Wendy and I felt the urgency to spend more time with Yifan these days. Yifan is growing up so quickly. Before we ever realized, Yifan started to walk, to talk (a little bit), and understand almost everything you say.

Yifan Walks

When was Yifan still not able to walk? He used to crawl from a room to another carefully, but not so quickly. For a day, all of a sudden, he stand up and started to walk by himself. Where I was at that time? I remember I am in my US trip at that time. I just thought: “What? How does it mean that the little boy can get to anywhere he wants (in the house) without my help?” Maybe the next question is, when the boy can go very very far away for work without even letting me know…

Yifan Talks

Yifan’s favorite word is “mama”, and “baba”. He looks like you and say “baba”, and “mama” so loudly, as if he wants everyone including neighbors to hear. He points to many things, like dustbin, street lights, and cats – anything he recognized and invites me to checkout the same thing. He feels very happy when I tell him the name of the objects.

Yifan Knows Many Things

Most of the things that you don’t expect him to understand, he understand. Now we can talk with him pretty similiar to talk with an adult.

One word he masters is “Hao” (means OK). With this word, suddenly it becomes a two way communication. He don’t know how to say “Bu Hao”, (No) yet, but that is good enough.

We ask him: “Let’s go to shopping mall, OK?” He says: “Hao”.

We ask: “Let’s buy a small yellow duck for you, OK?” He says: “Hao”.

We ask: “Let me put yourself in the shopping mall, and we go back home for dinner, OK?” He don’t know how to say “No”, but he knows he won’t say “Hao”. If he does not say “Hao”, that means no.

We are master of paraphrasing now. We just tried to turn almost everything into a yes or no question, and many of them, Yifan can understand.

Photo by Wendy Fan, in Xishan of Suzhou

More Time with Yifan? I Promise

I promise that I will grasp every minute with Yifan that I can spend. Most of the times, it may not always interesting, but happiness between a father and son happens during those “little moment”, and small things. A gesture, and a laughter will last for a long time in memory. I need to spend more time with Yifan, to watch him grow up, to watch him learn new things, and take care of him better. Yifan is such a adorable boy, and I need to be with him.

My friend Fay opens a five room hotel on Changle Road!

Fay is the Fay of Fay’s Room – an apartment sharing service in Shanghai. She shifted focus from apartment sharing to own a real bed & breakfast hotel at the heart of Shanghai. I visited their hotel, and feel the need to write about it. Before I talk about this special hotel, you can check out their website: http://www.quintet-shanghai.com/.

Fay

Fay is from Taiwan. We worked closely together before, and then she quitted her great Fortune 500 job, and pursut her dream. She started with sharing her aparmtent with backpackers, and then managed few friend’s property, and that is where the Fay’s Room come from.

Quintet Shanghai Hotel

I visited the hotel on a Wednesday night. The hotel is located in a lane house that was built in the old 1930s – 1940s.

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That is the area of what I called “The True Shanghai”. The areas along the Huashan Road is the heart of Shanghai, in my oppinion. It is the area I will pick my home if that is possible. The hotel is rented from a lady who own the house before the Communist China was setup. In the house, you feel what a middle-class’ life look like, before the “New China”.

The Room

When I visited the hotel, all the five rooms were booked, and there are guests living in it. One of the guest agreed to let me see the room, and that room looks like below:

Photograph provided by Fay

I didn’t take picture in courtesy of the guest, but the room looks exatly like shown on the picture.

They have a nice exclusive restroom with the room.

They have other 4 nice rooms, but I wasn’t able to see. Hope I can visit and stay in one of the rooms later.

Photograph provided by Fay. I didn’t see this room

The Closed Door Restaurant

At the first floor is a nice Italian Restaurant, called Closed Door.

Photograph provided by Fay

It is a very decent restaurant, and maybe the crowded western restaurant I have been. It is not big, just the size of two hotel rooms plus a garden, and since it is fully booked almost everyday, the tables are very tightly layed together.

The food is wonderful. I said to Wendy: it completely changed my view of western food. It is delicious…

On the cost side, not cheap, but definitely not expensive in the same range. The interesting thing is, you have to make a reservation first. The name “closed door” is not a random name. Its door is closed, and you have to press the door bell, and tell the waiter that you have a reservation to get in. From outside, no one knows it is a restaurant. Shanghaiist has a review for it also.

The Roof

They have a nice roof garden that see the Chang Le Road. Very nice place.

Photograph provided by Fay

The Hotel

Just opened two months ago, the hotel has already been rated as the top hotel in B&B category in TripAdvisor (Its TripAdvisor page), and was rated 4.5 out of 5. In the review, you can easily find Fay’s name was mentioned many times.

Having a Hote?

Having a hotel in downtown Shanghai is Wendy’s dream, and Wendy enjoys her visit to the hotel a lot. It is a very nice one and I would recommend it to my r

My reader DC sent me a notice with the following information. Is it true? I didn’t get the chance to verify it yet. Just FYI.

**Important Public Security Bureau Information**

Expatriate China Staff PSB Registrations will be enforced as of July 1st. The Chinese Public Security Bureau issued new guidelines today to hotels and apartment management companies concerning the registration of foreigners in China, set to take effect July 1.

The PSB, a part of China’s domestic police force charged with policing public security and immigration residence registration and immigration affairs for foreigners, has insisted that the existing regulations for the registration of foreigners in China must be strictly adhered. Violators and those who fail to report, be they individuals or building management, will be subject to fines the bureau has said.

Expatriate Employees Living In Private Apartments

The apartment management company should be contacting foreign tenants / residents and requiring them to register with the local PSB. If this is not done, both the management company and the foreigner can be fined RMB5,000. It is important to note that this rule applies to any foreign person living in any apartment or private dwelling – even if it is for just for one night. If staying overnight or visiting friends in China, registration must be carried out upon arrival with the local PSB office responsible for the area within 24 hours of arrival.

We strongly recommend all expatriate personnel living in apartments in China register with the local PSB prior to July 1st to avoid problems.

I just found out a directory on my laptop – the Project direction, holding part of the project I have worked on when I was in Microsoft. Hmm…. That is long time ago. Although the time shows 2007 (the time I copied them to this laptop), the real created time is from 2000 to 2005.

D:\my\D. Projects Direction

02/07/2008  09:30 PM    <DIR>          .
02/07/2008  09:30 PM    <DIR>          ..
10/09/2007  06:19 PM    <DIR>          Air
02/09/2007  07:58 AM    <DIR>          Antares
10/09/2007  06:21 PM    <DIR>          AntBackup
02/09/2007  07:58 AM    <DIR>          AutoComplete
02/09/2007  07:58 AM    <DIR>          B2BTemplate
10/09/2007  06:25 PM    <DIR>          CampusRecruiting
10/09/2007  06:25 PM    <DIR>          China Mobile
02/09/2007  07:43 AM    <DIR>          CodePlace
10/09/2007  06:26 PM    <DIR>          CoffeeBean
10/09/2007  06:27 PM    <DIR>          Communities
10/09/2007  06:28 PM    <DIR>          Conference
02/09/2007  07:59 AM    <DIR>          ESS
02/09/2007  07:59 AM    <DIR>          Lab
08/16/2007  06:00 PM    <DIR>          Lenovo
02/09/2007  08:02 AM    <DIR>          Longmen
06/08/2007  11:39 AM    <DIR>          map3
10/09/2007  06:30 PM    <DIR>          MAT
02/09/2007  08:02 AM    <DIR>          MCS
10/29/2007  11:22 AM    <DIR>          movabletype-php-dao
02/09/2007  08:02 AM    <DIR>          MSF
10/09/2007  06:35 PM    <DIR>          MSFTI
02/09/2007  08:02 AM    <DIR>          MVP Platform
02/02/2008  03:41 PM    <DIR>          MVP Sumit
02/09/2007  08:06 AM    <DIR>          MyBusStop
10/09/2007  06:36 PM    <DIR>          New York
10/09/2007  06:36 PM    <DIR>          NewCo
02/09/2007  08:07 AM    <DIR>          OrientHome
02/09/2007  08:08 AM    <DIR>          PartnerListeningSystem
02/09/2007  08:08 AM    <DIR>          Passport
02/09/2007  08:09 AM    <DIR>          Personal Suite M1
02/09/2007  08:09 AM    <DIR>          Profile
07/25/2007  02:02 PM    <DIR>          PSSSummit
02/09/2007  08:10 AM    <DIR>          Robin
09/05/2007  10:53 PM    <DIR>          RoundTheUSTrip
02/09/2007  08:10 AM    <DIR>          RushGo
02/09/2007  08:10 AM    <DIR>          S&M Training
02/13/2007  12:14 PM    <DIR>          ShanghaiMap
02/09/2007  08:11 AM    <DIR>          Smile
02/09/2007  08:12 AM    <DIR>          SocialSoftware
02/09/2007  08:13 AM    <DIR>          SoftwarePark
02/09/2007  08:14 AM    <DIR>          SolutionLab
02/09/2007  08:14 AM    <DIR>          TechEd
10/09/2007  06:37 PM    <DIR>          TechTalk
02/09/2007  08:14 AM    <DIR>          USClarify
02/09/2007  08:15 AM    <DIR>          WebRAID
10/23/2007  06:17 PM    <DIR>          Wedding

Any of them takes very much time, and effort to complete. Let me try to explain some of them – those projects reminds of old times, and even reminds me that I have ever had some kind of knowlege that I am now not aware of.

Let me preserve this data.

It does not mean anything today, but who knows after another 5 years, it may be very interesting data. “Look at this! We still uses PHP at that time!”

Basic Data from Bluehost

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Ftp Accounts 0/1000

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cPanel Pro 1.0 (RC1)

Thanks Tina for arranging the dinner in Sunnyvale. It was described as “consumer Internet” meetup but finally turned out to be the geek dinner. Most people comes from technical background. This is not surprising – this is Silicon Valley anyway.

We have Tina, Richard, Stewart, Hongfei, Lei, Sophie , and Jin (Last name was intentionally removed so everyone knows who is who without leaking too much personal information). And then Yong joined the beer afterwards.

Some interesting thoughts emerges.

• iPhone – everybody is taking about the same thing at the same time. Shall we call it information efficiency? The same topic can be quickly popular among many people. I even didn’t see such a pulse of information or topic in Shanghai.
• Technical approach or content approach (human approach) to problems.
• Again, the nightmare of Internet companies in China.
• MITBBS, and Wenxuecity, the top overseas Chinese websites…
• ….

Thanks everyone for coming and it made the first dinner of my trip so rewarding. Hope to see you again very soon.

But I guess I should go to bed now to wake up early enough to do the morning meeting. (Big delay in my schedule).

P.S. I just realized the next Tuesday is my 5 year anniversary of blogging. Interestingly, I will be at Six Apart that afternoon – the blogging software I am using.

This may seem funny, but let me update my trip progress shortly.

I am at the gate 19 of Pudong Airport. Just checked email and will set OOF (I forgot to do so yesterday) and is going to get on-board soon.

Now it is 11:50 AM (The clock on this blog is offset by day light saving sometime ago, it is one hour offset from the real time.)

Happy flying, Jian Shuo!

Finally, the new regulation on house rental in Shanghai come out at the end of th last month.

This regulation is aiming to get rid of the group cohabitant.

What is Group Cohabitant

I may use the wrong translation, but it is a popular way for people to share rental cost. In Shanghai, there are people who buy or rent the whole apartment, and separated into different rooms, and then rent it separately to different people. This is very common nowadays.

For example, last time I visited my friend and saw a “modern apartment”. It was originally an apartment with 3 bed rooms and 2 living rooms. The owner pull down some walls and setup some new walls, to create a 5-room apartment. Each has doors. At the entrance, there are 5 electricity meters, and 5 gas meters, so they can pay their share of the utility cost. They have satellite TV, bed, TV, air-con, shower, micro-wave, and many facility young people need. This apartment is in a very good residential area, and they charge for 1500 RMB per month.

There are also some low end apartments which allow 20 or more people to live in. They rent only a bed within a room and there may be many beds in the room. They charge only 300 – 400 RMB per month.

The Regulation

The regulation coming out two days ago prohibit this kind of group renting. It requires apartments in Shanghai must be rented to a family, or an individual, not many people. Everyone should has its own room or at least 5 sq. meters.

I don’t like this Regulation

Recently, it seems there are more regulations coming out every month than before. Every time I see some regulation like this, I just smile and comment: the government is just getting crazy.

• There is need for people to share apartments. Shanghai’s real estate price just raises to be even as expensive as Tokyo, and even people with very good income cannot afford to buy a house. Where can those low-income people live? On the street? Maybe not a good idea. They have to think of ways to solve this problem.
• To simple solution to complicated issue.. There are many problems brought by group renting, like security, noise, damage of house… but the key is solve these problems instead of just kill the whole way of living. Policy makers just want to find easy way to complicated situation. It is just like this: “How to solve the problem that the China’s population is too big?”, they may answer: “Easy. Kill half of them.” It sounds an easy and really working solution, but you need to respect the right of everyone, not just the half that survive. To ban group renting is the same thing.
• Not practical. There are so many situation that is not covered in it. The media’s attention was draw to the fact that this regulation may forbidden unmarried couple to live together, or several friends living together. Some media outside China may even mis-read the rule as a way to ban Gay Couples (look at here: Shanghai Orders Landlords Not To Rent To Gay Couples). I would say this obviously exaggerated the situation since the regulation didn’t mean it, although it caused similar result.

Every time I read the release of a new regulation, I just worry how that can be implemented, and what they think when they make it. Well. The good thing (actually the bad thing ) is, since any regulation is just a piece of paper, and no one really follow it, it does not matter, and people don’t care. Maybe, it is just because of the abundance of ridiculous regulations that created the chaos of unregulated market even with the most regulations.

Fred celebrates his birthday today. He said:

But seriously,I always use these milestones we call birthdays to take measure of my life. And so far so good.

I’ve got a lot to be thankful for to be honest. My wife, my kids, my family, the greatest job I could ever have, wonderful colleagues, terrific companies to work with, a vibrant community that I get to be the moderator of.

Happy Birthday Fred, since Fred’s blog is always in my RSS reader (now I am using Google Reader). Birthday is like milestone, and I am going to celebrate my birthday this Oct – I will accomplish the first 30 years in my life…

It has been there for a long time and I am trying to get some idea from these courses.

This one seems good:

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Sloan-School-of-Management/index.htm

May 3, I hosted my friends in my company at home – 14 persons including me and Wendy. The house was under stress test, and so does the small IKEA seat. Pretty tired, but happy.

Let me get to the kitchen to handle all the rest of the fruits, and drinks…

It is nice to have party and we should host it more often…

When you see the picture of the bananas, they are all gone.

The trees at night

The flowers

The settings of seats around table.

Guess what’s this?…

Hello, Jian Shuo

I read quite interesting information in your blog

I’m a grandmother presently staying at my children’s place in Shanghai for a few weeks

I would like to go to Hanzhou as everybody says it’s quite beautiful

Problem is I have a very little income; could you please advise me as to the cheapest way to go there and tell me whether I can see enough in one day, or to I have to stay in a hotel for one night ?

I thank you very much in advance for your advice and congratulate you for your kindness in helping other people

Hope to get an answer real soon

Since the question is about how to get to Hangzhou really cheap, I will focus on saving budget in this guide.

Travel to Hangzhou

The cheapest way to Hangzhou, I believe, is by train. (correct me if someone found better or cheaper way).

Take Metro #1 to the Shanghai South Railway Station (or transit to #1 from all other metro system), and buy tickets to Hangzhou.

It costs 25 RMB before (I don’t have the updated price yet, but should not change too much) for single trip on the “hard seat”, which is the cheapest ticket. Since it is only 2 hours trip, it won’t be a problem for elder people.

Train Station in Hangzhou

Typically, you should arrive in New Train Station. Here is information you may need when you buy your return tickets.

Ticket Office

Wulinmen Ticket Office: No. 199, Wulin Road

Huansha Road Ticket Office: No. 147, Huansha Road

Railway Station Inquiry Number:

0571-87829424 (New Train Station)

0571-86450514 (East Train Station)

Transportation in Hangzhou

Take bus from the Train Station to the West Lake. Hangzhou has many attractions, but West Lake is definitely the top on the list. Bus takes like 2 RMB (correct me if I am wrong here. I am not so sure today), and spend your time in the West Lake area. If you only have one day, spend as long as you can in the places near West Lake.

Visiting Time

Typically, one day trip is good enough for most visitors who are lack of time or budget. You can arrive in the morning around 10:00 AM and be back at night around 8:00 PM.

Hotel

There are some nice hotel in Hangzhou and they are cheaper than in Shanghai (relatively). Home Inn (NASDAQ: HMIN) has branches there with 168 RMB room, and there are many which are cheaper than this.

To stay one night is a good idea, since the scene of the West Lake at night and in early morning is also great – even better than during the day time, in my personal opinion.

A bonus tip: don’t worry if it rains in Hangzhou. West Lake looks best (according to people’s opinion in the last thousand years) when it is raining.

Hope this helps, and have a happy trip to Hangzhou.

Inspired by this post, I added the comment feeds in RSS 2.0 format to this blog.

If you want to subscribe the latest comments, use this feed: https://home.wangjianshuo.com/comments.xml

I created a new index file with “Comments RSS” as name, and comments.xml as filename. This is the content of this template.

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Jack don’t need privacy protection. I know it, and that is the reason I used his name in title – correct me if I am wrong, Jack. :-)

Just kidding. But I had wonderful conversation and dinner with Jack Gu in my house, and we talked a lot. Let me record just a few so it reminds me to write something about it (maybe on my Chinese blog)

• Internet industry analysis starts from eCommerce – according to Richard
• Online and offline are two worlds – to promote offline business in pure online site is as ineffective as promoting websites on offline media
• We need some way to manage relationship – when you reach the stage that relationship are your most important assert, and source of happiness
• Google AdSense in China does not help bloggers and web 2.0 companies as much as it does in U.S – less than $0.01 eCPM is not rare
• Connection and training are two most important thing when someone is still in a big company
• De-attachment is key for releasing pressure
• Sometimes to go along a circle and getting back to where I seemed to be does not mean it is the same – the mood and feeling changes dramatically – just as the fishman’s story told us

Just list a few of them. Sorry that I don’t have time to explain every single item here, but I hope I can write more about these interesting topics.

Thanks Jack for sharing with me or listen to what I want to share.

SJTU = Shanghai Jiao Tong University

This is the view outside my office – the window is immediately at my left.

Sping comes, and the great grassland was full of people – in twos or threes. I believe they will be very happy about the sunshine.

Best Buy opens a store in Xujiahui, many weeks ago. After had three long meetings in three different locations for the whole day, I finally get back to Xujiahui, and visited the store – since there is no taxi in rush hour, why not take a look. I am very curious about how much market share Best Buy can take in the $100 billion market (according to Best Buy)

It seems to me it is the electronic appliance version of IKEA. I mean the color and environment.

Will Best Buy Fail, or Succeed

IKEA is an example of huge success in China. Wal-Mart is not yet, and many other U.S. players, especially in Internet segment are not.

In price-sensitive market like China, whether the service advantage over-comes price disadvantage (if it is its disadvantage) is the key question.

Google is innovaite. They allow my to put Google result inside my own page. This feature was released early August, so I can take advantage of this offer.

Let me write down the parameters of this configuration. Please note: This entry is archived under “backstage ” and is intended to be read only by me and people who are interested in how this site works.

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Site Language: English

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Search Results Style: Seaside

Use SafeSearch: Yes

Custom Channel: Search

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Wendy reported that from today, KFC removed Potato Wedge and Pepsi Coke from all the suites. Instead, they provide vegetable salad and orange juice.

It seems it is a national wide change in KFC.

I remember this Monday when I had lunch there before the Beijing trip, Potato Wedge was still included.

There is always big conflict between a product in U.S. and in China. I think KFC is making a wise change to adjust their product to China marketing. Kudos.

Anyone noticed the new search function on this site? I wrote the code (PHP code) and added the following features:

Standalone Search Page

I have removed the search box from the title area and put a search link on every page. Thanks to readers like PP to point out the search box won’t work on certain browser. I know it is against Jakob’s usability suggestion that search should be a box, so I added a search box at the middle of the home page.

History

I record all the search terms entered in the search box so create some hints of what others are looking for. When the history data becomes large enough, I will hide some terms that are searched only once.

Search

I am a fan of Jakob’s usability site. His research show a site with more than 200 page should offer search function. This site has grow to more than 1000 articles (including both traditional site and blog site) so if you cannot find anything, don’t hesitate – search!.

Google is doing great on search, so I don’t need to create my own search engine.

Am I working too much on the technical side of this site? I often surpress my attempt to drive into code although I enjoy writing some small piece of codes. As I said, the soul of a blog is the content, not the technology it is using.

Have you seen Windows 2002? I saw a copy at a department store.

Photographed by Jian Shuo Wang

It is not from Microsoft though. :-D