Archive for September, 2006
National Day & Mid-autumn festival
Tomorrow the Golden Week starts. It’s the National Day 国庆节 tomorrow and on this occasion it’s one week off for most people. During this period, huge quantity of people travel from city to city, to see relatives or to relax and visit some other areas of China. No need to say that it’s really hard [...]
Posted: September 30th, 2006 under China, Food and Beverage, Leisure, Lifestyle, Transport.
Comments: 3
Moving to Beijing
I plan to move to Beijing at the end of this week, where I will be spending the next few months taking mandarin courses and looking for a job there. Now, many people have been (more than) a little surprised. If for learning mandarin, why not stay in Shanghai and do it there? I mean, [...]
Posted: September 24th, 2006 under China, Housing, Lifestyle, Study, Work.
Comments: 3
Mac stolen
I just got news that yesterday someone had broken into my bro’s house and stole my Mac which he had borrowed! Damn!
Worse is that all the docs re. serial number, installation disks, etc were in the laptop bag which the thief took away.
Posted: September 18th, 2006 under Lifestyle, Mauritius, Web and IT.
Comments: none
Take Chinese lessons again
It’s decided. After hearing the lady at the restaurant saying several times she didn’t understand at all what I wanted to order, I am going back to study mandarin for a few more months. I need to start practising it a lot, get back to the so-so level I was before I went back home.
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Posted: September 14th, 2006 under China, Lifestyle, Study.
Comments: 1
Back to SH
Just got back a few hours earlier. Raining heavily in Shanghai. Caught a cold, going to bed now. Sick on my day back. What the heck.
But I was really shocked when my housemate told me I left the appt’s key outside in the keyhole!!!!! I thought I lost the key while I was [...]
Posted: September 11th, 2006 under China, Housing.
Comments: 2
Off to HK to renew visa
Ok, I am off to HK to renew my visa there. Be back in China during the weekend. I am not bringing my digital photocam, so won’t take any picture.
Posted: September 6th, 2006 under China, Leisure, Lifestyle.
Comments: none
Waiter, can I have some of these?
These pictures are not for the faint hearted, sorry! I got these pictures recently and I was really surprised. I was wondering if these are fake ones, but heck, it wouldn’t be surprising if they were true. After all, don’t we say that the Chinese would eat everything that has legs except for chairs and [...]
Posted: September 5th, 2006 under China, Food and Beverage.
Comments: 3
Ubuntu - Post 2
Oh well… not only didn’t I get no answer so far from the person I directly asked for help, but now I’ve made things worse by blacklisting my bcm43xx, resulting in Ubuntu not recognising/detecting the wifi card. Now, how do I undo this?
On the plus side, I am using Listen for mp3 [...]
Posted: September 1st, 2006 under Ubuntu, Web and IT.
Comments: none