August 23rd, 2008
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 Olympics but this was just too cute.
July 7th, 2008
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 first.
To see more person logos, click here
July 4th, 2008
May 23rd, 2008
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 
May 19th, 2008
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.
May 8th, 2008
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.
May 8th, 2008
