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PVG: Buses to Hangzhou, Suzhou... bus from PVG to Suzhou...where does it end in Suzhou and is it possible to find taxi at that point for local ride. |
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Wangjianshuo.com Backup Plan you can find all kinds of backup tools on:http://www.sharewarecheap.com/Backup-Recovery-category_Update_50_1.html |
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All Kinds of Trap Just take a phone who as the possibility to have black list to block the phone call and the sms of these anoying people |
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I Hope We can Start to Talk about History I see that you did not writte any key word in your post. Trying to avoid the greeaat fire walll of CChina that do not like people speaking about history? Whatever the student asked, they were pacific. There is no possible justification to send tanks and kill students protesting. No country respecting life of his citizen ever did that. It is a simple fact, thus the blame is ONLY on the gov side. |
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My Google PageRank Increases to PR5 nice info you have here. |
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Bird view of Shanghai on Flight LuJiaZhui and Shanghai is shockingly dense. |
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Train from Beijing to Shanghai Hi,this is a very nice site.Thanks JSW.I am from the UK and have travelled on the Z trains and T trains between Beijing and Shanghai, also on K, D(Bullet) trains and plain number trains. There are about 10 a day listed..I have a few points to make.1) Before asking a question, why not scroll up and down this blog, because many of the questions being repeatedly asked are already answered.Example:the Beijing Shanghai fares! 2) If you are travelling soft sleeper,there is not much difference between Z and T, once you are in your compartment, and every time I have travelled, the compartment has been spotlessly clean. 3) what has not been mentioned is that the BJ/SH sleeper trains depart and arrive at convenient times for passengers to have some dinner aboard, watch a little tv,get a good night's sleep and have a wash and if they like, breakfast before arrival. That is why there are several around 7pm that arrive around 7am. They are quite capable of going faster, (and some do during the daytime), but who wants to be arriving in the middle of the night? 4) Some Z trains serve a free dinner in your compartment.I know the Z13/14 do, and there are free snacks already on the table when you enter.4) Someone said better stick to the western meals in the dining car. Well, many of the people asking questions here are from other Asian countries, and might like to try western food. Hahaha, But not surprisingly, most Chinese cooks seem better at Chinese food, and that is good on the train too.) 5) As has been said above several times,the compartments DO lock, but don't try calling an attendant before the train departs, because they are busy getting people into their compartments.6) Someone said they saw extra people crowding into a compartment.Not true. Passenger seats/berths are all reserved. What you probably saw was 'hard' berths, which have 6 beds, not 4, ( and are not really hard either!) 7) Someone asked whether a passport is needed to book a ticket. The answer is no, but you may be asked for it so the ticket seller can copy your name from it, instead of trying to guess what you are saying.8) Personal safety on Chinese trains. China is one of most crime-free countries in the world.There is no problem sharing a softsleeper compartment with others.No-one will steal your bags,and it is perfectly safe for a woman to travel on her own.Don't forget, the authorities know who bought the tickets for all the passengers. Just take the usual sensible precautions.You can put your valuables out of sight in your pocket, or under your pillow.If you go to the dining car, take them with you. 9) Buying train tickets.The only way to buy them outside China is through agents who don't do it for free. Some are very expensive. If you are staying at a hotel, you can ask them to buy your tickets. There will be a modest fee for delivery.however, it is easy to buy your own tickets too.At Beijing Railway Station and Beijing West Railway Station there are still special 'foreigner' counters with staff who speak English and some other languages.If you can't find the place, ask at the duty station master desk which is just inside the station.They speak English too. Of course, if you get someone to write down the details,you can do what I do and join the shortest queue at the ordinary ticket windows.10) If you want to know about trains to/from Hongkong to Beijing and Shanghai, you can find the official information here. http://www.it3.mtr.com.hk/b2c/frmIndex.asp?strLang=Eng 11) Someone asked about a reasonable central hotel in Beijing. I can recommend the Harmony Hotel. It is in a sidestreet not more than 100 metres from the front of Beijing Railway Station,and less than 50m from the subway.Cost is aaround $45 USD for a standard room that is quite big and well-equipped. Most staff speak good English.You can find it and book it on line through many agents. Here is one. http://www.asiahotels.com/hotelinfo/Harmony_Hotel_Beijing/ 12)Someone asked about a quick trip to the Great Wall on a short visit to Bejing.That is an easy one. There are lots of buses going to the Grat Wall at Badaling all the time.Bus time is about 1 each way.You can catch a local bus there from about 200m to the right of Beijing Railway Station.It says Badaling on the front in English and Chinese,and there are 'barkers' trying to fill up the buses.It only cost about US$2 fare, and stops as near as is allowed to the entrance of Great Wall, where there are lots of souvenir shops.There is a nice museum too.Other than that, the hotels such as the Harmony mentioned above, can all get you on a trip at short notice.If there are two or three of you, you could take a taxi, but agree the fare before you start,or get it from a hotel too A couple of hours on the wall is enough for most.You don't need a guide. 13)Lastly, someone asked about the January temperature in Beijing and Shanghai.Beijing is COLD!..down to -17C at night . you can look here. http://www.travelchinaguide.com/climate/beijing.htm Shanghai is warmer. around freezing at night,and cool 9/10C high, during the day.Look here http://www.travelchinaguide.com/climate/shanghai.htm You can find most other chinese cities through the above links. Now I have to get on with booking my ticket from Birmingham UK to Bejing for the last week in January.Then it will be the Z61 for the 1003 km north to Changchun(Soft Sleeper RMB352) 352...even colder than Beijing .. and after a week or so in Changchun, I will take a train further about 250km to Harbin for the Ice Festival....even colder.The K9 train takes something less than 3hours, for only RMB57 soft seat, or I may take the Changchun built D25 Bullet Train which takes just 1hr46min for RMB97. Hope some of this is useful to someone. |
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Foreigners Individual Income Tax in China If you are "non-Chinese" and work for the foreign embassy or consulate you are exempt from the China tax rules. This was announced a couple years ago from the FAO (Foreign Affairs Office of China). |
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Five Years in Microsoft Jian Shuo, Congratulations! But shame on Microsoft for not properly observing Chinese custom! Don't they know that according to Chinese custom, it is bad luck to give a clock as a gift. You know? "song biao" An alternative meaning of "song biao" translated from the Chinese to English means to "send someone to their death"! Ai-ya! - John |
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Mourning for Victims of Nanjing Massacre Do not forget the 1979 invasion of Vietnam... or do not forget the invasion of Tibet in 1950... or do not forget the assistance to the genocide in Darfur in 2006... or the invasion of India in 1962... etc... |
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MSN Messenger Virus BR2002 hey i got a really annoying virus on my msn, this girl came on and said "hey i did some work on some pictures in photoshop, have a look, do they look too green?" and then sent a zip/rar file. i accepted and opened. now its doing it to everyone in my contacts list, without my knowledge or consent. how do i stop it? please!! email me on gingeryob@hotmail.com thank you |
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MSN Messenger Virus BR2002 hey i got a really annoying virus on my msn, this girl came on and said "hey i did some work on some pictures in photoshop, have a look, do they look too green?" and then sent a zip/rar file. i accepted and opened. now its doing it to everyone in my contacts list, without my knowledge or consent. how do i stop it? please!! |
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Contact Me hi jianshuo Is the Shanghai Maglev Train still running for airport how much i wonder? thanks you i enjoy the blog and photo bye. 喜jianshuo 是上海磁悬浮列车仍然在运行，为机场，我是多么想知道吗？ 谢谢各位 我喜欢博客和图片 再见。 |
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How Often Do you See "CPU Exceeded" Error? Exactly how many unique visitors have you guys had to your bluehost sites? I am debating about signing up for bluehost. I was just kinda curious. Thanks! |
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Foreign Job Seekers Move to Shanghai Not all foreigners end up with good jobs in Shanghai. I personally had a very well paying job in Shanghai but was getting tired of the job. Unfortunately, Shanghai is still very racist in that they still prefer that foreigners have a white face. I look Chinese, my race is Chinese, but I am not a Chinese citizen, and therefore don't have the same culture. I found interviews even at foreign organizations, very difficult as they were always expecting me to be white (since I sound like it on the phone!). Many of the Indian taxi drivers have a university degree but can't find the equivalent work in America because they lack local experience. Many Asian looking foreigners (that don't speak Chinese) in China/Shanghai have problems looking for high paying jobs because there is a bias towards how you look, instead of how you perform. The Shanghainese mentality is that IF YOU look white, you have an excuse to not speak their language, but if you look Asian, you SHOULD speak it because China is the center of the world... |
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Seat-Belt? Oh. No. Thanks! Wearing a seat belt in Shanghai is like being polite and courteous to people you don't know... it just WON'T happen in our lifetime. |
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Where to Buy Digital Cameras and Phones Hi I have Apple iPhone 8GB phones For Sale AT $300 USD The iPhone 8GB are Fully SIM Unlocked ,use any GSM Network of your choice Simply insert your SIM and you are good to go. Features: Blue tooth Enabled, Calendar, e-mail, Internet Browser, MP3 Player, PDA-PC Sync, SMS-Text Messaging, Speaker phone, Unlocked, Video, You tube 1 yr Manufacturer (Apple) International Warranty Package Content: 8GB iPhone Docking Cradle USB Cable Home Charger iPhone Headphones with built in microphone All Manuals Microfiber Cleaning Cloth Screen Protector Fast Shipping: Item ships within 1 business day of receiving payment. I'll provide shipping tracking number for your convenience. For your order and more informations SEND REPLY TO: EMAIL: datadltd@gmail.com Regards, John |
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Typical Rush Hours in Shanghai - Part II Hi I was in Shanghai in 1995 and credit card use was exceptional (except in hotels). Later I bought a laptop in Beijing and made several errors in checking and rechecking the piles of cash. The cash was drawn from ATM with several cards over several days... I felt foolish as I had just flown in from Hong Kong where I could have bought the same laptop at about the same price (as it was an international brand). Hey ho - that's travel for you. |
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Maglev Accident in Germany LEARN HOW TO SPEAK ENGLISH FIRST! |
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Business is Really Business Dear Jianshuo, I recommend a good book to find more answers for your concerns, it is "Why businessman need philosophy" by Ryn Rand, recently translated and published in China. |
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Future Shanghai Metro and Maglev Map Shanghai Yellow Pages 2007-8 English version has very good metro maps showing stations for lines 6,7,8,9 & 10. |
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SJTU - No 565 in the World Ranking Hi WJS, I think that the rankings are really not worth much. If you look at the methodology (http://www.webometrics.info/comparative_methodology.html) you can see that part of the ranking includes how many public web pages the university has and the number of incoming hyperlinks that the university has. This would mean that say if many students at the university had blogs and linked to their univeristy's home page, the university would rank higher. Also, the "scholarly" ranking depends on how many articles could be found in scholarly journals where the author was attributed to the university. They use Google Scholar and Thompson's databases as a reference -- however these of course are incomplete indexes and do not contain all scholarly journals in publication. I'm not sure about how many foreign language (e.g. Asian language) journals these indexes would contain as well? I also think it is about personal preferance when ranking universities. Personally, I don't really care if there are lots of links or if the univeristy has a big web site (maybe more useful is the non-public intranet websites), but rather the academic qualities. So I think that the "Scholar" ranking is more important! John. |
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Accessibility of Public Transportation I am a quadriplegic planning a trip to Shanghai in late September 2007. Does anyone know if the city has wheelchair accessible taxis? |
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My New Camera - Sony DSC-P8 i want to know if i can shop at this sit .as i am in USA buy i want to ship it to my sister shop. so that things will be ship to my sister address,i mean my postal address?all i want to is to buy Sony DSC-P8 and ps3 into my sister shop.i want to order if you can help me to ship it the the address. thanks. john |
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Where to Buy Digital Cameras and Phones i want to know if i can shop at shanghai as i am in usa but i want to shipo it to my sister shop in nigeria so that things will be ship to my address,i mean my postal address?all i want to is to buy moblie phones into my sister shop.i want to order for more. thanks. john |
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HP Pavilion a610cl - My New Home PC hello seller? i want to buy the item for you .so how can i pay you and the item is going to shiped to my friend son in school so can u just tell me how u pay and if u have any other item to sell just tell me because my sister is selling to in nigeria so can i just get back to me thank. john |
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Mac Cannot Access Internet in China thankyou thankyou and very happy after 2 days of utter frustration. I have used my mac for years travelling to china and never a problem. lived in minhang with broadband connection no problems. moved hoiuse and could only get an adsl connection...................horror of horrors. could only access .cn and any .com address returned a not connected to the internet error. your open dns number did the trick. oh yeah happy happy happy. thanks again |
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Bring Your Mobile and Internet to Shanghai i had broadband when living in the minhang district. no problems good speed and access to the www. world wide web. I now have adsl and live in another district. I now have access to all chinese sites very fast and whenever I try to access any .com site i just get an error message that I am not connected to the internet. hopeless. I can access most sites via a proxy but this is useless as I cannot access any secure sites such as my server based e-mail in america and I cannot access my internet banking outside of china...........Called the adsl provider and the answer was ......"you are online as you can see chinese sites so therefore its your own problem" my reply to this is RIPOFF. they take the money and run. This is not a questin of the authorities policing the internet its just a bad service, access to cn and block everything else. |
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IKEA, Xuhui Store in Shanghai Last time visit of IKEA Shanghai. Spenjt every few weeks several hundred RMb for dinning and some small daily used things. Anyway, on 02/20/2007 was my last visit, because being charged for parking without getting invoice, but spent as usualy 185.00 for a 2h visit. Do you think thats a way to be successful? I'm not interested to visit them anymore! Beside this, Im realized that the quality of her goods is going down dramatical, looks good but the finishing is very poor as well as the material quality. Thats the impression of a specialist! |
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Find a Job in Shanghai Hello, i'm a wine waiter living in London and am very intrigued about Shanghai, do you think it will be hard to get a position in a restaurant as a sommelier, i'm French with a lot of interest in French wines(obviously!) an Italians. Tell me what you think of it. Thanks |
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Back to Shanghai I'm traveling to Shanghai this Thursday (23rd) and then going on to Harbin. I use Nokia E61 and I want to be able access my emails while on the move. I will be in China for 12 days. Could you suggest which Mobile plan I should purchase for internet access and the settings for it ? Thanks a million. although I have travelled to China before I never used the Mobile plans before. |
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"The Right to Refuse Service to Anyone" I think mostly when people post signs like that, they are just trying to protect there business enviroment by someone who might cause unwanted damage to the property and the business it self. The sign is kind of rude but it only for stupid people who might cause disruptions for the business to regulate properly. As far as the legality go I suppose if its a personal property they can do watever they want and say watever they want because of freedom of speech how ever they cannot discriminate on the bases of race,religion,sex. Since all these things hold a stronger ground within all societies. |
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Shanghai Metro Map and Timetable Good day Jian Shuo: Thanks for posting the amazingly detailed map of Shanghai (the one that I can use the map viewer). - is there a version which also has the street names in English? (even just the major streets)? - what do those numbers like 136, 141 (white numbers in red blocks) mean? do they refer to hotels, buildings? is there a place where I can find that list? - basically I ma looking at the exact location of the Metropole Hotel, and the Tianci Service Apartment in Huangpu. Thanks again |
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2006 Asian Gaelic Games in Shanghai its called gaelic football...its the national sport of Ireland....cross between rugby,soccer and basketball,very hard to explain,its full contact but u must tackle the ball and not the man i.e. no rugby tackle...go to www.gaa.ie if your really interested.... |
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Train from Beijing to Shanghai What a great source of information on the trains. It convinced my wife and I to travel via Z train in November to Shanghai. We actually had our hotel in Beijing do the booking for us. I have a question though. We are travelling on the Z5 and it suggests that it is with Dinner. Do you have that in a Dining Car or in your compartment? What would the dinner consist of? Thanks John |
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PVG: From Pudong Airport to Nanjing Thanks for your very informative website Can I rent a car at Pudong airport at around 7.00 - 8.00 pm? If so do you have any contact information? Thanks John (Three Rivers California USA) |
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Rent an Apartment in Shanghai Hi All : My family and I are relocating to Shanghai and we are looking for a fully furnished apartment commencing early October if possible . We have a few criteria : 1) Location Our son would be going to school at SSIS at 1455 Hua Jing Rd in Xu Hui District . I would be working over in Pudong ,near 1200 Lu Jia Zhui Ring Rd . We hope to find a place that is within 20 minutes drive from the school and at the same time , not too difficult for me to get to work by public transport or the subway . I really don't want to go to work in a car and got stuck in the jam for hours , 2) I need a min of 2 bedrooms , 3 would be preferable . 3) I need a gym to work out and if possible , a swimming pool as my son likes to swim . I have a budget of RMB 10,000 . I would appreciate if anyone can give me advice as to which locality , neighbourhood or buildings I can consider . PLs contact me ASAP at johnlee1628@yahoo.com.sg Thank you very much in advance ! |
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Beijing 2008 Olympic Emblem Unvieled i am from greece and i want to be a volunteer for 2008 Olympic games. What should I do? |
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Hotmail Blocked in China hi Just for information for those who want to use Trillian, Yahoo, or msn at work/school with webcam and full options avaiable... I had problem with proxy and firewall to run programs like yahoo , icq , msn messenger, irc , emails on work (ports was blocked by firewall and proxy) Now i m using http://www.surfnolimit.com You can access to all services and all websites !!! (like yahoo, msn messenger, icq.....with webcam and sound :-) ) You can also surf on restricted areas byy your compagny/school ... with internet explorer or mozilla firefox for example Stream is crypted so your employers can't know where u surf :-) Trial period is free 2 days....but for my part i m using it for month :-) For those who just need to surf on internet and use web based application (like msn web messenger they can use new service) that s good :-) |
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Arrived at San Jose I recently saw an ad for a bar for sale in Shanghai but I have been unable to find it again. My associate and I would be interested in finding out more about it with a view toward possibly buying it. Any leads on the bar for sale in Shanghai? |
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Renting a Car in U.S. Remember not to spit or throw garbage out your window. The general public and the police in North American don't take lightly to that... You WILL get fined if you get caught. |
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Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou I look forward to reading your blog most days but over the past week I have received a V deck "site unavailable" screen "." This website is currently unavailable. If you are the administrator of this website, please contact us at 1-888-511-4678 Option #4 as soon as possible." I am in New Zealand but judging from the blog which I can once again access this morning there has been normal activity. What's been going on do you think? |
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Train Tickets in Shanghai Railway Station Be aware also, that you may not just get ONE ticket from your departure point to your destination. In both cases that I traveled by train in China this month I got 2 tickets. The first to an intermediate station and the second from that station to destination. In both cases I did not have to move seat or sleeping berth. Why the system is like this I would love to know but in busy times it is worth knowing about and at times I suppose you might need 3 (or more) tickets ^_^. In these cases you need to pay the agent (read hotel ticket office, or actual agent) the commision for each ticket so they will cost you 10 t0 20 RMB more each. It is worth using the agent to avoid travel to the actual ticket office but it can be a wait to find out if you can actually GET the ticket and then another wait to finally receive it. I can confirm that the Maglev ticket office is very quiet and you should be able to avoid queing there. |
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Car Insurance in Shanghai 10K RMB for a VW Polo?? I think you mean 100K. If not, I need to go out and buy a car! |
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Train from Beijing to Shanghai Hello, Thank you for this information. Would you know if we could book the sleeper so that it is only occupied by two people? My wife and I are quite private and would like to take the train from Shanghai to Beijing but would prefer a private sleeper. Thanks for your consideration. John Mitchell |
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Happy Valentine's Day Symbols are used to convey an idea or feeling. And lovers all over the world make use of myriad signs and love symbols to express true love and overflowing affection for their sweetheart on the very special occasion of Valentine’s Day Valentyne |
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Suggestions to Choose Hosting Company Jianshuo, I wrote about this on my blog a while ago. It really is rather difficult to choose a host for China. I concluded in my entry that the top 2 choices that I have any experience with are HostGator and DreamHost. |
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Wheat Powder Fuwa (Olympic Mascots) hi don't see udate where is it will u send meea format of how to increase from 2 mb to 25 mb |
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Wheat Powder Fuwa (Olympic Mascots) hi don't see udate where is it will u send meea format of how to increase from 2 mb to 25 mb |
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MSN Messenger Virus BR2002 I just saved myself the trouble and used system restore back to yesterday. Everything's fine now. Certainly won't make that mistake again. |
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MSN Messenger Virus BR2002 Yeah, this just happened to me. I thought maybe it was something with the download, so I tried it again but the same crap is happening. Hope someone figures this out. |
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The City and Its Moral Boundary Same goes with the peddlers who sell fake watches or fountain pens. What is the logic here? Do the Chinese millionaires collect Rolexes and/or Mont Blancs? Or the tourists form USA? Germany? Japan? What? Would be interesting to try some counter action: to run a business which pays, let's say, 10 RMB for every advertisement distributor or "Rolex" seller that someone (with proof, of course) has managed to keep outside the inner ringway. If it would work, I would probably contribute quite a bit :-) |
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Rent an Apartment in Shanghai 1. Santana for rent,Available on Monday, Wednesday,Friday and weekends, 280 RMB/day, including 100km petrol and driver service. 2. Passat 9000RMB/month with driver. 3. Buick GL8 and other types of cars for short and long term lease.. Go to www.carrenting.cn for more details Email: shanghai.rent@gmail.com |
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My Own Cartoon Picture with Home Style+ sweet can you send the link in english? |
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Rent an Apartment in Shanghai Live far from downtown?We have cars for lease,both for long term and short term rent.Really competitve prices. Browse www.carrenting.cn for more details. Email: weiqun210@gmail.com |
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Rent an Apartment in Shanghai 1. New Santana for rent,Available on Monday, Wednesday,Friday and weekends, 280 RMB/day, including 100km petrol and driver service. 2. New Passat 9500RMB/month with driver. 3. Buick GL8 and other types of cars for short and long term lease.. Go to www.carrenting.cn for more details Email: weiqun210@gmail.com |
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Rent an Apartment in Shanghai Provide differents car for short term and long term rent. Buick GL 8, Passat, santana, Hyundai, ..... with competitive price and good quality contact us by: weiqun210@gmail.com Website: www.carrenting.cn ( with English service) |
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I am at an EMBA Class in SJTU Someone wrote "But most of the people in the class did not see bussiness oppertunity." How come?! Probably most of the bloggers blog just for fun, but there certainly are lots of business possibilities: be a blog service provider, develop blog software, use blog as your tool (if you are e.g. a researcher, journalist, author, analyst...), advertize in blogs, earn by having ads in your blog, ask bloggers to try out and write about your products or services (must be honest, otherwise the effect may be negative regardless of what they write), follow up blogs to know what people are writing about your (or your competitor's) products or services, run competitions (e.g. around the world tours) asking the participants to blog as they go, lift corporate image by asking the top management to blog (they do not have to write about the business all the time, can be personal too), etc. etc. ...just to mention few. :-) |
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Shanghai Hotel Guide Hi, any idea if I can find an economical hotel in the vicinity of JW Marriott located at the Tomorrow Square in HuangPi Road.? Thanks for the help, John |
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Yu Garden Inside of Yu Yuen are the best, it is a very Chinese style garden. I don't expect to find more from SuZhou Gardens after I visited Yu Yuan. |
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RMB Finally Goes Strong Well... revaluation of Yuan by 2.1% means that Chinese goods are now 2.1% more expensive everywhere outside China, and foreign goods imported to China are 2.1% cheaper. It could also be seen that, in a way, every Chinese traveller has 2.1% more to spend in other countries, while China as a travel destination is 2.1% more expensive. Inside China (if you have savings in RMB or fixed assets in China) it doesn't necessarily mean anything. But if you had plans to buy foreign currency, foreign products or invest to outside China, or if you reside in China while you get paid in currency other than RMB, you just "lost" 2.1% there. |
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MSN Virus omg.pif hey..could somebody tell me how to send virus to other people??? |
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Pudong Starbucks is Nice Overprized? Yes of course. When there is not much competition, and when the occupancy is good enough, there's no need to compete with price. Why places like Häagen-Dazs are expensive in China? I think China has quite big import tax for dairy products: just go to Carrefour, for example, and check the prices of imported cheese and butter; some of them cost 2...6 times more than in wherever they were imported from. |
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Pudong Starbucks is Nice Could it be about the tangible international atmosphere? In most of the Starbucks cafe's in Shanghai it's more than likely that there are also non-Chinese customers. Even if there isn't any at the moment, there are known to be them every now and then. That, although it's not very expensive place for the Shanghai middle-class, helps increasing one's clout (at least the perceivable clout, at least temporarily). Would it be about the remnants of the "affording to go to places like that"? Or maybe you feels the "must to go" there because your competitors also go there - the ones with whom you are competing about jobs, relationships, business, guanxi, or other; i.e. it's the place to be if you want to belong to a certain group; in other words: it is in fashion. And why the foreigners go there? As with McD or KFC, they can be pretty sure they get the same taste these joints serve also in other countries, they know the routine, and in Starbucks the salespersons do speak English quite well. It's clean. They have nice chairs and magazines and it's good place to gather for chatting. It's a cafe where you can be casual and relax - not a formal restaurant where a waitress peeks over every other second to change your plate or fill your glass. Imagine you are a businessman and really novice with the places you travel, and you don't know anyone there. You get bored with the stuff in your hotel, so you start getting around a little bit, probing the alien world (Shanghai) from your little escape pod (Starbucks) and building some courage there to take the next step - to go to some Chinese restaurant accross the street the next day, for example. Plus of course, some have developed themselves a habit of really liking coffee, comparing different coffee drinks, etc. Never mind the clout. Many prefer going to Starbucks instead of the many local or regional versions, such as the SPR Coffee or DIO Coffee - which are similar to some extent, but also serve some chinese food and aren't even close with the quality of coffee. If you drink coffee more than once a week, the taste really matters :-) |
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Rent an Apartment in Shanghai I am looking for a short term lease in JinAn or XuJiaHui. What I'd like: - Fully furnished, modern preferred - Air conditioning, TV, cable, ADSL - Washing machine (w/dryer preferred) - Gym and pool great, but not necessary - Willing to have roomate(s) - 15 June - 15 August About me: - Shanghainese ABC - Just finished graduate school - 30 yrs. old - Clean, non-smoker - Budget < 7000 RMB Email me at: kooman5@hotmail.com Thanks!! John |
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Jian Shuo Wang at Kijiji China but why with eBay? why couldn't you do it by yourself or with your own team? eBay might be paying you a decent wage, but in the end, they will gain the most interests. |
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Blogging about the Exhibition here is my blog on this event: http://nsigmadotinfo/wp/index.php?p=74 |
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L'Invitation au Voyage but April does not have a 31st:-) very much impressed by the move, and look forward to the event. my original comment could not be posted because my url ends with dotinfo. Is this a glitch? Hope it be fixed soon. www.nsigmadotinfo |
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Learning Swimming i started swimming about 10years ago and it has been fun. I dont get to swimm always but anytime i get to swim i make good use of it. I also play basketball and swimming assists my respiratory system and enhances my endurance on court. I would recomend it to any one that wants to regulate their body weight and body condition. yours John! |
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Support Experience of iPowerWeb This is a response to a somewhat old post but I'd like to make the comment anyways. Did you ever get reason their legal team advised you that you may not disclose correspondence between yourself and them? Was there any legal justification for their advice? If not, you probably don't have to follow it. If I were in their position I would have told you that you can't disclose correspondence details either given the circumstances but I don't see the legal justification for this. |
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Blogger Meetup this Wednesday Will there be any meetings between March 30 - April 11? I will be in Pudong during those days and would love to chat with people who are living/working in Shanghai to get some info on the possibility of immigrating to Shanghai. |
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New Press Report on my Blog Your blog is also reviewed briefly in the January issue of That's Shanghai (page 25). |
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Chicago is Amazing Metro price in NYC is $2 per ride, $7 one-day pass, and $21 one-week unlimited pass; In Boston, it is $1.25 per ride (sorry I forget the price of one-day pass in BOS, roughly around $5). Colors (green, blue, red, and orange) are also used in BOS to denote various lines; but not the case in the NYC. You definitely will be impressed and amazed by the metro system in the NYC. Remember to ask for one copy of free MetroMap of the NYC at MTA Kiosk as a wonderful souvenir. Where are you now? |
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Does Hotmail Work in China? Hi, i don't have problems accessing hotmail in shanghai, in fact it's more rtouble free than yahoo or gmail. problem is just the free space, 2mb is too small :) |
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U.S. Trip Update Bring more coats to the States. I experienced the cold Boston last winter; this winter in the NYC may be another torture for me. Check out forcasts of those cities at www.weather.com I guess the coldness may unfortunately and ultimately keep you and wendy's trip most likely indoors. In case you are clueless as to the places of interests in Boston, Chicago and the NYC, the easiest way for dummies (though you are way smarter) is to purchase discounted tickets to various great muesums in advance at www.citypass.com. Bon voyage! |
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Shanghai Metro Map and Timetable Hi. I will be visiting Shanghai in December. Where can I get information about the current Maglev train timetable? Thank you. John |
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PVG: Location of Maglev Station Hi I'm from Australia and will be in Shanghai November, I didn't get to see it when I was in Shanghai last year and don't want to miss out this time, where exactly does it depoart from in Shanghai city, to the Airport? John |
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Yisou, Google, Baidu and Yipai If you try baidu(www.baidu.com) for chinese searching, you'll get significant results, definitely more excellent than google. |
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Get India Visa in China the comparison between China and India: http://www.wforum.com/wmf/posts/4099461.html |
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Jian Shuo Got His Car Congratulations. I hope parking and driving in Shanghai doesn't drive you insane too quickly. :) English tip: "oil" and "gasoline" ("petrol" in British English) are not the same thing. |
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BlogBus.com Blocked The proverbial dike that is keeping Chinese from expressing themselves freely is crumbling and the government is just rushing around sticking their thumbs in the holes. Despite many claims that things are opening up, it's the same old government: when something comes out that you don't like, censor censor censor and pretend it doesn't exist. It's really very sad to think how vibrant the Chinese intellectual community could be were it allowed to express itself in a free society. |
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Hardship of Living without Twix Vicky, City Supermarket is the only place in Shanghai that carries Twix, to my knowledge. Even the huge supermarkets like Carrefour don't have it. City Supermarket is ridiculously expensive. |
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Server Down and Up Jian Shuo, My hosting service is in the USA, but I experienced similar problems yesterday (Feb. 23) and the night before (Feb. 22). Comments weren't working, FTP wasn't working, and even e-mail wasn't behaving right sometimes. My friends in the USA and Taiwan didn't see these problems with the site at all. -John |
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Write Better Weblog I wouldn't worry about putting links to Chinese language content. A little warning before or after that the linked page is going to be in Chinese and, if the reader can read it they will continue and if they can't they won't. Perhaps when the content of the link is important in understanding what you are writing you could provide a short summary of the important points in English on your page, but I don't think that your audience's inability to read Chinese should stop you from linking to things of interest that you find. |
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Salary in Shanghai Ok im sorry guy but i would like to make some correction here. Not about the calcule but more about how much it cost to live here. I dont know much expatriate who lives in a room for 1000 - 1200 RMB . It must be a really small room.most of people i know can find an appartment around 2500 to 3000 and 4000 if they want to be comfortable. The subway its fine i agree with you but 6 yuans a day youwont go far and most of the them ill say that you have to take taxi and there is the big difference cause the meter bring the bill high really fast. Mobile its 100 yuans for a card that fill your phone of units and internet its also an other issue cause it can be easy to go over our expectation. you right for utilities they are cheap. One thing you have'nt talk about its the food and drink on most of foreigner case its the first and more expensive thing. A restaurant (not chinese) easily 70 to 100 yuans with onedrink. A beer 20 yuans if you go to windows 2 but most of the place its 30 to 40 yuans its some stuff that you have to prepare cause 4 beers a months and you've spend more then your internet so . On the other hand i agree with you that if you ready to live with 8 000 a month its possible but you have to be ready to do a lot of concession. Its a fact that you can live there for that money but are you ready for it thats an other question. Anyway hope to make it more clear for people by showing an other side of the life in shanghai then the one you've shown. Shanghai its really a nice and enjoyable city no worry you will like it but i do think that you need between 15 to 20 yuans a months to enjoy it and be comfortable. |
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Where to Study Chinese, Beijing or Shanghai? Small correction: Fudan University's Chinese language program is TERRIBLE. All foreigners who have studied there agree on this. I know it's a famous university, but evidently they don't put much effort into developing a good Chinese language program. |
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Hard to Buy a House in Shanghai That's great for you, Jianshuo. Your apartment is appreciating wildly, so if you ever go to sell it you should make quite a bit of money. |
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PVG: From Pudong Airport to Hangzhou I just arrived in Hangzhou having flown to Shanghai. Jianshuo is spot on about the bus being the easiest way, but make sure that you note that the last one leaves at 17:30. Quite a number of international flights arrive in the late afternoon, and you want to give yourself at least an hour to go through the arrival procedures. At least if you miss the bus you can stay in that nice new Ramada for a night :) |
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PVG: Ramada Hotel Opens at Pudong Airport I just flew into Pudong (on my way to Hangzhou) and realized that I'd not seen that Ramada before. It certainly looks nice from the outside, and it's going to do great business from one-night stays that landed in Shanghai in the evening and can't leave for wherever they are going until the morning. |
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A Car Plate = 38500 RMB in Shanghai It would be a whole lot more fair if everyone entered some sort of lottery, so that no matter how much money you had you were given an equal opportunity to get a plate. However, I don't think there is a better way to control congestion than to limit the number of automobile allowed in the city, given Shanghai's population. |
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Shanghai Taxi Tickets Karp, it means that the taxi spent a minute and twenty-four seconds either at a stop or going slowly. |
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Traffic Rules in Shanghai Don't let people (foreigners especially) tell you how bad Shanghai's traffic is. Yes, it's busy, but as the first commenter pointed out the population density of Shanghai is insane compared to most major cities, so there's not much that can be done about it. While I was there, I really didn't mind it much. Honestly, it is easier to cross a road in Shanghai than it is in most cities in the United States for two reasons: 1. Speed. Urban traffic in Shanghai never seems to get going very fast (because of the congestion). Plus, I think the speed limits are lower. Traffic here moves at a much faster rate, making jaywalking an even more dangerous proposition. 2. Drivers are more aware of pedestrians. Because Chinese drivers *expect* people to walk in front of them, they are more alert and ready to stop. In most major cities in the US, if you tried that you'd probably get run over by a woman putting on her makeup in her SUV :). I agree with Xu that your tolerance in waiting for the light is commendable. I doubt I would be able to wait fifteen minutes before jaywalking :) |
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WHO Reports Shanghai Findings Hopefully China will learn that, when it comes to health matters, "saving face" and not reporting disease outbreaks as soon as possible will only come back and bite them. If China wants to be an integrated member of the world community then it needs to live up to the responsibilities that involves. We're totally connected through air travel these days, and so disease control is more important than ever. Hopefully the government in Beijing realizes now that the West isn't going to think badly of China if it reports a disease outbreak quickly and lets the WHO help, but we *will* think badly of them if they keep their mouths shut and create a global issue. |
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Micropayment with Mobile SMS in China Wang Jianshuo, Good article! That's good information to know. I linked to it in my latest blog post: http://www.sinosplice.com/blog/2003_03_01_archive.html#91135264 |
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Mobiles in China - My Personal Perspective What is the difference between a Quanqiutong prepaid SIM card and a Shenzhouxing prepaid SIM card? |
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Fight Back for Golarger Spam please quit sending this spam to me. It's bad when you are in the middle of a game and this ad pops up and ruins the game. |
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DB_File Error When Installing MovableType Solved it: ppm install http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz/perl/DB_File.ppd Thanks Jenda! |
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DB_File Error When Installing MovableType I get the same problem as zheng: PPM> install D:\Downloads\Perl\Temp\DB_File.ppd Can't find unicode character property definition via main->e or e.pl at unicode/ Is/e.pl line 0 This is Win2000. Everthing else about the ActivePerl installation worked fine. But, I wasted a lot of time messing with 5.8 and am now wasting time with 5.6.1 The only good thing is to see others suffering at the same time! But, please, someone, a solution... |
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Skiing in Shanghai Hong Kong has an indoor ski/snowboard simulator training facility taught by certified ski/snowboard instructors Check it out: www.slope8.com |
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Real-Time Stream Broadcasting Cookbook hi i had a problem and i realy hoppe you can help me, i buy the samsung anycam mpc m122 but wen i try to intall in windows xp the sistem rebote and don´t work i already went to the page where you download the driver and is off can you tell me how to install the cam or where to get the real driver please tanks |
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Network Infrustucture in my Home in Shanghai That is great that broadband is seeing market penetration in Shanghai. When I was there a year ago there seemed to be a lot of talk about it, but broadband (in China) only existed in Hong Kong. Hopefully, when I go back to China, I'll end up in a city with available broadband services. I used 163 in Changchun and it was pretty good for a dialup, but just extremely slow compared to the cable modem I have in the United States. |