http://ispyshanghai.com A Shanghai blog; a Chinese blog about China. By Swiss James Creegan Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:10:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } ayi in a hat http://ispyshanghai.com/2008/09/07/looking-at-the-mountains/ I'm back from Kunming! It was great! (Although I burnt the top of my head.) [caption id="attachment_1133" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Sticking it to Buddha"][/caption]  If you click this picture it gets bigger and looks better. http://ispyshanghai.com/2008/09/06/back-from-kunming/ My Spam filter is going haywire, I think it's classified the whole of China as a "Spam network". Not ideal for a China based blog. I don't have time to fix it right now, and if I turn it off we'll all be buried within the hour. Sorry kids. Patience is a ... http://ispyshanghai.com/2008/09/04/a-short-note-about-spam/ I'm in Kunming today, it's a city of 6 million people in Yunnan province. In China they call it "Spring City" because this is where 94% of the world's bed springs are made. [caption id="attachment_1119" align="alignnone" width="550" caption="All packed for Kunming"][/caption] I'm here for work and we had a meeting this morning ... http://ispyshanghai.com/2008/09/04/kunming/ It wasn't quite as seamless as I'd hoped, I've lost maybe 50 of your comments, but now I'm being hosted from a lightning fast server farm in Hong Kong, instead of a damp basement in Lithuania. If you live in China this means that when you try and post a comment, ... http://ispyshanghai.com/2008/09/03/new-server/ Last night I was on a stroll down Nanjing Dong Lu- China's Number 1 Shopping Street (TM). Except it wasn't a stroll, it was a gauntlet run through the hawkers, gawkers and stalkers that are constantly trying to sell you fake tat on that street. Watchbag! Watchbag! Looka! Looka! They bleat. It's annoying ... http://ispyshanghai.com/2008/09/02/shoe-tuesday-watchbag/ Yowzer! I bought a new camera lens. But you know what, I've lost the post that went with it, and nobody seemed to care about all of that stuff anyway, so I'm just saving us all some time and getting straight in with the funny photos. [caption id="attachment_1108" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Lewis"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1106" ... http://ispyshanghai.com/2008/09/01/the-big-picture/ So I’m XinTianDi (posh place full of tourists and suckers) enjoying a happy hour or two with some friends, when we decide to go and get a Pizza Express. Who should be there but my blog buddy WoAi Peter Guo, quietly stalking one of the waitresses. He joined our happy crew and ... http://ispyshanghai.com/2008/08/29/free-stuff/ I’ve been here for ooh 20 months now, so it’s about time I started talking about how everything used to be much better ‘back in the day’. So, Wujiang Lu. [caption id="attachment_1086" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Shopping Street? Boo!"][/caption] Wujiang Lu used to be a food street where you couldn’t move without tripping over a ... http://ispyshanghai.com/2008/08/28/wujiang-l/ [caption id="attachment_1092" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="At the postal museum"][/caption] “With great power comes great responsibility” Spiderman, 2002 With cheap DVDs comes a low boredom threshold Me, 12:32 Aside from a landscape as beautiful as it is varied, the rich culture that comes with 5,000 years of continuous culture, and a language more fascinating and poetic than ... http://ispyshanghai.com/2008/08/27/most-films-are-crap/