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2 weeks to go …. Some thoughts

2 more weeks and it will be the Olympics in Beijing. But I don’t feel anything about it. I can’t care any less.
I’m getting more and more sluggish at work. Need to pull myself to complete the June accounts asap.
A distant auntie wants to introduce me to a girl in Shanghai because an uncle apparently [...]

BEIJING TRAFFIC: as American Football

Taken shamelessly from Good Morning China!
BEIJING TRAFFIC: as American Football
To help you understand Beijing traffic, and perhaps to one day navigate its hazards, I’ve come up with the following analogy. I hope you find it helpful.
BEIJING TRAFFIC: as American Football
Traffic lights: BAD QUARTERBACK
In Beijing, a traffic light is like a quarterback- an extremely bad one. [...]

Taizhou

Went to Taizhou, in Jiangsu province last week, for business purpose. Arrived there on Thursday evening, had the meeting on Friday afternoon (the time was moved because one of the people attending was still out of town), took the coach back to Shanghai on Saturday morning. I had no time to visit the place. But [...]

Note to myself

1. Take out the clothes immediately after the washing machine finishes the cycle late at night. Leaving it till the next morning results in the clothes smelling funny.
2. Stop being afraid to press the light switch on. Fuses blow up, it is normal. Just keep a candle around.
3. Keep trying to learn Chinese.

Protected: Soon China v. Carrefour? (tap ‘bourik’)

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Chinese unhappy with events

As it’s been well documented, the Chinese people are unhappy about the way ‘Western’ media portraits the Tea bet issues, and the ‘aggressions’ on the torch bearers (especially the one on the handicapped lady). As a result, they’ve pinpointed the French as the recipient of their anger. (This plus the fact that the French president [...]

Digital TV only for Mauritius

I just read an old article on the website Servihoo where the local national broadcasting station, the MBC, is pushing for the switch to digital TV.
À partir de 2009, tous les foyers mauriciens devront avoir un décodeur pour capter la Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) en numérique. “Les Mauriciens devront obligatoirement avoir un décodeur pour capter [...]

Wii or Xbox?

That’s my main question right now. Forget the income tax seminar (that I didn’t attend because I got sick), never mind the list of duties that the Chinese accountant just gave me (it looks like I will have to setup and take care of the whole thing). All in my mind is the question: Wii [...]

Snowing now

It’s been very cold in Shanghai lately, and today it snowed a little in the morning, and it is snowing right now. I would have taken a distant shot of the building where trains stop if I had my camera with me, but I left it in Mauritius. There’s a little layer of snow that [...]

Update

Picture taken from 9tour.cn
It’s been a long time since I posted anything. Been busy/lazy/whatever ….
I am now in Shanghai, feeling darn cold. I will spare the rants about Air Mauritius’s lack of Chinese music and movie channels not properly identifiable. There is no HK destination on the list of flights.
I moved into a small apartment, [...]