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The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

Steven Sirski

The daily musings of an expat in Beijing.

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00:35:03

SSAB - December 19, 2024

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2024/12/20

Super greens, are they worth it? Or just eat vegetables?Canada Post back to work! Any more strikes on the horizon? Walk around outside, up Wellington Crescent and down to Osborne Village. Monetization strategies: 1-webinars: intro to China, intro to teaching English? Intro to learning languages 2-English club online 3-vlogs, shorts, podcasts, language checks 4-ebooks: how to learn a language, how to develop good study habits 5-client work: translation, proofreading, video and audio

00:30:23

SSAB - December 17, 2024

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2024/12/18

The Phantom Train – Ed HuckebyWhy is winter so cold? Because it’s in Decemburrrr! Why did Rudolf get in trouble for his high school report card? He went down in history. Would be nice to have two weeks off instead of just working all the time, day in and day out. What holidays would I have if I had my own business? Even still, this trip hasn’t been a “vacation”, it’s been rather busy! Bell MTS taking my money! Or am I doing it wrong. LinkedIn videos in the works! Business English - new

00:33:05

SSAB - December 16, 2024

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2024/12/17

More snow, and an old building burned down: https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/century-old-manitoba-creamery-burns-down-in-major-fire-1.7145198 Tried Popeye’s chicken, not sure how often I’d have that. Language Vlog Podcast Episode 20 is out! And another donation! New language check video out, too! Looking at university positions in China: would I be better able to leverage my time and energy there, even though it would be a drop in pay? December Drumming continues. Keeping it simple. And workout

00:33:10

SSAB - December 13, 2024

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2024/12/14

Is the Friday the 13th?! It is! And ALMOST a full moon.Full workout in, added ten pounds to the deadlift to total 95+95+45‎ = 235. Thirty minutes on the stepper, but went mostly easy. Rows and shoulders as well. Feeling a bit of tennis elbow so had to pull back on the accessories, will have to get another band or something. Did some Chinese reading while on the warm up walk. Then Cantonese in the evening. LinkedIn video I think has to be different from YouTube or TikTok. That is to say, since

00:33:02

SSAB - December 10, 2024

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2024/12/11

Snow again! But not too cold… but how would I know as I never did go outside today!First time touching the drums in over a year! Kinda sucked. Only hit the snare drum and tried out some rudiments. Steve, are you not going back to China? I guess I should get going… though I said the same thing about Canada. Automation for the win! Zapier AI can modify my text input and spit out a decently well-crafted Notion database item sourced from my weekly newsletter. Beautiful! YouTube a go go! 940 subs

00:35:21

SSAB - December 9, 2024

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2024/12/10

Snow, but not cold New language vlog podcast out! Episode 19! Should I start posting these videos too? New walk n talk vlog out on the language vlog: lots of comments about the decline of the West and the rise of the East (re: China). Do you believe that? Then why do so many people want to leave China?? Workout in: Snow removal Walk Weights Steps for 35 minutes Gold and Chinese stonks a poppin! Who said what? Well, the central bank said they’re buying gold again so POOF goes the markets…

00:33:07

SSAB - December 5, 2024

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2024/12/06

Another microphone mishap! The thing just cut out in the middle of the recording? How was it otherwise? Certainly holding the microphone closer to my mouth.Cold, but no snow today. Should warm up this weekend. Would it be possible to make 30,000 rmb per month in the Chinese stonk market? Need capital, and don’t confuse a bull market for brains. Trying to find this book I bought years ago about buying land and real estate overseas. It’s been a while already. But I did find an English translation

00:31:06

SSAB - December 4, 2024

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2024/12/05

STUFFED! East Indian food for dinner, omg.Red Top diner for lunch, big breakfast there. Workout in! Bench, squats, accessories. Bench, had to dial back the weight a little, but squat added another ten pounds to the bar. Sun dogs, ever seen them? All I know is that it’s cold when they are out. Dealing with stuff, got rid of an old fog machine, black light, and strobe light that have been sitting around gathering dust. When do you get rid of stuff? And my apologies for the microphone mix up

00:32:41

SSAB - November 29, 2024

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2024/11/30

It’s gotten COLD!Workout in! Shoulders, rows, deadlifts and… stairs! Thirty minutes of that! Add on some accessory work and a short run, done n done. Mall stabbing in Polo Park! One of the big malls here in Winnipeg. Portage Place Mall closing up shop… it hasn’t been good since it opened. Lots of theft and not a very safe area. Convo with one of the cousins: guns, travel, and the state of the country. He wants out! Seems like everyone has a problem with a manager… so why are they there and

00:33:35

SSAB - November 28, 2024

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2024/11/29

I forgot to put the perogie instructions at the end of the episode on Tuesday. Will put it at the end of today’s and Tuesday’s.Canada post still on strike, the dock workers were on strike, anyone else? Done Russian classes for now! Working on an email drip campaign for the language vlog: language learning and learning basic Chinese. This would be the first draft of the books I was looking to create. As a result, never did get around to working on that video. How is Winnipeg doing? -Across the

00:29:45

SSAB - November 27, 2024

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2024/11/28

Can I say I’m tired of the cold?Workout in! Having fun trying to calculate kg to lbs. Bench, squat, accessories + a 7.00 km run in 37.03. Did I actually run 7km or is my watch lying to me? Six laps to a mile, 3.6 laps to a km. Why is it abbreviated “lbs”? Apparently from the Latin “libra”… but where does the “s” come from? Some say “little beef stacks”, which I thought was an interesting answer. Walked back and made another vlog for the YouTube channel. Thought it might be interesting to take a

00:34:11

SSAB - November 26, 2024

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2024/11/27

Surprised at how many people talk about Trump!Russian class done! Two more to go. What’s my plan? Chinese books in the making, how so? AI and more? What would YOU have liked to know when you first wen to China? Looking into Facebook Ads, add in a VA doing Lead Gen and… maybe this could be a good way to build up a clientele? Don’t forget newsletter marketing. Bringing back some flour to China - can I? Also some maple and corn syrup. You can find a lot of this stuff in China, so I think it’s kind

00:26:56

SSAB - November 25, 2024

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2024/11/26

Bank of China overseas withdrawal fee was 32.84 RMB for $400 CAD, 46.54 RMB for $660 CAD. Max withdrawals seem to be $1000 CAD. This is in addition to the $3.50 CAD ATM fee. Kinda expensive, innit? SLV newsletter out, podcast out. Freelancers sorted… had to draw up a proper ChatGPT prompt for them. Is this the new requirement for bosses? Or have I just been dialling it in and finally clued in to what is needed to help someone else do work? Workout in! Two! But not the same style! 30 min walk 45

00:30:01

SSAB - November 22, 2024

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2024/11/23

My apologies for all the sniffles, I hope I got most edited out. Feeling better now. So Thanksgiving Day is next week, do you think Trump will pardon the turkey? Day with the fam, ran through a couple of my crazy ideas just to see if they sound crazy out loud. Not too bad. Finally went upstairs to my old room and got rid of a box of books! I probably have three or four more I could get rid of very quickly. But those aren’t the issue, the issue is drum parts. It might be time to get rid of some

00:30:55

SSAB - November 21, 2024

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2024/11/22

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-00acfe344e164bfab191d3cddf6952b2?pvs=4 Newsletter over at stevensirski.substack.com Language vlog on

00:38:57

SSAB - November 20, 2024

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2024/11/21

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 from Ukraine, Ternopil. Found some non-alcoholic IPAs and stouts, though have yet to try

00:32:08

SSAB - November 12, 2025

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2024/11/12

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 just have to use ChatGPT. Donate to the show! PayPal link

00:32:50

SSAB - November 11, 2024

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2024/11/11

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 pumpkin! Always nice to have. 10% uppers are one thing, 3-4% uppers are another. But, if it’s a bull

00:32:17

SSAB - November 8, 2024

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2024/11/08

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 something else. Ultimate combo would be: live stream every day, a walk n talk, a short, a podcast, and a

00:28:17

SSAB - November 5, 2024

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2024/11/06

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! Donate to the show! PayPal link below! https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA *** Show notes

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