Archive | April, 2008

28 April 2008 ~ 9 Comments

Cow internal organs lunch @ Zhu ji (朱记)

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I’m not a big breakfast person. Waking up early for work for nearly 5 years (and going to bed late) really messed up my eating patterns, and I’ve found that my lack of hunger in the AM has followed me to China. The other day a friend called and asked if I wanted to have [...]

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23 April 2008 ~ 621 Comments

Facebook chat emoticons, emotes and smilies

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Want to add some spice to your new Facebook chat conversations? Here are the obvious (and maybe not so obvious) smilies/emoticons/emotes that you can use in your Facebook chats! Just type what’s under the picture and it’ll pop up in your chat! Happy emote: :) or :-) Really happy emote: :D or :-D Wink emote: [...]

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23 April 2008 ~ 13 Comments

Goodnight MSN, Farewell Gmail…Facebook chat is here (finally)

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It was just a normal day in cyberspace, when suddenly my Facebook window had a couple of grey buttons at the bottom: I’d heard that Facebook was testing its chat client across a number of networks…I wonder if China just got added or whether it’s now ‘in the wild’. Either way, I had to click! [...]

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21 April 2008 ~ 12 Comments

Recipe: Reheating a Mcdonald’s Cheeseburger with a Foreman Grill

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Many people buy McDonald’s (should that be McDonald’s’s?) delicious food when their blood alcohol content is around 0.65, but the next day are left with the sneaky ‘extra’ cheesburger (the one that you eyes wanted but your belly couldn’t take) left sitting confined in its brown paper cell. Today, I’m going to let you into [...]

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20 April 2008 ~ 3 Comments

Quick lunch @ 78

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Just like our beloved Ajisen Ramen, 78 is a cheap and fast noodle restaurant near Jing’an Temple (静安寺), on the same road as Burger King and The Coffee Bean. They serve quite a good range of stuff (soups, noodles, hotpots, meat skewery things) and all the main stuff was between 20 and 30 rmb. Ever [...]

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16 April 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Dorae-mad

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So after a chance encounter one day back in 2003, I fell in love with a blue, robotic cat called Doraemon. He became very special to our family (Jamie, Daisy and myself) and we cared for him dearly. A trip to Hong Kong and Thailand only served to reinforce my love for the little cat [...]

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13 April 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Tickets please!

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We went for an awesome dinner the other night at Element Fresh, near Jingan Temple. As we were finishing our main course, we started talking about the big differences between China and the UK, and one big advantage which kept coming up was delivery. The customer is king in China, and the lengths that people [...]

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