Shanghai Tan

At December 15th we went for a week of vacation at Thailand, actually Phuket and Bangkok. This is our first time to Thailand, we knew nothing about it before neither did we read any tourist guide. We just booked the trip package from ctrip [携程]. Two days before departure, I ran to a bookstore nearby [...]

For a low-income IT guy like me, it’s just natural that I love gadgets but couldn’t afford to buy all of them, therefore my wishlist is never empty! After all these years of waiting and resisting, I’m so used to the old stuff that no longer qualified as gadget anymore, such as my old cell [...]

Ce poste est didié à tous mes amis, ex-camarades et ex-collègues à Montréal. Alors voilà mon premier noël en Chine, sans neige ni Père Noël, sans sapin ni dinde, sans chant ni messe, sans bonhomme de neige ni crèche, sans bottes ni mitaines, sans course aux cadeaux ni Boxing Day, sans don de charité ni [...]

I like to read the blog of Mr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger, a retired IBM senior VP that I admire tremendously for his technical leadership as well as business and social observations. In his blog, I like his style of putting things in plain English, he doesn’t pretend to know everything and didn’t try to answer all [...]

While some nations¹ fight against the extinction of their language, such as l’Office québécois de la langue française who fight desperately for preserving French usage in Québec; other nations fight for preserving the quality of their language, such as the Plain English Compaign organism at UK, founded at 1979. It is understandable that the English [...]

After my first failed trip to Hangzhou last month, I decided to give it another try two weeks ago. I went there for a day trip with my tourist friend from Chengdu. It didn’t start well, I missed the train depature time by 5 minutes, so had to throw away the ticket and bought another [...]

One thing that is very different in the China’s IT industry versus North America is, there’s practically no gray hair in the workplace here. The average age is probably around 26-27 at the place where I work, many of them were born in the 80′s, the youngest are from the mid-80′s. Most of them started [...]

I went to Jacky Cheung’s concert last Saturday (Dec 01) at Shanghai Stadium which could host 80,000 spectators, hense its name of Eighty Thousand People Stadium [八万人体育馆]. It was the first time I (and my girlfriend) assist in a live concert of this scale and celebrity, the amount of people was simply amazing to witness! [...]