Archive | March, 2008

30 March 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Chinglisms – Number 1 – Bowling Girl

Anyone got any change?

Click on the photo to view! I’m not pretending that I made up the concept of strange English usage in Asia (although I did make up the word Chinglism)…but sometimes the old ideas are the best! Today, while bowling, I came across a girl who really, really must have liked the flower design on the [...]

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25 March 2008 ~ 4 Comments

Orden Bowling + Anadolu Restaurant

Two big bowls of nasty

Before arriving in China, I read that bowling was MASSIVE here. Huge. Everyone does it. I’d seen numbers thrown around about 15,000 lanes across Shanghai…well they must be pretty well hidden. After a little research, we found a couple of places which match our needs: Cheap drinks, nice lanes, pool tables and those machines that [...]

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22 March 2008 ~ 0 Comments

DJ KING OF SNOOP DOG @ Muse

View from Muse stairs (not taken by me!)

We really should have been suspicious about Muse. Sure, it’s a trendy, classy place…popular Chinese and foreigners alike…sure it has cocktail waiters juggling with flaming bottles…but when the DJ is billed as ‘The King of Snoop Dog’, you know something’s up. Inside it was packed packed packed full of people…with just enough room to squeeze [...]

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16 March 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Matrix and Futurebound @ Club Bonbon

Where da ppl gone man?

So we’d been planning all night how great Friday night was going to be. A world-supreme-master-champion DJ from Japan (DJ CoMa) was coming to a club called The Shelter (which we had never visited before), so we decided to splash out on a few beers at our place first. 3 each (and a lot of [...]

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14 March 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Reeb Min Bi

1 Reeb Min Bi

China’s currency is the RMB or Ren Min Bi. You can get around 14RMB for every £1 you exchange…and as any travel guide will tell you, it’s very important to always remember the relative value of something that you’re buying on your trip…and with this in mind I’ve been doing a lot of calculations in [...]

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13 March 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Temporary Residence Permit

Crossing the street – a national sport

When anyone comes to China, the first first first thing you need to do is register with the local police station, to let them know where you live. If you stay in a hotel, the hotel staff will do it for you…but if you don’t stay in a hotel you need to do it yourself. [...]

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11 March 2008 ~ 2 Comments

The real news

Nooodlees

Real Death Star might blast Earth with death rays – Please don’t. Britney Spears to return to prime-time TV – How I Met Your Mother hits a new low. Wii World 1-1: Super Mario Bros. mod – 1up Kanye Hands(video) – Falco finds one of the best videos…ever. Shredz64 is very real and very shredding [...]

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