Hi Simon,

This post is written by Steven Lin in Beijing. It's about 8:36pm now here, 8 hours ahead of London. How are you?

Gia Gia sent me the invitation to start this blog with you. Maybe the best way to start it is to introduce myself. I work for a business newspaper titled The Economic Observer (经济观察报), which is printed on orange papers and keeps trying to be a Chinese echo to Financial Times.

I have a Chinese blog on some interesting tech stuffs, an English blog where I share my daily life with some foreign friends, and a Chinese podcast maintained by my partner and me. If you want to know something about this podcast called Antiwave (反波), please click on this video clip on YouTube. I'm the young guy nicknamed Flypig in black top.

Feb. 18th is the traditional Chinese new year, aka Spring Festival (春节). It keeps me busy buying the flight ticket back to Fuzhou, my hometown two-hour flight away from Beijing. There will be a huge traffic during Spring Festival, and the shortage of tickets made the price very very high. :|

The picture above was taken outside a bar in Shanghai around Christmas Day. Hope you will like it. BTW, my email address is Flypig [at] Gmail.com, please send a message to me when you read this post.

Cheers,
Steven