Monthly Archives: February 2010

Xinjian Road and Renmin Road Tunnel

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Before I know it, two other tunnels cross the Huangpu River opened at the end of the last year: Xinjian Road 新建路隧道and Renmin Road Tunnel 人民路隧道. Along with Fuxing Tunnel 复兴路隧道, Yan’an East Road Tunnel 延安东路隧道, and Daliang Road Tunnel 大连路隧道, there are 5 tunnels in the area.

The Two Tunnels Connected

The interesting thing is, the two tunnels are connected. Cars from the Huaihai Road direction can enter the Renmin Road Tunnel, and exit at either Pucheng Road, or the Century Ave, or choose to continue to enter the Xinjian Tunnel to cross the river again to arrive at the Yangpu District. This is a brilliant design. Traffic from south of Puxi to North of Puxi (Yangpu district) will be en routed to another side of the river (Lujiazui Area), through two connected tunnels.

117 Starbucks in Shanghai Already

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I am a Starbucks fan, and I have visited all the 12 Starbucks in Shanghai in a Day in 2003.

Now, Starbucks will enter Sweden, and I was called by a journalist in Sweden today to discuss the impact of Starbucks to Shanghai. It was a very interesting and one hour long conversation, which I may share later.

To my surprise, when I look at Starbucks website, I found out there are already 117 Starbucks Store in Shanghai today. More than 100 Starbucks Store appeared in Shanghai in the last 7 years.

Here is the listing:

Pudong District 浦东

长泰金融店

地址:上海市浦东新区世纪大道1859号长泰金融国际大厦1楼07单元

电话: 021-58309068

营业时间:详情征询门店信息

时代金融店

地址:上海市浦东新区银城中路68号时代金融大厦2楼

电话: 021-50106201

营业时间:详情征询门店信息

航运金融大厦店

地址:上海市浦东新区浦东大道720号国际航运

电话: 021 – 50368326

营业时间:

环球金融店

地址:上海市浦东新区世纪大道100号101室

电话: 021 – 68775001

营业时间:

中惠广场店

地址:上海市浦东新区新金桥路1088号B100室

电话: 021 – 58990279

营业时间:

城建大厦店

地址:上海市浦东新区福山路500号

电话: 021 – 58301323

营业时间:

花旗店

地址:上海市浦东新区花园石桥路33号花旗集团大厦1F

电话: 021 – 58873087

营业时间:

锦严店

地址:浦东锦严路219号

电话: 021 – 61633789

营业时间:周一 – 周日 7:00 – 22:00

汤臣店

地址:浦东新区东方路710号汤臣金融中心

电话: 021 – 58308150

营业时间:周一 – 周五 7:00 – 20:00

周六 – 周日 10:00 – 19:00

滨江店

地址:上海市滨江大道富都段

电话: 021 – 58781332

营业时间:周一 – 周日 9:00 – 00:30

蔡伦路店

地址:上海市浦东新区蔡伦路780号一楼

电话: 021 – 58554218

营业时间:周一 – 周五 7:30-22:00

周六 – 周日 8:30-22:00

浦项店

地址:上海市浦东区世纪大道1600号

电话: 021 – 58318820

营业时间:周一 – 周五 7:00-19:30

周六 – 周日 9:00-17:30

外高桥店

地址:上海市浦东外高桥保税区加枫路24号

电话: 021 – 50482915

营业时间:周一 – 周五 7:30-18:30

大拇指店

地址:上海市浦东区芳甸路197号

电话: 021 – 68563796

营业时间:周一 – 周四 7:30-22:30

周五 – 周六 7:30-23:00

周日 7:30-22:30

金桥店

地址:上海市浦东区碧云路633号

电话: 021 – 50303537

营业时间:周一 – 周日 7:00 – 22:30

传奇店

地址:上海市浦东新区张江高科技园区碧波路635号104 1F24 – 23B室

电话: 021 – 50807576

营业时间:周一 – 周五 8:00-21:00

周六 – 周日 8:00-22:00

八佰伴影城店

地址:上海市浦东区张扬路501号10楼

电话: 021 – 58361497

营业时间:周一 – 周日 9:00 – 22:00

东樱花苑店

地址:上海市浦东临沂北路200号

电话: 021 – 58393305

营业时间:周一 – 周日 6:30 – 22:30

中融店

地址:上海市浦东南路1068号中融国际商城1F

电话: 021 – 58767039

营业时间:周一 – 周四 8:00 – 22:00

周五 8:00 – 22:30

周六 9:00 – 22:30

周日 9:00 – 22:00

浦城路店

地址:上海市浦城路367号

电话: 021 – 58406132

营业时间:周一 – 周日 7:30 – 22:00

东方医院店

地址:上海市浦东区浦东南路551号

电话: 021 – 58763705

营业时间:周一 – 周四 8:00-21:00

周五 – 周六 8:00-18:30

周日 9:30-17:00

信息大厦店

地址:上海市浦东新区世纪大道211号

电话: 021 – 58787612

营业时间:周一 – 周四 8:00-21:00

周五 – 周六 9:30-17:00

周日 9:30-17:00

森茂店

地址:上海市陆家嘴环路1000号

电话: 021 – 68413880

营业时间:周一 – 周五 7:00-19:30

周六 – 周日 8:30-18:00

正大二店

地址:上海市陆家嘴西路168号1F

电话: 021 – 50471013

营业时间:周一 – 周四 8:00-22:00

周五 8:00-23:00

周六 9:00-23:00

周日 9:00-22:00

正大店

地址:上海市陆家嘴西路168号3F

电话: 021 – 50471106

营业时间:周一 – 周日 10:00 – 22:00

虹口区

Hongkou District 虹口区

耀江广场店

地址:上海市虹口区吴淞路258号耀江国际广场1楼(近海宁路)

电话: 021 – 63242613

营业时间:

瑞虹店

地址:上海市虹口区临平路133弄15号(近飞虹路)

电话: 021 – 61237475

营业时间:

四川北路店

地址:上海市虹口区四川北路1661号

电话: 021 – 63067836

营业时间:

甜爱路店

地址:上海市虹口区四川北路2258号

电话: 021 – 65878807

营业时间:周一 – 周五 8:30-22:30

周六 – 周日 9:30-22:30

Yangpu District 杨浦区

创智店

地址:上海市杨浦区淞沪路252-256号A1-24

电话: 021 – 33810020

营业时间:

五角场店

地址:上海市杨浦区邯郸路600号1F

电话: 021 – 65102267

营业时间:

又一城店

地址:上海市凇沪路8号

电话: 021 – 65483212

营业时间:周一 – 周日 10:00 – 22:00

Jingan District 静安区

威海路店

地址:上海市静安区威海路433、439号

电话: 021-63400871

营业时间:详情征询门店信息

远中风华店

地址:上海市静安区昌化路68号

电话: 021 – 62679253

营业时间:

南京西路店

地址:上海市静安区南京西路694号

电话: 021 – 62673329

营业时间:

世茂店

地址:上海市静安区南京东路819号百联世茂国际广场1楼

电话:

营业时间:

吴江路店

地址:上海市静安区吴江路128号

电话: 021 – 62713050

营业时间:周一 – 周五 7:00 – 22:00

周六 – 周日 7:00 – 23:00

协和店

地址:上海市南京西路2066号01C商铺

电话: 021 – 62487785

营业时间:周一 – 周日 8:00 – 22:00

金鹰店

地址:上海市陕西北路278号

电话: 021 – 62883515

营业时间:周一 – 周五 8:00-22:00

周六 – 周日 9:00-22:00

嘉里中心店

地址:上海市南京西路1515号

电话: 021 – 52986431

营业时间:周一 – 周五 7:00-20:30

周六 – 周日 9:00-19:00

中信店

地址:上海市南京西路1168号中信泰富广场LG层LG12单元

电话: 021 – 52984548

营业时间:周一 – 周四 7:00-23:00

周五 7:00-24:00

周六 8:00-24:00

周日 8:00-23:00

波特曼店

地址:上海市南京西路1376号上海商城一楼

电话: 021 – 62798667

营业时间:周一 – 周日 6:30-23:00

Zhabei District 闸北区

大宁店

地址:上海市共和新路1898号大宁国际广场5幢1层114－117室

电话: 021 – 66521045

营业时间:周一 – 周日 10:00 – 23:00

嘉里不夜城店

地址:上海市天目西路218号嘉里不夜城124单元

电话: 021 – 63172662

营业时间:周一 – 周五 8:00-22:00

周六 – 周日 9:00-20:00

Huangpu District 黄浦区

西藏路店

地址:上海市黄浦区南京西路231号39幢-A

电话: 021-21137786

营业时间:

老码头店

地址:上海市黄浦区中山南路479弄5号楼101室

电话: 021 – 61526538

营业时间:周一 – 周日11：00－22：00

上海书城店

地址:上海市黄浦区福州路465号上海书城2楼

电话: 021-63914776

营业时间:周一 – 周五 9:30-20:00

周六 – 周日 9:00-20:00

豫园二店

地址:上海市黄浦区豫园路100号

电话: 021 – 63730110

营业时间:

豫园店

地址:上海市豫园路100号

电话: 021 – 63552271

营业时间:周一 – 周四 8:30-20:30

周五 – 周六 8:30-21:00

周日 8:30-20:30

东海店

地址:上海市延安东路588号

电话: 021 – 53855001

营业时间:周一 – 周五 7:30 – 19:00

周六 – 周日 10:00 – 18:00

明天广场店

地址:上海市南京西路399号1楼

电话: 021- 63754080

营业时间:周一 – 周六 7:30-20:00

周日 8:00-18:00

人民公园店

地址:上海市南京西路189号

电话: 021 – 63271930

营业时间:周一 – 周四 7:30-22:30

周五 7:30-23:00

周六 8:00-23:00

周日 8:00-22:30

永安店

地址:上海市南京东路635号永安百货一楼

电话: 021 – 63225624

营业时间:周一 – 周日 9:30 – 22:00

新世界店

地址:上海市南京西路2－68号3F

电话: 021 – 53750670

营业时间:周一 – 周日 9:00 – 22:00

新金桥店

地址:上海市西藏中路579－581号

电话: 021 – 63597512

营业时间:周一 – 周五 8:00 – 22:30

周六 – 周日 8:30 – 23:00

来福士店

地址:上海市西藏中路268号来福士广场01-12室

电话: 021 – 63403068

营业时间:周一 – 周四 8:00-22:30

周五 8:00-23:30

周六 9:00-23:30

周日 9:00-22:30

Luwan District 卢湾区

丽园路店

地址:上海市蒙自路169号

电话: 021 – 53016130

营业时间:周一 – 周日 7:00 – 12:00

中环店

地址:上海市淮海中路381号105室

电话:

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瑞金路店

地址:上海市瑞金二路101－107号

电话: 021 – 53062578

营业时间:周一 – 周五 8:00-22:00

周六 – 周日 9:00-22:00

美臣店

地址:上海市淮海中路937号美臣大楼一楼

电话: 021 – 64728339

营业时间:周一 – 周四 7:30-23:00

周五 – 周六 7:30-24:00

周日 7:30-23:00

柳林店

地址:上海市淮海中路1号1F

电话: 021 – 53060025

营业时间:周一 – 周四 7:30 – 23:00

周五 7:30 – 23:30

周六 – 周日 8:30 – 23:30

新天地店

地址:上海市太仓路181弄18号楼

电话: 021 – 63200137

营业时间:周一 – 周日 10:00 – 01:00

红房子店

地址:上海市陕西南路37号

电话: 021 – 62717217

营业时间:周一 – 周日 8:00 – 22:00

Xuhui District 徐汇区

大同店

地址:上海市斜徐路593号

电话: 021 – 63040577

营业时间:周一 – 周日 8:00 – 22:30

嘉汇店

地址:上海市天钥桥路323号

电话: 021 – 64262192

营业时间:周一 – 周五 7:00 – 23:00

周六 – 周日 8:00 – 23:00

港汇广场店

地址:上海市徐汇区虹桥路1号168铺位

电话: 021 – 64480045

营业时间:周一 – 周四 7:00-23:00

周五 7:00-23:30

周六 – 周日 8:00-23:30

汾阳路店

地址:上海市汾阳路138号1楼03单元

电话: 021 – 54650525

营业时间:周一 – 周日 8:00 – 22:30

星游城店

地址:上海市徐汇区天钥桥路580号星游城1F-13单元+2F-13单元

电话: 021-64272170

营业时间:周一 – 周五 7:00 – 22:00

周六 – 周日 7:00 – 22:30

上海南站店

地址:上海市徐汇区上海南站地下商场南馆的第一层B区南1-B25号店铺

电话: 021 – 54352313

营业时间:周一 – 周日 7:00-22:00

艾美高大厦店

地址:上海市徐汇区淮海中路1325号艾美高大厦1楼103室

电话: 021 – 54661781

营业时间:

虹桥万豪店

地址:上海市虹桥路2268号底层B-C段

电话: 021 – 62377398

营业时间:

永新店

地址:上海市辛耕路129号

电话: 021 – 33686172

营业时间:周一 – 周日 7:00-22:00

领馆广场店

地址: 上海市衡山路4号

电话: 021 – 54656260

营业时间: 周一 – 周日 7:00-22:00

上海体育馆店

地址:上海市漕溪路1111号上海体育馆1楼1号扶梯

电话: 021 – 64680229

营业时间:周一 – 周日 7:30 – 22:00

均瑶店

地址:上海市肇嘉浜路789号1F

电话: 021 – 64161632

营业时间:周一 – 周五 7:30 – 20:30

周六 – 周日 8:00 – 20:30

港汇二店

地址:上海市虹桥路1号101铺位

电话: 021 – 64486377

营业时间:周一 – 周日 8:30 – 24:00

美罗店

地址:上海市肇家浜路1111号219单元

电话: 021 – 64268250

营业时间:周一 – 周四 7:00-22:00

周五 7:00-22:30

周六 8:00-22:30

周日 8:00-22:00

Minhang District 闵行区

新都会店

地址:上海市闵行区莲花南路1500号梅陇镇新都会15-B单元

电话: 021 – 33580075

营业时间:

吴中路店

地址:上海市闵行区吴中路1169号-1

电话: 021 – 54222091

营业时间:周一 – 周日 7:00-22:00

金丰路店

地址:上海市闵行区金丰路447号

电话: 无

营业时间:周一 – 周五 8:00－21:30

周六 – 周日 8:30－21:30

虹梅路店

地址:上海市虹梅路3188－1号

电话: 021 – 54221872

营业时间:周一 – 周日 7:00 – 23:00

漕河泾店

地址:上海市宜山路1009号创新大厦1F

电话: 021 – 64850387

营业时间:周一 – 周五 7:30 – 19:00

周六 – 周日 9:00 – 17:00

七莘店

地址:上海市七莘路3655号

电话: 021 – 64197262

营业时间:周一 – 周日 9:30 – 21:30

南方商城店

地址:上海市沪闵路7388号百联南方商城1楼

电话: 021 – 64123485

营业时间:周一 – 周日 9:00 – 23:00

Changning District 长宁区

江苏路店

地址:上海市长宁区江苏路458路1层116室

电话: 021-6210 6771

营业时间:详情征询门店信息

兆丰店

地址:上海市长宁区江苏路369号

电话: 021 – 52400975

营业时间:

上海影城店

地址:上海市长宁区新华路160号上海影城底层001号商铺

电话: 021-62802639

营业时间:

临空店

地址:上海市长宁区天山西路541号正大生活馆一楼A-6室

电话: 021 – 52160970

营业时间:

虹桥天都店

地址:上海市长宁区天山路919号虹桥天都101号商铺

电话: 021 – 62332278

营业时间:周一 – 周日 7:00－22:00

碧瑶店

地址:上海市长宁区延安西路1166号

电话: 021 – 62827826

营业时间:周一 – 周日 7:00 – 22:00

万都店

地址:上海市长宁区兴义路8号万都中心大厦一层S102、S106商铺

电话: 021 – 52082980

营业时间:周一 – 周五 7:00-22:00

周六 – 周日 9:00-22:30

世贸商城店

地址:上海市延安西路2299号

电话: 021 – 62360782

营业时间:周一 – 周五 7:30 – 19:30

周六 – 周日 9:00 – 17:00

古北店

地址:上海市水城南路20号

电话: 021 – 62091760

营业时间:周一 – 周日 7:00 – 23:00

远东店

地址:上海市仙霞路299号远东国际大厦

电话: 021 – 62350615

营业时间:周一 – 周五 7:00-21:00

周六 8:30-18:30

周日 9:30-18:00

长宁区

虹桥上海城店

地址:上海市长宁区遵义路100号虹桥上海城内街1C商铺

电话: 62371316

营业时间:周一 – 周五 7:30 – 22:00

周六 – 周日 8:30 – 22:00

华山国际店

地址:上海市华山路1568号1层102室

电话: 021 – 62820984

营业时间:周一 – 周日 8:00 – 22:30

美丽华花园店

地址:上海市长宁区水城南路85号

电话: 021 – 62095512

营业时间:周一 – 周日 7:00 – 23:00

定西路店

地址:上海市定西路1328号巴黎春天百货1楼

电话: 021 – 62131706

营业时间:周一 – 周日 8:00 – 22:00

龙之梦II店

地址:上海市长宁路1018号1F1073号商铺

电话: 021 – 62123738

营业时间:周一 – 周日 10:00 – 22:00

龙之梦I店

地址:上海市长宁路1018号B2F002商铺

电话: 021 – 62123038

营业时间:周一 – 周五 7:30 – 22:00

周六 – 周日 8:30 – 22:00

新华路店

地址:上海市新华路519号1B室

电话: 021 – 62803927

营业时间:周一 – 周日 7:30 – 22:00

中山公园店

地址:上海市长宁路999号1楼

电话: 021 – 52410325

营业时间:周一 – 周四 6:30-23:30

周五 6:30-24:00

周六 7:30-24:00

周日 7:30-23:30

西郊友谊店

地址:上海市仙霞西路88号

电话: 021 – 52189771

营业时间:周一 – 周日 9:00 – 23:00

Putuo District 普陀区

财富时代店

地址:上海市普陀区长寿路137号财富时代大厦1楼(陕西北路口)

电话: 021 – 62769225

营业时间:

上海亚新店

地址:上海市长寿路401号

电话: 申请中

营业时间:周一 – 周五 7:00 – 22:30

周六 – 周日 7:00 – 23:00

真光路店

地址:上海市真光路1288号

电话: 021 – 52750789

营业时间:周一 – 周日 10:00 – 22:00

芳汇店

地址:上海市普陀区长寿路1118号芳汇广场F117号商铺

电话: 021 – 62269340

营业时间:周一 – 周五 7:30 – 22:00

周六 – 周日 10:00 – 22:00

Qingpu District 青浦区

徐泾家乐福

地址:上海市青浦区沪青平公路1829号

电话: 021 – 59760157

营业时间:

赵巷店

地址:上海市沪青平公路2888号B区101室

电话: 021 – 59755257

营业时间:周一 – 周日 10:00 – 21:30

桥梓湾店

地址:上海市青浦区公园路700号东方商厦一楼

电话: 021 – 59717727

营业时间:周一 – 周日 9:00 – 22:00

宝山安信店

地址:上海市宝山区牡丹江路1238号B区106室

电话: 021 – 56115171

营业时间:

Songjiang District 松江区

松江开元店

地址:上海市松江区开元地中海商业广场

电话: 021-37799005

营业时间:周一 – 周五 10:00 – 21:30

周六 – 周日 10:00 – 22:00

嘉定区

罗宾森店

地址:嘉定区嘉定镇城中路138号罗宾森购物广场一楼

电话: 021-59523946

营业时间:周一 – 周日 10:00 – 22:00

The Most Beautiful Shoreline

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This is the most beautiful shoreline I found out during the Hainan trip. It is at Xiangshui Bay (Perfume Bay) at Lingshui County 陵水县, Wanning 万宁, Hainan. With all my courtesy to other great bays in Hainan, like Yalong Bay, or Shimei Bay, the Xiangshui Bay is the most blue, most pure and most natural bay I saw. Let me share some photos.

Below the construction site of a private residential area. I am wondering why the government turned this this 4.2 km long of beautiful bay to a private land that only few people can enjoy.

I especially love the frog surrounded mountain in the far left. It is called Niuling (Ox Ridge).

Fireworks for God of Fortune

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There are great fireworks on the 180 degree view of my window right now. According to the Chinese tradition, the 5th of the New Year is the day the God of Fortune will arrive at your home. People need to fire great fireworks to welcome him to arrive.

I paid attention to this tradition only after I am in Shanghai, since I noticed the fireworks in Shanghai on the night of the 4th of the New Year is even more intensive than the New Year Eve!

This special night is also the best time for many housewives to start to review the balance sheet, cash flow or whatever financial metrics they have for the family.

I have Driven Around Hainan

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Just to report that I have driven around the Hainan island during the holiday.

Day 1 – Sanya to Jianfengling Ridge and stayed at a Taohuayuan Hostel

Day 2 – Jianfengling to Haikou and stayed at HNA Grand Hotel

Day 3 – Haikou to Wenchang

Day 4 – Wenchang to Wanning via Qionghai

Day 5 – Wanning to Sanya and stayed at a B&B (without breakfast)

The whole trip, including some branches of the trip, is 1000 km in distance, and took about 500 RMB in gas, and 1000 RMB in car rental.

Enabled PubSubHubbub on my Blog

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I am excited about the PubSubHubbub project, and was amazed by its simplicity and scalable design.

I finally downloaded the MovableType PubSubHubbub plugin and installed it 5 minutes ago. If it works as it is expected to work, and after Google Buzz and other crawler update my RSS XML the next time, the magic will happen. You will start to see my blog post in real time (well, almost real time by few seconds delay) in your Google Buzz. With more and more services supporting PubSubHubbub, more and more people will see this real time functionality.

What is it

Simply put, PubSubHubbub, despite of the weird name, is a very easy and simple protocol.

Every time I hit the “Save” button in my MovableType editing page, it will ping a server called http://pubsubhubbub.appsport.com (it can be any other similar services, I just used it as an example), and that server will ping all the subscribers, like Google Buzz, to tell them something has happened. Then they will get back to my blog to get the latest entry. That replace the current pull method – readers needs to check at an interval – waste of time, and can be huge delay.

Real Time Web

The web is continuously changing. I am excited to enter the real time web today.

My First Car Rental Experience in Hainan

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I just realized the difference between China and US is less and less obvious. Let me give you some signs. The recent development is car rental. We tried our first car rental in Sanya this holiday, and it worked almost as well as in the US.

Price

The price is twice as high as in US: 330 RMB/day (or 50 USD/day) for Toyota Yaris vs 25 USD/day at AVIS. However, that also reflected the price of cars (twice as high) and other related costs in China – like all kinds of difference taxes, and fees paid to the government related to car ownership.

Reservation

Reservation is more complicated than US, but still easy to use. We used this company’s service this time: http://www.hainan365.com/. Their reservation telephone is 0898-66287008.

The good thing is, they have a dedicated person to help you – you can always call her mobile phone to make arrangement.

Pickup and Return

In US, it is pretty standard – you directly drive to the AVIS car return at the garage, park the car there, and it is.

For this car company, they offer to provide the car to the hotel of where you stay at 50 RMB service fee. You can make reservation to their people and you can return the car at the domestic departure level – the exact location where your friends or taxi will drop you off at airport. You give the car to the person coming to pick up the car, and you enter the airport – even better than AVIS. The only concern is, you have to make a phone call to make appointment to the person.

Car Condition

This time, the Yaris is only 10,000 KM in mileage, a very new car. We returned it at 11000 KM. The car is very nice – just as any new car. It is automatic shift, and come with empty gas – you need to fill in the gas yourself, and return it with empty gas.

I will Always Rent!

For my next trip to Sanya, I will always rent a car. For my travel in other places like Hainan – a place with wonderful scenery, not a city like Shanghai – I will definitely rent a car again. There are more and more car rental companies in China emerging, like 1hai.cn, Zhizun. I am sure in 5 years, car rental can be a big industry and will become the new lifestyle in China.

I am on Google Buzz

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If you are also on it, you can follow me by searching me by either

  • jianshuo
  • Jian Shuo Wang
  • Wang Jian Shuo

in the Search of Google Buzz.

So far, I love what Buzz delivers – real time, and deep integration, a quick and handy interface and a solid existing network dug from the email contacts network.

Wenchang to Wanning

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Let me upload some photos on the way from Wenchang 文昌 to Wanning 万宁. I just realized Flickr’s image was blocked in China these days. So… use your own ways to access these photos.

My Comment on Yaris

We rented a Toyota Yaris for several days. That was much better than I expected. I love this small car. The storage system in the car is especially well designed. We chose this car just because all other cars were fully booked out, and it turned out to be a good choice. BTW, it is 330 RMB per day.

The Yaris I rented

Freeway in Hainan is Free

When I can rent a car, the life in Hainan is very like in US, like the Silicon Valley – I only mean the scenery. Another thing that is so similar to US is, all the expressway is free. It is not actually free since the fee is included in gas, but it is so convenient that you can drive up and down at any exit without the trouble of queuing, and payment. A small thing made is so different experience.

The Sinopec has superstore at each gas station – like the US, and for the first time, I feel the importance! It is much easier for a car owner to access convenient store at gas station in busy downtown.

The sign of Sinopec

Coconut Forrest

We stayed in the Coconut Forrest at Dongjiao 东郊椰林 during the Chinese New Year Eve.

The beach looks very nice, and actually it is the view on a Chinese stamp before.

The beach

The small wooden house looks nice, but actually, it is the worst hotel I have stayed in recent years. It was funny that we spent the New Year Eve there, watching the New Year Party on CCTV with the small and lousy TV set.

Photo by Wendy

Yifan’s Gardening Work

Before the lunch of the New Year Eve, Yifan spent 20 minutes carefully choosing his favorite stone, and place it along the road.

Garden design by Wang Yifan

Very Disappointed in Haikou

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I was very disappointed by the city of Haikou. In the most broad sense of classification, Chinese cities can be divided into charming cities, big cities, and ugly cities. In my personal experience, there are two cities in my ugly city list: Haikou, and Changsha.

Look at the view outside the 16th floor of my hotel. Maybe I am here just at the wrong season?

Photo by Jian Shuo Wang, at HNA Grand Hotel 16F

Photo by Jian Shuo Wang, at HNA Grand Hotel 16F

Sanya Bay

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Unlike Yalong Bay, the 5-star hotel bay, the Sanya Bay is still highly utilized as a transportation hub. From our hotel window on the 7th floor, we see the whole bay with many boats:

Although it has limited hotel facility, but looking out, the vast area is public ports – noisy, but exciting.

The artificial Phoenix Island raises from nothing with the ambition to beat Dubai. The 7-star hotels are under construction. (I am always confused about what 7-star means. Is it accepted standard?)

On contrast, Yalong Bay is just tree, water, and islands.

When we arrived in Haikou, we didn’t find anything close to either Sanya Bay or Yalong Bay yet. We are very disappointed about it.

Yifan on the Road

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To have Yifan with us was less challenging was we thought. Yifan is such a nice boy and he plays nicely with us most of the time. Trip with Yifan makes it harder than just Wendy and me, but it adds so much fan.

Yifan wearing Wendy’s swimming glasses.

Yifan’s second favorite after elevator in Sanya: the electronic trolley car. We don’t have trolley car in our hotel, so Yifan took the chance to touch it, or “ride” it when it is parked. Yifan loves the car so much that we pretend to be another hotels’ guest so he can ride for half minute, before we were discovered. Embarrassing is the father, and exciting is the son.

Besides the trolley car, Yifan loves to be on the back seat of his father’s bike.

People loves Yifan when we go. He got all kinds of gift from people around him: balloons, candies and small toys.

The good thing is, he eats well, and tried many new things, like coconut.

And he sleeps much more than at home, so we have to adjust our pace to fit his schedule, so we missed breakfast in the morning, and watching the pool beside window in afternoons.

Yifan has not waked up yet, in this quiet morning. The little man is tired…

Travelogue – Haikou, Hainan

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5 Star Hotel

I am at the HNA Mingguang Grand Hotel in Haikou. This is maybe one of the cheapest 5 star hotels – 450 RMB per night. Compared to the 10K+ RMB crazy price for hotels in Yalong Bay in Sanya, and 800+ RMB village hotels, this seems shocking. Their service and hardware are 5-star hotel standard, at least based on my personal rating system…. Interestingly, they offer to issue boarding pass at the hotel lobby.

West Expressway

The day started from Jianfengling Ridge National Park at around K250 of West Expressway. Then we drove all the way up along the West Expressway from Sanya to Haikou, the capital of Hainan.

The expressway system in Hainan is pretty simple – a big circle connecting the Haikou on the north, and Sanya on the south. The west part is called West Line, and the east part, the East Line.

As many travelogue has already mentioned, the West Expressway is pretty boring. But to be fair, it is that type of boring nice scene with green tropical trees and plants covers the land. There is no industry, no business, and even no villages along the 300 km expressway.

The Hainan Expressway is all free. I am not used to driving up to an expressway in China without going through the toll gate. The fee is included in gas price – it is 7.32 RMB/liter for 93# gas as of today, about one RMB higher than Shanghai. That explains why Toyota and Honda almost dominate the car market so far – gas saving…

I Really Love Interaction of Buzz

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If there is anyway that I can post my blog as easy as that in Google Buzz, and get my comment, and reply to it as easy as in Buzz, that would be wonderful. (A typical Twitter message, but it seems not the right length for a blog post on my regular blog. See the difference?)

Regarding Buzz, I commented: “Buzz puts us into further to the center of distraction”.

P.S With all the competing products and services, MovableType (my favorite), was again thrown out of the conversation further. Six Apart had Motion, a similar idea, but far behind what Google offered: just like Notepad vs Gmail…

I am in Sanya

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I started my vacation in Sanya. This is (hmm…. let me count, one, two, three (stayed in villa 5), four…) fourth time I am in Sanya.

We will spend the Spring Festival in Sanya and Hainan. Although it is getting super expensive these days in Sanya, the weather, the sea, and the swimming pool treated us very well.

8.8 mm

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This is a show of the annual dinner at the beginning of this week.

Here is the transcript in Chinese.

For people who don’t understand Chinese, it is an exaggerated show imitating whose on the TV commercial selling things in Chinese TV stations.

8.8毫米

女：欢迎大家来到电视直销节目，今天我们非常荣幸地请到夏总（热情的观众：鸟人~）。今天夏总给我们带来一件非常特殊的产品，就是我们的往死里点的置顶服务，有请！夏总

男突兀而出，双掌击桌，声波盖世：朋友们！我给大家讲一下！我们的往死里点置顶服务呢，它绝对不是一般的置顶，它高贵大方，雍容华贵，绝对是置顶中的劳斯莱斯啊！

女一阵惊奇：哇！服务中的劳斯莱斯？！

男一脸不满：等一下，我还没讲完。我们的置顶还有一个非常大的特点哦，那就是–每一条信息的高度都是8.8毫米！！

女又是一脸惊奇：哇！每一条信息都是8.8毫米？！你们怎么做到的？

男得意洋洋：这个问题问得好！每条信息的高度都是8.8毫米，我们怎么做到呢因为我们是严格地按照黄金比例进行切割，而且这种技术呢，就只有在百姓网才有，所以就叫–百姓网切割法！

女：来，大家看一下，这块就是我们的往死里点置顶。

男：灯光！摄影！这里看这里！有没有！（听不清）哦！

女惊讶：哇！真的有诶！

男：我们再来看一下置顶信息的后面都有一个顶字，对不对？大家一起看哦，有在闪哦！（全）真的有在闪哦！

女：哇！真的有在闪哦~夏总~，这样的置顶一定很贵吧？我们老百姓一定买不起吧？

男：我们来看一看市场上的置顶服务报价，就这边，这是国外的。 再看一看我们国内的。国内的报价要比国外的还要高诶！

女：可是我们国内不是已经降过价了么！

男：你到其他网站上去看一下，他们降的是多少钱？

女：多少钱？

男：降五毛钱，降五毛钱也叫降吗？

女：那我们呢？

男：我们不一样，我们降五毛五分钱！比他们足足便宜了五分钱，五分钱。

女：五分钱？真。观众朋友们，你是否在为房子租不出去而困扰，你是否在为单位找不到人而烦恼，你还犹豫什么呢？快打进电话订购吧！

男：好的好的，五分钟内打进电话的朋友呢，我们还有特殊礼品奉送。就是被封杀的*****的联系方式数个，三百一次五百两次八百包夜哦，绝对价格公道童叟无欺！

男女一起：赶快拿起电话订购吧！

Yifan’s Latest Picture

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Yifan grows fast.

Recently, he started to ask hard-to-answer questions.

Once he pointed to a No-Smoking sign, and asked me what it is. I said it means no smoking. Yifan asked me what is smoking. I said to have cigarettes, and he continued to ask why people have cigarettes….

Yifan loves train. His favorite entertainment is to ride Metro with us. He will stand and wave to every train and say “Byebye!”

Wendy bought him a small rolling suite case – like the one people take at airport. He loved it so much that he take it with him where ever he goes, and even put it in his bed at nights.

People are Basically Good

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What is the true meaning of this sentence:

People are basically good

That is the founding principle eBay was founded. Someone said it was John Locke (a person I am having strong interest in today) said that, although I suspect that. It is the base of many faith.

My naive question is: what is the true meaning of it? What is the philosophical meaning of it?

Anyone wants to point me to a good book about this?