Jason & Susan

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Jason Wong and Susan Wu are married and currently living/working in Shanghai. Jason works at Roche R&D (China) as a senior scientist doing oncology research. Susan works at National Instruments R&D (China) as a technical writer. Susan has been living in Shanghai since 2001 and Jason since 2005. They were married November of 2005. Both came from and lived in many places (see below) before settling down in China. Shanghai is our home now and this blog is about our lives here.

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Favorite hobbies: playing piano duets, board games, Wii, watching movies, listening to classical music, attending concerts, chamber music, eating at good restaurants, making smoothies with the vitamix

Polar opposites: 1) Jason likes reading/school, Susan hates reading/school. 2) Jason is a morning person, Susan is a night owl. 3) Jason likes the bed made, Susan hates making the bed. Our compromise - only Jason’s side of the bed is made.

Our wedding: November 26, 2005 at Portman Ritz-Carlton in Shanghai

How/Where we met: Middle of nowhere in a little town called “Tian Zhu (Heaven’s Blessing)” in Gansu province, China. It was love at first sight.

Favorite TV shows: 24, Prison Break, Lost, Heroes, Ugly Betty, Grey’s Anatomy

Our birthdays: Jason - March 13 / Susan - August 19

Where we were born: Jason - Boston / Susan - Taipei

Number of siblings: Jason - one younger brother / Susan - two older sisters

Number of kids we want to have: 2

Their names: Obie Wong & Lucky Wong

What we believe: God and the Bible

Favorite composers: Bach, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Brahms, Chopin, Schubert, Liszt

Favorite food: Jason - anything he can eat, Susan - lasagna, dumplings, hamburgers, Taiwan food stand/night market

Jason’s extended list of food allergies: wheat flour (bread, pastry, noodle, pizza), soy sauce, oyster sauce, BBQ sauce, wheat starch, modified food starch, tomatoes, milk, cheese, carrots, apples, peaches, apricots, kiwi, plums, nectarine, banana, cherries, soy milk, chocolate, MSG

Places lived before Shanghai: Jason - Boston, Rochester(MI), Virginia, Oberlin / Susan - Taipei, Ann Arbor, Rochester(MI), Springfield, Milpitas, Fremont, San Francisco, Berkeley

Where we went to school: Jason - MIT (B.S. in Chemistry) & Harvard (Ph.D in Organic Chemistry) / Susan - UC Berkeley (B.A. in Economics) & San Francisco Conservatory of Music (piano performance)

Previous Job: Jason - Visiting professor at Oberlin College / Susan - technology coordinator & teacher at SMIC Private School

Favorite games: Settlers of Catan, Power Grid, Ticket to Ride, Legend of Zelda (Ocarina & Twilight Princess), Shanghai Rummy, Scrabble, Wii Sports, Rubiks Cube

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