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Prepaid Gas and Electricity in Beijing In 2004 the wife, I, daughter and son-in law visited wife's family. We stayed a day or two in a small hotel in Hengyuan. All the others went shopping and I went back to the hotel room but could not figure out how to get the electricity in the room to work. I saw a slot in the wall by the door and remembered the clerk had put the card in the slot when showing the room. THAT was what turned on the juice. The prepaid cards, while putting some pressure on the users have an upside in that they allow for budgeting. You can allocated only what you can for various utilities. With the cards you will also learn exactly what you use. |
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Register with PSB During Olympics? Wife and I have made 2 visits to her family - once in Dec-Jan 2004 and once in Dec-Jan 2006. Neither time did we register. I am guessing that hosting the Olympics has resulted in the political leadership to put pressure on the security apparatchiks to keep careful watch. I wonder if the requirements will be relaxed after the Olympics are finished. |
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I May Not Attend the CNBloggerCon 2008 in Guangzhou A lack of enthusiasm on your part (and perhaps others) over what takes place at this or really any conference, can be blamed, in part, on those who organize the conference. It is the organizers' responsibility to structure the conference so as to meet the needs and wants of those attending. Apparently the organizers wanted the companies there and gave them prominent positions. The companies may well also have donated resources to the organizers so the conference could take place. Hey, we have commercials on TV! The organizers could relegate the companies to a well-defined area and keep them there. The bloggers could then concentrate on what they want to do without the overwhelming interference/influence of the companies. |
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Friends Started to Boycott French Products And French friends please don't think the EU is country and it acts like a country. Do you see any voice from other EU countries talking about the issue? In fact they are more than happy because Chinese who previously buy French goods will turn to buy goods from Spain, Italy and the UK etc. They will be the beneficials at the expense of France. So they would not speak loud against the boycott. Let's see. |
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Friends Started to Boycott French Products Why so many French friend are still proud of their "freedom"? OK, I respect you enjoy your freedom, Chinese also enjoy their economy boom. Chinese government is a government of dictatorship so Chinese should get angered? Chinese enjoy the economic development to get more economic power. Chinese trust their own government given the fact. Do you think French would give their money to feed Chinese? No way. You government of freedom has given you self-pride, unemployment and time to express. If the government can have the poeple living better and improved, why complain? complain for what, too fast development? French people don't don't think you can represent the EU. Chinese is boycotting France only, not the EU. Don't bother EU please. Calm down? Chinese calm down for long time enough and seems they were not heard. When the boycott voice is getting louder, the French suddenly jump out to yell. Interesting. You are talking human right. Why you don't ask the majority of Chinese people? Chinese people is the only 'victims' if China has human right abuse, not French. You are appreciated to say something for the Chinese, but you can not distort the voice of their own. French is always proud of their everything. I have to admit French wine is the best for many people. But Chinese will suffer a lot if they don't buy French wines? Even Chinese buy, it will taste different becasue Chinese realize how many, if not all, French are full of hatred of China. Shamed to compromise, or dignified to sacrifice? Chinese prefer the latter for sure. If you think China "brainwash" the Chinese, why there are so many different voices in China for various issues? Chinese is not stupid. 50 millions Chinese are living overseas, and the louder voice of boycott on French goods comes from them. Are they being brain washed by China government while living outside China? Make no sense at all. |
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Friends Started to Boycott French Products Why so many French friend are still proud of their "freedom"? OK, I respect you enjoy your freedom, Chinese also enjoy their economy boom. Chinese government is a government of dictatorship so Chinese should get angered? Chinese enjoy the economic development to get more economic power. Chinese trust their own government given the fact. Do you think French would give their money to feed Chinese? No way. You government of freedom has given you self-pride, unemployment and time to express. If the government can have the poeple living better and improved, why complain? complain for what, too fast development? French people don't don't think you can represent the EU. Chinese is boycotting France only, not the EU. Don't bother EU please. Calm down? Chinese calm down for long time enough and seems they were not heard. When the boycott voice is getting louder, the French suddenly jump out to yell. Interesting. You are talking human right. Why you don't ask the majority of Chinese people? Chinese people is the only 'victims' if China has human right abuse, not French. You are appreciated to say something for the Chinese, but you can not distort the voice of their own. French is always proud of their everything. I have admit French wine is the best for many people. But Chinese will suffer a lot if they don't buy French wines? Even Chinese buy, it will taste different becasue Chinese realize how many, if not all, French are full of hatred of China. Shamed to compromise, or dignified to sacrifice? Chinese prefer the latter for sure. If you think China "brainwash" the Chinese, why there are so many different voices in China for various issues? Chinese is not stupid. 50 millions Chinese are living overseas, and the louder voice of boycott on French goods comes from them. Are they being brain washed by China government while living outside China? Make no sense at all. |
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Friends Started to Boycott French Products to Wayfarer, As you can see the response of Jian Shuo Wang to Confused, Chinese is particularly against French/Paris government's attitude toward China and its people. I have been reading many articles about what's going on in France long before the torch reply. France is the active supporter to publicly support pro-Tibet protesters. Many French cities/towns have been hanging Tibetan flag in front of their city hall. Many (not minor) French did take a active part in the protest against not only the torch relay but also personal attacks on our Chinese people. I read a lot of accounts from Chinese supporters who were there at their own. Did you see that in other countries? I am at California and I have not yet seen one single case. I also participated in the San Fran torch replay and have a very close confrontation with the pro-Tibet protesters. I feel very strongly that they were very rude compared with the supporters. But I also understand the police did a great job and a handful of protesters can not represent the friendly America people. I can see that, I can feel that. My conclusion is natually against French people and its products. Trust me, my major is Finance and I also know boycott is very bad to the world economy. But I just can't convince myself of any purchase from French brands when I am always reminded by my human memory of the bad feeling. Knowing something bad to the world economy and trying to avoid it doesn't necessarily mean that perception overrides my personal and natural feeling. Finally, I do appreciate your perspective of reasonableness on the issue. |
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Friends Started to Boycott French Products As a Chinese who studied in the UK in 2002 and is working in the US now, and have been reading much more western media than Chinese ones. I think I will be less emotional than average Chinese to say boycott to something foreign. I ever travelled Paris before and loved the city as well. But the love has gone already, and I have admitted the firm decision is made already in my mind. For the rest of my life I will not touch anything about France which is no longer friendly to me. The French was just not willing to protect a week disabled lady who was so determined to protect the torch. You see? I meant the power of the rich city and the disabled. The rich is so weak compared with our disabled lady of so powerful strength! You can imagine how an average Chinese will react, especially after the Argentina torch relay was run so smoothly. It is not that the protesters in Paris were too strong, it is the incompetence of Paris in terms of thinking naturally. P.S. Someone will say there had been little impact on Japanese goods sale in China even when the Chinese launched a big boycott to Japan in 2005. But it is irrelevant to Paris chaos. We have been boycotting Japanese goods for the history they'd done for Chinese people. Many young people boycott without full knowledge of the history so many of them don't engage in the boycott too much. But this time, we witness the history which pass us a so direct and strong feeling lasting through our lifetime. That's the difference. |
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Are American Economically Family-Independent I think that there are generalities that could be said to be true of any country, how they are similar internally and different from other countries; there are also pockets of similarities between countries. I stayed with my grandparents in the summers on their farm. Living there were 4 generations - a great grandparent, 2 grandparents and an uncle. As this was in a rural area, it was not all that unusual and I strongly suspect that similar situations were scattered throughout the country in urban, suburban, and rural areas. As to Social Security, the problem as I see it is that the program has expanded well beyond its initial scope. It started in the mid 30s with workers and employers each contributing. A few years later, spouses of the worker, widows and children of the worker, and those who retired and had never paid into the system were added. The latter being a particular burden to the initial system. The taxes were later raised to 4% with 2% from the worker and 2% from the employer. Later still retirement age was reduced from 65 to 62. These and a few other changes contributed to the large expansion of the system and Congress was always adding to the benefits (so they could get re-elected). Perhaps the current largest problem is the number of workers expected to retire within the next 20 or so years. Birth rates have gone down and as the system is funded only by current workers we will shortly have more folks receiving benefits than folks paying into it. Insolvancy is expected around the year 2020. Indeed, the program is a huge mess and elected officials lack the courage to fix it. |
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Crazy New Year My wife's sister has been 'stranded' in Guangzhou for several days trying to get home. She is not in as bad a situation as some others perhaps as family is less than a 20 minute car drive away. |
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Strengthen the Control of Speech We came back from visiting China this January. While visiting some cave in Hunan I noticed on the drive back at least 2 satellite dishes. They were out in the rural area and given the houses I doubt they were embassies, consulates, or businesses. The dishes were the large type approximately 6 feet in diameter. Apparently where there's a will there's a way. |
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Skiing in Shanghai hey i was wodering again if theere was any snowboard shops in shnghai. Saying this i met a man from the snowboard club and he mentioned there was one somewhere but i did not get the information |
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Democracy in Residential Area www.cchreus.org and click on fraudulent marketing When school authorities tell a mother that her son is sick and needs to be on drugs ,how in the world is she to know that ,that is simply a lie . How is she to recognize that what experts now call "SCHIZOPHRENIA" is simply not a disease now,such a mother is not an expert in the history of psychiatry,she does not know that psychiatrist have for hundreds of years used diagnostic terms,so called diagnostic terms,to stigmatize and control people I will only give you a few aromatic examples when BLACK SLAVES in the south ran away to freedom, it wasn't that they wanted to be free they suffered from a disease called dropetomania from drapetes run away slave,and mania I'AM NOT MAKING THIS UP ! . This was a a legitmate diagnosis just like SCHIZOPHRENIA woman half the population of mankind,of course, if they were foolish enough to rebel against domination by man well then they had a serious disease called HYSTERIA , which was due to their wandering womb.now none of those behaviors was ever a disease and, of course, is not a disease nor is SCHIZOPHRENIA disorder a desease no behavior or misbehavior is a disease or can be a disease. that's not what diseases are so it doesn't matter how child behaves . there is nothing to examine . if he is sick then there must be some objective science to it . which can be diagnosed by physicians and objective test . that's why as soon as you go to a doctor they take a lot of blood and take x-rays. they don't want to hear how you behave. when I went to medical school sixty years ago there were only a handful of mental diseases . I think there were no more than six or seven . now there are more than three hundred .And now ones are quote," discovered"every day . labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization,not diagnosis. giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning ,not treatment .Diseases are malfunction of the human body ,of the heart , the liver the kidney,the heart, the liver the kidney,the brain and so forth . typhoid fever is a disease, you all know that , you don't question that spring fever all you have to know is English . Spring fever is not a disease. the task we get ourselves, to combat psychiatric coercison is important. I think it's important you all think it's important not enough people think it's important , it's a noble task, a task in the pursuit of which we must , regardless of obstacles, persevere, our conscience commands that we do no less. |
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New Phone - Dopod D600 I am new to Shanghai and I'm looking for a good PDA phone that I can check email here and in the US and other countries. Can you suggest a good phone, data package and vendor for Shanghai? Thanks! |
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Is this Water Safe to Drink? u guy do not give enogh stuffs |
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My Google PageRank Increases to PR5 I just started working on increasing our pagerank for http://www.condomman.com. Thank you for the interesting read and encouraging words :) |
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Living Cost in Shanghai (2007 Edition) Good topic! I just follow your clue and try to compare the biggest commerial centre city and the cutural and politics city in China in my blog. |
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Merry Christmas, 2006! thanks for your happiness in last 2006 in your blog. Merry Christmas! |
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Listen = Discover? First comment in here, I always see your blogs updating everyday in my Greatnews. Exactly admire your persevere. Beijing is also a big city in china, perhaps I may follow your step and share all starbucks in Beijing, just a idea. |
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Cash on Delivery Still Preferred I have an account with Ctrip and actually their online payment was not that bad and quite secured. Never tried Elong, but didn't know if I will ever try. I got botherred every time by their temps at the airport insisting on giving out the membership card even after you say no and they can go on and on for hours! For biz travel, AmEx offers a quite good service as well. |
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Must See - Coffee Facing the Bund My favourite ghetto in Pudong side was actually not by the Bund, but in Jade on 36 at the new Shangri-La tower. I always thing the Pearl Tower is a rip off, with the same price, I can visit Cloudy 9 at the Grand Hyatt for free before 8PM and enjoy a glass of bubby. Also I enjoy wine and dine quite much and the latest place I will definately enjoy is The Kitchen where italian food is served with an open kitchen. Quite tough for to fine tho, you can walk on the road right next to the Pearl Tower and walk till the end where you see Haiou Fang (?) and then turn left. |
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China Eastern Airlines I had a very bad experience with China Eastern yesterday flying off from Chengdu to Shanghai. Like you, I only keep 2 mileage programs, one of them is China Eastern. After yesterday's flight, I told my friends that I gave CE a new nickname, Meiyo Air. All passenger boarded the flight at the same time. I am the type who get on the flight and will ask for a pillow and will just take a nap and be fresh off. I was among the first 20 passengers who boarded and then I asked if I could have a pillow after I seated, the stewardess who was handing out yesterday's newspaper replied right away, "All were given out!" and I looked around, and nobody seem to have any, and me and a few passengers were taken aback by the comment, because it's very unusual. And again, they didn't even offer blackets... The flight was supposed to leave around 14:00 and it was a bit late, which I totally understand because that happens. But due to the time slot, a lot of travellers were actually at the airport quite early, and a big portion of them didn't have lunch. So after 1 hour it took off, they finally started to serve the drinks. A lady who sat in front of me were asking if there would be meal served. And again the stewardess answered, "None" which she later explained that there was no meal box or any snack avaliable in the flight except the small baby packs of peanuts. And later the 2nd round of drinks, the OJ were out. It's a good thing that I only drink water on flight, so it didn't effect me much. The flight yesterday is the most unprofessional service team I had ever seen in my years of travel, and a part from the service itself, a lot of things were unprepared. I hope this is just an individual situation, because I do fly CE quite often because for the Econ class they seem to be more comfortable, but just the attidue and service had been going down hill. |
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Where are You? I very much like to create a English blog for myself. And of course I am very impressed with yours. You have done a hell of job. I am wondering if you care to enlighten me on how to apply the Movable Type Blog Software, right from the setup stage. Thanks a lot in advance. |
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Beggars in China and People's Attitude Hello Jian Shuo, My name is Kevin and I am writing to you from the United States (San Antonio, Texas). I am very impressed by your blog! I am 43 years old, married to Priscilla (15 years) and we have two wonderful children, Christian and Hannah. I came across your site because I was searching for an English speaking site based in China. I desire to learn more about China, the people of China, Chinese culture, etc. Some time in the future, when my children are older, my wife and I would love to come to China and spend a month touring the country. My question/comment is related to how to best engage in dialogue with people from China. I will continue to read your blog and post from time to time as well. I believe that such endeavors will only help the relations between our two nations. I appreciate your blog. If you have any further advice as to engaging China in dialogue, I would be most appreciative. If you have the time, you can check out my blog as well (It certainly is not as nicely developed as yours, but I am a writer and do enjoy blogging). The site address is below: http://journals.aol.com/kpchprather4/MetroReach/ Have a great day! Kevin |
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Living Cost in Shanghai Shirley Think that Scott is right...I hv checked many Intl Schools and they are pretty expensive....Lowest for good school is USD 800/month. Scott....how do you guage this offer?? |
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Living Cost in Shanghai have been offered a Job as General Manager Business Development in an Logistics company. They are offering me US$ 4000 per month + annual tickets for family + bonous. I have 2 kids aged 6 & 8 who will need British Standard education. Please let me know the cost for 1) Education 2) Rent ( 3 bedroom in Puxi area) 3) Food 4) Water Electricity 5) Tax 6) Any other expensed like medical etc Basiscally I need to know if the offer is worth and can I save something decent. Please reply me asap. |
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Find a Job in Shanghai I hv been offered a job as "Business development -General Manager in a Freight company. I currently work in the UAE. I hv 2 children (girls aged 6 & 8) Can you pls adv me on what type of package I should consider to move, my kids follow British cirriculum in school. I have over 15 years work experience and my wife also has over 10 years work experience the shipping industry. Appreciate your advise on what we can expect in terms of lifstyle and savings if we decide to move. Kevin |
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Companies in Silicon Valley i am dreaming about ur business life hehe~~~ anyway i know there is a long way to go for a college student in china` |
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It is not Impossible, But Difficult i have read ur personal articles for quite a long time it is quite special` i am still a college student in mainland china, |
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Getting U.S. Visa in China As an American, I'm really sorry to hear how bad this process is. Getting a visa for any country (including China, but especially for Russia) is a major pain, but it sounds like getting a U.S. visa is a nightmare. I hope that people will see beyond the Consulate. Most regular people in the U.S. are really nice and will go out of their way to help you. And most of us (according to recent polls) want a new administration to take over our government in the upcoming elections in 2006 and 2007 -- hopefully one that thinks more globally and understands that the visa process is critical to America's success. After all, the co-founders of Intel, Google, and Sun were not Americans and had U.S. visas! |
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Meetup: Future Idea Foundry I don't think Pandora makes much sense. On Pandora I cannot get the song I searched, but the similar ones ... First, as an end user, I don't care what license you got, I just want my favorite songs. Since Pandora is a so called vertical search engine, it should give me the results I want. Second, letting a machine recommend songs to a human, if is not a joke. is at least premature in terms of the existing AI technology. This is my 2 cents. |
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China Mobile Bill Structure Actually for Shenzhouxing and M-Zone you can get bill if you request. I got my monthly bill just for the sake of checking. Caller ID fee charged depending on your phone plan. Some plans waive the fee and some don't. But I notice that Shanghai Mobile charged a lot higher than Guangdong Mobile on service charge which makes me wonder why since average income in Guangdong seems to be higher. |
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MSN Messenger Virus Jitux.A Because you put it in when u searched for it dumbass. |
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Cold Winter Comes huh,it seems that i should go to buy a quilt , the seven holes quilt is not enough now. :-( |
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Beijing 2008 Olympic Mascots They are so cute. I like them. |
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BBC's Interview Liking your style, bellevue. Get in touch if you wanna guest post at my lowly blog. |
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Running Around Century Park If someone would like to organise a running club near Shanghai Stadium, I will definitely join.... But |
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BBC's Interview Why still cannot access blogspot from Shanghai, PRC through a network connection owned by China Telecom? It has been 2 and a half years. Maybe it should not be called as censorship? |
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Pictures in Shanghai Metro I cannot figure out what is exciting for? |
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Went to Shanghai Community Church Hi, I travel often to Shanghai on business (I'll be there again in September) and would like to meet with other Christians for fellowship. I'm also looking for a Christian church in Shanghai. Please contact me with any info. Thanks, Kevin |
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eGuo One Hour? It sounds like the internet version of Shaper's to me. In this case, that they should have a deal with their partners that from the monthly amount of orders they bring in, they will take certain percentage of it. Cheers, K. |
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Taxi Driver Got Compensation? I saw on the news that the scheme for the compensation will be like. RMB 150 per month for single shift taxi RMB 200 per month for double shift ones (those you take after 2 o'clock in the morning after a night of fun. Cheers, K. |
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Ability to Make Impact is the Cause of Pressue I think it's the ability, and desire as well, to make an impact that cause unsatisfatory.. because we are so busy everyday.. and so into the things we are doing.. we mentally turned smaller things to big things. then the stress just starts to increase from there.. i saw this quote not long ago: "1. don't sweat small things. 2. all things are a small things" |
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Ability to Make Impact is the Cause of Pressue I think it's the ability, and desire as well, to make an impact that cause unsatisfatory.. because we are so busy everyday.. and so into the things we are doing.. we mentally turned smaller things to big things. then the stress just starts to increase from there.. i saw this quote not long ago: "1. don't sweat small things. 2. all things are a small things" |
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Do You Have a Calendar? A calendar is always a must for me. I know when to do what and it gives me a visual when I have to repare for certain things and when I have to remind people in order to have my thing done. If you combine them with your details email/phone record, you usually can find out in which part of the chain and when things go wrong and try to solve the problem in a faster way... Cheers, K. |
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Microsoft is Hiring in Shanghai I have an interview coming up with microsoft in shanghai. I heard they're very picky when it comes to selecting a candidate. Do you know what kind of qualities or characteristics they look for in a new hire? Thanks. |
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Waiting for More Metro Lines WOW! this is really worth any one, especially for us shanghainese a big "WOW" . even i dunno there r such many magnificent projects undertaking beneath the suface of shanghai~(well, it is quite a shame 4 me as i dunno these.) but there should be some problems, i dunno exactly but as cnn said "While the city's fortunes -- along with its skyline -- are rising relentlessly, physically it is sinking into the swampy land on which it was built." i think the tunnels and metros may sharpen this particular problem. i m wandering now wot if the soil capacity of the ground actually stops shanghai's developing...in some day in da future? btw, nice site and great discussion...i never saw such a...well its worth a big wow as well :> cos everybody is commenting seriously. oh, i m an architecture student. and i m riting a essay about globalization vs the changhuangmiao...:p |
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Hire a Taxi? Avoid Rainy Friday Hey JS, Tell me about getting a cab on Friday. I actually had the experience once on 29th April, which was a Friday right, but the next day was a working day for everybody, so I thought it could be easy. On the intersection on Yan'an Lu/Zhengning Lu, it took me over one hour from 8:15 to 9:15 pm to get a cab. I was in my fabulous outfit but wasn't being that fab after the bloody rain and long waiting!... LOL. Cheers, K. |
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I Paid for Flickr Pro No no!! I have two pro accounts are going to give away! get refund man! |
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The Silicon Valley Spirit is Back I've been there three time last year! stay in Technorati for two days, and my friend Mary gave me a tour on that area. Actually it was pretty close to the Old China Town. She also told me that the famous moive "Sweet November" was shot around there, just couple blocks away from their office building. |
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Is 10,000RMB/Month a Ridiculous Offer? well Mr Chinese, u can invest in China with ur pay in UK. then u r boss in china but employee in UK. actually China is lack of further investment except real estimate. u can travel here whenever u've got vocation. is it good for u? |
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L'Invitation au Voyage jianshuo, I got a idea . How about make a virtual exhibition at the same time on Flickr, It should be the first Personal Photography Exhibition goes to Ditial version on Flickr. For raising Funding: 1. Virtual Exhibition to attract people's small piece of donation - Via Paypal 2. Selected Printing for sell, Tags may help a little bit. :) Personally, I would like to donate and for sure the story could goes to Boingboing or amount others. Tell me What you think? |
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L'Invitation au Voyage Jianshuo, That will rock! Will definately go and check it out. A collage of random pictures seem to be somthing stand out, since the art scene here in Shanghai is all about what's really carefully planned and to look good for the hip and fashion crowd and stuff like that. Shanghai needs something down-to-earth! Cheers, K. http://ksquare.blogspirit.com |
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Sasa Enters Shangahi Sasa's a Hong Kong little beauty boutique set up like 15 years ago, but got expanded lately, and officially signed the contract with a Shanghai department store to enter China market. They previously only owned one shop in Guangzhou http://ksquare.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/03/25/sasa_enters_shangahi.html This is the Sasa related post on my blog. |
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Donation in China Donation is indeed a good way of putting "extra" wealth back to community. As far as I know, that the situation is a little bit different in China. 1. In America & Europe, donators will actually benefit from a tax cut when in China, they just started to discuss this issue after they realized how much Chinese enterprises and individuals had donated after the trunami last year. 2. How trustful a charity can be? I have no clue... I once heard from a friend that sometimes the organizors will use a big chunck of money on other causes. A lot of charties in China still don't have a clear financial planning or open booking for us to track... 3. There are certain organizations that I would not, I repeat, would not deal with. Surprise! Red Cross is one of them. Cheers, K |
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PVG: From Pudong Airport to Hangzhou Dear Fred, For EU passport holder, you can enjoy 5-day stay in China without a visa if you enter the country from Hong Kong/Shenzhen border, and leave the country the same way. You don't need an invitation letter to get a 3-month one time entry visa. Actually, if you can talk to the Chinese embassy in Frankfurt and mentioning that you would like to visit Canton Fair, and they should be able to grant you the visa within 1 to 2 working days. Hope this help. Cheers, K. |
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Don't Let Social Software Become Spam Ware I had a long history with SMS.ac I used it back in 2001 and it was wonderful then. See, me and my then boyfriend were in a long distant relationship, so SMS from/to China/Germany every day by using SMS.ac was one way to save some communication cost. And in late 2002, SMS.ac was having a change in their website, and telephone number from China was not avaliabe to register, and send/receive SMS, so I stop using it. Up till last month, I suddenly receive emails (the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th) from SMS.ac asking me to register from quite a number of my friends, and some of them are China Mobile users. I logged into SMS.ac to see if the service is open to China Mobile now. Nope, it wasn't. I was having difficulties to activate my account. I wasn't pleased to receive this kinda invitiation to a service I wouldn't benefit from. I ended up setting my email filter to block all the emails from the domain. The similar case is hi5.com which I received quite some emails from them too. The only social network I use now is Friendster, but I seldom log into it anymore. There are more ads then it was first came up. |
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Life in a Low Cost Labor World yes,i am sorry misunderstanding you from the post on the ceiling. But if some instruction or description like what mentioned in the comment line added, we can make it through easier. after all you are Mr Well-known. little un-precised expression of opinion will easily leads to misunderstanding. sorry again. http://www.you2v.com http://www.smilinglibrary.org/sl_index.asp they need donation:) |
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MSN.COM Offers 2G Storage? If you go to http://www.hotmail.com and pay attention to the left side before you log in. Hotmail is saying that they are providing 250MB in their free services. But only if you look closely... Only people who are from certain contries are entitled to have that 250MB free inbox (I am calling it open-discrimination.) One thing I know is that China is not included. Cheers, K. |
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Helping by Hiring I think it's very simple that a job is a job is a job. We don't look at a person differently because of what they do for a living (of course, it has be legal.) And I also wanna clarify that I didn't comment in the first post. It was another Kevin. :P Anyway, also I am adding a post about Ayi in my blog. Cheers, K. |
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My Favorites in Shanghai Hey Jianshuo, I added my favourites into my blog as well. Have a look at this page http://ksquare.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/03/01/my_favorites_in_shanghai.html Desmond, please let me know your blog link. I grew up in Shenzhen and only moved to Shanghai last year. Cheers, K. |
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Life in a Low Cost Labor World i thought this may be a moving description after seeing title. well,it is no good using this kind of tongue to tell us "amazing" story like hiring ayi as code scanner. everyone are struggling for living including u. if rich enough, why not donate like ur boss Bill Gates. till now every farmer must hand in 79 yuan as tax per year for country construction instead of 35 yuan from citizens. however, most of the fortune flows to cities like Shanghai so that Shanghaiese or Beijingese can live a seemingly better life just selling and buying houses of their own. and the fact is that there is still no inheritance tax in China. they especially their children need helping hands but not putting this story into a kidding joke. ----a fresh-graduate's way of thinking |
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Blogger Meetup this Wednesday Hey Wang, I've joined the meet up group, but too bad, I still don't have time to show up in any meeting yet due to busy work load these days. Don't forget to post a recap if there any for the coming meeting! Cheers, K. |
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Going Back to China? Hey Wang, First I have to say that you have the most fastinating blog about Shanghai. I am loving it. It sure really gives me a lot of insider information... And to you Jacob, As for foreigners and Chinese, we pay as the same percentage when it comes to income, but the tax free amount for foreigners is actually higher. Take Shanghai as an example, the first RMB4000 you make every month will be tax free, while for local chinese, the amount is only RMB1000. Sorry that I really don't remember the percentage, since last time I touched this issue was like almost one year ago... I hope this help. Cheers, K. |
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Thanks for your Comments I happened to drop by your blog by clicking a link of another website. Then I stayed over an hour after that. Just would like you know that you have a great website, and I like your design especially the photo's part. Kevin |
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Long Vacation Ends Jian Shuo: So interesting, your site, your blog, and your pictures. Thank you for all the effort that goes into mainting this. I look forward to getting a peek into life in China by keeping up with your blog. I was in China on an exchange program in 1986 (Hangzhou). Things were in some ways very different then, and, from what I can tell from this distance, in some ways pretty close to the same. But, wow, the growth spurt the big cities have been going through!! Shanghai has changed so much in 18 years! The URL I linked just shows pictures I took as I travelled around China. I'm hoping to gather the photos of some of my fellow students and link them to that page sometime this year. Hopefully, though old, the photos will be interesting to you and some of your readers. Cheers, Kevin |
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English Instructions in Yantai single shot of rat mark "belong to the sex" after seeing it，a sentence came out of my mind "你地，花姑娘地，唷西~" well,since not mother tongue,the guy wants to be international,but seems they did't take the right way."弄巧成拙" |
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Shanghai is Experiencing Energy Crisis at 新街口(xin jie kou) which is CBD in nanjing,all the shopping malls cannot start their bussiness until 12:00 every day. and all the air conditioners cannot run unless the temperature is above 32 degrees. On rush hour, some factories and schools and residential area,where the electricity may be cut off. However,seems that chinese government plans to start several nuclear power station dealing with this energy crisis. apparently, energy crisis will not bring the positive effect on economic develepment. |
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How about Starting an Online TV Station? I've heard of news on statute to restrict media over internet(including video or flash taken on campus) released by chinese government. that means every legal media over internet must have the sign of: *审字 *********(in chinese) |
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Hero of Zhang Yi Mou definitely one of the finest movies ever made in China |
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My Own Cartoon Picture with Home Style+ COOL! Could you give the download link to me? |
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Dopod 515 - SmartPhone in China Hey guys, can you help me to find a dealer address, Email and phone no. where he can suply me with 25,000 pieaces of Dopod 686. mail me at kevin_khushal@yahoo.com I am from India. I tryed contacting dopod but it was useless no respond from them. thanks and cheers Kevin |
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Use GPRS in Shanghai Is there a prepaid mpbile phone card for tourists in Shanghai to use GPRS? |
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Net Send - Yet Another Type of Spam "For most, they dont know how to turn them off (unless they have read this whole posting) and they have to either live with it or have to pay someone to fix the problem." I have just seen an advertisment on a net send pop up advertising how to stop pop ups for ever, how ironic. I also heard from a friend that there are some places charging people ?.50 per minute for a phone call to tell people how to stop net send. Pop up stoppers do work for internet browsing, I use a free version of one myself, but it dosent stop net send. People need to be educated how to stop it, but hey, if they are silly enough to fork out for it, hell mend 'em. The sooner everyone knows how to stop this the better I say. |
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Net Send - Yet Another Type of Spam I was quite annoyed to read the comments of "so called marketer" posted on December 20, 2002 at 02:17 PM and I hope he reads the following. First of all the owner of this site got it on one of the top search engine pages not because he has used an innocent corporate orientated program to send unsolicited messages to everyone and anyone, or has he used any sort of unsolicited email. He has got it there because of people like the "so called marketer" and people want to know how to get rid of the net send pop ups, so they have searched the web to find pages like this which might offer solutions. SPAM is unsolicited messages sent without request, hence this new form of "so called marketing" using net send is indeed as the site owner puts it SPAM. I have not given my IP address to anyone asking for ads to be sent to me. If I gave my email address to a website, fair enough, they can send me emails. If I purchase a TV and TV licence to watch "commercial TV" I dont mind ads. Then there is the billboards that the "so called marketer" says we should shoot, but at least they serve a purpose, what they are not doing is invading my privacy. Net send is not supposed to be used in this way as the "so called marketer" should well know if he/she has any formal qualifications in how marketing should be done. I agree that it is an intuitive way of getting your message to people, but it should not be done at the expense of peoples privacy and I hope it is stopped very soon. Thanks for reading. |
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MovableType Successfully Installed on Windows XP Just posted a link to this resource. Curious, do you have trackback enabled? Thanks for taking the time to document it. I hope to be following your lead later this week! |