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Disturbed Lunch Dihua, the Olympic flame came to Beijing already 2 days after ignition in Greece. By airplane. High ranking chinese guys received it. It was in western tv. So, it doesn´t matter if the torch is extinguished :-) The relay is just a secondary show. THE FLAME IS ALREADY IN BEIJING |
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More Discussion on Tibet Keep your level of talking, not discouraging either side, that suits you well ! Your english has improved tremendously the last 6 years, Jianshuo. Your blogging promotes it well :-) Me and Xiuying will come to Shanghai in this month. Would be nice with a cup of coffee with you; can you email me, please ? |
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Pictures of my Newly-Born Baby With a baby like this, life is surely worth living ! Once again, congratulations with the wonderboy ! Xiuying and Carsten |
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My Baby Arrives Jianshuo, Great to find that you have left the blog without any new postings for 5 days now !!! This means that there ARE something more important in life than the blog. Continue like this, until Wendy releases you from her side. We can wait, don't worry ! Anyhow, 'worried a little, I hope that nothing is wrong with your baby. Please confirm ! |
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My Baby Arrives Long time no visiting of your page, but right TODAY I see your happy news ! Tons of congratulations from me and Xiuying !!!!! Hope to see photos of the wonder boy soon :-) Remember to spend a lot of time with Wendy and the boy. Time passes SO quickly. |
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Angkor WAT, Cambodia Jianshuo, how did you got the visa ? Did you have to prove everything to the consulate ? Your financial status, letter from the employer etc. ? Please give a description. |
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Personal Income Tax in China Can anyone provide a link to the official regulations IN ENGLISH ? Not a lawyer or HR company, but the real thing. |
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Pudong Airport Maglev in Depth Hi Chris, are you danish ?! |
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My Favorite Food in the World Ok stone, I know this, thanks ! Some information : This alley is in west direction from Pudongnanlu. PudongNANlu goes north-south on this place. I lived nearby for 4 years... The alley goes straight through to Puchenglu and across the street is the main gate of Yanlord Garden apartments (Renhengbinjiangyuan). If you enter from Puchenglu, there are three tailors, one on the left side and two on the right side. Many foreigners and chinese have their clothes made there. In the second one on the right side, a skinny woman owns the shop. She made the jeans I am wearing now (and all the others). She works nearly day and night, she must have a BIG family ! |
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My Favorite Food in the World Hi stone, right or left of the KFC ? To the right there is a corner-restaurant in the yard without many customers. To the left (a little more left than KFC) is "The Alley" as most foreigners call it. There are restaurants on both right and left side. Which one ? And, koreans have a red, not thick chili paste. Mostly eaten together with cold seafood like clams etc. Cannot remember the name. Any koreans out there to help ? Well, chili-paste - go and buy the fine ground GOJU-JANG in a korean shop. Comes in thick sealed plastic bags It gets old after a half year, so don't buy too much. |
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Shanghainese Girl Marrying Foreigners Yes, you're right Stephen, no access. Must be some terrible stuff ! I try later, I have access through the phone modem to ATT. Anyway, it only counts marriages in China I guess. Many are married outside China (like me). |
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How to Start a Blog? But, we all expect YOU to keep going, Jianshuo !!! :-) |
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What Matters to Me Most Today? By the way, Xiuying had a quite good mentor, he just charged 30RMB/hour Jianshuo, send me an SMS, then I willl return his name&number. |
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What Matters to Me Most Today? Sorry, not in these days. I'm not in Shanghai... Later. |
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What Matters to Me Most Today? Jianshuo, pinot 5 is good. Someday we must have a pingpong game ! Wendy can do together, as Xiuying is very good too. |
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Lujiazui is Full Jianshuo, go to Puxi. Take no. 2 subway to People's Square, go out of the south end and walk east to Yunnan Nan Lu. Many small cheap good restaurants ! Great food ! |
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Shanghainese Girl Marrying Foreigners Stephen, where is that statistics source ? Can you provide a link ? Taiwan - US - Bush etc. We are away from the subject. To continue these off road topics : US wants to defend Taiwan in case of a war - and recognize that it belongs to CCP - at the same time ???? US - wake up and take a firm stand. Taiwan is like a flee between two nails. From a homepage I even can open in China, the history of Taiwan is written, and it is clear that Taiwan only fully belonged to mainland China for 7 (seven) years throughout the history. China sold Taiwan to the japanese (The Shimonoseiki agreement). How can anyone claim something that they've already sold ?? Only reason to claim Taiwan (as I see it) is because the enemy (kuomintang) from the civil war ran away to that island. CCP wants a complete victory. The kindergarden-like statements from Beijing towards Taiwan is just ridicoulus. Even funny, sometimes. Now CCP has SO many money, believe it or not (they don't give much to the people). So - the solution is - CCP can buy it back again ! Then Taiwan will be a very rich province, and both countries can save lots of money on the defense budgets. But then Taiwan will not be a free country anymore... The best solution would be, if both countries were true and free democratic countries. Then the Taiwan resistance of joining with the maniland will fade away. We are waiting. |
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Shanghainese Girl Marrying Foreigners By the way, it can completely break the life of a chinese woman into pieces, if she is getting unintetionally pregnant. The education level of sex behaviour and protection is almost non-existing in China. And the officials deals with this matter in a very hard way. Guys, chinese and foreigners, going with a girl, even a prostitute takes some consideration from you. You are dealing with humans, not machines. You can ruin her life in an hour. |
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Shanghainese Girl Marrying Foreigners A little out of the scope here, but no, copy-viagra's are sold everywhere, even in supermarket drugstores in the middle of China. No need to go to Nanjingdonglu for this drug. I haven't tried, so I can't say if it works or not. |
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Shanghainese Girl Marrying Foreigners Just feeling sad for the chinese who knows almost nothing of the outside world, except from the manipulated input that China CCTV can provide. To be true, if an old foreign guy meets a young chinese girl, it is most likely that SHE finds HIM, and usually in a bar. Not in Carrefour or in the subway. And as a "bar girl" she is possibly willing to go to extremes to get money, even marriage. These are the stereotypes who passes by Starbucks on Nanjing Dong Lu. Their relationship seldom lasts more than a few years. (I really hope that they don't get a baby before they divorce, that's a disaster.) Another thing - how about chinese girls who works in japanese bars in China ? Most people in China do not like the japanese, but anyway, chinese girls do want to work "under" them... By the way, my neighbour is a japanese man married to a chinese woman ! Things are not only black and white... |
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4 Year Anniversary of Wedding Duke, you're a sick person. |
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Jiading is Not As Far as I Thought Yes, especially the Middle Ring road is Really Great ! Just keep 80 km/h. There are plenty of speed cameras. Advice : Plot them into your car GPS. Давид - "David" - 200++ is possible in China too ! Just find the right places :-) Why do you think people buy Ferrari's here ? Not for fun driving in Shanghai City. I know some very good expressways in China... But expect to find boxes, rocks, crossing farmers and perhaps some crashed cars on the road. Can be an exiting experience :-( |
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4 Year Anniversary of Wedding By the way, Tamie, many chinese women dates married men. Even chinese. I know a few. Manybe you will b eone of them in the future. Never say never... |
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4 Year Anniversary of Wedding Yes, Tamie, it is a very touchy subject. One day on a ferry journey I met a young guy. We chatted, and he was very interested in China comparing foreign countries, which he have never been to (possibly like you, Tamie ?) He said a lot of the bad things in China. Mostly of the government. We never spoke of our respective girlfriend, wife or whatsoever. Just before entering the harbour, we stood on the deck and enjoyed the sunshine, and he said "I don't like that chinese women marries foreign guys. The girls are so bad, they only marry for money." I think he saw me as a competitor, maybe he couldn't get himself a good girlfriend, and in this way got his bad thoughts out and blamed the foreigners for that. (Maybe.....) My chinese wife Xiuying (yes, I am married to a chinese and ve are both very happy about it) have had some "experiences" of chinese men talking bad to us, when she walks along the street with me. She hates that chinese men talks bad of me. "These guys have absolutely no style", she says. Chinese women very seldom talks in that way in public. In fact, most women says good things of me. My chinese is not so bad that I can't hear what these men are talking about. Please have that in mind next time (if you are a chinese) and talks bad things to a foreigner. Some might listen and get really angry of your talks, so beware. Many foreigners are strong. Some chinese have an attitude to think of themselves as the ONLY available option for the opposite sex, just like you, Tamie. By the way, do your husband have the same ´bad attitude as you ? China has been opening up for many years, and the chinese now knows a little more of the outside world now. Perhaps you should think of WHY chinese in some cases prefer foreigners instead of chinese. Perhaps because foreigners has far more knowledge of the rest of the world outside China, due to the free press, and the holiday travels to other countries which most foreigners do quite often. That makes them more interesting in the chinese' eyes. And marrying a foreigner opens many new doors for you outside China. Worth to think about, when someone is just fed up by all the control, the rules and the whole system here. There are many couples of foreigners and chinese. Most are foreign men marrying a chinese, but the other way is seen in many cases. Perhaps one day your husband will leave you for a foreign woman ! I can see that the divorce rate in Shanghai is sky rocketing now. So be careful. Fact : Love shows it's face in many ways. Fact : Many chinese women marry old rich chinese men, or rich chinese popstars, just because of their money. So let them. Can even be a way out of hopeless poverty and obligations. Old fat foreigners don't last long, he will die happy. And when he dies, the wife get's her reward. More money than her whole family can earn in three lives. Everybody is happy ! What's wrong about that ? Work hard on that attitude of yours, Tamie. You have a lot of understanding of the world to catch up on. The world is not simply black and white. It is dark grey and light grey. Never pure black and white. This is 2007. |
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4 Year Anniversary of Wedding Congratulations ! :-) When will we see your kid on the blog ? :-) |
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New Phone - Dopod D600 Why do I get a message like : "Your comment has been received and held for approval by the blog owner." ??? First time. |
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New Phone - Dopod D600 Can't you call a number by voice activation ? Say "Jianshuo" and it dials your number ! Even my old Nokia 6230 can do that... |
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Weird Policies, One by One Jianshuo, you will make many, many foreigners happy if you can ask the local tax office, or even better, provide us a translation of the new regulations. My wife Xiuying has been to the tax office in Huangdao south of Qingdao. They told her that they don't want to claim any tax from foreigners who have their income ONLY in their home country. That was why no one bothered to make a translation into english of the regulation. (If a foreigner is employed IN CHINA, then he is naturally going to pay tax.) |
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Should I Drive in Shanghai? Jianshuo, in most foreign countries, by traffic law, the pedestrian has the supreme right as he IS the weak part, so no need for arguments about any incident. I think you are wrong on this. In China, only when the cars comes close to foreigners, the foreigner pedestrian can get REALLY angry on the careless cars some times. From the daily life in China : Today I was nearly hit by a Changan small minibus, coming behind me in the same direction as me (I was in fact walking in a pedestrian crossing :-) !!, and they just smiled at me, apologizing... Just five seconds later, a taxi crossed the double yellow lines of the same street in a left turn, and he hit a motorcycle driver, who tried to avoid the accident. The taxi was damaged in the front bumper (and perhaps more), and had to be removed by a car towing truck. The MC-driver had blood all over his left side of the face and on his hands, and was completely confused for about 3 minutes. Then he tried to rise and walk, but had to sit down again, I think his leg was broken. I simply pointed out to the passengers of the taxi, that the taxi had crossed the double yellow lines, and later I met a traffic police guy, he didn't see anything (why bother...) but when I approached him, he HAD to act, of course. Later, ½ an hour later, I saw that all was gone, exept that the taxi was town away. Funny, that I had to give the finger to the taxi driver, who didn't want to even get out of his car to see what had happened to the poor guy. Then he got out, but went mostly to me, and was eager to grab his mobile phone. No need to check the guy. :-( At the moment I am Huangdao for work, an KFQ zone near Qingdao at the moment. But not much different from Shanghai :-) And I'm driving my car here. (knock, knock, knock under the table) DO NEVER drive in China without a daredevil heart and a perfect insurance, and at least one chinese persone, who is able to back you up at any time !!! And take care everywhere in the traffic when you walk. |
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Some Photo of Hong Kong in Jan Trip Nice shots of HK, Jianshuo ! Feels like beeing there again :-) |
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The Scar in People's Heart Stephen, Connections shouldn't be that difficult. Although, I will be most likely in Qingdao in the Spring Festival. But the email and SMS can be an option :-) Jianshuo knows. Jianshuo, I hereby acnowlegde you my approval to provide Stephen my personal details. |
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Living Cost in Shanghai - Driving Sorry, David (Давид) (I have been i Bryansk, Russia), but a car insurance have to cover all the ´damage you make to others, eg. when you slam into a crowd of school children and kill them all, or you hit a bus, who later runs off the mountain road and..., etc. That's why I have an insurance in my home country worth of 11.000.000 Euros. JUST IN CASE ! I guess there has never been this amount actually paid to the victims, but it will cover most of it if you're prosecuted for this WORST accident. It is not considered the value of your OWN car (YOU make the damage, so who cares about YOUR car). It is what you have to pay for the damage to others. Remebmer, I pay less in my home country for a much higher coverage, because people ther drive much more considerate and carefully. The basic school teaches the children how to behave in the traffic as well. CCP - begin here. In Europe most countries have 7 years of traffic training in school... |
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Living Cost in Shanghai - Medicine Wow... This touches something here... I am lucky to have insurance 200% through my company, when I'm here. So I can choose any hospital without any economic fear. But, for my wife, I do not want her to even buy a bicycle to ride, because that increase her risk by 500% to get injured. And she doesn't have the same insurance as me. If we want to buy an insurance for my wife, then they only cover VERY little of the fee. We decided not to do that, but then she must be out of the most risky parts of daily life, like bicycles and motorcycles, because they don't have the same protection in the traffic of China. Sorry to say, but in one or two years we have to leave China, when I finish my company's project to teach up-coming chinese manufactureres to make good parts for the ship making industry (which may kill a few european present suppliers !!!!) I'm surely not happy about this... Guys out there, please tell me if it is wise for me to stay to help chinese, or am I just a dumb fool who kills the labour of europeans countries ?? I'm in doubt now. |
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The Scar in People's Heart Exiting to see your following comments and Jianshuo's too ! Stephen, we know eachother on this blog for a while, what are your relations to China ? Do you have Jianshuo's phone no. ? Then we can make a connection, if Jianshuo agrees, and makes it :-) |
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Living Cost in Shanghai - Driving 250RMB/month for road fee in Shanghai. Insurance - I pay 8500/year for insurance to cover 1.000.000 RMB. And I had to push the agent hard for this high amount - quite unusual, he said.) (To say this, in my home country my car is insured for a maximum damage of 110.000.00RMB. And I pay 6.500RMB/year.) The car insurance business is very un-developed in China. Mainly because of the extreme amount of accidents ! When will the CCP do something to educate all people, young and old, into the "new age of traffic" ? If done well, then even the top of CCP can drive their Mercedes and Audi W12 safely through a city without having to abandon all the traffic for hours before approaching :-) Progress, or ? Drive safely ! |
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Living Cost in Shanghai - Driving 250RMB/month for road fee in Shanghai. Insurance - I pay 8500/year for insurance to cover 1.000.000 RMB. And I had to push the agent hard for this high amount - quite unusual, he said.) (To say this, in my home country my car is insured for a maximum damage of 110.000.00RMB. And I pay 6.500RMB/year.) The car insurance business is very un-developed in China. Mainly because of the extreme amount of accidents ! When will the CCP do something to educate all people, young and old, into the "new age of traffic" ? If done well, then even the top of CCP can drive their Mercedes and Audi W12 safely through a city without having to abandon all the traffic for hours before approaching :-) Progress, or ? Drive safely ! |
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Living Cost in Shanghai - Medicine And those who can't pay simply dies. Period. In China - space rockets to the moon, investments for "help" to the dictatorship countries in Africa for future Chinese natural reserves gains, "fast trains" for the rich, all chinese should have a car (only true reason - to show off, don't mind the pollution !), all this is OK. But China's people still suffer so much... WHY ? My chinese wife's aunt recently died of lung cancer (she never smoked a cigarette, so think of other reasons, pollution, dangerous work, ?). Reason : NO money for treatment when needed :-( They told me too late that she was so ill, so I couldn't help in time, even I told them to HURRY to the hospital, I would pay ! All people went with her to a Changsha hospital for a cure, but too late... Her own children didn't want to help to pay for the treatment when she felt seriously ill, because they had more important things to spent their money on (cell phones, cars, apartments, own children's needs, etc.) So, as you see, many foreigners are quite well aware of the situation in China. But, only the chinese (the REAL) people can change anything in China. The luxury club (CCP) certainly cannot and will not. Think. |
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Living Cost in Shanghai - Medicine And those who can't pay simply dies. Period. In China - space rockets to the moon, investments for "help" to the dictatorship countries in Africa for future Chinese natural reserves gains, "fast trains" for the rich, all chinese should have a car (only true reason - to show off, don't mind the pollution !), all this is OK. But China's people still suffer so much... WHY ? My chinese wife's aunt recently died of lung cancer (she never smoked a cigarette, so think of other reasons, pollution, dangerous work, ?). Reason : NO money for treatment when needed :-( They told me too late that she was so ill, so I couldn't help in time, even I told them to HURRY to the hospital, I would pay ! All people went with her to a Changsha hospital for a cure, but too late... Her own children didn't want to help to pay for the treatment when she felt seriously ill, because they had more important things to spent their money on (cell phones, cars, apartments, own children's needs, etc.) So, as you see, many foreigners are quite well aware of the situation in China. But, only the chinese (the REAL) people can change anything in China. The luxury club (CCP) certainly cannot and will not. Think. |
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The Scar in People's Heart Human lives will always prevail over benefit and progress. But (still) not in China. |
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Chinese Stock Market is Crazy Anyone, please tell a foreigner living here : How many real estates can a foreigner possess in mainland China ? I heard so many rumours of this... |
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Some Blogs about V2EX Jianshuo, can you sort your list in english sites and chinese sites, please ? |
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Life in a Crowded World Same situation in Bank of China in Meilong Lu... People sent their kids there with a mobile phone !! Later they came in a taxi, HAHA ! China is IN FACT the world's most hyper-capitalist country (you will find out after living here a short while), and the bank system just sucks ! Pathetic... |
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V2EX's Network Cable was Unplugged Jianshuo, I have a deep respect for your "grey" labelled statement ! But please explain what the V2EX is, and do it in the header of the article. Then we dumb-asses don't have to go to 1-2-3-4-5 to find out. Dui-ba ? |
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120K Self-Claim Tax in Details Jianshuo, how can a foreigner know how to do ? All seems to be in chinese... Even your link. By the way, I like your statement "didn't involve THE PEOPLE" !!! CCP make thousands of new regulations and laws every year, but noone knows about them, all is just perceived by occasion : "Did you hear about that ? I saw it on a homepage" or so. Noone knows (or even wants) to obey the laws in China, unless a hard enforcement is done. To be convinced, just go out on the street, in the traffic ! Noone knows how to do, noone knows the rules. In Europe, all school kids have many years in school of traffic teaching. In TV, advertisements COULD be shown every 5 minutes before full hours, after the never ending ancient soap operas, to inform common people of new things to think of (regulations, etc.), but nothing is actually done. CCP is only thinking of getting more and more money. The overall infrastructure is just made sufficient to get more money, not to satisfy the common people fully. Billions of RMB is spent on the chinese men who goes into space, and looks down on all the chinese who can't go home for spring festival because of lack of transportation structure, and see the people who can't get any public help if they have a deadly disease. The use of all the gathered money is certainly to discuss (of course in deeeeep privacy). This is truly "ROCCP", not PRC. So, I fully understand that the chinese people do not want to stand in long lines to pay some weird and yet unknown taxation ! |
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Personal Income Tax in China Limin, so far no one have been able to explain this. For foreigners employed by chinese companies there are specific rules, as for the citizens. But if you are a foreigner, employed in foreign companies located outside of China to provide assistance to chinese companies or local branches of the same company, it has never been considered a problem, as the tax is claimed in the foreign country, no matter how low or high that actually is. In my company noone with employment base outside of China has ever been taxed. (It would be quite difficult too, just think of the language barrier...) ATTENTION : If anyone has been working in China for a longer period, employed by an "outside of China" located company, and has been liable to taxation, I (and certainly many others) would be very interested to hear more ! |
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40 Minutes for a Taxi at Hongqiao Yes, nicen, I do that too :-) BE SMART, go against the mainstream. |
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Rumors after Rumors Jianshuo, after 4½ years, now I will give you some advice. This is an EMPTY posting ! Truly ! Do not just talk into empty space. We dont achieve any information from you, you do not show us any of the articles you are thinking of, or even some links to them, Jianshuo. If no information is provided, this posting is just a "dead end (street)", and you know what that sign means. You have just left "driving" California ! Put in a simple way, I expects more quality from you than this posting. I know you're having a serious jetlag now, so the advice is, to simply wait to post anything until it has passed.... |
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My Lifeline on the Little Plastic Card Jianshuo, some advices. Take two cards with you, and keep then in different places. Scan the pages in your passport, one page with visa and one page where your photo is, and give the copies to your travel partner (if you have one), or keep them in a safe place. Some day, an ATM will grab your card, and it is with 95% chance on a friday afternoon, so you can't get your card back before monday at bank opening hours :-( In some cases, the card magnetic information strip will "not work"... (Happens frequently in China with Diners) The card must NEVER get close to magnetic things, as it erases all information (both chip and stripe cards). :-) Do NOT buy the very funny magnetic "longballs" to play with. Some day you will put them in your pocket, where your card is.... If you are having troubles with your card, 300US$ in your money belt (a belt with a hollow space and closed with a zipper from inside) will do miracles, even for up to a week ! Robberies happens in US. (It is the "land of guns".) |
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Three Services I don't Use in China Is there such a thing as voice messaging in China Mobile and China Unicom ? If so, I would like to hear more details. And - are there any way that people can send SMS to a chinese mobile phone from outside of China ? (I can send SMS to my country, but they can't send to me in China.) |
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Jet Lag? Finally Found Out the Cure Advice (that Jianshuo may not know) : Tools Paradise is in Bejing Dong Lu, just a few minutes walk north of Henan Zhong Lu Station (which maybe have changed name by now). Computer software is in Xijiahui. Bring a chinese to guide you through the jungle. Weight gain - only one way, eat less and exercise more. That's it. Your body is like a bucket of water, if you put water in it, it will gain weight, if you let it alone, it will evaporate. But the exercise will be like taking out the water of the bucket by using a cup :-) Real estate business in China is simply a mess. New regulations comes up at the most inconvenient times. If you have to LEND the money, then leave that business (unless you're chinese). By the way, guys out there, I would like to know if it is right that foreigners only can own ONE real estate property in China ? |
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Chat with Tina and Jin Steven, your link cannot be opened in China mainland. So we guys have to stay here, as this blog is still open in China ! |
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Photo: Dog under Sunshine You are talking to the world, Jianshuo ! Give us a clue. |
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I am not a Big Fan of Hate... hge, Wikipedia is banned in China. Too free. |
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I am not a Big Fan of Hate... Ohh, My Name Is Nobody, I have read that it was 2 mill. tibetans the cihinese killed... Out of 6 mill. = 4 mill. left. And still, they shoot at them ! Latest incident 8 killed on sept. 30 2006, recorded by researchers at the glacier they crossed. Anyone outside China can see that on the Net. About the japanese books, it is right that some books favourize the japanese acts duting the war (and before). But, what did the chinese do ? Please round up the weed in the backyard before accusing others. The african meeting : Dictators meets with dictators. We in the west will now know, that we will be supporting both Myanmar, North Korea and all the dictators in Africa, when we buy the chinese goods. Thank you, China. Gives so much comfort in believing in a free and happy world... I believe the Japanese, the americans and the europeans soon will wake up and set some demands for the things they buy so cheap ! And, still no progress for the poor in China. And still, I am helping the chinese government in developing by my work here... Maybe I'm completely stupid ? |
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Metron #2 Station Name Change Please, for your god's sake (whichever God you have), ask for a REASON to change the names ! All people in Pudong know this station as Dongfanglu Station, and all people in Puxi know the other two stations VERY well. Chinese people (including Wangjianshuo), please ASK your officials WHY they want to change the station names ! It does not benefit anything, exept the two roads in question, and that it only roads. If you want to be a DEVELOPED country, then you have to ask WHY, everytime ! By the way, "changing things" is the reason why the daylight saving time have never been a success in China (which still have same time zone, spanning 3 hours of sun time). This is the effect arising of suppressing the citizens. Please comment ! |
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Where are You? Jianshuo - great that you learn about Denmark now ! Which book do you read ? Please tell me. If you like, I have a good one for you. It is Xiuying's, but I'm sure that she will lend it to you. Send me an SMS |
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Featured on China Daily Thanks for your article, I'm surprised that I was the first to notify you :-) And now I know what you meant by the danish journalist - SHE wrote it ! Not so many chinese are named Ida Relsted. I'm glad that Wendy is mentioned (even it is the last word, it WAS there). I think she must be a very patient wife. Take good care of her <3 |
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Beggars in China and People's Attitude All folks in China, read the China Daily today ! Jianshuo and this blog is featured ! See the last pages, there's a half page. Jianshuo, the last word at all is "Wendy". I think she deserves a more forwarded place in your life... I'm in Dalian now, just spended the last 5 days with Xiuying in Shanghai. I got the newspaper on FM9191, so I saw your face in that paper ! If you guys see this issue of China Daily, another article is on the front page and page 5 about health care in China. Please think of how the government money is spended in this society ! By the way, thanks to the Maglev extended hours, I succeeded to catch my plane today ;-) |
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Life in Remote Places Sahome is not available here. "Forbidden" and bla bla bla. Baidupedia is a chinese controlled search engine, so I refuse to use that for my searches. Then I only have 10 % of the choices on other search engines. Solopolo, it is not corruption that is the problem, but the "only big brother" is. Just a last story - today I couldn't get into my workplace (a big one) because some "CCP black car asshole" should arrive 2 hours later, so everything stopped. The chinese are SO afraid of those !!! I waited for 20 minutes... Hahaha, I'm foreigner you know, so then I said to the guards that I had to attend a meeting with "the big guy that will come today", and swoooshh - I got in as fast as a hare can run. Ohh, those assholes in black cars :-( I'll stop commenting on this blog, lame friends. It has been fun. So long to you, Jianshuo ! |
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Life in Remote Places Jianshuo, if you have time, can you try to open Wikipedia.com in Australia ? I guess it is banned in China. They must have put some bad words somewhere... It is a wealth of informations, maybe that's why :-) |
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Life in Remote Places The Opera House is a true Danish design ! (by Jørn Utzon) |
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PVG: Shanghai Pudong Airport Map Dear Juliet At first I ignored to answer your foolish comment, but then : My company have sent me here to help chinese government owned companies. And I have done so in the last 5 years. And they are happy. I think it is better to stay and do something here, Juliet. I have my chinese wife and my life here, but for me it doesn't mean that I can't say anything or do anything to improve life for me and my family here. So mind your own business and keep quiet, if you cannot take any hard words of your beloved government. When you write like this, you certainly don't understand what is really going on in China. I'm sure many other readers will see the point. The words above are quite ironical and have a "bite", but as a chinese (party member perhaps ?) you won't understand irony anyway. |
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PVG: Shanghai Pudong Airport Map JH, there can only be one reason. This is CHINA. So far I know, no other airport in China has runways with xxR and xxL, like in other big airports in other countries. The reason can only be, that in most of Asia it is quite difficult for people to find the right tonation of L and R, because the hard spoken "R" does not exist in their language. Imagine the possible disaster if the air traffic controller say to the pilot : "You are cleared for landing on runway 35R" and pronounces it as an L !!! So - they must have decided to avoid this problem by giving it a "fake" number. But afer all - the actual direction of the new runway is slightly more towards north, so it is nonsense to give it a lower number, you are absolutely right. Remember this if you come here one day : In China everything is allowed if it is decided by the government. Logical or not - doesn't matter :-) Some day they might change the law of gravity as well... |
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Maglev Accident in Germany An interesting thing is, what was the difference of the people who did get out alive, and those who did not ? Maybe the place they were seated in the train. In any case it is most safe to sit in the middle of the wagon, and your face should be opposite of the driving direction. No passengers must sit opposite you, as they will hit you if an accident happens. I know that it is not as exiting as the thrill of facing the driving direction. The Maglev MUST install seatbelts, just like in an airplane ! To wear them or not might be a personal question, but they should be available. Anyway, all transportation is dangerous. Ferry, train, car bicycle, walking. To compare Maglev with another fast transportation, see the many records on : http://www.airdisaster.com/cgi-bin/database.cgi Will you stop flying ? |
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Guide for Bike Riders in Shanghai Shrek7, I wonder how you know the rules in Denmark, but anyhow, you are welcome to send me your comments on the Danish rules compared to chinese on carstensemail@yahoo.com :-) Are you danish ? |
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Swensen's in Xujiahui Wow, please look at the previous postings and see what the world is turning into :-( |
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Dishuihu (Dishui Lake) Pictures Ask in Pudong Government, they make the rules. |
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Went to IKEA Again Once IKEA was a small company ! Believe it or not ! http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/about_ikea/timeline/full_story.html And emagine that the establisher Ingvar Kamprad (now a wealthy old chap) has been an alcoholic for more than 25 years... Now he's "dry" due to health reasons (what else, age perhaps ?), but he actually misses the boose a lot :-) And - Of course I have bought some from him through the times, but always annoying to come home with these very heavy cardboard boxes, and mess up the living room or what room ever, and then should put the furniture into one single piece (with drawers too). IKEA has never been a success for single women, who don't have easy access to a strong "handyman". But the concept spread, so now almost all furniture sales are sold in these boxes in Europe. I LOVE China for the fact that you can go into a furniture market, choose your stuff, and know that the transportation and the assembly is INCLUDED in the often very low price ! In that way, IKEA sucks in China. And Jianshuo, I guess that's why you don't buy your stuff there anymore, right ? By the way, if you have some photos of the nice displays, instead of the ugly warehouse-like photos, please post them too. You could also explain the funny parking lot rules of IKEA... Sometimes free, other times not. |
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"Not Happy New Year" Jianshuo, you are a "foreigner" in your own country :-) Such behaviour of alternative creative intelligence is very uncommon in China. But - this is in fact what makes the world interesting ! Innovation and creativity. Recently, I saw an article of "4.4 million chinese and indian students were educated from universities in 2005, where EU only made 2.5 millions"...... But WHAT are the value of those 4.4 millions - all simply just learned to read books and know them from beginning to end, but not able to think logically... In Asia universities : sit, read, listen, go home and study, exam, finish. But no development of your mind. My wife wants to study in Europe now. She's fed up with the university system in China. Applying for a job in the West with a chinese university degree is useless. They demand thinking people. Go on with your creativity, Jianshuo ! |
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Dishuihu (Dishui Lake) Pictures Hi Jianshuo, you are right, it is a nice place. But no facilities yet. I went there when the 3 ring roads around the lake was getting dressed up by flowers and trees. A funny thing was, that all the traffic lights were working, but NO cars. Should I obey them or not ? After a while I decided not... The water has a low salinity, because it is water from Donghai which is now mixed with freshwater. I would like to go sailing there later... (The sailing club at Dianshanhu is SO crowded now. Too successful...) There are facilities for kayaking and other rowing sports already. |
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Volunteer for Beijing Olympics er-ling-ling-ba Olympics really sucks. Beijing ONLY got chosen for the 2008 Olympics in a hope from the olympic committee, that it would make the "opening of China" to speed up. And what happened jst recently ? Now the government have wisely decided that all foreign news must be filtered by Xinhua first ! http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/11/china.newscontrols.reut/index.html Haha, that's really funny, they will get SO busy ! Perhaps they won't even have time to filter MY emails then :-) It still sucks. The chinese people now have to wait much longer for improvements of social welfare, because for the government it is ABSOLUTELY necessary to spend 160.000.000.000 RMB on this "game" of professional athletes, just to have a chance of promoting themselves. How many free hospitals can you make for 160.000.000.000 RMB ? I guess I need these hospitals now, because the thought of it makes ME SICK ! I will not watch 1 minute of this "show". And for the volunteers, they don't understand a shit of what's happening around them... Why work for free, when the expenses is 160.000.000.000 RMB ? |
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Four Years of Blogging Wow, 4 years... And you still never get any sleep ! When do you have time for making the baby if you "blog till you drop" every night :-) ? By the way Jianshuo, when I searched my entries, when was my first one ? And now you maybe never will get any more "unfiltered" news of China viewed from outside, see : http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/10/china.newscontrols.ap/index.html About 20010911, hmm, I'm not a US citizen myself, but see what some people in US thinks : http://www.questionsquestions.net/docs0209/0930_bdquig.html http://www.oilempire.us/bogus.html http://www.reopen911.org/ |
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Why I Keep Losing Stuff Shrek7, I have it just like you, so don't feel aside of others. It annoys me sometimes how others can forget so easily :-(( But I'm feeling that we need such kind of "forgetsome" behaviour in a world, who demands people to buy more and more, hehehehe ! Just think of women, they have tons of clothes, but never have anything to wear :-) "Oh, my darling, I have NO clothes for this evening out, what to do ??" Answer (and how to lose money) = give her 500 RMB and send her to shop something immediately :-) Jianshuo, I guess your situation happened in the morning, huh ? You seldom get any sleep, I know, so anything can happen in a dream, I know, so even you are awake doesn't mean that your brain is awake. That explains why you lost your shoe. Before you drive by yourself, I suggest you to wait half an hour more... I didn't gave up driving, so we are among you along the way in Shanghai, and we don't want any accidents ! PS : Jianshuo, Xiuying and me got married on august 23. :-))))) |
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Top Commenter of the Month (2006H1) Jianshuo, what is a "Top Commenter" ? Is it a good thing ? Some day even bellevue could get to the top, simply because you only count the numbers of entries of comments, so beware ! Well, who want's him on the top, exept for himself ? :-) :-) |
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Top Commenter of the Month (2006H1) Thanks, stephen, but I'm only expressing my feelings, and give others some hints to get aorund in this true mess of a city. I appreciate you for always writing such good and useful comments here in JSW's blog. I wish there would be even more USEFUL comments, instead of the bullshit we see sometimes. OK, enough, enough ! (My back can't take more slapping now....) |
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Too Many Entries in a Blog Bigbro and DaveG, I'm sorry to say this to you, by your suggestion you will simply turn JSW's page into 1) a Lonely Planet guidebook and 2) a personal blog, and thus not very interesting. Dividing a blog into two parts (one for tourists and one for commenters) is not the idea of making a personal blog. Then it becomes commercial. JSW created his blog in a high spirit of sharing his world to us (except some freaks disturbing sometimes). Tourists looking for hints can find lots of details of Shanghai here. If people can't find their way in JSW's quite easy menu, then they can simply find another easy tourist homepage or site. I know that China is not an easy country for foreigners. For tourists it's a heaven, but I have spend 3,5 years here, but still feeling very annoyed about some things, and sometimes it comes out through the comments. It is just so natural for a western person to express him/herself. We can comment the most outrageous things in our own newspapers at home, but here in China there is a limit controlled by the government. "Crackdown", "imprisoned", "executed", these words are daily headlines on many newspapers here. It IS hard to deal with for expats and foreigners in China. In JSW's blog, the personal touch is paramount. We have followed JSW on many journeys, even half around the world some times (unfortunately mostly eastbound to USA), and he provides us with details of almost everything that he perceives. That is the really GREAT thing of this blog !!!!! Please keep it this way, Jianshuo ! |
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Jia You, Shanghai Metro! To explain, see : http://www.urbanrail.net/as/shan/shanghai.htm Thanks to Robert Schwandl ! |
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Jia You, Shanghai Metro! Anyone knows when Line #4 will open the last part of the line (Lancunlu - Damuqiaolu) ? This will give a great relief to Line #1. |
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Fake Market in Shanghai? Yes, you have to be careful. I bought a video camera two years ago in the Hualian Mall at Nanjingdonglu. Behind a glass was a nice Sony video camera. I asked to take a look, and I noted the label in the bottom said that it was "Made in Japan". Then I negotiated the price and got a camera in a box. At home I unpacked it and now the label said "Made in China". Then I went back to the shop and pointed out the camera in the display, and showed my camera. "I want a similar camera as the one in the display", I said. Then they told me to pay 500RMB more, because it was Made in Japan. At that time I asked for the manager to attend. After an hour and a half, they agreed to change it, but then the guarantee would only be possible to claim in the same Mall, nowhere else. For me no problem. The guarantee is ONLY valid in China, when you buy anything. There is no such thing as "International Guarantee" if you buy your stuff in China. So remember, always unpack all parts and check them before final payment. |
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How Many Hotels in Shanghai? Jie Lun, you are not in China, haha ! I can't open that page, it is banned ! By the way, Wikipedia is also banned now, and I had a lot of good information from that before... Shit :-( Anyone who have a link to all banned pages in China ? I know it is very very long, but anyway... |
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People in Beijing is More Expressive Ginza, how long do you intend to stay here ?? In general, only professional drivers, and the crazy-and-rich people drive in China. :-) Me and Jianshuo are some of them, you figure out the category of us by yourself. Insurance is very bad, the police don't show people how to drive (because they have very bad behaviour themselves in the traffic), streetwalkers crossing redlights and highways, road signs are very unsafe, no traffic education of the people, 100.000+ dead in the traffic every year, no available traffic law in english at all, ambulance service (if you get injured) are slower than taking a taxi... Still want to try ? Advice : Go by taxi. |
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How Many Hotels in Shanghai? Thanks, Jie Lun. Shall we send these informations to Reuter's or CNN ? You do McD and I do KFC, ok ? Andreas, if the food is thoroughly cooked, any chinese food is good, don't worry when you come here ! Leave the "cold dishes" at any chinese meal if they don't look like very recently done. But definitely avoid cold noodles and muslim lamb sticks from a street stall, even chinese gets sick from that (I have evidence !). Any good food for humans are just yummy food for bacterias as well, especially in a 30++ deg. environment ! That is why many foreigners eat at KFC and McD when going abroad, they have basically better food handling rules. But - they have to treat their employed personnel well, otherwise their reputation will decline. |
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Fake Market in Shanghai? Roberto, try to call the guys at http://ph.chineseembassy.org/eng/ for more information. Good luck ! |
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Cheap Place to Stay in Shanghai Hi Andreas Try and email to this one : Haodu Hotel 41 Guangxi nan lu ("South Guangxi Road") email : guest@haodu.cn 230-260 RMB/night. Not far from People's Square, and not THAT noisy at night. For your good night sleep, take your precautions. China is noisy, and the windows are only there to keep the rain from coming in, not for keeping the sounds out :-) |
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Fake Market in Shanghai? Yes Stephen, it is Timberland, of course. And these sailing shoes were made in China in 1990 or before. |
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Fake Market in Shanghai? Timberline ! A story : I was in San fransisco in California, US in 1990. I found a "bargain", a Timberline shoe, down 50% to 50US$. WOW, excellent American quality for just 50US$ !!! I have been wearing the shoes occasionally, but when I went to China in 2002, one guy told me to look inside my shoes... Made i China ! And that was in 1990. These days, goods made by private companies in China usually are VERY good value for money ! But, all that comes from state owned companies should be really cheap, as the quality really sucks ! (Said from a quality supervisor in Chinese companies, so believe it) |
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How Many Hotels in Shanghai? Shrek, you're right. I know it's a little out of topic here, but YES. It's a story that HAS to be told. I felt the article of the thrown baby rather disturbing too, so I refer from the "China Daily" article, a newspaper available by anyone on every corner of the streets of Shanghai : By Zhang Yu SHANGHAI: The trial of a 20-year old mother who dumped and killed her newborn baby opened yesterday in Shanghai's Zhabei District People's Court. The migrant worker from Yunnan Province was charged with intentionally killing her son by throwing him out of the window of her fifth floor room. The woman confessed to this action. "There have been many cases involving unmarried girls who abandoned their babies, but this is the first we have dealt with a mother killing her baby just after giving birth," Wang Zhixiang, the prosecutor , told China Daily yesterday after the trial. One evening five months ago Zhang Weixian, the defendant, gave birth to a baby boy in her dormitory, which is on Xizang North Road in Downtown Shanghai. However, Zhang, who only received a primary school education, repeatedly claimed in the courtroom that she had no idea she was pregnant and was going to have a baby, although she often felt pains in her stomach and genitalia. She admitted that she had had sex with her boyfriend in her hometown in Yunnan before she migrated to Shanghai last October to work in a restaurant as a waitress. "But she said she never learned about sex or pregnancy in school, so she didn't know that sex may lead to pregnancy" said the prosecutor. "I just thought I had a really bad stomach ache before I went to the toilet and delivered the baby" said Zhang, none of her whose collegues and roommates were aware of her condition. After 10 minutes of squatting she gave birth to the baby, which fell into the bowl of the toilet. "I lost a lot of blood and fainted after the delivery" said Zhang, who didn't even try to tell the gender of the baby and whether or not it was alive. After she came around, she tore off the umbilical cord by hand and threw the baby out of the window. "I feared at that time that I would lose my job in the restaurant if they knew I had a child, so I decided to throw him away" said Zhang, who earned 700 yuan (US$87) per month in the restaurant. Then she managed to go to bed and sleep until the police arrived 2 hours later. After receiving a report from a security guard who saw the dumped baby, police immediately came and questioned Zhang. "Now I regret throwing the baby away" said Zhang. "I would have brought the baby back to my hometown if I had known beforehand that I was committing a crime by doing this". The article is referred exactly as written, so don't blame me for bad chinglish.... But - in fact - I believe her ! Sex education in China is truly non-existing. And conditions for restaurant workers are in (especially in western eyes) simply horrible. What I couldn't read straight out of the article was, how old was the baby/embryo, as she told that she had the baby by herself, in only 10 minutes. That means that maybe it was only an abortion, not a birth of a full grown 9 month baby. If I calculate 5 months back, it was february. From October to february it's 4 months. This is a 16-20 month embryo, not very big. And not able to breathe by itself, so not possible to live at all. Her true "crime" was in fact, to throw the baby out of the window, and should be judged as that in my opinion. In the residential area where I live, I'd many times found garbage outside the kitchen window shelf, and I'm NOT living on the ground floor, I tell you ! So, it is a very common thing to do in China. So - who would ever want to put her on trial ????? Because it was a BOY ? Maybe. A baby girl would not have made such headlines in China, see how many times the word BOY appears... And, how could the police and the guard immediately know that it was HER ? She lived on 5'th floor...:-) I guess she didn't scream out "HERE I AM, GET ME ! " In China several millions of abortions are done every year by hospitals around China to prevent mothers to have more babies than "required" (one only, and in a marriage). Usually sterilisation is performed in the same sequence, so they can't "fall into the pit" again. Am I wrong, then please correct me. How about some sex education for all in the late middle school in China ? I say - Go on, good idea ! Sub-sub thing about working conditions in China : I heard from a student friend of mine, (she works as a cashier in a KFC in Shanghai to earn a little extra, she makes 0.6 US$/hour) that she would like to quit her job. "NO, definitely not possible !" said the manager, "when you began, you signed a paper, and it says that you have to work 3 months after giving in your resignation, otherwise we will have to inform your university !". I asked her to give me a copy of the paper she signed, but SHE didn't got a copy !!! So - now she don't dare to go from the job to do what she wanted - to attend an evening chinese-english interpretation class, only available in Shanghai, China. Because she's afraid of KFC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, do the university have ANYTHING to do with a part time job ? I wonder... I hereby officially ban and condemn KFC forever !!! I will not put my or any of my friends and relatives teeth into that company's products. JOIN ME :-) And friends, please read the papers all over the world with the sense of "seeing behind the written word". |
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Second-Generation Identity Card Jianshuo, you are chinese, so of course you didn't ask them WHY you need a new ID-card ? So it is easier for THEM to track you, or to make YOUR life easier ? Please ask yourself this question ! |
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The World of Different Rules As a private employer, Jianshuo had no choice, because the guy wanted more money, but didn't say anything, just assumed that his customers always were aware of the unwritten rules in his world. His failure was not to speak out, even he could see Jianshuo's problem to understand him. Anyway the guy was just an asshole, and he never would have set a foot into my home. Another thing : All workers on low salary works better by the influence of a little extra money, no doubt about that ! The worst to do is to take money from workers (a common punishment for a failure in China). This does a tremendous lot of damage to the trust between worker and employer. This NEVER happens in the west (because there are law rights for the workers). When people expect their basic salary, they do not expect it to be less than their "basic salary calculated spendings" because they or their collegues made a mistake. Fight this bad behaviour of employers ! (Well, most who do so are government owned...) |
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World Cup is Over pczou and WJS, it should be "Championship" :-) |
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To Save a Young Life Are there any charity organisations in China ?? |
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Look at These Advertisements Were the banners electronic or static ? If electronic, they could have written the same in many languages, here we only see 1/25'th of a second... I didn't watch any of the games so far, but I will record the final game tomorrow evening. (Local time : Sunday 20:00. Monday july 10 02:00 China time) Football : 22 persons trying to get 1 ball, fighting and arguing... What a game :-( |
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South Railway Station Pictures Nice shots, Jianshuo ! If you go in the Ferris wheel, you can have a shot of the roof structure from above... All aluminium structure, 278 meters across, made by adding bars onto a huge center pole, and then, when finished, the pole is removed, and the structure is free carrying. It was amazing to follow the construction when I worked in Minhang and passed by every day. The wavy grass fields are cut by hand, of course ! Gardening workers are extremely low paid in China, so don't worry. They'll do it monday to sunday, no weekends... |
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One Child Policy - Part II Stephen, you're right. The government has done something, they cancelled the school fee for basic and middle school. I don't know if the books are free too ?... But high school is not free. And most jobs require a high school exam. So what to do for the poor in the rural areas ? About learning - in fact it is very difficult for chinese to learn chinese of the simple fact that it is not possible to combine the characters with reasonable logic, and then many give up and ends up in illiteracy. I know many people who say this to me. Government - change into an easy alphabet. The characters were for the insiders in the emperor dynasties, not for today where all have to learn to read. Example : Korean Hangul was invented 600 years ago as a new alphabet, and is quite easy to learn, even for foreigners ! Another thing is health care - rise taxes for the rich (especially the factory owners, they treat the workers very bad, like I have never seen it before), so they can pay for the poorest. Today is like this : If you are sick and have money you can live, if no money - "sorry, we can't help you !" Shame on the rich ! (Hmm - what WAS the original idea of communism ??) |
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Weather Forecast: Wet and Hot Here in China the weather is a chemical induced thing. That's why it is predictable most of the time. Only problem for the weathermen is, that the world is changing and heating up, but with five thousand years of chinese culture, why take this into consideration when you make your weather report ? :-) Last year was nearly without rain in the "rainy season" here. To Tony and Bovemanm : Kim Yong Il and Iran's president are both tiny guys, but both are good friends of China, and both have a very big mouth and a screwed vision of the world. The covering of the SCO-meeting last week in China left me astonished, as it nearly wasn't mentioned at all in the western media. In China it was big headlines every day. Nearly a dozen of the most troublesome leaders in the world were here in Lujiazui, Pudong, including the presidents of Russia and Iran. CNN gave no important news of this big meeting. For a foreigner it had a clear (hidden) agenda for China, which I can't write here. Hey, US guys, what did you do to your GPS-guided Tomahawk-missiles ? Why not send just one to Pyongyang and begin saving the lives of thousands of north koreans every year ? (It was quite efficient in Libya, remember...) |
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Hukou System in China Hi Jianshuo I would like Xiuying to go with me to Hongkong. But it takes 2 photos, her ID-card, her Hukou book and 800 RMB (mostly for the bribes, I think, not for the actual work) And of course she have to go all the way back to her hometown to get it ! AND it will take one week. AND she can only stay in Hongkong for 7 days. It is much easier for her to go to Europe than to go to Hongkong ! (A photo, her passport and my guarantee for the finances during her stay, and 300 RMB only.) Another thing, can you legally drive in US on your chinese driving license ? |
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Traffic in Shanghai Hi Jianshuo How much are the fines for crossing red light, or outside the pedestrian crossings ? Is it only in Shanghai, or "China-wide" ? |
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Water Mellon for Summer Hmm, anyway Wal-Mart have the best and cheapest bread of all the malls here. And I only buy my minced beef there, 10 kilo at a time. Ask for freshly minced. Perfect for home made burgers and Spaghetti Bolognese ! Address : 252 Linyibeilu. Parking is free. I won't mention the employment policies or wages of that mall chain. Only say that there is a reason why the american owner is SO rich ! And the worker's rights in China are in fact non-existing in the private sector, so this must be just heaven for him... Other things I buy at Lotus (Thai owned) in Super Brand Mall near Oriental Pearl Tower, Lujiazui. Parking very expensive. And at Carrefour (French owned). They had a problem recently with overdated meat, so beware... Biyunlu shop is definitely the best (if you don't go for the meat). Free parking. |
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My Boat Sunk in Dishui Lake Jianshuo, if you refresh the page of that homepage, the top photo will change. And one of the photos is with me and Xiuying, and two other girls, all wearing yellow "Red Dragon" caps... |
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My Boat Sunk in Dishui Lake Jianshuo, you can join the SBYC at Dianshui Lake. Me and Xiuying are members. I am teaching her to sail the dinghy's. She can keep a steady heading now. 2 weeks ago, she managed to turn the boat from one direction of wind to the other by herself, several times. She was SO proud !! Go to http://www.shanghaibyc.org/ |
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Xiamen - Tiny Beautiful City First of all, chinochano, what the f. are you talking about ??? Is it related to Jianshuo's headline posting ? Secondly, Jianshuo, please visit http://www.wunderground.com/MAR/wpacm.html There you will find that you just missed the nice 24 degrees of warm seawater around Xiamen !! April/May are the best time to swim there. Nearly no mosquitoes, and not too hot. You should try go in june, then things begins to cook there, not that pleasant. |
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Train Tickets in Shanghai Railway Station So, foreigners, in these three periods of one week each (which is the only time that the chinese people can visit their relatives in this vast country), you are simply lost if you want to go by train. Buy an airplane ticket instead. These periods are NOT for backpackers, and others who want a trouble-free leisure time. All places are just... crowded. A funny story : I consider to go to Jiangxi this time, and already now, 3 days before the messy time begins, 3 chinese asks me to get a ride in my car, just to be sure of going home ! So, chinese with cars, actually you can make a living out of this in these busy periods, as private drivers for desperate people ! |
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Visited Yangshan Deep Water Port Stephen and David, there are only one or two typhoons every year here, so the authorities will (hopefully) stop all traffic on the bridge, when the typhoon passes by. And Stephen, a train solution would have demanded a very flat railroad, as a freight train has only limited capacity of climbing and descending. This would have required an expensive tunnel all the way. |
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Visited Yangshan Deep Water Port Stephen, actually they intend to make 52 berths ! (or 30 according to a recent article) I wish they would demand the trucks going there to have their engines adjusted, so the pollution would be less. Most trucks going to and from the port are very old and not maintained, and spews out huge black clouds of badly combustioned diesel oil... But who would ever tell the chinese authorities of this ? Each of the trucks can only carry 2 TEU (one full, or two half containers). Count how many trucks needed for unloading a ship. |
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Back from Shengsi Hi Jianshuo, I was in Lingang today, I wonder if it is now possible to go on the bridge for private cars ? And what to do at the container terminal ? Anything interesting ? |
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OOB in the Next Two Days Yes, the sun was great !!! After brushing and washing away the coal-and-concrete airborne dust on the terrace floor, I was reading a good book, wearing shorts and bare feet, until the sun hit the pollution layer at 4:25PM. Then it stopped to send out any more heat, and the temperature dropped 4 degrees in 10 minutes. The sun is supposed to set at official time 6:23PM. ?? Who have ever seen the sun set in the real HORIZON of Shanghai ?? |
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Democracy in Residential Area Very good, Jianshuo ! It has to begin somewhere ! Same here where I live, the management charges a lot, but mostly keep thier efforts on the common garden care, and to be bully to the cars inside. The cable TV signals are lousy, even the fee is skyhigh. Amazing that nobody haven't posted anything on this... :-) The mices must be hiding in their holes. Maybe the d........ word scared them off ? |
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Rain Breaks Plan Oh, regarding Google's new chinese name, you can see some more on : http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/04/13/china.google.ap/index.html |
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Rain Breaks Plan Just an advice, if you are banned from something on the chinese version of Google, then simply try the american at www.google.com :-) The search will possibly find it, but maybe you can't open the items anyway because of your provider's ban. I went to Shanghai Botanical garden at Longwu Lu on tuesday, 25 degrees, wonderful ! I can recommend it just now, all the flowers and trees are blooming ! (40RMB incl. all) Then yesterday = 8 degrees, rain and gusty winds. Just like the weather in western Europe in April. May will be more stabile. Hopefully this weekend will bring better conditions. |
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PSP is Hard to Use Jianshuo, a little philosophy : My "chinese" family want a car. In their lifetime they will never earn enough money to buy one = it is not possible. Before you wanted a digital camera for years, I guess. Nearly not possible. Now you have one, and later you buy a better one, but it is not the same "jump up" in level as when you bought the first one. So you don't feel as happy as with the first one. I have had several cars. My first one was simply adorable, even it turned into a pile of rust during the 3 years I had it. Now, when I buy another one and another one, I nearly do not show any happiness. It has turned into a common thing. Enjoy the time of being young and to be able to be happy over almost anything ! Later, you'll find that even small things (which in fact are very complicated), like a beautiful sunset or a wonderful frangrant flower can bring more happiness than your new camera or PSP. Money and things are not that much worth when you have them ! Different is : human relations, friends, family, children (oh sorry, just one child of course). |
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China International Boat Show in Shanghai Hi Jianshuo Nice posting ! Take a look at http://www.shanghaibyc.org/ 3000RMB/year for a family membership, bus every sunday from Puxi (50RMB return trip) or go by your own car on the A9, can use the club boats without fees, nice environment at the Dianshan Lake, etc, etc. This weekend is "open days" at the lake because of the exhibition - wanna go ? Then send me an SMS. |
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MagLev May Extend to Hangzhou - Confirmed Perhaps they will make the track from People's Square, and not from Longyang. If they intend to make it from Longyang, I hope they will make a station at People's Square. Are there any plans for extending the track from Pudong Airport to Lingang New City (far southeast Pudong) ? Ronin, noise is not an issue in China, haven't you noticed that ? |