Shanghai Tan

See the Autumn @ Lujiazui album here.

Thirteen days at Nepal seemed like a long trip, but processing the tons of photos seems like even longer… but it’s all done now. Please go to my online gallery to see the album. As someone who has seen Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, China, and Japan, I thought I’ve seen it all in Asia, until I [...]

Mary and I went to Osaka [大阪] and Kyoto [京都] during the Chinese Spring Festival, trying to escape the customary overdose of food and alcohol, the all-day-long and all-week-long continuous firecrackers and fireworks, trying to have a peaceful time at the Japanese Kansai region. We’ve been looking forward to Osaka and Kyoto since long time [...]

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 [...]

This is the 2nd year that Mary and I went to see the HSBC Golf Championship tournament at Sheshan International Golf Club, thanks to the free tickets (1000rmb each!) donated to us by Mary’s awesomely well connected and pretty friend. Two things are different this year: the HSBC championship is now part of the official [...]

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 [...]

Summer is officially here, since yesterday! All the sudden temperature rises to higher than 30°C, Sun light is stronger than ever. The major sites in Shanghai, such as People’s Square and Lujiazhui, have been throughoutly decorated, probably for the Spring and Summer, but most likely as preparation for the Expo 2010 that is only 358 [...]

The major automobile industry exhibition hosting alternates between Shanghai and Beijing every year. Two years ago it was at Shanghai but I didn’t go. So this is my first time to the major Shanghai auto show, after last year’s mini show. Actually, the biggest exhibition here wasn’t cars, but female models and mountains of spectators… [...]

Every new year break is a moment of reflection and self evaluation, as well as a moment of day dreaming of wishes for the coming year. After a tragic year 2008, I suppose everyone’s wish is to recover from the deep hole, be it physical or financial. The same applies to me who dropped into [...]