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Talking with a friend of mine (via emails) about the mad Korean who killed 33 people in a US university reminded me my own unhappy memories during my school time in China, although my experience shares little resemblance with that Korean as they mainly come from unfair treatments I had from mad teachers.
In China, some […]

Lots of people in China want to move to the west because life is often considered to be easier in those countries. But now I’ve actually discovered that lots of monks also want to move overseas. In fact, lots of them want to move to Canada because Buddism is getting hot in Vancouver these days […]

I’ve just read something funny on a Chinese website. Recently, a popular comedy star from China went on a tour to US with his team of actors. But without being aware of the vast cultural differences between China and US, his actors repetitively made fun of physically handicaped, mentally retarded and fat people in his […]

English language is hot in China. Actually, speaking English is considered to be quite fashionable among urban Chinese nowadays. The fact that the younger generation is devoting huge amount of time learning the language has raised the question of whether it is worth it. It is ture that learning a foreign language can be very […]

I thought this is a futuristic concept hotel when I first saw it on Shanghaiist, but it is not. In fact, this five-star resort hotel will be built within a beautiful water-filled quarry in the Songjiang district close to Shanghai in China. It’s also said this cool hotel will integrate lots of green features ranging […]

Now people in the west are becoming increasingly aware of the Chinese new year, tomorrow is the new year’s day, so I will expect some people saying ‘happy new year’ to me, and asking how Im going to celebrate. In fact, I rarely celebrate for any festivals, I have not given much thought for this […]

Today, after work I went to Waterstones (a major book store chain in the UK) to look for some books on webdesign. While skimming through a small book called ‘Blogsphere: best of blogs’, I noticed an interesting comment on one of the blogs the book recommends, it goes ‘Sex blogger Belle De Jour tells stories […]

Recently I read a post on mobile internet from Marc van der Chijs’ Shanghaied Weblog, Marc is a successful internet entrepreneur in China, he seemed to be convinced about the huge demand that will be generated in China for mobile internet services once 3G (third-generation wireless network) is launched. (By the way, 3G has been […]