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Archive for October, 2007

For Song Bai Hua and his sourcing

This is what I read up when I popped into Shanghaiist.com today:
Want your 6min 40sec of fame? Have some interesting ideas that you’ve been dying to share with the world? Then put together 12 powerpoint slides of 20 seconds each (no boring lectures or grandmother’s tales please), and get in touch with the organisers of [...]


Blogs of Note - Yvonne Foong

I want to take some time in promoting a site in which you can actually help out a person in need. She is Yvonne Foong, a very intelligent and hardworking person. Unfortunately, she has been combatting health difficulties in recent years as she faces a rare sickness making losing her eyesight currently. Tumours growth makes [...]


Contact Singapore "Singapore – Your World of Possibilities" Afterthoughts

1. A lot of people came and asked how issit like to work in Singapore.2. Many were unsure how to find jobs and work in Singapore.3. Many asked about the currency exchange conversion of Singapore Dollars and RMB4. The surveyors hired disturbed the visitors while they were actually viewing the exhibition. Blast them!5. Booth information [...]


Contact Singapore "Singapore – Your World of Possibilities" Exhibition Day 1 & 2

Okay so to promote more about the Singapore Season. Here goes:
I was helping out as a Volunteer in Super Brand Mall in Zhu Jia Zhui, Pudong area, just beside Shangri-la Hotel and that Oriental Tower in an exhibiton helped by Contact Singapore called “Singapore – Your World of Possibilities”. This exhibition is part of [...]


Singapore Season Gala Dinner 2007 - Shanghai

Together with some exchange students from NUS and Singaporean students studying in Fudan University, I was helping out an Usher in the Singapore Season Gala Dinner Event helped in Shanghai last Friday. The Gala dinner in Shanghai was helped in Shangri-la Hotel at Pudong in Zhu Jia Zhui. I have to say it was [...]


Guess what fruit is in abundance and cheap in Shanghai now?

Tangerine! I see Lots of them by the road stalls and vendors, in super markets like Carrefour, Wallmart, Emart and all!
They are going for a price like RMB 1.50 per 500 grams currently. Its a good deal. Big harvest from nearby I guess. Eat and enjoy. However, there is a saying in Chinese, don’t eat [...]


Gay Blogs in China - Yculblog

In trying to find more readings on Gay culture, I continue to browse through the blogs in YculBlog. Here are more blogs in relation to Gay community here, this are the authors to the blogs they own:
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The problem for most readers who are Not from China is that these blogs are written in [...]


Gay Culture in China

I got bored today, woke up and decide to do some understanding of tagging. I started off with knowing what are the popular tags within this YculBlog.com blogsite i used. What caught my attention was a couple of tags in relation to Gay culture here in China. Everything begins with a tag: gay
So what did [...]


Intangible Cultural Heritage - A new prospect for preservation of cultures in China?

Intangible Cultural Heritage is a new word in China. With it, it brought about a lot of awareness among the Chinese. We can understand it by saying such cultures are usually formless, and do not have a stationary position like buildings and relics. Rather, such cultures usually exists amidst the crowds in the forms of [...]


Chinese Astronomy

Picture: Chinese Astronomy. Chinese Star Chart possibly dating from the 600s AD, Tang Dynasty
One cannot not link to history, archaeology, historical management, museum management without linking to science and development, that includes the developments of astronomy in Ancient China. One of my lecturers, Cai Da Feng from Fudan University, Shanghai, was interested in Astronomy. He [...]