Monthly Archive for November, 2008

Day 226: Christmas party coming

Published on Thursday, November 27, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving! But no­body in China cares about Thanksgiving, so let’s talk about Christmas. A cou­ple peo­ple and I have been or­ga­niz­ing an early Christmas party for December 13 be­cause many ex­pats will be go­ing home for Christmas. That in­cludes my­self. That’s right, D.Kwan is com­ing home for Christmas!

For those in Shanghai, here’s the party info:

Shanghai Stuff Christmas Party

December 13, 2008 at 9pm
Candy Club, 570 Huaihai Xi Lu, near Hongqiao Lu

Before the “laowai“s head home for Christmas, let’s all cel­e­brate an early Christmas to­gether in Shanghai!

Thanks to Candy Club’s gen­er­ous spirit of giv­ing, we will have open bar (un­lim­ited drinks) for 100 RMB, with 20% of that go­ing to the char­ity of our choice. We will also have the en­tire VIP area, which comes with our own bar and bar­tender, and two quiet rooms for those who wish to chitchat.

Everyone who wishes to par­tic­i­pate in Secret Santa, please get the info here.

Candy Club will be dec­o­rated in a Christmas theme, and Santa Claus will be mak­ing an ap­pear­ance. Support Santa by wear­ing red or white to the party!

Yay! Big thanks to Karl for ar­rang­ing the venue and get­ting us the sweet deal.

Day 223: Last FRI and SAT pics

Published on Monday, November 24, 2008

Photos from Friday night at The Shelter and Saturday night at Muse2.

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Day 221: Windows ATM

Published on Saturday, November 22, 2008

Looks like this ATM’s us­ing Windows. That would ex­plain why there are al­ways so many ATMs out of ser­vice in Shanghai.

Day 215: Bicycling in Shanghai

Published on Sunday, November 16, 2008

第215天: 上海骑车
(Kindly trans­lated into Chinese by Caroline Hsu. Thank you!)

Ten of us went bi­cy­cling in Shanghai yes­ter­day, from Billion’s shop by Xintiandi to Lujiazui, and back to his shop. I had a great time and I hope every­one who showed up did as well. Big thanks to the staff of Shanghai Bicycle Rental: Billion, Chris, Edward, and Lao Wu Lao Hu!

昨天我们一行十人参加了上海自行车游玩活动, 路线起始于在新天地的 Billion 的商店, 终止于陆家嘴, 然后再返回他的店. 我玩得很开心, 我也希望和我一起的同伴们也如此. 非常感谢 Shanghai Bicycle Rental (上海自行车租赁公司)的员工们: Billion, Chris, Edward 还有老吴老胡!

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Day 213: No work today

Published on Friday, November 14, 2008

I’m glad I didn’t have to work to­day (com­pany had a sched­uled power out­age) be­cause the weather was ab­solutely per­fect! Blue skies, cool breeze, about 70 de­grees F – per­fect for bik­ing, and that’s what I did.

But I busted the rear tire be­fore I even got any­where. Fortunately there was a bi­cy­cle re­pair shop just a block away. The re­pair cost me only 1.5 RMB, I shit you not. Less than a US quarter.

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