Shanghai Tan

I saw Xiapu the 1st time in a photography magazine back at 2008, it was very special graphically and seems so remote a place that I don’t envision going there one day. Then during 2009, I keep seeing photos of Xiapu in almost every issue of any photography magazine. Apparently many professional photographers went there [...]

The last time I went to Beijing was 5 years ago, during my first trip to China at Summer 2004. Though I can’t say that I was deceived during that trip, it wasn’t so fun in general. We were a big group of +20 people and we were stuck together from 6am to 9pm everyday, [...]

We went to Shan Xi between the 25th to 28th of June, with CK, Rebecca, Kathy, Roger, Max and Estelle. For 4 days of trip we did really lots of things, made a lot of mileage on a “bread car” [面包车] including driver. We basically went from middle of Shanxi to south, then all the [...]

As a regular reader of the InformationWeek magazine since 1995, as well as several other publications such as InfoWorld, ComputerWorld, Network Computing, Resellers News, etc, I’ve read hundreds of issues of world CIO ranking, CTO ranking, Top 100 CIO, CIO of the Year, you name it.
Unsurprisingly, the majority of the CIO/CTO in the list are [...]

Following the trip from Sanqingshan, we drove about 70km to Wuyuan and stayed there for 3 days 2 nights. This was my second time to Jiangxi Wuyuan [江西婺源], last year was also during this season of omnipresent yellow rapeseed fields. With the freedom of driving, our aim this time was to visit a much larger [...]

Mount Sanqingshan [三清山] is a very special mountain located at the north part of Jiangxi province, roughly 200km away from the much more famous Huangshan [黄山] mountain in Anhui province.  At the end of March, Max, Miles and I travelled together to visit this mountain for the first time. We took the train to the [...]

As the first long trip of 2009, we hesitated between Guilin and Lijiang. I asked a colleague who came from Guilin, she told me that end of February isn’t pretty at Guilin because the paddle fields are still yellow instead of green. Then I asked around and everyone seemed to tell me that Yunnan is [...]

A gallery inside the Tianzifang [田子坊] alley is where I first saw a photo of Fujian Tulou [福建土楼] a year ago. It picked my curiosity very much because of the round shape large scale building and the contrast of gray roof tile with omnipresent red lantern. At that time I never thought of going to [...]

After a failed attempt to organize a team building trip to Anji [安吉], I decided to go there by myself two weeks ago, actually with Ctrip tour [携程]. The Anji region is famously known in China as the capital of bamboo, but since China produces the best and most of the bamboo in the world, [...]

At the mid-August, I took a weekend trip to a small island at Shandong province, called Lingshan island, with 2 colleagues and many friends. It was one of those cheap fare trip, tour bus, villagers’ room, local food and very basic toilet with no practical shower. But it was fun exactly because of the lack [...]