Archives for October 2009

Calling The US From China

I found this cool service called Rebtel that is based in Sweden and allows you to call the US for a few cents a minute without dialing some goddamned calling card number.
Prior to this, for 100 Yuan ($14.50) I could call the US on my cell for maybe 15 minutes. Seeing that 100 Yuan would [...]

Halloween

Ni Hao, Jerks.
So i’ve been sick as hell for the past three days. Today (Halloween) I’m feeling better. These chinese colds are brutal.
The only thing the made me feel really better was this chinese medicine tea called Balangen Keli. All of my coworkers were like “don’t listen to chinese people and their BS about Chinese [...]

Online Advertising In China

Tonight I was reading a story on Yahoo and at the bottom I see this ad served from BlueLithium, on a Yahoo News page:

A green card isn’t something you can “win”.
You’d think this would be against Yahoo or Blue Lithium’s Terms Of Service.

How To Meet Women At Bars In Shenzhen

Can I interest you ladies in a lollipop?
just kidding, i have no idea how effective this is.

Working In Shenzhen, China

Working in Shenzhen, China is similar to working in the US (so long as you work for a US company) except for a few small details:

Lunch is served at 1pm, or 1:30, on the dot. If it’s not there at 1pm on the dot it will be there at 1:30pm on the dot. Chinese workers [...]

Chapbook For Your Trip To China

I was thinking today that keeping this China blog is sort of not as fun as I thought it would be because while i’m trying to write about China and give some pointers or have a few laughs its really very meta since i’m like drowning in Chinaness 24 hours a day.
It’s very stressful to [...]

Greetings From Luohu, Dongmen, Shenzhen

So I made it to China. I haven’t had a chance to write because i’ve been so busy with work and checking out the city.
I really love it here.
I hope the novelty doesn’t wear off too fast.

I flew on China Airlines from LAX to Taipei, and then to Hong Kong. The flight was a piece [...]