China Moments

Shanghai, 2003-2006: In early 2003, I quit an IT job to follow my dreams of living abroad. Fortune smiled on me, and I landed my first job in the videogame industry at Ubisoft’s Shanghai studio. China Moments, my first blog, documented my first expatriation experience and my obsession with the craft of videogames.

  • The Last Hours

    As the E3 Producer, it’s been my task to carefully plan the E3 demo, so that we would finish w...

  • The Deafening Sound of Silence

    Something strange is happening these last few weeks. It dawned on me this morning, as I was getting ...

  • Couchsurfing

    The idea is simple yet brilliant: a website where adventurous travelers can search for couches on wh...

  • Shanghai: The Bonus Levels

    For a newcomer to Shanghai, the city’s maze-like layout can be quite distressing when compared...

  • Overworked? Believe it

    It’s Sunday night, 7h30 PM… I’m working tomorrow at 9 AM, and I’m just about...

WWCC

My goodness. It’s like an epiphany! I just learned an acronym that defines me: Westerner With Chinese Characteristics Reading this article, it suddenly all makes sense. I understand why I: Sometimes express dismay, disgust or anger by ‘Aaaaayiiieeeee…’; Eat stuff ...

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Pirated DVD Reviews

BoingBoing posted a hilarious link on reviews of DVDs bought right off the streets of Shanghai : Reviews of DVDs That May or May Not Be Pirated But Were Definitely Bought on the Streets of Shanghai For About A Dollar ...

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Star Wars in Shanghai

It’s done. After 25 years, the two Star Wars trilogies are now wrapped up. I remember hoping beyond hope to see the prequel trilogy as a kid, but now that I’ve seen them, all I can think of is, Well, ...

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Darth Poutine

Tonight is Geek Night! Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith opens up in Shanghai at midnight. I’ll be sure to post impressions in the following days. Inexplicably, the movie tonight is a double feature: the theater where we ...

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Extreme Dining

A lot of restaurants in China are clean and the food is prepared quite safely. However, it’s sometimes tough to tell the clean restaurant from the cockroach-infested ones, and if you like going out to small, cheap restaurants, you have ...

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