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9 Went to Shanghai Community Church

Hi Wonton...i am a guy,26,i am an evangelic christian, i am from Italy and i read your last comment...
I only would like to say that is not true that "you can not say grace without food on the table",because God will provide the food for us,even if you can not see the food on your table, if you really believe in God,you have to pray Him and for sure, God will provide what you need!

It's written that even the flowers of the fields are dressed up and the birds of the sky have food...and we are much more important than them to God's eyes...

I hope these words could be usefull for your faith.

That God could bless you Wonton.

Marco


Posted by Marco at 2007-12-05 10:42:03. More

8 My Dream Travel Destination

We were in Rome during May and we rent a room from Hotel Felice for our last day of stay. this hotel is very very very convenient to the terminal, literally 2 minutes walk from the terminal which train is the best transportation between the city and the airport, extremely easy to get on the train (you don't have to go up and down to the platform to get on to the train.) the room i had was on the 1th floor, we had big window in the room which is cool to keep air circulating while the AC is working fine, nice small bathroom, stand up shower which is good, the room was pretty big, pretty roomy.
i will definitely stay there if i will visit Rome again, for its price, for its condition and definitely for its location being closed to the terminal. you can find all transportation you need to travel around Rome in the terminal. you don't really need to join any tour at all. . Book direct with the hotel via their website for the best deal: www.hotelfelice.com

Posted by Marco at 2007-05-18 23:44:58. More

7 Reading/Writing Chinese in Windows XP

try to install AppLocale from microsoft it's free and it works for me
Posted by Marco at 2007-02-21 02:22:08. More

6 Visited Yangshan Deep Water Port

IMHO Yangshan Port will become a transhipment port and not (only) a terminal port: probably smaller feeder vessels from the ports in eastern China will carry boxes forth and back, and larger vessels will sail oceanic routes.
Bridge access will be used for local transport, but it will probably become a lesser part of the overall traffic.

I didn't find any confirmation of this opinion, I will check later on when I'll move to ShangHai next february!
Posted by Marco at 2006-12-26 02:37:38. More

5 Stop NET SEND spam

hi i was wondering how to send messages to other computers in a computer lab using "run" from the start menu on windows. i know to type CMD then enter. then when it gets to the black screen. what do i type..isnt it net send _____

thanks
Posted by marco at 2006-08-06 08:26:58. More

4 Badminton Made Me Feel Good

By the way Jian Shuo Wang, this is a bit off-topic but a previous post made me think of it-- I'm half-Filipino, and several of my relatives (mostly cousins) back in the Philippines, have been interested in getting "skills-based" work permits to work and train in China, and I was wondering what you know about the work permit situation for skilled Filipinos to go to China (and I presume for skilled Thais and Vietnamese to do the same).

All of my relatives are skilled workers with college degrees and specialist training of one sort or another. Two of my cousins are nurses, one is a physician (nephrologist who basically works on dialysis machines and kidney transplants), one is an electrical engineer, another an audio/acoustic engineer, another a computer programmer, an uncle is a botanist, and one other cousin is an industrial chemist-- we're basically a big family with a strong emphasis on education.

The reason I'm posting here, is that all my Filipino relatives are interested in possibly working and maybe even immigrating (for two of my cousins) to China. There's been a lot of "buzz" in the Philippines about prospects of working in China for skilled Filipino workers, and a lot of people-- including my relatives-- have been taking intensive Mandarin Chinese courses lately. China is probably the #1 destination of interest for skilled Filipino workers, due to geography among other reasons-- unlike the millions of Filipinos who work in Europe, Arab countries or in North or South America, those Filipinos who work in China are closer to home, and it's much easier for us to commute between China and the Philippines, as well as to maximize our business between the two countries.

One of my cousins who's a nurse though, said she was getting frustrated because it's so hard to get a work permit. She's exactly the type of worker who'd be great for China's economy-- she's a highly-trained "intensivist nurse" (she works in an Intensive Care Unit helping e.g. heart attack sufferers to recover) and speaks excellent Chinese, both from courses she took and her current fiance, who is half Filipino Chinese. She also trained in Germany for 2 years and so knows some German as well as has the specialist skills with advanced equipment (including the newest CT-scanners) that they actually manufacture in Germany, with companies like Siemens. She really wants to work in China, and is even considering the possibility of immigration to China with her fiance. But so far, despite her high skill level and intensive training and experience, she says she's been unable to get a work permit, and in fact she's now starting to consider going to Germany or Italy to work instead.

Does China have a special visa program for skilled workers from nearby in East and Southeast Asia-- for countries like the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia-- maybe that my cousin hasn't yet become aware of? I think we Filipinos could be a tremendous resource for you, as millions of us with special skills would like to work in China, and we're both highly educated and very hard-working. I've been in China a couple times before and seen how many of the hospitals are under-staffed and exhausted, and with the number of nurses and doctors that the Philippines trains, we could help you enormously here. Also, remember that millions of us have some Chinese ancestry ourselves. But from my relatives' experiences, it seems like China's driving many of us away and telling us that we're not wanted-- and so we wind up mostly going farther away, to Europe, the Americas and the Middle East. Both of us-- both Filipinos and Chinese-- lose because of this.

But I wonder if there actually *are* more opportunities to get work permits for skilled workers from the Philippines and Vietnam to work in China, and maybe my relatives just haven't been aware of them? Or maybe they just don't know the right way to apply? Do we need connections or sponsors within China? I'd greatly appreciate any helpful suggestions you might have on this topic.
Posted by Marco at 2006-07-09 19:32:36. More

3 Badminton Made Me Feel Good

Ni hao Jian Shuo Wang,

I'm from Colorado and used to play tennis and basketball all the time, but badminton's become my new favorite sport. It's really the ultimate sport in some ways-- competitive, athletic with a net, can be played individually or in teams, intense. It's a shame that it's not more popular in the USA. It's similar to the way Americans just don't get interested in the Soccer World Cup-- I feel like we're missing out on a lot of the best that world athletics has to offer.
Posted by Marco at 2006-07-09 19:08:09. More

2 Pudong Airport Maglev in Depth

Great job Jian Shuo Wang! I actually had the opportunity to ride the maglev train a few months a back and it was a great experience.

http://blog.photos2view.com/marco/travel/locations/asia/china/shanghai/top-speed-on-the-maglev-in-shanghai

Shanghai is such a beautiful city - it really beat my expectations of it.

BTW - damn this blog is being spammed badly!!!
Posted by Marco at 2005-09-13 23:22:49. More

1 MSN Messenger Spam

I would like to know how can I block downloading msn messenger. I remove it and my daughter downloads again. There must be a way to set a control that even my bright kid can't figure out. Please get back to me anyone with a solution I'm desperate.
Posted by marco at 2004-03-18 11:23:15. More