Suna in Wonderland

During Chinese public holiday it’s best to stay in Shanghai because it’s going to be crowded everywhere you go. So when told my friends that Joop and I will be going to Huangshan, they warned me that we will only see heads of the people. Despite of this and gloomy weather forecast, we still decided to [...]

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When guest visiting your place, being a host is not easy at all. Showing scenic places is pretty easy but when it comes to restaurant, i find it bit of headache. Have to consider price range, place, hygiene level, taste/characteristic of food and service while able to show Chinese culture.
Here is one nice restaurant to [...]

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Living in a big city is surely convenient in many ways but periodically you start to get sick of it, at least for me… Of course China surely has many places to see  nature, but  when it comes to arranging long distance trips laziness emerge and try to negotiate.
After long negotiation, Joop and I decided [...]

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I remember when I was young, my mom made me watch lots of Walt Disney movies and sesame street videos, hoping that it would help me to learn English quickly. I think i watched more Disney cartoon more than Korean cartoon. When I reached high school, there were options for 2nd language course. Options were [...]

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So Finally I went to Beijing, Capital of China!
Despite of power outage problem had occurred couple of days before, we still decided to take bullet train to Beijing. Cost was 555RMB for single journey for 5.5hours. Surprisingly 5.5hours was not that long as I expected and facility of the train was pretty good except for [...]

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After 20hours of train ride, I finally arrived in 张家界（Zhangjiajie. Among 5 days of traveling and 2 days spent in train, I had little doubt about this trip, plus turned out I have train-sickness start of the trip was horrible. However once I arrived in 张家界,I was glad that I chose to come.

张家界 is located [...]

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Spring has finally started.
As it’s sin to stay inside the house with beautiful weather and we started to miss The Netherlands, we decided to look for Dutch town in Shanghai.
Holland village is situated in Wai Gao Qiao (外高桥), North part of Shanghai neary by Huang pu river. It can be reached by subway line 6 [...]

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About year and a half in Shanghai, I feel much comfortable browsing Chinese website, thought google translate still help most of times. Here I want to share some of useful and popular website in China.
Search engine

http://www.baidu.com/
Baidu is  google of China
http://www.sina.com.cn/
Sina is getting more popular with blog and twitter concept.
Movies/ Videos
I love tudou (it means potato). [...]

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Ever since we moved to Hong Mei Rd, I rarely go to city center. So when I had appointment in people square today, at first I was feeling bit lazy but gradually started to wonder how this place has changed since last time. (Probably 6months ago)
After nice lunch, my friend Yvonne and I decided to [...]

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I’ve been learning Chinese for Seven months. Since i speak English and I am Korean, people tole me I should be able to speak Chinese fluently in 6 months.  6month has passed, I still can’t talk fluently… It’s way too hard!!!
So here are what happens after 6month of Chinese study and why it is difficult! [...]

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