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Zongzi is the traditional Chinese food
2008-06-07 15:45:00
Tomorrow is China Dragon Boat Festival, likes the other traditional festivals, we Chinese eat special food in the special day. For example, we eat mooncake in the middle autumn, dumpling in Chinese new year, and Zongzi in the dragon boat festival. Zongzi made of glutinous rice, stuffed with different fillings and wrapped in bamboo leaves. The shape ...
More About: Food , Chinese Food , Traditional

China Traditional Kongfu: Dabei Boxing
2008-06-06 21:27:00
There are many types of Kongfu in China , Shadow boxing, Shaolin boxing, Tongbei boxing, Bagua boxing, and Dabei boxing, no one knows the quantity of China Traditional Kongfu. Dabei Boxing is a major boxing for Kungfu, but there is few people practice it, because it is more harder than the others. It is a combination system ...

How Much Does LaoWai Makes In China
2008-06-03 20:33:00
Ten years ago, we Chinese could hardly see foreigners on street, so we named foreigners LaoWai, and believed they are richer than Chinese. But today, there are more and more LaoWai in China , they come to China for study, work, business, travel or found families. How much does foreigner make in China? Are they really can find ...

Full time blogger can not live like a king in China
2008-06-01 21:47:00
John Chow, the richest man in the blog world, arrived in China on 12 May, he posted a series of China travel articles on his blog. I think these articles are very valuable for me, because it lessons for me to know how a Western man think about China. It is a guide for me write ...
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More than 30 days from London to Beijing
2008-05-31 16:23:00
I paid to upgrade my flickr to Pro Account last month, and Flickr gave me a gift, 10 Moo mini cards and free shipping for me. I have got the gift, it is very lovely and beautiful, I like it very much. The mini cards are small, it is great diaphanous. I selected 10 best photos ...
More About: London , Beijing , Days

Two useful classifieds information websites: Ganji and Kijiji
2008-05-28 12:56:00
I am exciting to exchange links with ganji website, it is a useful website likes Kijiji, they are all Classified Information Websites . If you are LaoWai and lives in China, these sites will help you a lot. 1. Ganji Website: The Engish version of ganji serves as a information provider for the foreigners who are living in ...
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How to Take Great Baby Photos for Cute Kid Contest
2008-05-26 20:47:00
The Cute Kid started a photo contest, their 2008 Cute Kid Contest offers monthly winners cash and great prizes, and automatic entry into the “2008 CuteKid of the Year” Contest. 1. How to join the contest? Three simple steps to join the contest quickly. Join the CuteKid first; upload photos with a step-by-step wizard; then you will ...
More About: Baby , Photos , Great

Why Chinese websites turned into Gray Themes recently
2008-05-22 18:07:00
As China started its national mourning for three days, most websites and major portals have been presented as grey out mode. We Chinese expressing our moods in colors, for example, to express sorrow in Black and White; to express fortunate and happy in Red. So, my blog’s major color is red, it’s a blessing color. Some days ...
More About: News , Internet , Websites , Themes

China earthquake on 12th May
2008-05-19 11:31:00
At 2.28 PM on May 12 A 7.8 Richter Scale earthquake pounded Wenchuan County in southwest China ’s Sichuan Province. May 12 The strong earthquake in southwest China has damaged power supplies to local telecommunications facilities, which affected cell phone services. May 12 Rain linger over much of quake-stricken southwestern Sichuan Province over three days May 13 near 20,000 ...
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How to boot up Mac OS X in console mode
2008-05-17 19:06:00
I have a Mac Mini conputer and it is too slow to do anything, because there is only 256MB memories and the free memories is few when the Aqua running. So, I think I can DIY it into a server, just booting up in console mode, and running the Apache, Mysql, PHP and Perl on it. There ...
More About: Mode , Console , Boot

New function of this blog: sitemap
2008-05-10 14:05:00
I found the sunset scenery is very beautiful, it is a building site nearby my home, there are a lot of cable cars in the gournd, so I took the landscape of it some days ago. Then, I found that the picture suitable as a header of my blog’s page, and I just need a sitemap ...
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Liciece Tagged me for 26 personal privacy
2008-05-04 03:33:00
Thanks Liciece first, because he tagged me, I like the tagged game very much. The tagged rules are: 1. The rules of the game get posted at the beginning; 2. Each player answers the questions about themselves; 3. At the end of the post the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their ...
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Movie Review: The Forbidden Kingdom
2008-05-03 15:28:00
About 78 days ago, I said “I’m waitting for The Forbidden Kingdom , it must be a great movie I believe”. And today, I watched it in my computer. Objectively speaking, the Forbidden Kingdom movie is not very good, it seems to me a low-cost film. There a lot of actions are wasteful of time, but lack ...
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Beijing Botanical Garden is world of trees and ocean of flowers
2008-05-03 08:50:00
Last week, I went to Beijing Botanical Garden , I went there every year. It is a world of trees ans an oceans of flowers I think. The botanical garden situated in the northwestern outskirts of Beijing between Fragrant Hills Park and Jade Spring Mountain in the Western Hills. This time, it is the time of the tulips ...
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Do not buy any curio if you come to China
2008-05-02 06:19:00
There are more and more foreigners come to China , they like buy Chinese characteristics as gifts for their family members and friends. China cultural relics and curios are the most popular goods to them, but if you do not want to become a stupid person, I will not advise you to buy these old toys. Anyhow ...

Run Back The April of Last Year
2008-04-13 06:17:00
Because my life material has been exhausted, so this blog has not been updated for several days. Time flies, a week passed quickly. Time flies, I was reading my own articles of the April last year, and recall the stories of that time. Trapped in television ads - Now, there has been installed the Pay TV channel, there does not contain advertising in these channels, however, we must pay a high cost. Get More Traffic with Article Forecast - That is a plugin of wordpress I developped, that plugin has long been canceled. American cuisine in Beijing - The april last year, I was a fanatical of Prison Break, and now I am a fanatical of HOUSE M.D. Two Hot News in Beijing - The news of that time has been became into old news now :) Let me make more efforts by Movies - Yeah, I still like to watch movies, but recently, I watching Japanese cartoons more, it can not help me improve my English I think :) My best friend found me by internet - Mr.Zhai found me last year, we drank cafes and talked to...
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Temporary Residential Permission
2008-04-05 17:45:00
Beijing is a modern city, there are many skyscrapers in the city. These buildings were built by the builders who came from the other places in the country. So, we have to thanks them. But there is a discriminational permission for them - Temporary Residential Permission . If someone is Chinese, but he was not born in Beijing, ...
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One dollar for 7 CN domain names
2008-04-01 12:50:00
What is the price of a CN domain name? 6.99 dollars? 2.99 dollars? 1 dollars? No, the answer is 14 cents per CN domain name. China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), the country’s domain name administrator, announced that the first-year registration fee for CN domain names will be one yuan. One yuan means 1.00RMB. One dollar equals ...
More About: Domain , Domain Names , Dollar , Names

DualView is a better way for players
2008-03-26 07:36:00
I like use computer in two screens, it is really a better and easier way to do my work. I found the programmers of Microsoft recommend this tip too. Give someone a second monitor, let them use it for while, and then try to take it away. It just isn’t going to happen. They’ll never go ...
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Reading Today: Computer virus look Beauties
2008-03-25 13:22:00
China’s tourist hotspots? Maybe not Posted by Richard Spencer - Yunnan in the south-west and the “holiday island” of Hainan in the south-east prime locations for foreign tourists. Computer virus look Beauties - An exhibition in UK has shown off some photos regarding what computer viruses look like. Some of the popular spams, trojans have been ...
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Beijing spring dust storm
2008-03-23 15:50:00
Last week, the first spring dust storm of the year hitted Beijing . Because the vegetation is damaged on account of the mining or construction, causing the desert in the northwest is gradually expanding, leading to serious desertification and frequent sandstorms. Every spring the dust storm hits Beijing and surrounding areas, it is characteristic weather of Beijing now. ...
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A letter to President Hu and Premier Wen
2008-03-21 14:18:00
There is an interesting letter on the net, it expresses the mire of poverty of Chinese common people. My friend Jessie translate it into English, and empower me to blog it on my blog, thanks Jessie very much. Mr.Hu and Mr.Wen, I hope you two can hear from me though NPC & CPPCC are going. I wish to buy ...
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I am not in the mood to continue
2008-03-20 03:31:00
Who can tell me how to do? I am not in the mood to continue this blog. Yesterday is the one year birthday of this blog, I have blogging 365 days. But, I noticed my domain will be expired next year, and more serious is I cannot renew this domain name :( In 2006, I registered this ...
More About: Mood

Google Lego Calendar has arrived II
2008-03-18 03:58:00
Last week, I posted Google Lego Calendar has arrived, the calendar was sent from google, because I entered for the Guge (Google China) writing competition. A short while ago, I found my writing came over here at Google Adsense China Blog. I think you can not understand the writting, because it is written in Chinese. The writting’s ...

Google Lego Calendar has arrived
2008-03-15 04:40:00
I was happy to entered for the Guge (Google China) writing competition last week, and recieved a calendar gift from Google China yesterday. This is the first time to recieve gift from google for me. Google seems to enjoy send presents to its fans, if you search Google Gift in Flickr or Google, the result will ...
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The price of green Chinese onion
2008-03-14 09:10:00
I am reading a piece of information, the trade price of green Chinese onion has risen by 641.2% against the same period of last year, but 26.7% of the workman has not increase wages in the last 5 years. China, in recent months, goods are on the advance. Take the green Chinese onion for instance, it ...
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Three unusual domains are new to me
2008-03-10 16:48:00
We know, the most common types of domain name include: dot com, dot net and dot org. Others are info, mobi, tv and so on. They are common for they are general domain names in the world. And besides, There are national domains in all countries. For example, del.icio.us belong to USA, china.cn belong to China. I think USA and China are great nations, so their domains are known well enough. But today, I found some domains very interesting, I don’t know their countries, and when I openned their websites, I can not understand their languages too. http://www.softcatala.cat - This domain really cool I think, I like cat, so I like this type of domain much. But I don’t know its language. When I tried whois it, it returns an error message: No whois server is known for this kind of object. Wikipedia told me that softcatala is a non-profit organization that works for Catalan language. Catalan language? I never heart it before. http://hunted.pl - Another cool national domain, because...
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The largest examination in the world
2008-03-08 18:00:00
The enrollments of Chinese university entrance examination has been over ten million in 2007, and the number still increasing yearly. Michael wrote a comment of great length in The elementary grade curriculum: Dear ShangNing, You have a great blog! I have subscribed to it and I look forward to reading more of your posts in the future. I ...
More About: World , The World , Examination , Largest

Beijing ChinaUninet Office Photos
2008-03-08 09:03:00
These photos were taken last day, I went to Beijing Chinauninet Company near The World Trade Center (GuoMao). It’s one of the most famous companies in China Internet. The office looks so relaxed, all kinds of things covered the table and their employees dress down as much as everyone. I like office like this style, it administers ...
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ShangNing would be addressed as Mr Shang
2008-03-05 17:11:00
I recieved emails from my friends usually, but some friends called me “Mr. Ning”. That’s wrong, my family name is Shang, Ning is my given name. We Chinese name different from those of personal names in Western cultures. Most noticeably, a Chinese name is written with the family name first and the given name next. For instance, ...