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Archive for September, 2007

Foreigners in China - Dom and His T-shirt Shop

Nan Luogu Xiang[1] is a famous street in Beijing, there are a lot of bars and shops, there is an interesting shop , T-shirt 8, this shop’s owner is an English man, his named Dom and his Chinese name is Jiang Haisen[2].
Jiang Haisen came China about 14 years ago, and loved Beijing, then, he decided [...]

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Foreigners in China - Mark Rowswell

Mark Rowswell is Canadian, his Chinese name is Dashan, means Huge Mountain, he attracts millions of people everywhere he goes in China because of his celebrity.
1988, Dashan graduated from Toronto, then he went to Beijing University studied Chinese. He named LuShiwei at that time. Fortuitous, he performed an opusculum at Spring Festival Gala Evening, it [...]

Monday, September 17th, 2007

I’m Learning English by Podcast

Learning English is the most important goal for me, because I’m blogging in English and my dream is go out to New Zealand or Canada. But my principle is study English by myself, reading, writing everyday on the internet.
Several days ago, I have started to subscribed podcast to practice listen skill, I searched some podcasts [...]

Monday, September 17th, 2007

The second blog of mine - www.pipetips.com

I bought a new domain several days ago, and created a new blog about Smoking Pipes, I’m smoker and like pipes very much. So, the new blog’s matter subject is all about pipes and tobocco. I believe the name of new blog’s domain is suit for pipes, the domain name is http://www.pipetips.com (PipeTips).
Now, I have [...]

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

Hutongs are disappearing step by step in Beijing

Beijing’s ancient bystreet named HuTong, it is an ancient city alley or lane typical in China, where hutongs run into the several thousand. Surrounding the Forbidden City, many were built during the Yuan (1206-1341), Ming(1368-1628) and Qing(1644-1908) dynasties.
One kind of hutongs, usually referred to as the regular hutong, was near the palace to the east [...]

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Hutongs are disappearing step by step in Beijing

Beijing’s ancient bystreet named HuTong, it is an ancient city alley or lane typical in China, where hutongs run into the several thousand. Surrounding the Forbidden City, many were built during the Yuan (1206-1341), Ming(1368-1628) and Qing(1644-1908) dynasties.
One kind of hutongs, usually referred to as the regular hutong, was near the palace to the east [...]

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Huailai County of Hebei Province

Huailai is a county in the Hebei province of northern China, under the administration of Zhangjiakou prefecture-level city.
The county is famous of grape, wine and historelic in Hebei province, about two hours drive from Beijing, near Badaling Great Wall area.
On both sides of the road, there are many local farmers are selling the local specialties, [...]

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Chook Croaked Mountain and Chook Croaked Post Station

These names were named by myself, their Chinese names are “JiMing Mountain” and “JiMingYi Post Station”, the means are “Chook Croaked Mountain” and “Chook Croaked Post Station”.
Chook Croaked Mountain is about 50km away from Zhangjiakou in Hebei province, The mountain elevation 1128.9 meters and area 17.5 square kilometers, historical records there are chook croaked at [...]

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

New template will be openned later

Last day, I was testing the new template of this blog , and asked ten friends by email, then, I recevied four options from my friends, their reviews are important for me, I won’t open the new template before fixing shortcomings, it may be opened next week.
There are reviews from my friends about the new [...]

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Travel Plan to Natural Desert

I am planning to travel to desert with my cousin tomorrow, it is nearby Beijing city, about 100km from my home. The desert have a nice name - Natural Desert. It is, however, a pretty desert. The sand of Natural Desert is blowed from Mongolia, and is stopped by a hill, so, it is created.
Many [...]

Sunday, September 9th, 2007