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Some photos of the Sands Venetian in Macau (Macao) China where I am working with Cirque Du Soleil. I think this is currently the second largest building in the world and it’s truly massive. You can easily get lost roaming the shops on the upper floors.

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Pictures of my new apartment in Taipa, China (SAR). This is the view from my living room windows. Just over the river there you can see mainland China.

Taipa is the island next to Macau. My island of Taipa has a large expat community (lots of Westerners) so it’s very comfortable and not much of a culture shock. I have two large grocery stores within a 30 second walk and plenty of great restaurants - Italian, Mexican, Portuguese, Thai, American, Indian, Chinese and French.

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(Here should be some really cool pictures of everyone at the Montreal Airport yelling “Macau! Macau”. But I was too tired to take them.) Welcome to my most mundane blog post EV-er…

On March 23, 2008 the Cirque Du Soleil artists for “Macau I Cosmos” flew from Montreal, Canada to Hong Kong for relocation. Here’s an uneventful post about our initial relocation. The photos are with my old camera from the 1800’s, they are horrible, and none of them are the least bit interesting.

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(Chinese TV report of Typhoon Level 8 “Neoguri” that hit Macau on April 20, 2008.

My first level 8 typhoon warning. Yipee! Reminds me of the hurricanes when I lived in Miami (hurricane parties are the best).

Friday, April 18 2008 - The Macau Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) yesterday issued a tropical cyclone warning for typhoon ‘Neoguri’, the earliest period at which such warnings have ever been issued.

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Video of the bungy jump at the Macau Tower in Macau (Macao SAR), China.
The Tower is 1,109 ft  (338m) high at its highest point.

The Macau Tower bungy jump is 764 feet (233m).

To give my friends in Seattle an idea of how high this is - The Space Needle is 605 feet (184 m) high.

I’ve watched dozens of these jump videos on YouTube. Mainly because I’m not brave enough to do it myself - but I wish I was! My stomach turns just watching the videos.

Since I moved to Macau, China my MySpace page is now in Portuguese language. I might have clicked a wrong button or something - but I think it just came up that way and I didn’t see anyway to get it back to English.

Does someone know how to fix this, get it back to English?

1.Your 10 year Passport is full inside 2 years.
2.Most conversations with your friends involve mobile phones.
3.None of the sea-front buildings existed when you arrived. The shoreline itself shifted by half a mile.
4.Your best friends come from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, America, Angola, and Portugal.
5.You can’t put a proper sentence together in your native language.

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For wireless hotspots and internet access in Macau visit:

http://www.olamacauguide.com/wireless-macau-internet.html

Join the University of Macau MBA Team Building Exercise. Here they are climbing the top of Macau Tower. Join the University of Macau students and teachers climb to the highest mast of Macau and enjoy the views of Macau, Zhuhai China and Hong Kong. 

The Cotai Strip is a man-made strip of land near Macau, China between the islands of Taipa and Coloane. The third island in this chain is Macau proper. The entire area is referred to as “Macau”, and the gambling-specific area currently under development is “The Cotai Strip”.

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Catch a glimpse of the Cotai Strip ® in Macau, which is described as Asia’s Las Vegas ® by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation - the same folks who trademarked the registered names behind this next big destination. It’s here that Sheldon Adelson’s Venetian Macau Resort will open in 2007 with 3000 rooms, Venetian-style canals and Chinese singing gondoliers.

An introduction to Macau (Macao) China.

From the video author:

I was inspired by Sick Puppies “All the Same” video featuring Juan Mann, people here in Macau have started the Free Hugs Campaign. Some says it won’t happen in Macau. But it did! This is a true documentary video of Free Hugs at Senardo Square, Macau China.

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Asia’s largest integrated resort, The Venetian Macao, is  officially open - ushering in a new chapter in the history of Macau.

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This guy jumped 233 meters from the 61st floor of the Macao tower. This Macau bungee jump is said to be the world’s tallest bungee jump. Does your stomach turn a bit just watching him stand so high before the jump?

Macau when it was still a Portugese colony. Its harbor, Ma-Kwok temple, St.Paul’s Cathedral facade, Chiang Kai Shek’s portrait was still displayed, firecracker industry, ferry with refugees heading for Hong Kong.