reading done. Reading Trump’s Art of the Deal. Interesting if only because it dates me, he was making deals in New York and I was in diapers! Looking at using Zapier for automation, cannot find a good deal on the social media repurposing. May...

Lest we forget! Another reading… Hey! It’s Single’s Day! Did you buy anything? Great Leap #45 gone! The others remain. More comments on the YT channel! To be clear, I’m not looking to build some sort of “expat in China” vlog, I’m looking to create a channel that is more dedicated to language learning and living as an expat around the world rather than just one country. Scones arrived! Maple and pu...

Workouts in despite the smog! What’s one hour in the dirt? Morning: 30min bike while reading Chinese Rows, Shoulders, Deadlift Finishing arms Afternoon: 6.44km in 1hr 13m 31s w 6kg vest 60 pull ups, 120 pushups, 180 squats Lunges, step ups, etc. VLOG a POPPIN! 800+ subscribers and comments a flowin’ in! Apparently people like the walk n talks? I’m aiming to do ten of these before moving on to some...

Why are people upset? Ukraine was invaded TWICE during a Democrat presidency? GOLD and SILVER DROP like a rock… there’s the correction / pullback we’re looking for. AEM.to and WPM.to in particular. BITCOIN? New ETFs out. CANADIAN OIL doing well. Looking at the Stock Trader’s Almanac https://jeffhirsch.tumblr.com/ TWO NEW VIDEOS out on the vlog, A visit to Universal Studios Beijing. Debating betwee...

Trump is in! USAmericans moan! Again! More! LOL! Stocks go up! Working on that book… using ChatGPT? Is it worth it? Looking at tickets back to Canada. Might reshoot that video I made yesterday, clarify a few things. Workouts in! Morning: 33 min on the bike while reading Chinese Bench, squat, finishing arms Afternoon: 6.44 km in 43.58 Then 20 minutes of slam ball work. But that shoulder is a tweaki...

How many people do you know want to get married? Get paid to get laid in China! The election day is over!… in China! What will tomorrow morning bring??? Stonks up!!! WTF happened?! Tonghuashun 同花顺 was up bigly, why?? No idea. Relaxed day to do video recording. Ten shorts and another walk n talk. Taiwanese Mandarin class done, gotta get a few more done as my class package expires next week! Dona...

One day away until it goes on for another week! hahahah US Election tomorrow Getting cold here in the Beijing, but the air is cleared. A lot of Youtube commentators say it’s Mongolian dust, or Western media misrepresentation! I wonder if they can smell what I smell? Or are they living in the safety of the digital world? SLV podcast up and out! Also realized I made a mistake with last week’s Lian X...

Vance on Rogan! Are the Democrats even trying? But it was very political heavy, not as back and forth conversational as Trump. New video out on the language vlog! All about LiaoZhia ZhiYi! I think it looks pretty good. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUYTO-mB8Ec 10% uppers, how they doing? Thinking… these might be happening because they HAVE to buy. That is, the stonks that are going up b...

This is Halloween! This is Halloween! Everybody loves orange and green! This is Halloween! In this town, the Pumpkin King! And it’s for kids, right? 10%ers don’t always work, a big SLAM to the market in the final twenty minutes of trading. Not sure why. Opening a business in China, is it worth it? Looking at a company called Global Eastern https://globaleasterninvestment.com/ Chatted with Aaron_co...

WORKOUTS in! Morning: 30 min bike (reading Chinese) Squat, Bench, finishing arms Afternoon: 6.44km in 41.33 -20 minutes of slam ball work China going to space, this is cool. https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/with-dreams-of-a-lunar-outpost-china-takes-new-risks-in-space-race-with-u-s-e7d485ce?mod=itp_wsj,djemITP_h BIG COMMENT on the language vlog! I’ll need to respond with a video because...

Busy day, lots done! But… nothing to show for it? Russian and Chinese reading done, no livestreams as I ran out of time… okay, I didn’t commit. Spent the morning working on the Language Vlog Book. Got the rough draft assembled, now to begin re-reading and re-writing. Spent the afternoon working on a script and shooting the video for our upcoming 聊斋志异 video for the language vlog. Then… cleaning...

What a weekend! Trump on Rogan’s show! Some people thought it was boring, I thought it was telling! -JFK assassination -aliens -flying in the dark to get to Iran -the Lincoln Room -Taiwan Could Kamala do it? Not likely. Does she even want the job? Russian done, no Chinese live stream done cause… working on a video for 聊斋志异 and spent some time looking up movies and doing some reading (in Englis...

Did I mention that I met the knife sharpener?! I’ll have to post these videos later but I’m just going to say that this is one of the highlights of living in Beijing and being able to speak Chinese. No joke! The neighbour came back and so we talked. ToMai is his chosen English name, media student, preparing to go to the USA next year to study and learn more English. What is the value of a degree?...

That generator is gone?? Visa secured for another year, made a video for the language vlog. JingA? I think there is something to this idea of tracking the 10% limit up stonks in China over a few days and trading those. Gold stonks finally dropping… get ready? 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...

Need to wash that hair! Workouts in! Morning: 27 minutes on the bike (w Chinese) -Bench -Squat Afternoon: 5km run in 34.19 15 min slam ball work Apparently the school visa isn’t that easy… or is it? Stonk market a popping again. SPOT GOLD hit 642 RMB per gram, DIGITAL SILVER hit 7.95 today, highest I’ve ever seen it. Time to come down? Hey Steve, why don’t you day trade? Russian live stream done…...

SLV podcast out! Looking to launch some new products on the SLV BMAC site: postcards! And spent some time working on the book. I can see how it’s slowly coming together. Using Apple Pages, then export to PDF? Workouts in! Morning: 33 min on the bike while reading Chinese Afternoon: mace bell and steel clubs swings Had to update Windows! Good thing I missed the early pangs. Al Pacino went broke?! N...

They washed the windows! Couldn’t remove the screen so I still have to wash two on my own… If this was your last week of work, what would you do? GOLD and SILVER pop again! Ooof! SLV Podcast delayed, but I’m getting better at the production. Spent much of the weekend working on my book for SLV. Workouts in! Start of a new cycle Week 1! Morning: -27 min bike (reading Chinese) -4 rounds of 30 sec ba...

Workouts in! Half power. Morning: 35 min bike (reading Chinese) -Light legs workout Afternoon: 5.23km in 54.18 w 6kg weight jacket -4, 6, 8, 10 pull ups for a total of 28 -double for push ups, triple for squats Then some mobility work afterwards. New Chinese classes? WTF?! Why?? eBLCU business and international trade classes, self study, only 800 RMB. Have six months to complete and I’ll get a cer...