Plastic surgery is a booming business in China. As insecurity is mounting and jobs are less available students start to use their holidays to sculpt their face, higher the nose, get double eyelids and inflate the boobs.
The summer holiday is a convenient time as it gives the bruises time to heal.
I’ll just quote a […]

We’re dipping our toes in the real estate market in Shanghai and as a first step called an agent who was referred to us by a friend.
After telling him the price range, the first question was: “How many bathrooms do you want?”
Are bathrooms the new status symbol?

Data about construction in Shanghai
from the latest […]

An interesting choice. An English teacher in Chongqing did a small experiment.

I presented two hypothetical envelopes to three of my girl students between 16 and 18 years old. One of the envelopes was labeled ‘love’, the other ‘money’. I asked the girls to pick one of the envelopes. Without doubt, all three of them […]

Google Trends is a relatively new tool. Launched in May 2006 it gives insight in what people all over the world are searching for. Not in absolute numbers but by using graphs to show a trend.

Google Trends
In their own words:
Google Trends analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how […]

I am frustrated, I am underpaid, my boss forces me to work too much and give him a hongbao to get a promotion.

My wife keeps on nagging me that I have to make more money. I have to have a car, an apartment, a mistress and buy my kid an entrance to a good […]

Well funny this Shanghai classifieds , it’s just from what perspective you look at it. In China there are no anti-age and other discrimination laws that prevent employers to be very selective who they hire.
It’s fairly common to see advertisements with age limits, at times combined with “female” only apply.
I hadn’t seen this […]

Last Saturday we went to Shanghai Circus World. As it is quite a nice thing to do on an afternoon I have made a special circus page. Enjoy.