Oli's Shanghai Blog

I always forget if it’s desert or dessert…but the interweb tells me:
“I would like to have two desserts, but one desert is enough!”.
This might help some people, but now I have to remember a number as well as both words…and why would one desert be enough? I can think of loads of deserts in the [...]

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I noticed that quite a few people click on ‘About’ on my site…so I decided to put some info there! Well, not info…more like a photo taxi ride through my so-called life…starting just before I was born…and ending just before today!

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Shanghai Shenhua’s second goal v Juventus – check it out in HD!
On Saturday night we went to the enormous Shanghai Stadium to watch the Fiat Cup – a three-way (don’t) football tournament between Juventus and Parma (of Italy) and Shanghai Shenhua – our local heroes!

The setup was three 45 minute matches, in a round-robin style. [...]

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Rob Knievel Jumps 24 Trucks at King’s Island – That is NEWS baby!
Condoms ‘too big’ for Indian men – This important science story from December 2006 is currently top of the BBC News ‘most read’ list…
Mars probe touches down – …whereas this insignificant throwaway article, is not…
Kobe Bryant (Me) Jumps Over Pool w/ [...]

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I’ve been meaning to write about this place for ages but it kept falling through the cracks…until now! CoCo Ichibanya (Zun Yi Nan Lu branch, near Hooters!) is Turkey’s favourite lunchtime destination (when I say Turkey I mean Turkish people aged 23 living in Shanghai in my house), and it serves pretty cheap (30rmb or [...]

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