Shanghai Tan

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 [...]

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! [...]

We just went for a brunch at Xintiandi [新天地] this noon, weather was excellent, sunlight was soft, ambiance was good, so I pull out my Canon 20D to take a few snapshots of my lovely girlfriend, just some casual poses. We had the brunch at Luna restaurant (not so good), and then had a café [...]

Alright, I’ve been promising people that I would take photos of my apartment once I have one. I don’t own one yet, not in short term anyway, but I did rent a nice little apartment two weeks after I got here, May 3rd to be precise. It’s around 90 m², with the common area trimmed [...]

It’s been the 21st days in the row that the temperature at Shanghai is above 35 °C, with the record of 39.6 °C for 3 days already. I already forgot the day where walking on the street doesn’t feel like being burned by the sun, and sleeping at home with the windows opened. It’s now [...]

During the past 8 weeks, all the teams in our office are having an annual badminton competition. Every Monday I went there to be the official photographer of the competition. It’s not easy to bring a laptop bag and camera bag in the subway during rush hour, but at the end it’s worth all the [...]

It is said that in every urban family of modern China, there is a little kingdom of its own — the king being the only baby of the family, with 6 adults (2 parents plus their own respective parents) watching over him or her. It certainly isn’t good for any society to have such a [...]

There are plenty of reasons why they said that Shanghai is the most westernized city of China, one of them is that the Shanghaineses love to dance and sing and jazz. Of course there are full of Tai Chi practitioners in the park, but no where do I see so many people dancing together in [...]