Shanghai Tan

When we were the Sick Man of Asia, we were called The ‘Yellow Peril’…… When we are billed to be the next Superpower, we are called ‘The Threat’…… When we closed our doors, you smuggled drugs (Opium, etc….) to open markets……. When we embrace Free Trade, You blame us for taking away your jobs……. When [...]

Imagine if you’re to invite the world’s most famous people of all time, all together for a portrait photo, what would that look like? Needless to say, that is plain impossible because 99% of them are dead and the 1% living fellows are not likely going appreciate taking photo with dead people… But don’t give [...]

Last weekend I took a trip to Wuyuan [婺源] with the Quyou club [趣游俱乐部]. Wuyuan is a relatively large county that comprises several villages in northern Jiangxi [江西] province, about 500km from Shanghai. Every year from March to April, it attracts tourists from all over the places across China for its large and omnipresent rapeseed [...]

My life is full of surprise these days. Until last Summer I never thought I would visit Japan so soon, but at the 29th December 2007 I was embarking on my second trip to Tokyo, to spend new year over there. This time I went to join Desmond at Tokyo, alone. The first night we [...]

Yes, yes I know, blogging about my blog is boring, but I’m doing it here for my own record, mind you… I’ve been using WordPress on my website for almost two years now, never looked back. Prior to this, I used blogger.com, which was nice and easy, but didn’t provide the total control as hosting [...]

Without any doubt, the Dark Side has taken over control of The Empire. Happy New Year 2008! Journey to the dark side – Tom Engelhardt See more of these at TomDispatch and The American Empire Project sites. And don’t forget to buy some imperial toys if you want to celebrate it.

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 [...]

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 [...]