Shanghai Tan

After a long year of waiting and waiting and waiting for the next generation of Canon EOS 5D to come out, I finally decided to bite the bullet and buy the 5D last week, at a very good price of ~2000$CA, no tax! When it was announced at Autumn 2005 the price was 3400$, so [...]

Plum blossom (Prunus mume) is a special kind of flower, not only can it survive winter, but it needs coldness to blossom. This particular characteristic gives it a unique status among the flower lovers, especially Chineses, for its persistence in the hard and cold weather. I just think that the English name plum blossom is [...]

In Chinese traditional holidays, first there is the Spring Festival [春节] held at the 1st January of the Lunar calendar where people celebrate with fireworks and firecracker (the whole night!); then at the 5th there is the ceremony to welcome the God of Prosperity [迎财神], with fireworks and firecracker again; and finally as a closure [...]

This is my first time going thru a real Spring Festival in China. At Shanghai, Spring Festival has become half traditional and half commercial. People do get together during the New Year Eve [大年夜] and the 1st January of lunar calendar [阴历] to have a big meal with the whole family, but that’s it. Normally [...]

It has snowed, snowed and snowed lately, in China, a record in the last 50 years! It has fallen more than 1.5 meters of snow during 2 weeks, with the worst going to the middle provinces of China: Hunan, Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, etc. Every year, more than 100 millions Chineses who worked abroad [...]

I have this feeling that MacDonald’s will eventually open ten thousand restaurants in China and India, and will close most of their restaurants in Western countries. Fast food has been kinda bad mouthed so much since a decade, just like cigarette et Cola-Cola. They’re having a bad image that is hard to change, especially for [...]

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 [...]

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! [...]

When people think of Chin’a modernization, they think of the Shanghai Oriental Pearl Tower and the Pudong financial district, they think of Beijing’s upcoming hosting of 2008 Olympics Games, they think of the world’s highest railway of Tibet at 5000m altitudes, they think of the Three Gorges Dam, they think of the booming construction industry [...]

Two weeks ago I went to Hangzhou [杭州] with the intention to spend one whole day photographying the city’s famous attractions, such as the West Lake [西湖] and some famous tower pagodas. Unfortunalely for my laziness and lack of planning, I was not able to buy a return ticket ahead of time, so at the [...]