Shanghai China Snippets

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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.

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

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 the latest news.

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 install, tick the box (you probably agree of giving away your privacy to Kingsoft and Google and whoever else is listening in) and then continue with clicking wherever it shows a (n) on a button.

You can download it here.

t/t (Twitter Tip) to Tangos for referring me to the Sina article with the link to the download.

Here’s a screen shot.

Just noticed that Google maps is keeping track of the torch relay.

Check here for yourself.

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.

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)