I've made it to Beijing for the start of my 6 week trip throughout Asia. I still don't know what it will bring, but I've already started forming some meetings, so we'll see! Gonna attempt to blog regularly from the road here...for some reason, before I started this excursion, I'd been feeling like were I actually to make the jump over to Asia, Beijing is where it would be at. They call this city the Hollywood of Asia now and so, with that in mind, I've kinda been preparing for this to be the place where the most action is at. On a personal livability side, in my mind, Beijing is the last city I'd want to live in though of all the places I plan on visiting. I don't know, it's probably a combination of being the "2nd" city to Shanghai (which I see as more exciting obviously), fewer people I actually know here, and the fact that the Beijing accent is so heavy that I feel even more out of place when I speak my American Mandarin here. But last night, and this morning, as I sit inside of a quaint internet cafe at this moment, my mind is slowly changing a little. I already met a film producer last night, had dinner at a really hip outdoors cafe/bar/restaurant area, and went for a run this morning on a major street that sorta kinda helped me feel a little like I could live here. Beijing Brian. Bling bling.