Catshanghai

Today I am blogging from Singapore. I haven’t come here just to blog, although my recent post on the existensialism of this activity might suggest that I do. Singapore is warm, green, modern and clean, but I haven’t come here to write about that either. I am a Shanghai blogger and it is not in [...]

I have lived in Shanghai for three years and we have just celebrated our first wedding anniversary, so it’s time to buy a family home. I have a house in the UK, but it’s in a rough inner city Bristol neighbourhood that I have no plans of going back to. It’s a good old, solid [...]

Oh No! The Subs are playing in Shanghai while I am attending a conference in Singapore. If you haven’t heard them, The Subs are China’s MC5. They even have bad clothes and massive Afros. Their post punk has lots of fun,sweat and vigour. Last spring, they played a show at Harley’s Bar last full of [...]

Here is a little video I put together using the online video editor, Eyespot. It teaches you how to make your own glutinous rice ball dumplings with ice cream and chocolate sauce. You can buy the rice balls at any convenience store for just a few kuai. By the way, tong yuen should be spelled [...]

Today I went on a long walk from Luwan to shake off the cobwebs and to enjoy the onset of mild weather. Spring has finally got the better of winter and it’s the weekend so I set myself a mission to become what Oscar Wilde described as a cynic, someone who knows the price of [...]

Someone once told me that keeping a diary forced them to lead an interesting life or they would have nothing to write about. This was in the era of pen and paper when your workrate was a private matter between yourself and your conscience. There was no audience to make sure you kept churning out [...]

Hong Kong Plaza or Cyber Mall is Shanghai’s most famous and centrally located electronics mall on the corner of Huai-Hai Lu and Huangpi Lu.  Most of you are probably already familiar with the place, especially if you have lived here for a while and  lust after gadgets. I like to go here, because it is [...]

I have found yet another way to waste your time on the Internet. Cuts is a web based online video editor that lets you make simple changes to Youtube videos such as add captions, fart noises and loops. You can even cut out footage to rewrite the history of Shanghai to suit your own attention [...]

I wonder if Kenny G will face the same difficulty on the grounds that he is not a real musician.
POLICE yesterday repatriated a foreign man at (Shanghai) Pudong International Airport ( who claimed to be a football player to join in trial training in a Chinese club.
The muscular man was dressed as an athlete and held [...]

Lifehacker just written about this very useful Internet TV streaming tool. If you are getting fedup with watching the local channels then you can stream international live TV from your Google homepage using the live TV widget or copy and paste the html into another webpage. You need a fast Internet connection and Windows Media [...]