Today in China

Girl Bites Off Boyfriends Lip When Kissing

Thierry — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:31:47 +0000

Girls from Sichuan are known to be the most beautiful girls in China… But it seems that Wei has to endure a lot in order to get his girlfriend satisfied…

His girlfriend apparently got so excited last time they kissed that she accidentally bit off Wei’s lower lip. It’s not the first time that this happen by Wei seems to somewhat enjoy it as he jokes saying “My girlfriend’s zodiac sign must be a dog”.

Source:
Weird Asia News

Street View for Beijing City

Thierry — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:19:52 +0000

Everybody on the net heard about the Street View feature of Google Maps. Well, it’s available in Beijing!!!

Well, not really…And I suppose it will still take a very loooong time before we get it from Google. But fortunately, there is an alternative. City8.com provide a very similar feature.

Here is for example a Street View of Beer Mania! Note that the picture must have been taken after 6 in the morning because there is nobody on the terrasse…

Click on the picture to go directly to City8 Street View

And you thought Chinese people were hairless?

Thierry — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:31:00 +0000

Yu Zhenhuan, the hairiest man in China is currently bidding to run in next year’s Olympic torch relay.

Source:
Chicago Tribune

Give owner or users a safe and comfortable of life surrounding

Thierry — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:46:41 +0000

Here is the notice I found in the elevator a few days ago. N O C O M M E N T . . .

Warm Point

Be directed against newspaper have recently reported a plague of rats. Our company for taking preventive measures put medicines into all kinds of public places to kill rats. Give owner or users a safe and comfortable of life surrounding. Hope owners or users to try to keep a lookout a plague of rats with our company and join hands to make a good surrounding of the term also refers to family life.

Beijing jianguo property management company

July 12, 2007

I hope they didn’t put medicine in the swimming pool…

Visa application & extension process revision

Thierry — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:09:10 +0000

I received the following notification from the company for which I’m working.

In the meeting held by the Exit & Entry Administration Ministry of Beijing on July 12, 2007 afternoon, expats’ visa application process were revised as following:

From July 16,2007 till the end of the Olympic games in 2008, in order to ensure the security of Beijing, during the 2008 Olympic Games, the Ministry of Public Security will carry on strictly foreign management in China.

1. If applicants enter China with L, F visa, the visa cannot be transformed to other visa types. (Except for the applicant’s job title is above vice president, legal representative of the company, director, or foreign representative office’s leader).
2. The urgent application (express visa service) cannot be accepted by the government for the time being.
3. When foreigners with L, F visa need to extend their staying in Beijing, the applicants need to do the visa extension personally, and need to present the company’s business license as supporting.
4. The applicants applying for the residence permit for the first entry will need to the application personally; also need to present the company’s business license as supporting.
5. The applicants who apply for the residence permit extension need to provide their employment permits, or the representative permits and company’s business license as supporting.

I know plenty of people in China and especially in Beijing who are getting their L or F visas extended by small companies. I will try to keep you updated if ever I receive more information about this.

Dreams and Nightmares !

Thierry — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 04:01:41 +0000

The Beijing Actors Workshop will be performing live at the “Playground” with the theme of Dreams & Nightmares. We will have three captivating stories that will let you peer into the mind’s subterranean inner workings. Scary though it may be, these scenes are based on actual dreams manifested during deep sleep. Join us and cross into the world where many spend 1/3 of their lives: sleeping with Dreams & Nightmares!

Interesting links:
City Week-end link with map and directions
Beijing Actors Workshop website
Post about the event on Emilie’s Blog

Bill Gates’ Sperm Is Second-want-most Sperm by Chinese Women!

Thierry — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:40:59 +0000

An interesting survey has been conducted by Self magazine… 1,000 Chinese women aged from 25 to 35 from 15 different cities answered the poll.

The list for Chinese women’s most wanted sperm is:

1. Andy Lau
2. Bill Gates
3. Takeshi Kaneshiro
4. Liu Xiang
5. David Beckham
6. Li Ka-shing
7. Tony Leung
8. Louis Koo
9. Lee-hom Wang
10. Brad Pitt

I’m quite disappointed, I’m nowhere to be seen in the list…

If you check the list, you see that all of them are wealthy and some are known to be good looking.

Source:
China Daily, 2007-06-29

Accessing Flickr from China

Thierry — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:56:27 +0000

Since beginning of June, people in China cannot access Flickr, or more preceisely, can access Flick but cannot see the pictures.

I’m sure it has nothing to do with censorship. Who could imagine this? No, I’m sure it’s just some misconfiguration of some servers betweem Flickr Servers Farm and China. I even heard other countries such as Iran, UAE and Saudi Arabia have/had the same configuration issues.

Whatsoever, it’s getting annoying and so I decided to find a way to see the pictures on Flickr…

It took me on Google Query and less than two minutes…

Open Firefox (well yes, Firefox… We will use a Firefox Add-on for this.)
Go to the Access Flickr! Add-on page
Install the Add-on and restart Firefox
Refresh any Flickr page already open
Enjoy!

Well, this solution still is not perfect…

First, if you use Flickr on your blog, most of the people from China (who don’t have this Firefox Add-on) will not see your pictures.

Also, it obliges you to use Firefox to browse Flickr pictures.

And then, if you use Firefox, you’ll never know when the misconfiguration of the Chinese routers will be fixed!

Source:
Sinosplice, June 12th 2007

No more ‘Golden Weeks’ starting 2009!

Thierry — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:58:16 +0000

Is the nightmare of the Golden Weeks in term of vacation, traffic, etc. going to finally end? It seems so with after what was said by the Dean of Beijing International Studies University’s tourism administration department, ZHANG Hui, said at a forum in Xiamen, Fujian Province.
The weeklong May Day holiday could be shortened to one day and the National Day holiday to two days. To make up for the lost holidays, the experts suggested declaring traditional festivals such as Mid-Autumn Day, Lantern Festival, and the Tomb Sweeping Day as national holidays.

What do you think about this new resolution? Would it help? When and where would you then take your vacations then?

I’m expecting to see foreign expatriate travelling more and more in China. Nowadays, lots of them complain about the traffic (roads, trains, planes) inside of China during the Golden Weeks. No more Golden Weeks would spread the vacations of people throughout the year, reducing the huge number of tourists at some places.

O r s o d o I h o p e . . .

Source:
China Daily, 2007-07-02

Pillow fight in China

Thierry — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:22:22 +0000