Catshanghai

You know it’s spring in Shanghai when people put their washing out on the streets. Spring has arrived.

It’s been a while since my last post. Here is a brief list of things that have happened to us over the last month. We enjoyed Chinese New Year in Lingang in Nanhui Pudong Jenny found out that our baby is a boy and we’re going to name him Jake. Jenny is now 6 months [...]

My exile from Facebook has ended, although I have never spent too much time hanging out in this network. Sometime before Christmas I tried to add a few friends from the mobile Facebook site using my crappy HTC Tytn Windows Mobile cellphone, but Facebook defaults to ‘add all’. Like an idiot, I added hundreds of [...]

We continue to enjoy Shanghai with my Mum. Today we went to Red Town, Moganshan Lu’s art studios and on the Pudong side overlooking the Huangpu River. Much of Shanghai is closed during the first week of October to celebrate the 59th anniversary or The Communists seizing power in 1949. Red Town’s sculpture space was [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 have [...]