A friend back in the US asked me to describe a typical week so he could better understand how I live my life here. And since I am a lazy blogger I thought I would repeat it here.

First a little precursor. When I lived in the US I was pretty much an anti-social hermit. My life mainly consisted of work and goofing around on my computer. Getting out was something I rarely did.

So here is a day by day listing of my week.

Saturday: Up at 7:00. Get my breakfast and play a little with my baby boys. I normally spend most of the time being amazed at just how much they change from day to day.
11:00 I am on an hour long bus/taxi tide to the city where my wife and I meet our running club. Http://www.gzh3.com Check it out to see the strange stuff that goes on.
19:00 Running is done time for dinner with friends. I normally get back home at 22:00. Just in time to go to sleep.

Sunday: Up at 6:30, have my breakfast and play with the kids. Around 10:00 I am out the door with my wife and doing shopping for various things (normally baby stuff).
We get back home around 15:00 and I play with my kids a little more. The I head up to my home office and do a bit of work, play a computer game or watch a little tv. (TV here is either by a satelite feed from the philipines or by watching shows online.)
19:00 I have dinner and help get the kids to sleep. Then the rest of the night is spent watching the movie of the moment with my wife. Then it is time for sleep.

Monday: I am up at 6:00, grab my breakfast (which normally is a big bun and a diet coke) and start my drive to the office. The babies are normally sleeping so I don’t get to see them.
I work until about 20:00 and then I drive home. The babies are normally sleeping by then so I don’t get to see them. Talk with the wife about my day and then off to sleep.

Tuesday: Basically a repeat of Monday.

Wednesday: Starts out the same but at night I attend a social networking meeting for people in the Internet industry. Business here is all about who you know. I would be out of business if it wasn’t for networking.
I spend my evening talking with 30-40 strangers and exchanging business cards. When I get home it is normally around 24:00. Nothing else to do but grab a few hours sleep.

Thursday: Same as Monday.

Friday: Starts out the same but by 11:00 I am on a 2 hour train ride to Hong Kong. Once I get there I have time for a quick lunch then it is meetings with clients till about 20:00.
Then I have the chance to call up some Hong Kong friends and go out for dinner and drinks. This will normally go on till about 03:00. Then off to my hotel room for a few hours of sleep before I am on an 8:30 train back to guangzhou so I can go running with my wife.

So that is a pretty typical week for me. I don’t go to Hong Kong every week but I do go often enough where I needed to add extra pages to my passport.

Blogging is hard to find the time for but I do it when I can. This post is being written on my phone while I sit on the train.

Here are a couple of pictures from my window: