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ryu2

Squeeker

Joined: Feb 27, 2005
Posts: 12

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Posted: Mar 06, 2005 - 12:43 PM
Post subject: Greetings

Hi all --

I just wanted to introduce myself to the community and say "hi".

I moved to SH a week and a half ago to start work as a programmer for a international video game company with a strong presence in Shanghai. Mid 20s, ethnic Chinese but born and educated in the USA (Silicon Valley area). I like games and tech stuff Wink

, photography, travelling, eating, reading, music, travelling...

I just got settled into my permanent place two days ago, living in JingAn, close to the Portman, and I've got a good number of friends working out here from home/college, but they're all out in Pudong.

So I'm interested in meeting folks in Puxi as well -- anyone and everyone, but especially fellow young professionals, and/or other ABCs (or Canada, Europe, Australia, NZ... any ethnic Chinese raised in a 'Western' country, I guess). Obviously, we're in a unique situation since we've got the best (and worst) of both cultures. [Thankfully, I can speak basic Mandarin and my job involves something other than teaching English, so I hopefully don't get some of the 'reverse racism' here, although I can still feel it!]

Hope to meet a lot of you sometime,

-- Mark

Edgewood
FooSlinger

Joined: Jan 28, 2004
Posts: 3906
Location: Colonial Shanghai

Posted: Mar 06, 2005 - 08:41 PM

Welcome aboard.

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lemongrass
StreetBeater

Joined: Jan 15, 2005
Posts: 2327

Posted: Mar 06, 2005 - 09:00 PM

hey Mark, go to check the "announcements ana events" part, you will catch a post about a coffee meeting on Huaihai Road every Saturday, guess that you may find tons of friends in Puxi then!!!

Welcome to Shanghai & happy hunting!!! Very Happy