Bingfeng Teahouse

via: eswn, read it: here

more interesting than the part 1, i find this photo and it makes me smile, there is a photo taken in the same place on my desk, in which my wife rides on the same buffalo and smiles to me.

via: csmonitor, read the article: here

SHANGHAI, CHINA – Thanks to an American restaurant chain, savvy Shanghai residents now have one more English word to add to their fast-developing international lexicon: Hooters. But here, unlike in the US, the refrain is more along the lines of "Hey, let's take Grandmom and the kid to Hooters tonight!" ...

people love their blogs and the expectations are high - daily update, fun stuff, critical thinking ... how can they keep their blogs running like this with a tight off-line agenda?

i read two funny posts from two famous blogs:

Bingfend isn't impressed by the China Business News.

(he was just too busy to read my post and, to spell my strange chinese name correctly :-( but anyway, Bingfend thank you for making that link Simon!)

another blogger begs his readers:

I'm simply too busy this week to give this site much attention, and if someone would like to post some new topics that are relevant to my readership ... please send me an email. Thanks.

(poor richard, he has a great site but it just eats too much of his energe, perhaps some duck-fans could help him)

if you have a blog like the one they have, better to organize a team to support you.

via: china daily, read article: here

Over 35% of respondents said not being able to do their work well or show their abilities was the most "face-losing" situation imaginable.

Another 17.29% chose "not having any social position and not having any say," 17.15% said "having limited income and money," 12.35% responded "not having enough social relationships," 10.88% chose "not having any power" and 6.99% answered "not having friends."

via: china daily, read the article: here

sounds great, but how? are they going to build something like the tunnel beneath the english channel? that could be a gigantic engineering project. and with chen shuibian and his gang of DPP buddies in the stage, is this possible?