Archive for the ‘Various stuff’ Category

My internship in China

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Originally this Blog has been something between a personal diary and a place where my friends could see what I'm doing. However so much has changed from when I began almost one year ago in some boring rainy October days. During the last months my blog has become a general ...

Beijing faces 10 year air quality record

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Beijing is well known for it's low air quality. The sun often has a yellow or red hue, sometimes isn't visible at all. During the last few days that has changed. Now Beijing's people can look up to the sky and see a decent blue. Rain during some of the ...

China’s space program

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Recently China has put more effort in building a independent space program. While not as huge as those from the USA and Russia, China has made substantial progress and might be major player in this field soon. With this article I want to give a quick overview about everything You ...

Language Madness: to fail a test

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

This morning I read the paper copy of the Hong Kong free street newspaper The Standard. One headline at the last page stood out pretty much: Duenas is country's second Tour rider to fail test for EPO Duenas is a bike rider for team Barloworld Team at the Tour the France. For ...

The Chinese Communist Party is not wanted

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

At least in Hong Kong. At Saturday a group of several hundreds made a protest march though Hong Kong to announce their disagreement with the Chinese Communist Party. Support 40 Million Chinese Quitting CCP! China is still listed as a country that violates the international human right laws. Why it does so ...

Another useful Chinese website

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Once a month or so I get an email from someone. In this email someone tells me about some useful Chinese learning website. When I got the email the first 2 times, I didn't recognize it was spam. A few days ago I got the third letter from them. The ...

Interesting Kunming photos

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Some photos from Kunming are still left and I want to share them with You. Here are some odd ones.... A squirrel near Yunnan Normal University. There was a whole group of squirrels, but getting them all on one picture was an impossible task. When I was at the Kunming outdoor festival, ...

How To: Using Wikipedia to translate difficult terms

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Sometimes we come across a very specific word which is not in our dictionary. We need a translation anyway. So what can we do? Wikipedia rescues us, at least in many cases. This How To is written for the English -> Chinese translation, however it can be applied for almost ...

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