Archive for August, 2007

My sweet apartment

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Alright, I’ve been promising people that I would take photos of my apartment once I have one. I don’t own one yet, not in short term anyway, but I did rent a nice little apartment two weeks after I got here, May 3rd to be precise. It’s around 90 m², with the common area trimmed [...]

What can you tell from a bookstore?

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

You must have heard of the idea of “tell me which books do you read, I’ll tell you who you are“? You can apply the same idea to food, fashion, music, and how about a bookstore? Some tourists will invariably go to a bookstore everytime he/she visits a new place. Taking a walk in a [...]

Adieu Radio-Canada

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Depuis mon arrivée à Shanghai, étant donné que le canal TV de SRC n’est plus disponible ici, je jette un coup d’oeil sur le site web de Radio-Canada presqu’à chaque jour, pour ne pas être entièrement déconnecté de la vie à Montréal. Ça va assez bien pendant 3 mois… jusqu’au moment où l’événement des deux [...]

China Adult-Care Expo 2007

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

I went to assist to the 4th China Adult-Care Expo (第四届中国国际成人保健及生殖健康展览会) yesterday, held at the Shanghai International Exhibition Center at Hongqiao area. I saw the announcement in the Shanghai Daily newspaper. It is rather surprising the approach that they use to sell sex toy here, they put the emphasis much more on the healing effect [...]