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The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

Steven Sirski

The daily musings of an expat in Beijing.

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00:32:00

SSAB - July 2, 2025

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2025/07/02

I’m feeling it! TWO workouts in today, one at the Body Lab (kinda like the Sanlitun Rich Women’s club), another on my own.Out for dinner, then came back and was like: let’s see if I can get my run in.Second workout in at night, slow but done. 4km in 39.37, then 20 minutes of slam ball work at night.Tuna sandwich with… mustard, mayonnaise, wasabi aaaaand VEGEMITE! A bit too salty.Good thing is… The TimTams are the perfect melty!SLV podcast has been recorded, will have that up tomorrow.Livestreaming

00:32:49

SSAB - July 1, 2025

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2025/07/01

Happy Canada Day! July 1, 1867 and now 158 years old!Chinese taxes done and done, how will this change if I have my own company?Back to live streaming… on ALL platforms.Will AI be able to do movie creation? Yes, but you still need a good story. It will just make it easier and cheaper for more people to do it. Idea for my own animation… but going old school.AI movie article:https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-film-google-veo-runway-3918ae28?mod=article_inlineBeijing is hot and humid, so sweaty sweat sweat

00:43:12

SSAB - June 30, 2025

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2025/06/30

Back in Beijing and Chinese taxes done.How was Sydney? How was Melbourne?Wake Up Hostel Sydney.Power banks.Steven, did you say it was the Lord Arch? Or Loch Ard Gorge? FFS! Whole episode!How was the flight? My screen didn’t work. Wifi was slow. Free ten minutes.Movies watched:Moscow MissionChristmas on Cobbler StreetHer StoryMoney Honey PhoneyNanjing overnight. Flight was uneventful. https://wgrrjkxt.maxvisioncloud.com/h5/#/Donate to the show! PayPal link

00:30:51

SSAB - June 16, 2025

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2025/06/16

From Shanghai Pudong!Happy Father’s Day! Guess I forgot to wish this on Friday.Off to Australia! AND TWENTY DOLLARS FOR A VISA?!? WTF did THIS happen?Are we excited yet? Well, will be meeting up with some family and a former colleague!SLV podcast recorded, so doing this one now. Will edit other pcast on the plane, this one right away.Will be trying to post as much as possible, want to try vlogging every day. Why? Cause I never have, despite having harddrives of videos. So here goes.And once I’m

00:33:54

SSAB - June 13, 2025

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2025/06/13

It’s Friday the 13th!Chinese classes over!First livestream done in a long time.Workouts in: 7.06 km in 47.19, then afternoon run n pull ups x five rounds of 20 pull ups, 40 push ups, 60 squats, plus lunges n all with a 6kg vest. Kinda hot out there today.Off to Australia! Why are we not excited?!One thing at a time, but… time to rebrand? Or just change focus?Donate to the show! PayPal link below!https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA***Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.comAnd on

00:30:52

SSAB - June 4, 2025

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2025/06/04

Going to miss this air conditioning! Going to be a heat wave tomorrow.Workouts in! 7.02km in 45.27, nice and slow today. Then inside for weights, upper and lower. Thinking… is it better to eat in between workouts or just power through? I chose to eat some yogurt.Bought cakes and desserts for one class (the smaller one), the others, no. Got all the grades sent out and mostly no complaints except for two I knew were errors (and I’d fixed them already) and one calculation error. Most students wanted to

00:37:57

SSAB - June 3, 2025

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2025/06/03

Nineteen more days until the summer solstice, nineteen more days until the days start getting shorter. Too early?Three more days! Apparently I have to have class on Friday morning! Grades getting sent out.Episode 43 of the SLV podcast recorded, hope to have it out tomorrow.AI Agents, new tech, or just a fad? What about for teachers?Ma La Xiang Guo - what is it?Donate to the show! PayPal link below!https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA***Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.comAnd on

00:39:17

SSAB - June 2, 2025

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2025/06/02

It’s Dragon Boat Weekend!Back into Changping for the last time! Why do we even have classes this week?!Summer plans?A resurgence of COVID? Smokers didn’t COVID? Where’s the evidence of alcohol helping you do stuff?Saw the latest Mission: Impossible movie. Not bad. Long. Kinda sappy.And they finally gave me soap in the hotel again!Donate to the show! PayPal link below!https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA***Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.comAnd on Notion:

00:31:21

SSAB - May 27, 2025

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2025/05/27

Essays done, final exam done! Turns out the other teachers are leaving! Am I missing something??Workout in! 5 km in the noontime in 34.28, then a 20-minute workout afterwards.Working on three months of content, so it can build upon itself AND an agentic workflow. And a discussion on whether or not AI should be in the classroom.Donate to the show! PayPal link below!https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA***Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.comAnd on Notion:

00:30:41

SSAB - May 26, 2025

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2025/05/26

Beginning of the week, and end of the semester. Speaking presentations begin!What is vibe coding and why does anyone care?Projects piling up, how to sort through them all?Workout in! 6.44 km in 49.07. Four rounds of rope work, push ups, tuck jumps and assisted pistol squats (these are getting better!). Then inside for club and mace work.Work permit extended, do I even want to stay? What’s the longevity?Donate to the show! PayPal link below!https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA***Show

00:34:05

SSAB - May 20, 2025

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2025/05/20

520! Send your kisses! Some students were sure dolled up.Lots of former students got married this past weekend.Essay breakdown! OMG! Where did they learn this?? High school??Google Notebook LM is out! How is it? Same same as before. It was able to pull from YouTube and summarize everything but it also included the mouth smack… annoying. New SLV podcast out! Looking at ways to make this easier.Donate to the show! PayPal link below!https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA***Show notes n

00:37:07

SSAB - May 19, 2025

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2025/05/19

Getting hot out there! Getting hard to walk across open streets.Winnipeg Jets are out! In overtime! Sad. ;( Mark Scheifele’s father passed away before the game, then he takes a penalty in the last thirty seconds of the game which carried over into overtime. Then, with only thirty seconds left in the penalty, Dallas Stars scored. Workouts in! 6.50 km in 38.37… not sure about that. Four rounds of skips, push ups, jumps and pistol squats (as much as I could do). Then inside for mace bells and steel

00:34:22

SSAB - May 15, 2025

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2025/05/15

Some articles on Warren Buffetthttps://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/read-the-wsjs-early-coverage-of-warren-buffett-01b09b9c?What’s inside Berkshire Hathawayhttps://www.wsj.com/business/what-is-berkshire-hathaway-warren-buffett-a6d0d968?$130 for a writing APP?!?! Could I make something similar for the language vlog?Summer plans, do I really want to be living in Canada?Current schedule is unsustainable.New SLV podcast is out! Episode 40! Time for a new tactic?Donate to the show! PayPal link

00:41:52

SSAB - May 13, 2025

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2025/05/13

Peace in Ukraine? Could it be?Neighbour moving home, why?One of the other teachers? LEAVING! One semester is enough! And if she’s leaving after one semester, what am I to think? What do other people think about Beijing?And what about the Chinese economy? I know I said I’d talk about it. How bad is China’s economy?https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-economy-data-missing-096cac9a?Disappearing datahttps://www.realchinacharts.com/p/china-charts-12-disappearing-data?Chinese stonks a moving?Donate to

00:32:51

SSAB - May 12, 2025

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2025/05/12

Hey Happy Mother’s Day! Steve, did you forget? Only on Friday.Back to class, should I continue? What did I say??What will I do this summer?Essay reading, getting into the groove. Using a new APP: GoodNotes 6. Much better than default MarkUp APP.This just in, BREAKING! Trade war truce! Is that a surprise?! Stonks sore, GOLD drops!18-40 Donate to the show! PayPal link below!https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA***Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.comAnd on Notion:

00:27:47

SSAB - May 8, 2025

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2025/05/08

Smells like rain. It is! First thunderstorm!How is the throat? Better.Hamstrings are still a hurtin.Make up class today so began at 8am. Can’t say this is a sustainable schedule nor do I really want to repeat it!Winnipeg Jets lost… my internet connection cut out just before the end of the game.New SLV podcast out!Came across this guy on TikTok who LAMBASTS popular salesmen online. H&S Motors, just the owner, the guy just rips apart Andy Elliot and other big name online salesmen. Kinda funny,

00:33:12

SSAB - May 7, 2025

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2025/05/07

Owie! Legs are a hurting! Run done, 7.26km in 50.10. Went right to the weight room after for a workout and hit the legs. I would stiffen up during the day.Getting hit with something, throat is sore, fatigued, but brain is still okay. 板蓝根 Banlangen, is a Traditional Chinese herbal medicine, only has a 1000 year history in use. (Who had it before?) Main component is Isatis indigotica root (IIR). It also warms the body, so you sweat a lot.Government article that tests it vs

00:39:11

SSAB - May 2, 2025

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2025/05/02

End of week and things are looking up! Where would you digital visa yourself?Workouts in! 7.00 km this morning in 53minutes, though I think the clouds affected the count. Afternoon workout: 105 pull ups, 210 push ups, 315 squats, half weighted, half not.What’s this idea I have for the language vlog? And how do I create these courses? Talking about Circle Communities.Donate to the show! PayPal link below!https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA***Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.comAnd

00:35:29

SSAB - May 1, 2025

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2025/05/01

It’s the weekend! Five days off and we’re heading into the home stretch. 劳动节快乐！Meeting with the admin today, do I want to continue? Not really. I tell her I spend my evenings trying to automate language learning, “You’re the enemy!” she responds! Ha!But what’s next? An interesting job idea AND… I think I may have found a good place for a website. More costly than a regular website, but I think it works better.A casual stroll outside today turns into a several conversations. The hotel BaoAn, the Rose

00:38:50

SSAB - April 29, 2025

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2025/04/29

Exam done! That looks like a lot of writing to be read. How long am I supposed to spend on each?Passport gotten! June 15th is expiry day! UH OH! Where else could I go?May have found a photo editor, which would help immensely.Carney is Prime Minister, the Liberals continue, but is he so liberal?Aaaand what’s South Africa like? Spoke with the colleagues today! Surprising!New ice cream shop on campus!Donate to the show! PayPal link below!https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA***Show notes n

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