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Happy Birthday to Me Herzliche Gratulation zum Geburtstag!!! That's German and means 生日快乐 Happy Birthday. My best wishes from Switzerland. Peter |
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Jian Shuo Wang Becomes Wang Jian Shuo Keep your name as it is Jian Shou. As you say it is you; it is central to your identity. It may take a short moment for people to ask, if they need to, to clarify your family name and your given name. We English speakers - I am from UK -need to learn that people in different places have different name structures, and recognise it is a central part of honour of another culture to learn how that culture's name is made up, and learn how to pronounce it. As you say, Bill Gate's name is not changed in China, and in all my trips to China no one has ever asked me to change mine. |
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Update about Yifan What a lovely little boy. Congratulations! Just let him run, so at the next 奥运会 he will win the 100 meter race. Best regards from Switzerland Peter |
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Beijing Olympic Games Opening Ceremony Hi, this opening ceremony was just great - perfect!! I loved it and enjoyed every minute of it. |
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Seek for Some Guidance Hello Wang (Sorry for my english) I know your feeling very well. It's some kind of feeling "remote controlled". What I suggest in such moments....sit in a park (you have a lot of them in the great city of Shanghai) and do NOTHING! I mean really NOTHING. No reading, no eating, no blogging, no anything. Even try not to think. Just look around for about 30 minutes, 1 hour or whatever time you want. If you start to get bored, an I hope you will, you are on the good way, then you are on the way to relax. That's it! It's easy, not? Just trying to get bored. You dont think how relaxing this is and you will see how important it is to have TIME. After this you can come back and keep us informed about Shanghai with your blog. I whish you good luck. Peter |
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Zhuazhou - Gift Picking at 1 Year Old I hope, the Swiss-flag-ribbon means that Yifan will travel one day to Switzerland!! :-) And....congratulations!!! Best regards from St. Gallen. Peter |
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GPRS Package from China Mobile Jianshuo - I really like your blog and these entries in particular. I had a question, though, regarding choice of service for a trip to China this summer. I am travelling to Beijing, Xian, Chengdu, Kunming, Guilin, and Harbin and was wondering what the best option for mobile service would be. Is there a service type (China Mobile vs. Unicom or specific services such as Shenzhouxing, etc...) that would be best for travelling to all of these cities? I have travelled a number of times to Beijing and have used the Shenzhouxing card with great success, but this is my first time travelling to more inland cities. I also will probably subscribe to a data plan. Thank you very much for your (or anyone else's) help with this. -Peter |
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Grace Wang Called a Traitor I can not understood Grace wang so exciting when she reading letter from parents about they can not stay in home and need protection.So crazy. |
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Grace Wang Called a Traitor It does not matter what she said, death threats and harassment of her and her parents is wrong. This will reflect terribly on China and the Chinese. It will remind the West of the stifling of thought that has so often been seen in Communist nations and will allow the West to claim that nothing has changed in China since Mao Zedong's period of leadership. This is unfair to China since lunatic none sense like this happens in America and Europe, for China to gain the respect as their equal, China has to be better then them. Honestly, why wouldn't you want to be better. |
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Brief Chat with Andrew sorry for two (slightly differrent) posts. One seemed to have a fault but then after I had rewritten it showed. |
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Brief Chat with Andrew Jianshou, As a English person I want to thank you for the wise words in your post today. I have been reading what I could over this past two weeks as you have tried to comment on Tibet and how our protests are being seen in China. I have been travelling and too busy to comment but want to say how right you are. Todays post got right to the heart of our arrogance in Britain, America, etc. We are always asking what we can do to help you. But we are not listening. And we want to help in our way. And we want to force that help on you and others. Thanks for challenging that, for naming it as invasion and pointing to how it can all go so badly wrong. Thanks for calling to talk together. |
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Brief Chat with Andrew Jianshou, Thanks for your wise words. This past two weeks I have often wished I had time to add a comment to what you have written. But your words today speak to the heart of this stuation. You got right to core of the issue when you addressed the desire of so many of us in the west to "do something" to help China. You were brave to challenge us that its always what we want to do. An even braver to say that we then want to impose that change and to name that invasion. Thank you. I have posted some thoughts on your words on my ReconciliationTalk blog. I hope you can read them. |
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Flight from Shanghai to Nanyang, Henan how the world changes... think about how old you were when you took your first flight (21 for me), and how old your son is for his first flight! |
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Trusted Tourism Agency Shanghai is amazing and has lots to see. here are the most popular tour packages to discover this city and around. |
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Shopping Malls are Always On Sale I have a new laptop availible for those interrested. It comes with an english installation of windows vista and the specifics are as following: Gateway 6823c T7250 dual core 2,0 ghz 2 gb mem 250gb hard disc 128mb radeonXT big laptop + small laptop bag, mouse, screen cleaner. It is in excellent condition and hasnt been used yet. Price is 10400 RMB My Chinese is quite poor so i prefer to do buisness in english. If u have any questions feel free to mail me: email: pgiantatshanghai@gmail.com |
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Buying Computer Parts in Shanghai I have a new laptop availible for those interrested. It comes with an english installation of windows vista and the specifics are as following: Gateway 6823c T7250 dual core 2,0 ghz 2 gb mem 250gb hard disc 128mb radeonXT big laptop + small laptop bag, mouse, screen cleaner. It is in excellent condition and hasnt been used yet. Price is 10400 RMB My Chinese is quite poor so i prefer to do buisness in english. If u have any questions feel free to mail me: email: pgiantatshanghai@gmail.com |
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Happy New Year 2008 Hello, i'de found this side in google. I'ts a very nice side. O.k., prosperous and healthy 2008 to everybody! regards Peter, Wuppertal (Germany) |
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Microsoft GTEC's 10 Year Anniversary Yes, I heard you. But why do I still need to talk to A3-indians everytime I called Microsoft? I guess chinese support is not string enough or bigger than indinan center? Am I correct or wrong |
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Guide for Bike Riders in Shanghai I understand that many main roads in Shanghai don't allow bicycles. I just bought one, and want to use it to ride around the city, but I would like to know which major roads (besides the obvious ones, like Nanjing Lu, Beijing Lu, Yan'an Lu, Huaihai Lu) do NOT allow bicycles. That way, I'm not expecting to be able to ride on a road only to find it closed to bicycles. A simple list of NO BICYCLE roads will be sufficient. Thanks so much! Peter |
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Can you Understand Dish Names in China? This is a very helpful, Jianshou. It took me years to realise fully that the names of dishes in many restaurants were poetic descriptive of an idea, and only sometimes of the ingredients. Add to that the bad translations (I have never myself been offered "fuck the bullfrog") and the menu can be almost as hard to use as one in chinese characters alone. How to handle a Chinese menu or restaurant with no English menu? By far the best, take a Chinese friend along. Other options: (1) Look for restaurant with picture menus; (2) use your pocket-sized language book menu list or carry your own printed list of dishes you like (most restaurants will then give you their own version of the dish whether or not its on their menu; I used to worry that "they didn't do that dish", but it has never worried them, and on one occasion had a 15 minute "discussion" with me pointing at my list and them pointing at their menu); (3) walk around the restaurant and point at dishes you like the look of; (4) point at random in the menu; (5) in cheaper places go to the kitchen and point at the meat and veg behind the counter; (6) sit down, call a Chinese friend on your mobile, tell them what you want and get them to tell the waiter. All are a challenge to the the timid, the introvert, the control-freak or fussy , but I have never eaten a bad meal in 20 business trips. Shangahaiist listed this site the other day: http://www.howtoorderchinesefood.com It is great, and will be even more helpful when they have printable pdf's of different menus. But even now you could choose your selection of dishes at home, cut and paste the characters and print up the list! |
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Find a Job in Shanghai The following sites are pretty helpful in getting a job in Shanghai: WorkInShanghai.Com ChinaDaily.Com ChinaOnline.Com CraigsList.Com ExpatJob.Net Expatriates.Com |
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Using Contact Lenses i got my contacts 4 days ago. it's been really difficult putting them in and getting them out. sometimes i feel like i just got lucky all those times. last night i tried 3 different times to put them in, each failing miserably and ending in a dramatic tantrumatic fit. I'm having such a bad experience. They're just so difficult to get out and even more difficult to get in. Reading these responses helps a lot and it makes me feel like I'm not the only one. So far I'm still debating whether or not to continue. There seems to be too many problems for what it's worth. Did I mix up the left eye contact with the right. Is the contact inverted or not? How can you tell? Why is it so hard to find them after i drop them? I just seem so frustrated because of these little tiny slimy things. |
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Chinese Stock Market is Crazy I just swimming in stock water now in China, your comments are very useful! Thanks! |
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Visited Bund Again Today Hi Jianshou, You are right. When you live near a place it becomes familiar and even the most magical places can easily get forgotten. That's certainly true for me in London. I have to say though that I cannot imagine the Bund losing its power to amaze me! Even now after some 20 business trips to China, most of them arriving or departing from Shanghai, I cannot imagine an overnight in China without a walk along the Bund at nightime. It has to be one of the most magical places in the world! And that is despite its past association with greed and exploitation. The buildings of the Bund seem to have been designed by the mainly Western architects to declare aloud the greatness of the Western powers. They were certainly well built. And yet now you Chinese have done an even better job over in Pudong. So the IFC is well above the Jin Mao tower now!! Wow! Last time i was there it was moving close. I cannot wait to see it - and the lighting design they choose for it. The Bund is definitely the name given worldwide to the riverside of Puxi. Its origin is not an English word, however, but from a Hindi / Urdu word 'band', which we British brought with us from India in the early days of the International Settlement of Shanghai. It means "an artifical embankment or quay built in a muddy place", and in fact there were bunds on the International Concessions all the way up the Yangtze. There are remains of them in Nanjing (there are even some of the old English street lamps along the embankment), and in Wuhan (on the Hankou waterside) as well as other places. A lot of Hindi words have come into English from our colonial presence in India - words like jungle, bungalow, pyjama, loot -- and even Mandarin, the word we used for Chinese government officials and the "official Chinese" they spoke. We Brits did a lot of mixing up, and have a lot to answer for, as well as leaving some good things in place. |
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Calling Card in Shanghai Calling cards!!!!! Doesn't work!!!!.An alternative solution is Skype which I have been using for a while.Skype is used to make calls for a lower rate,video calls r for free,send instant messages for cheaper rate.U can send sms for a euro 0.045.Try skype!!! and if u want to know more about skype visit the website www.skype.com. |
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20 RMB per Month Unlimited WAP In your Dopod go to Connections > New GPRS new account : CMNET Connects to : Internet access point : cmnet username : pass : primary dns : none secondary dns : none Ip address: Done Then go to settings : connections : proxy Add a proxy (any name) Connects from Internet Connects to Wap Proxy (name:port): 9201 Type: HTTP Name and password leave blank |
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40 Minutes for a Taxi at Hongqiao As I like very much your blog, it gives very interesting news about China and Shanghai (the city I like most), I added the URL of it to my blog. You can find it here http://prechiblog.blogspot.com/ Whish you all the best and best regards from Switzerland. Peter |
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Find a Job in Shanghai Hello, What would you suggest to someone looking for an IT job in Sanya that does not speak/read Chinese? French is my native language, and so my written as well as oral skills are very strong. I have a lot of experience in Information Technology (Microsoft certified professional ) and Project Management. Thank you |
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2006 Asian Gaelic Games in Shanghai Gaelic Football is like most original games of football were in the early 19th century. In fact most football played in England was similar until the Cambridge university football team that preferred minimal hand contact turned up on mass to a Football Association of England meeting and voted to change the rules to the modern form of Football played by FIFA. The Irish were never going to follow the English. Gaelic Football (Gaelic is the original language of Ireland) is actually a better game than the football that is played all over the world. You can catch the ball and run up to 5 steps with it but then must tap or punch it to a team mate with your hand or kick it to a team mate. If you kick a goal into the net it is worth 3 points, if you kick it over a rugby or american football like cross bar above the goal it is worth 1 point. The only off-side area is the goal keeper's small box. It is a faster more exciting form of football and you don't have to head the ball - which is a bit of a weird thing if you think about it. In fact from a pure anatomic point of view using hands as well as feet makes sense for the human species and Gaelic football is a lot less weird than so called "normal" football/soccer. The game is now played more and more outside Ireland. If you are in Asia contact www.asiangaelicgames.com In Australia or NZ www.gaelicfootball.com.au There is also a similar but rougher game played between Ireland and Australia that is a mix of Irish Gaelic Football and Australian Rules Football (see www.afl.com.au for Australian Rules Football). This Sunday a crowd of 83,000 will pack Dublin's Croke Park Stadium to watch Australia play Ireland in this form of Gaelic/Aussie Football called "International Rules Football" - wikipedia search that for more details. |
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Say Goodbye to Paper Ticket E tickets and payment - cash on delivery or credit cards? JianShou, your two recent posts on E tickets and Cash payment are interesting. Until now when I have been in China on business I have always booked my tickets at hotel business centres - in my experience good 3 star hotels seem to have one. OK, they charge a booking fee but I do not speak Chinese enough to survive anywhere else. Its always been easy - about 15 minutes, payment in cash and its done. I am currently in China and ordered tickets the other day. They went to the computer and showed me available flights on www.elong.com . I was charged 860 RMB plus booking fee of 15oRMB. When the "ticket" arrived it was not a ticket -- like you said -- but a receipt for my money, with a E ticket number printed. OK, I thought, I can do that with elong - and save 150RMB!!! I already use elong for hotel booking and its been great!! So last night for my next flight I tried to book tickets nanjing to Beijing. I got to the point on the web where I was expecting to give credit card details, and instead I was asked for my address so they could deliver the ticket and collect cash!! However I went ahead. This morning there were two emails from elong, and one from my son in England saying they had called and wanted to confirm details. I called, spent 30 minutes on the phone, going over the details I had already given and was then asked for details of how they could deliver the "ticket" and collect cash, and when I would be available. I was not able to wait around so they said they would take my credit card details. They then again wanted to know where they could deliver the ticket. Ten minutes later I got an email in Chinese which I assume had the details of the ticket. Then I had an email asking me to call to confirm credit card details and also fax images of my credit card. To send a fax I would have to go to the business centre. And I would sttill have to wait around for the deliver of the E ticket!! So at that point I replied asking them to cancel the ticket. I went to the business centre and got the ticket in 15 minutes!! It will be delivered to my room tonight. All of that is to say, visitors to China would be well advised for now not to waste time with E Tickets!! I want to say I do not intend to criticise the system here. Chinese financial transactions are improving all the time, but security is obviously not yet good enough to enable reliable and secure credit card transactions carried out entirely on line and paperless E tickets delivered by email. I am sure China will get there. Its much easier now in 1997 when I used to have to make my way across town to buy a ticket!! But I just need to continue for now to use the business centre! But visitors from the UK, America, etc. who expect an e ticket to be in their email inbasket after 10 minutes on line may have to wait a while yet. |
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Happy Birthday to Me Happy birthday to you from Switzerland. I just discovered your very interesting!!! As a "Shanghai-China-Chinese-Fan" you give me important information. Whish you all the best!! Peter |
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Real-Time Stream Broadcasting Cookbook Neat O I learned something new today. Awesome, cool. I can broadcast my cam. Thanks a bunch. |
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Shanghai's Weather is Like Sydney in Oct JianShou, Thanks for your willingness to allow people to connect here in the context of events of your life and information about China, Shanghai ... and the world. The evidence in the discussion (we call it mud-throwing) above and elsewhere is that will mean some people seem to prefer to identify with the boxes of their chosen ideology -- or their nation's ideology -- rather than relate as "friends" who happen to be different. People, lets make life easier for JianShou and cut down on the flaming. |
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Maglev Accident in Germany Yes, it's a tragedy. Technically, two Maglev trains can't collide because the magnetic field moving the train will propell two trains on the same track in the same direction. However, the maintenance vehicle involved in the accident was not a Maglev vehicle but a 'regular' vehicle not sensitive to any magnetic field. Apparently, somebody left the maintenance vehicle on the track and nobody noticed this. The the Maglev train crashed into it. So it's not a problem of the technology but of human error. I am very sorry for the people who got killed in the accident. |
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Cheap and Clean Motel in Shanghai - Motel168 Hi, have you tried a new hostel called yesinn?? They started from France, then openned a very small but nice one in HK. Recently, they openned a bigger branch in Shanghai. It is very nice place, located in the center. You can check it out of their web www.ehostelasia.com or www.yesinn.com |
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Skiing in Shanghai Hi Kev, address in chinese: 地址： 银七星室内滑雪场, 上海七莘路1835号. You can just print their webpage (a map w/chinese at the left bottom) and show it to the taxi drive. http://www.yinqixing.com/english.htm |
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How Many Hotels in Shanghai? Jianshou, I want to commend the East Asia Hotel on Nanjing Lu. As a regular overseas visitor to Shanghai for work, but always on a low budget, I have experienced a lot of the hotels with rooms with price around 250-400RMB. For that price you don't expect much, so character or location make a place worthwhile. For character and history, I always choose the Pujiang! For location you cannot beat the East Asia Hotel on Nanjing Lu. A fifteen minute walk to the Bund and five minutes to People's Square for the nightime views; shops and eating places on your doorstep; and even a possible glimpse of Wang Jiangshou on his way to or from work make it a great place for an overnight stop in Shanghai en route to the airport. For 280RMB (elong and ctrip prices for a standard room) you may get a small box with no view (some "windows" look out into a small lightwell that is currently full of scaffold!), but who needs a view when you are out of the room excpet to sleep. The other major warning is that some of the undeveloped rooms are down a passage that takes you past the restaurant fish tanks, so visitors who do not enjoy an early morning face to face encounter with a lobster who survived being cooked the night before, or the smell of fish, may want to ask for another area. For me the only hassle is that taxi drivers never know where it is, and when they do drop you you have to drag your bags 50 meters. But the inconvenience is nothing compared with being in the throbbing heart of Shanghai and modern China. I will be there next Thursday evening! |
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How Many Hotels in Shanghai? Hi! everybody: I'd like to know whose English Blog is the most famous one in China. Can anyone tell me. Thank U! |
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Visited Yangshan Deep Water Port hi Jian Shuo, I saw news that there will be a new town built for 800,000 people near where the bridge starts on the land. They only called it "new town beside the port"... Do you know anything about that? thanks, --Peter |
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Using Contact Lenses A month ago, I posted over here. I then said I really had trouble putting my lenses out. Well I still have :). Yesterday I managed to put it out all by myself for the first time!! All the other times I kept going to a friend of mine who also wear lenses and then he just had put them out of my eyes. I have to admit that I don't try everyday. I just don't have the time and motivation to try them everyday. Only 2 à 3 times a week a wear my lenses. But it is true that after a while your eyelids 'get used' of putting your fingers so close to your eyes. I still have a great 'shut-your-eyelids-reflect' but very slowly it is getting better. The ones who also can't take their lenses out of their eyes all by themselve, I can just advice to try poking with a clean finger in your eyes. You don't have to wear your lenses, cause I really can imagine it is frustrating if you can't get them out. Just try everyday touching your eyes for and after a while it will get better. |
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Mashup Camp China great.I hope you will tell more about this meeting in the future. thanks. |
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Train from Beijing to Shanghai Hi Jian, I checked the prices at http://www.china-train-ticket.com. Wow, I thought the prices would be a bit cheaper than this, 108USD (125.384 CAD) for one way ticket????? I can buy a airplain ticket in Canada for Bejing to Shanghai for 660RMB(including the taxes) (95.2054 CAD). Are these guys for real??? Is it possible that the ticket will be sold for cheaper price within China? |
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Business of Zhending Chicken - Part II Jian Shou, You are a lot wiser than you think!! The wise person always wants to understand more deeply, rather than all the time appearing they know. That is especially true when dealing with interaction between cultures. I have the same unwillingness to comment on Confucius. Take care! |
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Using Contact Lenses I have the same problems with you guys. I went to the optician today and he put the contacts in my eyes (was an unpleasent experience). Then he asked me to put them out. I tried but couldn't do it. My eyes always shut down. He then(after an half our of trying) showed it me and that was even worser then putting the contacts in. My body was shaking and at the same time I kept saying to myself not to shut my eyelids. Luckely that worked and the optician had put them in again. He then asked me to put them out again but I just couldn't do it. So I said that I would try it at home. The problem is that the optician is closed now and I still have the f*****g contacts in my eyes. But I can't take these damn things out. So I still have an half day of trying to get these horrible contacts out of my eyes. Hopely I'll manage to do it |
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Using Contact Lenses I have the same problems with you guys. I went to the optician today and he put the contacts in my eyes (was an unpleasent experience). Then he asked me to put them out. I tried but couldn't do it. My eyes always shut down. He then(after an half our of trying) showed it me and that was even worser then putting the contacts in. My body was shaking and at the same time I kept saying to myself not to shut my eyelids. Luckely that worked and the optician had put them in again. He then asked me to put them out again but I just couldn't do it. So I said that I would try it at home. The problem is that the optician is closed now and I still have the f*****g contacts in my eyes. But I can't take these damn things out. So I still have an half day of trying to get these horrible contacts out of my eyes. Hopely I'll manage to do it |
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Does Shanghai have Beach I am a windsurfer. I haven't heard of wave surfing in Shanghai, but I heard of windsurfing on one of the lakes in Suzhou. Does anybody know the name of the lake? |
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Hotmail Does Not Work LMAO that was hilarious, but it is right on. Maybe you should also mention that he got "yellow fever" and got dumped by some asian girl, probably a chinese. Thats how he got this serious hate. |
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Jet Lag Patterns Can someone ban this Bellevue. He is a non chinese American who speaks and writes chinese for some reason and just hates China. He goes around posting hate messages in many chinese bloggers board. This guy needs serious mental help |
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PmWiki Successfully Installed on Windows 2000 i have a question. i have installed the pmwiki successfully. but i found the size of sidebar in the left screen will change. sometimes it will turn small, thus the characters has to wrap. when i edit&save it again. it will be ok. sometimes will appear again. what's the matter? would you please do me favor about this? |
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Some Recent Magazines about Me This guy is way too much into himself. His blog is basically a propaganda machine, always good things about Shanghai and himself. Where is the information about the big anti japanese protests in Shanghai? Avian flu? Skype blocking by the government? Why is it wrong to discuss all this here? If all you are going to talk about are good things, I might as well read some government propaganda. btw i was a big fan of this blog before the total censorship of the anti japanese protest (although there was one "rosy" report of the protest after some complaints by readers here). Sure, I dont have to read this if I dont like it and I intend not to. I suggest, go to Shanghaiist website if you need good solid and no holds bar information about Shanghai. |
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KFC Dropped Potato Wedge in Shanghai Of course people get fat and overweight and obese for some, but that's because of their daily routine. Look at the Americans, it generally consist of, wake up, get ready, drive to work, sit at work, walk the whole 5 minutes to the nearest McDs, sit and eat, walk another 5 minutes back to work, sit til the end of work day, drive home, sit and have dinner, sit and watch tv, sleep, wake up, sit on toilet... Unless, they make an effort to get some exercise in their routine, and they have to get the motivation to do so, it's never going to change and they just sue fast food coz they can because we have come to believe that fast food is bad for you. You look at China or Asian countries, consumption of fast food is just as high as in US. But you don't see as many obese people here and there. But you will see your general overweight around all the time. I truly believe people here are forced to walk to most of their destinations. BTW, didn't scientist prove that obesity is linked to genetics? Bring my potato wedges back!!! I want to eat deep friend starch wrapped in an artificial potato skin with artificial flavourings...^^ |
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PVG: From Pudong Airport to Nanjing Hi Jian Shuo. I am a little bit confused: Does it take 1 hour or 1.5 hours to go to Hong Qiao Airport from Pudong Airport? Is Route No. 1 the only bus from Pudong to Hong Qiao? Does it run every half an hour? Does it operate like this: leaving at 7.00 p.m., 7.30 p.m., 8.00 p.m., etc. If my plane arrives at Pudong at 6.00 p.m. and the plane leaves Hong Qiao at 9.00 p.m., do you think there is sufficient time? If it takes 1.5 hours, then I will be able to catch the plane leaving at 9.00 p.m. Right or wrong? What is the taxi fare from Pudong to Hong Qiao and how long does it take? |
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Shanghai is Hot Sorry, ufo, I did not phrase our question properly. Thanks for your website on Shanghai climate; it answers my question adequately. Now I have a better picture of the average high temperature in Shanghai in July and August. |
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Shanghai is Hot Are July and August the hottest months in Shanghai? What is the average highest temperature? How frequent does it have heavy rain and thunder storms in these two months? |
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Shanghai is Hot Do you mean that visitors who bring along a digital camera have to declare to Customs? |
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FIAT Siena 1.5 HL Pictures i have bad news for you i have one siena is not good cars brasilian fabrication and the genuine parts from here is very fragil and debil many problems of engine etc. Is better for you buying fiat italian genuine and original. |
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I Didn't Escape from Puxi I had a wonderful visit to Shanghai and nearby cities Nanjing, Suzhou and Hangzhou last week, only to be marred by the bad experience of having my digital camera picked from my pocket at the bund the last evening. So I have no Hangzhou and Zhouzhuang pictures. I mentioned the incidence to a Shanghai friend. His answer was that there are a lot of bad elements among non-native Shanghai residents. Seems like only non-Shanghai people commit crimes. Shanghai people are above doing such things. |
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MSN Messenger Virus Jitux.A Mel, in most cases, viruses and worms come in multi-packs. You probably don't only have one worm or virus but severals. 1. Calm down and reboot your brain ;-) Fear and anger are bad advisors. 2. Unplug the modem of the infected PC. Shut down the PC. 3. Using another, not infected PC, download new anti-virus software including the *very latest* virus definition files. Burn it onto a CDROM. 4. Boot the infected PC in "safe mode", install the anti-virus software. Scan and clean your PC (make a backup of all data before doing this). 5. If this doesn't work, you usually need to reinstall all the software on your PC 6. Take care that this doesn't happen in the future anymore. Install a anti-virus scanner and guard (real-time monitoring). Update them every couple of days. And most importantly: Don't click on a thing just because it says "click me". 7. Use safer software. For example, don't use Microsoft software but Apple or Linux software. Good luck! |
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Shanghai Hotel Guide Hi, are there any Chinese/Shanghai recruiting agencies (headhunters) specializing in the placement of foreign University graduates (from Europe, USA etc.)? Is it difficult to get a working permit for an IT job in Shanghai? How much (USD) do the following things cost per month: * Have a flat (>45 m^2) (suitable for western people) not too far off central Shanghai? * Eat 2 x per day in food-stalls and restaurants (breakfast at home)? * Attend classes to learn basic Chinese? * Average cost of spending leisure time (going to cinema, dancing, concerts and so on)? What is the average salary for a Java programmer (European University IT graduate) in Shanghai? As a foreigner, is it better to work and live in Beijing instead of Shanghai? Is Beijing less expensive than Shanghai? Thank you. |
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Calling Card in Shanghai Thank you, Luuvi. Skype is only useful if you could get to a computer. I need information for using my own mobile phone that is tri-band, GSM compatible with the system in China. I need to find a sim card to put it in the phone. Hope they have it at the airport. |
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Calling Card in Shanghai Hi! I am planning to visit Shanghai in mid March for a week, and thinking of taking my tri-band GSM mobile phone with me. Can you tell me anything about sim card? Typical cost and number of minutes available? Can I use it to make international calls to the US, Japan, etc. in addition to local calls in the greater Shanghai area? I am thinking of visiting Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, etc., you know, the routine tourist thing. Is it available anywhere including the Pudong airport? Online? Thank you very much! Peter |
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Digital Words in Real World I don't like if perople are using this computer language. In the real world everybody should stick to the real language. - Peter http://perustelu.pages2inform.com/index25.html http://perustelu.pages2inform.com/index75.html |
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Train from Beijing to Shanghai "There is also an red emergency call button." a red emergency |
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Sleepless in Beijing Microsoft Announces Windows Rights Management Services For Windows Server 2003 Rights Management Solution Will Give Organizations and Employees New Ways To Protect Information REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 21, 2003 -- Microsoft Corp. today announced plans for Windows® Rights Management Services (RMS), a new technology for Windows Server 2003 that will give organizations advanced ways to help secure sensitive internal business information including financial reports and confidential planning documents. Windows Rights Management Services will work with applications to provide a platform-based approach to providing persistent policy rights for Web content and sensitive corporate documents of all types. Beta code for Windows Rights Management Services will be broadly available in the second quarter of 2003. "Customers have told us they need better solutions to help safeguard their critical business information," said Mike Nash, corporate vice president of the Security Business Unit at Microsoft. "What's really compelling about Rights Management technology is that it enables businesses to protect the information they most worry might leak — either deliberately or inadvertently — by putting persistent protections in the documents themselves." Using Windows Rights Management Services, applications such as information portals, word processors or e-mail clients can be built so that users will be able to easily designate both who can have access to specific content and what kinds of access rights they can have. Rights and policy are managed by the server, while clients running RMS-enabled applications allow users to apply rights with a click of a button. For example, Windows Rights Management Services can be used to control forwarding, copying and printing, as well as establishing time-based expiration rules. In addition, enterprises can enforce policy broadly and reliably by centrally delivering templates that automate the process — for example, making the policy around what constitutes "company confidential" uniform and easy to manage. Because Windows Rights Management Services technology is an ASP.NET Web service built on the Microsoft® .NET Framework, it can more easily interoperate with business processes via Web services. RMS technology uses XrML (Extensible Rights Markup Language), an emerging standard for the expression of rights on digital content. Microsoft will release two software development kits in the second quarter of 2003 to enable developers to begin to build rights management capabilities into a broad range of intra-enterprise solutions and applications for Windows clients. |
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Wedding Anniversary Good Web site. Your age let me remember when I was 25 years old in IBM china since 1990 to 1994. The foreigen IT companies in china are still booming and need to hire the guys like you and your wife. They need the fresh blood to support their sales in china. Anyway, To continue my story, I come to States after 1998 and got green card after 3 years staying there. Right now, I want to tell you that living USA and visiting USA is totally two different things. The CEO of companies in USA are all greedy. You guys just enjoy the good time of chinese booming time and shanhai's sunshine. But remember not anywhere is as good as SH right now. |
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Real-Time Stream Broadcasting Cookbook Hi,.. 1) to find you Web IP use http://whatismyip.com/ 2) Did anyone know why the encoder says "device not connected" ?? it IS connected and works fine with ALL other programs also Messenger. Thanks :O) |