 | I'm an alien...
2007-08-14, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | ..or at least that's what I get treated like most of the time. I still haven't gotten used to the fact that even in Shanghai, where there are quite a few foreigners, people still stare at me. However,... |
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| New Style
2007-08-12, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | Today I decided to do something incredibly brave – I went to the hairdresser here. My roots have started to become very obvious, so I did some research and then chose Toni & Guy. They are in the build... |
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| Weird fruit
2007-08-10, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | I’ve been back in Shanghai for about a week, and not much noteworthy has happened. I’ve resumed my “normal life” in Shanghai, which means that I still don’t really have a lot to do in the office and t... |
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 | Getting on the Train
2007-07-31, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | I left work an hour earlier today as I wanted to make sure I get to the train station in time. I’ve heard that it’s a bit like an airport, with baggage check, assigned waiting areas and gates. And of ... |
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| "Summary" of my Beijing Experience
2007-08-06, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | Back in Shanghai. I just arrived this morning at 7 am, and even though I have bags under my eyes that almost come down to my knees, I’m still a brave soldier and sit in my office. The trip was dead ti... |
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| Journey Back
2007-08-06, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | The journey on the train back to Shanghai was way better than to Beijing. I shared a compartment with Patricia, a girl who lives in the US and whose partens are from Taiwan (so I had somebody to chat ... |
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 | Scam Alert in People's Park
2007-07-29, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | Today I wanted to visit the Shanghai Museum, but as it was very very hot outside, I didn’t want to stir until the afternoon, and then I went to the Gym first and then to People’s Park, where the Museu... |
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 | Jade Buddha Temple, Fake Market and Hotpot
2007-07-28, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | The first task of the day – buying the return train ticket from Beijing. I had originally intended to fly, but I waited to long that the cheap tickets were gone and the remaining ones were at an incon... |
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 | My appartment and weird food
2007-07-30, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | Nothing particularly eventful happened today. My boss is on holiday for the next 5 weeks, so I am a little more at liberty. I have to study for the oral part of my bar exam and I wanted to do that, bu... |
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 | Writing block-dont expect great things!
2007-07-24, Shanghai, China. By: shell | | So here I am, sitting in a hotel in Shanghai staring blankly at the screen trying to think of a way of explaining my last 10 days to you. I am at a complete loss on how to fit it all in so i am just g... |
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 | Shanghai Chic
2007-07-24, Shanghai, China. By: laowai | | As I have done quite a few times, I spent last weekend in Shanghai with my Dutch friend Jim. We were supposed to go the previous weekend with our departing Mexican friend Luis, but things fell throug... |
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 | Happy Birthday, Chesy
2007-07-09, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | Today we had a birthday celebration at the office. Chesy, one of the secretaries, had turned 25. In Chinese, your ages is counted by the years you started, not the ones completed - which means that th... |
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 | Shanghai Skyline
2007-07-21, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | Just wanted to share with you the views you can see when traveling on one of the elevated roads in Shanghai. |
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 | View from my office
2007-07-23, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | I just wanted to show you a few pics - this is the view from my office. Pretty good, hu? |
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| Law and Order
2007-07-20, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | I just remembered that I have a few loose ends to tie up. In one of my first entries I wrote about freedom of press, censorship and the legal situation, none of which was clear to me. Well, I think I ... |
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| Life in Shanghai so far
2007-07-20, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | I realize it’s been a while since I last wrote – I mean, actually wrote and didn’t just put up old stories from Budapest (by the way, south America will follow soon) and now it’s time to tell you how ... |
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| Resident Alien
2007-07-17, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | There’s two noteworthy things that happened. First of all, I am officially a resident alien in Shanghai. Everybody staying in a place for longer than three days is officially required to register at t... |
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| Olympics-mania
2007-07-16, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | Just a bit of quick information that I wanted to share with you: the Chinese are really crazy about their Olympics. They (and the mascots) are featured everywhere. And the government found another way... |
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 | Bit of sightseeing
2007-07-07, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | I figured that as I have been in Shanghai for a week now and still haven’t seen anything of the city, I should spend the weekend sightseeing. So on Saturday I set out to explore the city. I took the m... |
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 | First night out
2007-07-06, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | One of the hippest places in Shanghai is a quarter called Xintiandi, close to the former French Concession, full of western bars and restaurants. And this is where I went out this Friday, together wit... |
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| I'm starting to get the hang of life in Shanghai...
2007-07-05, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | ...though there are still a few setbacks. For example I was really glad to find yogurth in the supermarket shelves. As Chinese people can't really digest dairy products, I figured there wouldn't be an... |
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| Gym, Fa Piao and Pajamas
2007-07-05, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | I know that this is a very odd heading for an entry, but I just wanted to let you know a few things and oddities of life in Shanghai. First of all, I realized that most of the prices are subject to ne... |
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| The Latest News
2007-07-03, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | I’ve just spent the morning browsing www.chinadaily.com.cn to get a feeling for what’s going on in the country and was rather amused. As you are aware, freedom of press is a big issue here. Censorship... |
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| First official day at work
2007-07-02, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | Today was my first day at the new office – rather uneventful. When I first arrived in Shanghai, I had luckily already visited the building, otherwise I would have been pretty lost. They had moved to a... |
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