The Black Journal in Shanghai is now officially closed and archived.

Missing In Action?Oh yea.. most definitely so...hehe...my humble apologies ( Read more... )

The weather here in Shanghai is pretty taxing at times. I've already fallen prey to the humidity and got myself a cold packaged together with a nasty headache to boot. ( And in winter, I'll be complaining about how freezing it is here too... ;) )

"There is something about the weather that shapes a community's social behaviour". I've heard this at ( Read more... )

Part of Birmingham was evacuated yesterday as a safety precaution after some supposed threats. All is good though. London seems to be doing well so far. In fact, they seem pretty nonchalant about the whole bombing incident. This letter pretty much sums it all up.

"We're going to take care of the lives you ruined. And then we're going to work. And ( Read more... )

I know every blogger out there is blogging about the London bombing attacks that occurred early this morning (UK time). Even though I picked up the story quite early (I monitor the news), I felt that I didn't want to add anything based on all the bits and pieces of speculation. Give the media some time to get their facts straight. A relief that the ( Read more... )

The thing about Shanghai is there are TONS of stuff to do, provided you get your arse out of the house. And you don't even have to spend much. Take my friend's free photography exhibition for example..this is a heads up for him:-


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Batman Begins...


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Damn! That is some long arse hair! (nearly literally)


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I'm having a bit of trouble with my domain name at the moment. I can't access it from China as previously blogged. And the support staff at the moment aren't doing too much to help ...they reply quick (same day or next) but I haven't got any solutions from them yet. I rarely get annoyed but this is starting to frustrate me a bit. I've been in the ( Read more... )

Chairman Mao died 'again' last Saturday... so I thought.

Chairman Mao has been portrayed in movies and television shows in China for years now. While I have yet to see any of these shows (not exactly looking forward to it), some of his on-screen counterparts look uncannily like him.


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