The weather was pretty weird in recent days in Shanghai!
It was raining (heavy rain with thunderstorm) in the last two weeks.
Then we had chilly rain on Monday and light snow on Tuesday.
We got the coldest day in March (-2 degrees), but fortunately the sky was cleared up. Read the rest of this entry »
For those who are going to visit Shanghai soon, this would be a great news.
The Bund renovation project is right on schedule. The news said that the new Bund will be open to the public from 28th March.
Today when I was passing the bund, I saw the main construction has been completed, although the Bund area is still blocked for visitors.
I am starting my Chinese New Year holiday today!
Just a couple of days to go before the Chinese New Year. Shops are packed with people now. Every Chinese is doing the final preparation for this special day. It’s the most important day for every Chinese no matter where he/she is. Read the rest of this entry »
Have you been to Shanghai IKEA recently?
I just came back from IKEA today and found some interesting changes: Read the rest of this entry »
Question from Chris:
Hi!
We will travel to shanghai from Malaysia. May i know how much of the D train per pax from shanghai to Hangzhou, and also from Hangzhou to shanghai? We will stay at La Residence at Zhenning Road, Can you suggest which train we should take?
Can we book online? Or must buy directly at the counter? Read the rest of this entry »
If you are working at Zhangjiang High Technology Park and also have to work 14-24 Feb 2010 (hope not because it is the Chinese New Year Holiday week), this information would be relevant.
Because of the Metro Line 2 Extended Route Construction, Zhangjiang High Technology Park Station will be closed 14-23 Feb 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
The Lotus Supermarket was closed for refurbishment a couple of months ago. Personally I found it was inconvenient because after the exhausting shopping of clothes, shoes etc in the mall, I usually would like to buy some groceries at the end and cook a simple dinner when I return home. Read the rest of this entry »
When I went to Andy’s office today, I found the desktop of his computer was a girl’s picture which looked very familiar…
Mmmmm… that was weird! As I know, Andy is a very professional guy, why he uses a pretty girl’s picture as his computer desktop background and apparently the girl was not his current girlfriend because it was Michele Lee, a Hong Kong actress. Read the rest of this entry »
As promised, I took my 5 year old nephew to Shanghai Zoo to see the EXPO pandas last weekend.
I can’t remember when was my last time in the zoo. 20 years ago?! Read the rest of this entry »
I didn’t know today (22 Jan 2010) is La Ba Jie until I watched the morning news.
La Bameans the eighth day of the 12thmonth in Chinese Lunar Calendar. The whole month is regarded as the coldest time in the year and in Chinese we put La in front of some other word to indicate this special time, for example La Yue is putting La in front of the Yue (month) means the coldest month. Read the rest of this entry »
Today’s news said that visitors now can go to Shanghai Zoo to see the 10 EXPO Pandas. The 10 pandas arrived in Shanghai from Sichuan early this month and specially for 2010 EXPO visitors. Read the rest of this entry »
Have you seen the map of Shanghai Metro? Read the rest of this entry »
As I blogged before, it is a really bad idea if you need to travel around China before the Chinese New Year. Students, migrant workers, people who work out of their hometowns are all going home. Everyone is on the road!
Official news has announced this year peak season starts from 30 Jan till 10 Mar. Read the rest of this entry »
I am searching the best deal for flight to Chengdu during Chinese New Year now. (If you are going somewhere during Chinese New Year in China, you’d better to start searching now!)
Many friends recommended me to have a look at Taobao.com (largest e-Commerce website in China. Chinese eBay). I did find some good deals there but just didn’t know if I can trust those agents. Read the rest of this entry »
One of the Chinese property website released those figures. Let’s have a look to see how true it is. Read the rest of this entry »
When millions of Chinese netizens are still hot talking about Baidu, Chinese internet search engine, was hacked yesterday, today the news about Google to end its operations in China quickly caused even hotter discusssions on the internet. Read the rest of this entry »
In recent days, people in Shanghai has changed ‘how are you’ to
‘ Have you watched Avatar?’
In front of Peace Cinema in Raffles City, which has the only IMAX screen in Shanghai, there are always people queueing up for a ticket to watch IMAX 3D Avatar. Read the rest of this entry »
It was raining all day yesterday in Shanghai. So nasty. Too wet and cold to go anywhere.
Even worse. I didn’t have any food left in my apartment. So I decided to order some pizza online.
Thank God. I still have the Internet connection. Read the rest of this entry »
Today after some fruits, fishes, vegetables shopping in the wet market, I went to the rice shop nearby.
When I handed a 20RMB note to the owner, he had a quick look and then returned it to me asking:
‘Can you give me another one or 2 Ten?’ Read the rest of this entry »
What is the hottest in town?
No doubt! Read the rest of this entry »
