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 More…
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 More…
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 More…
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 More…
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 More…
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 More…
What is the hottest in town?
No doubt! Read More…
Probably in western countries, after the Christmas and New Year, everything is gradually back to normal, party is getting to the end. But in China, no, no, no….. Christmas and New Year is just the warm up for the biggest event of the year, Chinese New Year!
Every year, Penny, my friend who is working in an American non-profit organisation feels like to have two months off at work. Read More…
I just can’t believe tomorrow is the last day of 2009! The time is really flying……
Anyway I almost decided I will join the countdown party in Lujiazui this year to celebrate the coming 2010 tomorrow. Read More…
If you are going to spend your 2010 New Year in Shanghai, this might be a good news.
In order to celebrate the 2010 New Year and the coming 2010 World EXPO, Shanghai Pudong Commerce Commission will organise a half price campaign day in Pudong on 31st 2009. Read More…
According the Chinese Lunar Calendar, 22 December this year is the winter solstice (in Chinese pronounced as Dong Zhi), which marks the start of the coldest time of the year.
I believe Chinese Lunar Calendar and recent weather forecast also proved it as Shanghai is going to minus 3 - 4 degrees this weekend! Read More…
When I saw the huge Christmas tree in the lobby of my office building, I decided to start my year end shopping with some Christmas deco first.
After consulting some colleagues, the right direction: Yu Garden.
Yu Garden is not only a garden, actually it is a area full or markets, small shops, street foods etc. Sometimes local Shanghainese refer it as the Shanghai version of Yiwu because there are a few wholesale markets of gifts, art crafts, clothing, accessories etc around Yu Garden as well. Read More…
If you are looking for an opporunity to work as an English trainer in Shanghai, you might need to be more cautious.
The news said Kai En English Training Center, which has been teaching English in Shanghai for more than 13 years, was closed suddently yesterday (15 Dec), leaving the English learners and teachers stranded. Read More…
Although I am updating the post of Shanghai 2009 Year End Sale Events, I didn’t go to any of them until today. So I really felt guilty whenever I receive emails from the readers asking for some comments. Read More…
The State Council has announced 2010 Chinese New Year Public Holiday arrangement as below:
13 - 19 Feb 2010 (inclusive): Chinese New Year Public Holiday Read More…
An interesting thing happened in Metro Line 7 (the latest Metro Line in Shanghai):
A man set up a tent in the train to find a wife.
Photos below provided by Mr. Xu, a Chinese Netizen. Read More…
Wendy, my super busy friend called me this morning.
‘ Lunch today? I can come to Pudong.’
‘ Oh, don’t you need to work today?’ Read More…
As I blogged before, Chinese is really creative to invent some new special occasions (click here for my previous blog). And today 11th November is Guang Gun Jie (Singles Day or One’s Day) in China, not acknowledged by the government but well received by the public. Guang Gun is the nick name in Chinese for a single.
Why is today? Simple, 11.11. Can you find another day with more 1? Read More…
While the arguments about Lou Jing, the Shanghai Black Girl is still hot in town (see my previous blog about Lou Jing), a 20 year old Shanghai girl gave a birth to a Black Baby whose father is still unknown this month Read More…
Drying clothes out of the windows in public might be one of the unique things made in Shanghai. Because of the limited living space, Shanghainese has invented lots of clothes drying ranks to allow them to make the best use of the space out of the window on the wall.
Whenever there is a nice shining day, bed sheets, quilt covers, clothes are everywhere in the air above your head especially in the old local residential blocks. The government has put a lot of efforts to educate people to give up this tradition because hanging clothes in public is considered as an uncivilised thing which should be abandoned. Read More…
