Archive for March, 2005

Unprofessional That’s Magazine

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

I don’t get it. The “That’s Shanghai Magazine” website has been under some restructuring since they lost the original website as a result of some Chinese-style business tampering. They got a new domain, put a new website online and today started sending their newsletter. Hey, wait a minute..

The mail is sent from […]

360 Degrees Yahoo Blog and China

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

The Beta testing of Yahoo’s New 360 Degrees Blogs has started. I was fortunate enough to get an invite from Threadwatch (A nice site/blog about internet marketing). I have a lot of invites left so if anyone is interested in checking it out, drop me a line.In a related note it crossed my […]

Blogging about the Shanghai Subway

Monday, March 28th, 2005

Just noticed a new blog that has an original focus, Metro Society - a little sth about life in and around the Shanghai metro stations.Only 3 stories yet but would like to read more. The only nagging thing has to do with the bloghost, being Microsoft. You cannot post a comment as “You […]

Typing your way into Wealth

Monday, March 28th, 2005

Lately it’s become almost a weekly event here in China that bank managers are found out to have been using the bank as their private atm. You don’t have to be a manager though. Doing simple data entries can make you rich… “A former Bank of China typist has been arrested for […]

Learning to Trackback

Monday, March 28th, 2005

Sometimes the whole blogging thing seems a virtual quotation and link game. I quote A who quotes B who quotes C etc. In the end of the day we have all have been quoting one another, although each quote has been spinned a bit to the left or the right depending on […]

Happy Feet, Marriage Education & Scream Machines

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

It’s raining and while I am cleaning up my mail I came across these nice snippets collected by Google news alerts.Instead of drinking baijiu (some very hard liquor) during negotiations a healthier alternative is making inroads in Shanghai, Feet Massage.

The number of divorces is on the rise since the government decided that it […]

You Became Fat …

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005

Yesterday we met up with a friend we hadn’t seen for a while. One of
the first things she mentioned was, “You became fat”. All said with a
very friendly smile.

Two years ago I might have felt a bit embarrased.
Where I come from it’s not the politest thing to say. Not that she was
wrong, […]

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