Archive for March, 2008
Friday, March 28th, 2008
Enjoy this beautiful view from the 18th floor to the West of Kunming. Picture taken near Tang Zi Xiang.
Some Lady I met in the shitang invited me to her office. Great thanks to her I could enjoy this breathtaking view. In the far west a tiny lake can be found.
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Yesterday I've been to the Hump Bar, which is a popular foreigner hangout. After a while I recognized a girl sitting lonely at some table so I went to her table and started a conversation in Chinese.
Well I can practice my Chinese every day, but this experience was total different. ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Today I wanted to wash my clothes, but the weather is cold and cloudy, so there is no way to dry them until evening. So instead of going to the laundry I answered a post of Rainman on the CL forum. He said that it is important to speak some ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
In the February issue of the science magazine Nature there has been an article about the sources of new pathogens.
Map showing the sources of pathogens newly introduced to humankind since 1940.
The scientists researched the sources of pathogens, which newly arrived to the human world. AIDS would be an example. They ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Once in a while the internet is really fast, sometimes a snail is faster than the internet here. At the moment the snail is faster. This is a real problem with the internet here. From noon until midnight the internet is hardly usable. Sometime the speed is dropping as low ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
A few days ago I thought I got banned, but the problem is a different one. A friend here in Kunming told me he has the same problem once in a while and it probably comes from the internet provider company. Some websites suddenly just stop working for a few ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Finally, after 1 week in mainland China, my blog got banned here in China. I can still use it through a proxy. I wonder why. I know I'm a critical person, but then I always try to find the positive side of something.
Writing though a proxy is not very convenient, ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
Kunming 昆明市 (Kūnmíng shì) is a huge city in Yunnan province 云南 (Yúnnán). It has more than 3 million residents and can be described as quite large. However Kunming is not as modern as the more well know cities like Shanghai or Beijing.
Kunming is in the South of China. ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Yesterday I had a look at the city and here are some impressions:
Kunming highrises in midtown
Kunmings inner city especially the shopping centre has a few new and tall buildings. However, once You leave the inner part of the city the buildings become quickly smaller. The downtown area is definitely smaller ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
At Thursday the 6th I went from Hongkong to Kunming. As I wanted to save some money I didn't use Hongkong airport. Instead I used Shenzhen airport. Getting there is fairly easy, once You know how to.
How to get from HK to Shenzhen airport
There are several ways to get there. ...
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