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Archive for July, 2009

22 Jul

The Uneventful Eclipse

The eclipse could not be seen in Shanghai, it rained just minutes before the eclipse began, so the sun was hidden. The sky turned dark though for a few minutes and it as dark as night. The street lamps were on. The video below is an explanation by Chinese scientist. The video is live from [...]

19 Jul

Internet Shopping – Experience on Taobao

Over the years in China, I have learnt to shop on the internet. Taobao works as an escrow service here and is very popular among the Chinese. You have a Chinese bank account here and you must activate internet banking. Registration with Taobao will require scanned document for verification of identity, in this case, my [...]

03 Jul

Finally… Basketball in the Yard

Paul loves basketball. He’s been either bouncing the ball in the house (breaking one of my landlord’s vases in the process) or spending his pocket money on the basketball shooting game in the nearby shopping mall’s amusement park (game arcade). I’ve been contemplating for a long while whether to get a basketball hoop for Paul. [...]

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