ramblings of an expat Kiwi living in one small corner of Beijing

ranting

May 11, 2007 wangbo

Why was I offline for a day? Because there was no electricity. Sure, my laptop

May 9, 2007 wangbo

First reaction: Can we just stop shifting the blame around? Can everybody involved please just

Apr 27, 2007 wangbo

Wow. Posting about ANZAC Day brings in a lot of searches. And searchers, I presume.

Apr 27, 2007 wangbo

And China Unicom finally lets me get online.

Apr 27, 2007 wangbo

One thing I can’t stand is disobedient technology. And once again, China Unicom’s CDMA [ahem]

English-teacher test puts accent on pronunciation, proclaims the headline. Oh dear. There are so many

I’d never had anybody run off looking for a Japanese interpreter to find out what

Apr 4, 2007 wangbo

So I stuck with To Live for my Chinese study last night. Really, I’ve had

So yesterday I mentioned finding an article explaining how Peking became Beijing. At the time,

Mar 24, 2007 wangbo

So this article is the usual article about the gender imbalance in Asia, all the