Today was the car free day in Shanghai. Traffic was the same as usual.

Jimmy Speaks pretty good English.
He’s been a taxi driver for some time now and is still young.
Jimmy also likes to talk, about football, about Feijenoord, the club from Rotterdam.
That’s a major plus for someone coming from that city.
As my Chinese still needs a lot to be desired this was my chance […]

Autumn is coming and you need some entertainment. You have seen all the dvd’s they sell on the corner, including the ones that halfway change into being dubbed in Russian. The local channels aren’t really an option unless you want to see for the umpteenth time another historical drama and the very national CCTV […]

I only drove once in China, and that was already a long time ago. It was on a toll way between Kunming and Dali, it was dark and the only occasional traffic we noticed were trucks.
Well, if you noticed them at all as they all had broken rear lights. I scolded these drivers […]

The weird world of the classifieds keeps me alive while spending my time in the loo.
Today’s episode features a need for a good sandwich (And they can be hard to find I heard) as well as some real heavy hitter.

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It’s been a long time since I published about China’s national pet the panda.
I haven’t seen any shagged out pandas lately, nor updates on the panda cam or important news like ‘Man bites panda’.
Even panda politics seems to be out of fashion for the moment.
It is time though for my irregular […]

6:00 Woken up by the sounds of a building that is being molested. The roof tiles are falling on the pavement. I peek outside of the window. Construction workers are having a great time acting as the localized alarm clock.
6:05 Put in earplugs and fall asleep
8:00 Get up, look outside and notice that construction […]