http://blogs.todayinchina.com/thierry A somewhat biased view on China… Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:32:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blogs.todayinchina.com/thierry/2007/09/15/girl-bites-off-boyfriends-lip-when-kissing/ 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 ... http://blogs.todayinchina.com/thierry/2007/09/03/street-view-for-beijing-city/ Yu Zhenhuan, the hairiest man in China is currently bidding to run in next year's Olympic torch relay. Source: Chicago Tribune http://blogs.todayinchina.com/thierry/2007/08/06/and-you-thought-chinese-people-were-hairless/ 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 ... http://blogs.todayinchina.com/thierry/2007/07/23/give-owner-or-users-a-safe-and-comfortable-of-life-surrounding/ 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 ... http://blogs.todayinchina.com/thierry/2007/07/19/visa-application-extension-process-revision/ 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 ... http://blogs.todayinchina.com/thierry/2007/07/04/dreams-and-nightmares/ 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 ... http://blogs.todayinchina.com/thierry/2007/07/02/bill-gates-sperm-is-second-want-most-sperm-by-chinese-women/ 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 ... http://blogs.todayinchina.com/thierry/2007/07/02/accessing-flickr-from-china/ 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 ... http://blogs.todayinchina.com/thierry/2007/07/01/no-more-golden-weeks-starting-2009/ http://blogs.todayinchina.com/thierry/2007/06/28/pillow-fight-in-china/