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Speaking To My Cat Is Easier Than Talking Mandarin Or Using Jott
In this earlier post I complained about the stress of living in a place where I am “doomed to waste time understanding and being understood.”
This is still an issue or I would not choose to resurrect such a gloomy old blog post. The difference these days is that I am enjoying my summer holidays. [...]
Posted: July 11th, 2008 under China, Internet, Shanghai, culture, random.
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That’s Shanghai Come to Projection 216
That’s Shanghai stopped by Projection 216 (Jenny’s studio) for her opening party and they came back a couple of weeks later for a leisurely chat, which they wrote up in last month’s edition. Here is the clip. It’s flattering and well written, but Andreas’s photo is a bit dark and they got one fact wrong. [...]
Posted: March 22nd, 2008 under Shanghai, culture, films, random.
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Looking Back On 2007
Everybody is writing reviews of the past year so I will join in too. 2007 has been a great year for us, although it has not been without struggle and frustration. I have just been scanning this year’s blog posts as a prompt for the some of the highlights, which I will summarise below:
Personal Stuff
We [...]
Posted: December 31st, 2007 under Shanghai, Uncategorized, blogs, culture, education, films, music, random.
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Say Hello to the Real Catshanghai
If Twitter and Dreamhost can have cats on their website then so can I.
Yes, we have a new resident in our house. He is a young spunky cat that we have named Chog, short for Chinese mog. Do you get it? He had been living on the landing outside Jenny’s shop for a few [...]
Posted: April 20th, 2007 under Shanghai, blogs, random.
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Bontempi 5 at Club Logo
We went to this Freaklub party at Club Logo in Xingfu Lu after bumping into Sebastian Tootekool at Ikea who described it as a cross between a live show and a DJ set. Read this link. Freaklub is a weekly techno night run by Tootekool at Club Logo.
I’ve always had a good time at this [...]
Posted: January 4th, 2007 under random.
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Future of the KS3 ICT Strategy
The Key Stage 3 ICT Strategy was launched by the UK government in 2002 to try and improve the quality and consistency of ICT teaching and learning in UK secondary schools. It attempts to clarify the requirements of the national curriculum by offering lesson plans and resources to download from the strategy website. I [...]
Posted: December 19th, 2006 under education, random, technology.
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Treading Water - Shanghai Style
Today it is humid and sticky and I have been treading water in many different ways.
I have been treading water with regards to editing the school footage, because SonicMyDVD kept on crashing and the interface is so bad that it doesn’t let you save regularly in an intuitive way. You have to save it twice [...]
Posted: June 26th, 2006 under Shanghai, random.
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Moganshan Trip
This is an article I wrote about Moganshan. Forgive the sentimental happy clappy treatment but it was a very good trip and it was wrttien for school consumption. anyway, it gives you an idea about what it goos about Moganshan.
Moganhan Trip - June 21st to June 23rd 2006
How many year 7 students does it take [...]