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- Brand America, Chinese omelettes and running 1 km- Weekly Snippets
Brand America
The Brand America is getting close to Sanlu status. Unfortunately it’s easier to change to melamine free baby milk powder than to an USA alternative.
Healthy Running
Chinese school kids have run 3 km since the mandatory exercise program started.
“Primary schoolchildren run 1 km per day, junior high school students 1.5 km, and senior […] - My Favorite Beijing Olympic Quote- Yesterday, just before the football match Belgium - Brazil was about to start. The anthems had been played and the referee was about to start the match.
Behind me, on row 3, a little girl asked her dad, “Which one is China?”.note: I had promised myself that I wouldn’t write anything during the […]
- Bill Gates Makes It To Baidu Logo- Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman and co-founder, who officially retired has made it into the Baidu Logo. Click the logo and you will get to his profile (in Chinese)
He is the second American who makes it to the top of the page of China’s most popular search engine. US Presidential candidate Barack Obama was the […] - Vertical Blogging in English- ┏━┯━┯━┯━┯━┓
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Hope you can read it, formatting didn’t go so well.
Do it yourself.
Read for the reasons of this vertical blogging here.
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[…] - Is that water or alcohol?- Entering the building the female guard looks at the big jug (5 litres) I’m carrying.
When I open the door, she asks, Is that water or alcohol?
I wonder what else they’re thinking and not saying
[…] - Black and White Search-
Search engines in black and white for the 3 days mourning period that started yesterday with 3 minutes of silence on 2:28 PM.
3 minutes/days to think of the devastation the earthquakes in Sichuan have caused.
If you like to donate, I suggest you to check the Shanghaiist website which is very up to date with […] - Google and Kingsoft Launch Free Chinese Dictionary- Google and Kingsoft launched today a free Chinese-English-Chinese dictionary.
Now go and read the Chinese bbs yourself to really find out what’s going on in China.
If you install it on a non-Chinese operating system you probably see a lot of weird symbols (not Chinese but more machine language like), on the first page of the […] - China Olympic Torch Relay on Google Maps- Just noticed that Google maps is keeping track of the torch relay.
Check here for yourself.
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- Olympic Flame On Top of the Everest- The torch has made it to the top of the Mount Qomolangma/Mount Everest and was ignited by Norbu Zhamdu at 9:18am May 8.
It’s the first time the torch went that high. Let’s hope the rest of the journey will be in the same spirit.
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- Shanghai Photo of the Week - 1- A new Sunday series with a photo of the week, taken from Shanghai Daily Photos.
Rabbit Art to be seen in the Ju’Roshine Life Art Space (169 Jinxian Lu, near Maoming Lu)Advertisement: Find out more about China MyChinaStart Directory
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