Category archive for ‘Other’ 
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Adding Passport Pages for US Citizens
If you’re like me—an American living in China—chances are you will reach a time when your passport has run out of empty pages. Let’s face it, we are not lucky Canadians who have 48 empty pages at their disposal. When I got my first passport in 2004, it came complete with 14 pages for visas [...]
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Longjing New Tea 1Y per Leaf
Despite the dustbowl that Hangzhou became on Sunday – something to do with the Gobi desert migrating to Japan – we decided to go for a wander and see of they had started picking the new tea yet… …I couldn’t figure out if they were trying to park, or drive, or just organise an impromptu air horn requiem to google.cn. Whatever it was, it was time to walk, because the cars wouldn’t be going anywhere for a while…
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Battle of review giants – Koubei 口碑网 and Dianping 点评网
A bunch of us have been writing restaurant reviews for quite a while and seeing who gets the most comments. Of course I win!! Not been in too many restaurants recently so I thought I might write about the review websites themselves, comparing the two most famous: 口碑网, Koubei and 大众点评网, Dazhong Dianping here for VH.
By Miss Dolly -
nciku.com | n词酷
n词酷 is owned by Korean search engine market leader NHN, who, since conquering Korea want to colonise elsewhere. Rather than plowing on into Japan and China with their own brand, they are testing waters with a new product – n词酷. This helps explain the main interface on n词酷 – a search bar.
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Hangzhou schools hoard garlic
Schools have been hoarding garlic for pupils to eat because of its reputed properties in warding off swine flu. The China Daily has reported that a high school in Hangzhou in eastern China, bought 200 kg of garlic and made students eat it at lunch to keep healthy.
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Manchester United 8-2 in Hangzhou
The pundits had their money on “They’ll show-off 3 pretty goals, and let 1 or 2 in. They’re here to make money and you don’t do that by embarrassing your customers” Well, well, even the pros get it wrong too. Manchester United scored 8 goals, showing this was no face giving mission in the hope [...]
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Karting
There isn’t a whole load to say about karting. We’ve all done it and loved it. Adrenalin, focus, aggression, speed, revenge, thrills, fun. It does bring out all the basic emotions. Some tracks are better than others, and this Hangzhou one is pretty good. The karts are not particularly quick, (which actually benefits most of [...]
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Hash House Harriers
From the HHH website:
By SWG
The Hash House Harriers are a group of loosely affiliated running (and drinking) groups around the world. A group of Hashers ‘the hounds’ follow a trail set by a fellow Hasher ‘the hare’ who has run the trail earlier leaving marks in flour or chalk so the hounds know where to run. [...] -
Oakwood Gym
Despite the apparent lack of good it does me I tend to spend quite a lot of time in the gym. The lack of progress has probably got something to do with diet, or better yet, the liquid diet taken on board most days, but hey, I would be a proper round guy if I [...]
By SWG
