Category Archive for 'china'

Daily fruit box delivered to you office for about US$1 a day

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Wow. Wonder what their margins are. You do have order for a whole month for them to deliver but for most places I’ve lived in $1 can’t even get you the fruit.
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Weird promotional deals

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

Buy shampoo get a free bottle of cooking oil

China unicom 3G experience

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Been using unicom’s service for nearly a month now.
Pros: it is alot faster than edge/GPRS makes mobile internet usable. My connection doesn’t get dropped when checking email. I can finally experience what the iPhone can really offer (albeit no facebook and Twitter)
Cons: unicom’s reception is bad and not compareable to china mobile. Calls get [...]

The internet shows hong kong police and edison who’s boss

Friday, February 8th, 2008

For those that don’t know the biggest story in hong kong in the past few months isn’t about whether there will be democracy in 2012 or how turbulent the stock market is (biggest drop in history and biggest rise the next day) but the hong kong entertainment sex scandal involving Edison Chen, Gilian Chung, Cecelia [...]

Post beijing trip thoughts

Monday, November 12th, 2007

This years cnbloggercon was the best one to date. I’m not sure what the numbers are but the venue this year is significantly bigger than the previous ones. This year’s venue at Tsinghua’s tech park was the best yet. As i wrote in my previous post, cnbloggercon is my favorite tech conference [...]

Live blogging from Cnbloggercon07

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

Not being much of a timely writer i’ll won’t be the one live blogging. For anyone that wants to follow the cnbloggercon07 in real time and wants to read it in english you can get it all with the following link
cnbloggercon07 live blog

back in beijing

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

First day back in beijing. Beijing has been my 2nd home for the past 3 years.  its good to be back even though its pretty cold.  I will be in town meeting up with people and attending the Annual Chinese Blogger Conference,  aka cnbloggercon 2007 and the Web 2.0 event organized by Orange.
The Blogger conference [...]