Suna in Wonderland

Yesterday (April 5th 2010) was Qing Ming day in China also known as ‘Tomb sweeping day’. Since Joop and I had no tomb to sweep, we decided to make a trip to Nanjing, about 2hour and half minutes by train.
On arrival of Nanjing Station, first happy surprise was that taxi in Nanjing is SUPER CHEAP!! Normal cost [...]

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Recently i wrote article on how EXPO has changed Shanghai past few months.  Now that time is ticking, i see new changes every day.
Today i saw double decker bus in the middle of the city. New types of bus!! (I saw this kind of bus @ pudong near pearl tower but never seen it other [...]

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Now that Shanghai World EXPO will be open in 40 days, I notice there are lot of changes happening in Shanghai.
Most of constructions are almost done  as well as polishing streets with new paintings e.t.c. Past 6 month, Shanghai has changed daily that i even got lost same route back home. All the [...]

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After half year, I finally went to visit IKEA in Shanghai. On the way to IKEA, I kept repeating “Wo Yao qu IKEA!- I want to go to IKEA” several times, but taxi driver did not understand it. Turned out to be IKEA is called 宜家 (yí jiā) in China.
I was surprised how IKEA looked [...]

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Turned out to be, in order to stay in China, individual need to go to nearby police office and report to them.
Sometimes    group of police officers stands in front of apartment checking people’s identification cards or passport. In korea, if there are group of police, people would automatically think there is something bad going [...]

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China is red these days. Everywhere I go, it decorated (I would rather described as ‘covered’) in red inside to outside.
When I was really young, my dad took me to ‘real’ Chinese restaurant in Korea. (There are two types of Chinese restaurant in Korea. One is Chinese restaurant in real Chinese style and Chinese restaurant [...]

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My Chinese teacher recommended a movie called ‘The Road Home’. In Chinese 我的父亲母亲-wǒde fùqīn mǔqīn which it literally “My Father and Mother”. So Joop and I decided to watch it to have another Chinese culture lesson.
Before watching it, Joop found interesting review about this movie. Some guy said he watched one late night but got [...]

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Yesterday (4th Feb, 2010), I went to TV Studio in Shanghai after work. To be honest both my boyfriend and I had no Idea where we were going, just we got free entrance ticket to the show as well as complimentary drinks & Food so we decided to go and find out about the show. [...]

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So, Google has made big statement.
Google has been cyber attack, which they assumed that Chinese government is the attacker. This is because numbers of accounts of human rights activists’ accounts were cracked in China and it is obvious only government would have power to authorize that. Perhaps this triggered Google to re consider of operation [...]

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Today I went to Spring Festival Expo at Shanghai Exhibition Center for bit of research as well as get familiar with project that i am involved in.

At the moment, exhibition called 2010 Special Characteristics Merchandise of Shanghai Peer to Peer Support Areas Spring Festival Expo. However as you can guess from the name, place is more like [...]

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