Shanghai China Snippets Observations about living in Shanghai and China in general

February 27, 2007

Get Paid 300 Rmb per Minute and Get Beaten

Filed under: China News Soft — Shanghai @ 3:08 am

In the category weird:

Have you ever considered advertising on the Internet for a stand-in mistress that can be roughed up by your wife. Well, a Chinese businessman beat you to it? Or maybe you’re looking for a job that pays you 300 Rmb/minute?

A Chinese businessman has advertised on the Internet for a stand-in mistress to be beaten up by his wife to vent her anger and to protect his real mistress, Chinese media reported on Monday.

“When the woman found out her husband had a mistress, she insisted on beating her up,” the Beijing Youth Daily said, citing the advertisement posted on a popular online jobs forum on sina.com.

More than 10 people had applied for the job, the newspaper said. The “successful” candidate would be 35 and originally from northeastern China and would be paid 3,000 yuan ($400) per 10 minutes, it said.

Having a mistress is rather popular these days among Chinese businessmen and officials. Maybe this job advertisement will set a new trend for disgruntled wifes.

Souce: Mangalorean News

Moving to China

Filed under: Whatever — Shanghai @ 3:06 am

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post. The review is as it is, a review and an honest one I hope.

The only moving I have done from Holland to China was by sending a small box at the post office. The rest has been stored in Holland and since then I have collected so many new things I’ll probably need a warehouse if I ever move to a new country.

More expats are entering China every day, at least it seems like that when I walk in the streets here in Shanghai and I bump into international faces around each corner. More goods will need to be moved as a consequence as many will like to take a piece of home with them.

For bigger stuff a transportation company can come in handy. Shoemacher Cargo ships everything from cars to boats, from household goods to just boxes. There are many companies that offer these services and as the Internet is more and more the first layer for sorting the good from the bad, having a useful website is key.

Shoemacher Cargo has a clean website that at first sight seems to offer a lot of information. A form for a quick free quote and rates for shipping. Digging deeper the quick free quote will take 24 hours, still fast but not as quick as I expected. The International Shipping Rates tells me to fill in another form, which annoys me. Don’t promise me something that isn’t going to happen. Rates for moving within the US are available.

They do feature online tracking which is nice if you like to know on which sea your antique desk is floating. In case the desk ends up serving in the fish class room they have insurance.

Not a bad website but needs some fixing on the user interaction.

February 22, 2007

Marketing Holland in China

Filed under: China Business — Shanghai @ 1:21 pm

Sun Xiang in EindhovenPSV, a Dutch football club from Eindhoven recently hired Sun Xiang form the Shenhua Shanghai football team.
Partly because he is a talented player and partly because of the marketing value. PSV is sponsered by electronics multinational Philips and a Chinese player will attract lots of press in China.

Sun Xiang made history as he became last wednesday the first Chinese ever to play in the Champions League in a match against Arsenal, an event that got a lot of headlines.

The side effect is that PSV is doing the best Holland promotion possible in China and tax payers don’t even have to pay for it.

Hat tip to a modern Lei Feng

No Microsoft Soapbox in China

Filed under: Chinese Multi Media — Shanghai @ 2:12 am

Microsoft has a new product, a youtube clone, called soapbox.

microsoft soapbox in China

The definition of a soapbox is

A soapbox is a raised, improvised platform on which one stands to make an impromptu speech, often about a political subject.

Well, no surprise here that Microsoft deems it appropriate not to make it available in China.

Interestingly enough the Chinese text says that “they’re very sorry it’s not available”. They care less apparently about the English speaking population.

To be fair to Microsoft, Google Video also doesn’t work here but at least they allow us Youtube.

February 21, 2007

Chongqing Style Pedagogics

Filed under: China News — Shanghai @ 6:07 am

Municipal bylaw enforcement officers in Chongqing stuck confiscated paper advertisements all over the bodies of two boys, aged 10 and 15 and paraded them after they were found dispensing the ads.

The goal was to publicly humiliate them.

pedagogics in ChongqingBut using public humiliation to attempt to control the use of the adlets in China has met with strong criticism from the public.

“It is an insult to the boys,” an anonymous local resident told the web portal, with another asking “how would these officers feel if their children had undergone a public parade?”

Chongqing style pedagogics, what can I say.

From the China Daily

February 19, 2007

Pig Year

Filed under: Shanghai Life — Shanghai @ 3:33 am

Wish all readers a great and fat year of the pig.
Watch the short Fireworks video, showing you what it was like a bit after 12 ‘o clock on Chinese New Year in Shanghai

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February 13, 2007

Valentine in Shanghai

Filed under: China Statistics — Shanghai @ 11:36 pm

The girls are waiting today for flowers, belgian made chocolates and a romantic dinner in a restaurant that has overprized its food for this special day. Valentine’s day has gotten some traction here in Shanghai as I noticed last year and I’m sure this year it will be even more popular.

To stay in the mood some statistics about Marriage and Divorce in Shanghai.

Number of divorces in Shanghai in 2006 – 37,000

Number of marriages in Shanghai in 2006 – 162,000

70 percent of the couples who divorced within a year of getting married were born in the 1980s.

Now you can start calculating what the chances are your Valentine investment will pay off:)

And before you ask, yes I’m married and am going to pay 888 Renminbi for a love dinner. They even promise a box of chocolates at the end.

Source: China.org.cn

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