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29 Backed Up All My Documents

Considering the need to re-install an operating system every two months doesn't really positively demonstrate the capabilities of the operating system, does it? :)
Posted by Nirmalya at 2008-01-22 23:12:42. More

28 Seat-Belt? Oh. No. Thanks!

The 3 common reasons are absolutely crazy! And also the comment "maybe,because we never need seat-belt when we sit on chairs" is not good enough an excuse! The Shanghainese can takes efforts in mimicking the west, but why can't they take on some good qualities from the west, like for instance wearing seatbelts.
Posted by Nirmalya at 2007-10-30 09:01:32. More

27 Nanpu Bridge

Isn't this bridge that was featured on the Discovery channel, (if not mistaken) for holding a record for being the fastest cable-stay bridge?
Posted by nirmalya at 2007-02-11 21:51:01. More

26 My Drawings in Hong Kong

This is absolutely brilliant. Personally, I like the drawing of Gate 15 more than the one you drew whilst waiting for check-out.
Posted by nirmalya at 2007-01-27 02:10:30. More

25 Too Many Entries in a Blog

For starters, you could stop publishing OOB (out of blogging) posts. I don't mean to be rude, but just keying in my thoughts.. if your really don't have much to write on a day or are busy, the just dont post anything (for that day) :)

Secondly, you could delete/phase-out old/obsolete entries.
Posted by nirmalya at 2006-07-31 07:42:07. More

24 Many People Got Cold

Seems like the cold/flu 'minidemic' is not just in Manila alone then. Of the 10 in the office here, over half are coughing, sneezing or got a sore throat..
Posted by Nirmalya at 2005-03-24 22:24:16. More

23 Bandwidth Crisis - Part Two

"The Google advertisement on my site has covered all the hosting cost already." -- Hi, JianShuo, wouldn't placing this text under "Donation" trigger users to be "coaxed" into clicking the Ads (thereby violating the Terms & Conditions of AdSense) ? Just a thought..
Posted by Nirmalya at 2005-01-09 05:15:52. More

22 Bamboo at Mt. Tian Mu, Lin An

Brilliant!
Posted by nirmalya at 2004-11-01 11:33:04. More

21 Wayback Wangjianshuo's Blog

I like the first version of your blog (like the one on Sep 22, 2002). It has smaller font, nicer colours and looks much more mature than the current one.
Posted by nirmalya at 2004-10-04 10:59:32. More

20 Hong Kong - the Amazing City

600 pictures in ~ 3 days!! Wow! Thats impressive!
Looking forward to seeing them on your blog.

Here are some amazing pics of HK,
http://www.pbase.com/accl/hong_kong
Posted by nirmalya at 2004-08-31 21:27:53. More

19 See How Many Articles I Wrote

Aline said, "I'd probably spend a whole day to go through them all.".. Oh really?
Assuming a respectable average of 3 minutes reading time per entry, you'd spend 2166 minutes to read thru them all; and a day has just 1440 minutes :)
Posted by nirmalya at 2004-08-25 12:05:55. More

18 Last Night in Shanghai

On Sunday, August 22, 2004, Jian Shuo Wang said
"There are two kinds of rains in Shanghai - one only left dirt on your car and the other washes your car"

Haha! That's such a wonderful sentence to quote!
I'm not sure about others, but I find it quite amusing
Posted by nirmalya at 2004-08-23 04:05:06. More

17 About Starbucks Tour in Beijing

Starbucks inside the Forbidden City? How could the party officials allow that??
Posted by nirmalya at 2004-08-18 02:46:54. More

16 Shanghai Taxi Colors

I remember reading somewhere that one learns atleast two new things each day.
I for sure learnt atleast two things today!
One of them is the colour "Indian Red" :-)

Thanks JianShuo, for sharing with us the photos (and also for fulfilling our request so quickly :-) )
Posted by nirmalya at 2004-08-16 22:48:49. More

15 Why Shanghai's Taxi is Good

I agree with WilliamW!
Even though I am an Indian, this is the first time I am hearing te term, "Indian Red".
I'd like to learn whats the differenece between French- and Indian- red :)
Posted by nirmalya at 2004-08-15 12:06:25. More

14 Why I Don't Have an English Name

Regarding whether John Smith should have a Chinese name (Shi Dawei) in China, I don't think that's a matter of 'should' or shouldn't.

I agree with Michael's comment on having an English name does not always break the cultural barrier. But I don't quite agree with the ".. it could be *your* problem if the "other person" has information you need but decide not to talk to you because he is afraid that he might get your name wrong..". --- If the other person has genuinely tried pronouncing your name and really cannot (quite unlikely), then such a case isn't it common practice to comeup with a nickname only used by a few to address you (till they get a hang of your name)? My boss is a Chinese. Initially he found my name hard to pronounce, so he used 'nim' till he could manage pronouncing my name correctly.
Posted by nirmalya at 2004-08-08 16:36:10. More

13 Why I Don't Have an English Name

Jian Shuo, one of the reasons I admire you is because you DO NOT USE an English name which otherwise is so sterotypical of so many other Chinese!

To other readers of Chinese descent, I mean no offence. But I very seriously think that you should respect your own culture much more than the amount of importance you give to Western 'values'. Having a "cool" name like 'Jason'/ 'Jackson'/ 'Michelle'/whatever .. followed by your surname (Chen/Chin/Lee/Lin/Lim/Wang/Wong/etc) which (if I'm not mistaken) should normally be appearing first .. is most likely not going to earn you extra respect.

If someone finds it difficult to pronounce a Chinese/Indian/Japanese/Korean/Russian/Arabic/African name - then its THEIR problem, not yours. Let THEM make the added effort to get the pronunciation right. Don't you think so?

I'd definitely respect those who stick to their given names/cultural-values/etc in light of ever increasing western influence.
Posted by nirmalya at 2004-08-08 01:02:32. More

12 Starbucks in a Day - Beijing Version

I quite agree with tommy's comments.. you're much more likely to find "real" people in teashops, subway stations, wet markets etc.. the likes of Starbucks, McDonalds, etc, are just for snobs..
Posted by Nirmalya at 2004-08-06 18:30:20. More

11 Welcome Eric and Claire

Wonder when Google will come out with their automatic Chinese-English translation service at http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
:D
Posted by Nirmalya at 2004-08-03 12:56:02. More

10 Longest Business Trip in Beijing

Reaching 10,000! Wow! Quite impressive. But how many of ~10k hits are unique sources?

If you copy the following to your favorite address browser's address bar,
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=link:gBXKu7dv2YcJ:www.wangjianshuo.com/

It comes up with 260 results only.
These are the URLs that link to your domain 'www.wangjianshuo.com'.

No mention oh how many unique sources, so I searched for your domain on Technorati,
http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&url=www.wangjianshuo.com%2F
it came upwith just 25 Links from 24 Sources

Speaking of 'wealth of linkage currency' according to Blogshares,
http://blogshares2.got.net/blogs.php?blog=http://home.wangjianshuo.com%2F
your current valuation is B$36,773.22
Posted by nirmalya at 2004-07-29 07:26:28. More

9 Last Google Dance

It did indeed. If not mistaken the date was a Tuesday, either June 29th or July 6th this year. According to a classmate of mine, many webmasters were rushing to update their keywords in the 'meta' tags
Posted by Nirmalya at 2004-07-23 03:38:13. More

8 Last Google Dance

If not mistaken, I had heard that Google was to upgrade its PageRanking technology; and this was sometime around the first week of July. So, thats probably when the last 'Google dance' was.
Posted by nirmalya at 2004-07-22 22:39:27. More

7 Bulk Purchase from IKEA

With so much else to do in such little time that we have these days, photoblogs are definitely the way to go.
Posted by Nirmalya at 2004-07-21 10:40:10. More

6 Domain Name PVG.CN Registered

Btw, all the links for te text 'Pudong Airport website' are pointing to
http://www.http.com//www.wangjianshuo.com/personal/places/pudongairport/
Thot you'd like to take note of that.
Posted by Nirmalya at 2004-07-14 11:06:28. More

5 Transferred to Microsoft Consulting Service

Congratulations Jian Shuo!
Btw, does this change mean that you have to move to Beijing?
Posted by nirmalya at 2004-07-07 06:37:55. More

4 Typhoon Mindulle Hits Shanghai

On July 4, 2004 12:09 AM, Jian Shuo Wang said :
> It is a pitty that I was driving - it was not easy to handle the car without
> taking pictures already. :-D On the road, there is always some interesting
> scene but I cannot take them.

Understandable.
Oh well.. Perhaps next year (your wife will have got her license long before then), you can take some pics assuming you are in the passenger seat :)
Posted by nirmalya at 2004-07-05 15:23:50. More

3 Typhoon Mindulle Hits Shanghai

> The whole city looked so strange when I passed the Nanpu Bridge - like
> those in oil-painting.

Why dont u take some photos and share with us? :)
Posted by nirmalya at 2004-07-03 23:56:02. More

2 Price Rules in China Market

Haha! Shanghai seems sooo much like Singapore in this respect :p
Posted by nirmalya at 2004-07-01 00:53:19. More

1 Personal Social Network Management

I came across a software that seems to match your requirements.
Plaxo, http://www.plaxo.com/

Regards,
nirmalya
Posted by Nirmalya at 2004-06-19 13:16:56. More