This wonderful piece of news made the front page this morning: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/12/bangladeshi-man-with-asthma-wins-france-deportation-fightRead more... )

It's fucking 6am Sunday morning and i have been tossing and turning unable to sleep for hours because i am stressed out about work ( Read more... )

On one of my wiki jaunts of the last week i stumbled upon a fascinating chart called the Inglehart-Welzel cultural map of the world. It plots several countries against two axes based on their residents' responses to a survey exploring cultural values. The wiki page is worth a read, but the short description is that the axes are survival/self- ( Read more... )

So. This is upsetting ( Read more... )

I fucking knew it. I fucking knew Australia would find yet another fucking way to fuck me. Living there was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. Now the fucking Chinese embassy is refusing to legalize my authenticated degree unless I can send them proof I was allowed to study in Australia during the period where my degree was granted. Hey ( Read more... )

When i first saw the requirements for a Chinese work permit, i breathed a sigh of relief. After having to produce literal stacks of documentation to prove my relationship was legit back in 2009 when i was immigrating to Canada, it was refreshing to just have a bullet point list: passport, 2+ years work experience, bachelor degree, non-criminal ( Read more... )

So, now that i have had a few hours to relax - not to mention i am back on a device with a keyboard - let me unwind that rant ( Read more... )

Once again, living in Australia has fucked me in the ass. Fucking racist, homophobic, xenophobic, ass-end-of-the-universe, poor excuse for a country. (Where my mother, sister and a whole bunch of old friends live.) It appears, thanks to Chinese bureaucracy, i need to fly all the way back to that sucking epicenter of modern day Yellow Peril hysteria ( Read more... )

Hello everyone, it's the ancient Chinese festival of Singles' Day. Many years ago, back in the 1990s, a bunch of student bachelors decided to have a party to celebrate/commiserate their singleness. The tradition spread over the next couple decades, and was eventually adopted by local e-commerce companies as an excuse for an epic sale. Nowadays the ( Read more... )

So, the much-overdue work update. Last night i received a job offer. It's for an IT position in a brick-and-mortar company located right on the other side of town. The pay is okay. The company culture seems to be very traditional and hostile to the tech workers. But they will sponsor a visa for me. I am using the weekend to consider, and would ( Read more... )