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Archive for March, 2008

Google Lego Calendar has arrived

I was happy to entered for the Guge (Google China) writing competition last week, and recieved a calendar gift from Google China yesterday.

This is the first time to recieve gift from google for me. Google seems to enjoy send presents to its fans, if you search Google Gift in Flickr or Google, the result will […]

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

The price of green Chinese onion

I am reading a piece of information, the trade price of green Chinese onion has risen by 641.2% against the same period of last year, but 26.7% of the workman has not increase wages in the last 5 years.

China, in recent months, goods are on the advance. Take the green Chinese onion for instance, it […]

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Three unusual domains are new to me

We know, the most common types of domain name include: dot com, dot net and dot org. Others are info, mobi, tv and so on. They are common for they are general domain names in the world.
And besides, There are national domains in all countries. For example, del.icio.us belong to USA, china.cn belong to China. […]

Monday, March 10th, 2008

The largest examination in the world

The enrollments of Chinese university entrance examination has been over ten million in 2007, and the number still increasing yearly.

Michael wrote a comment of great length in The elementary grade curriculum:
Dear ShangNing,
You have a great blog! I have subscribed to it and I look forward to reading more of your posts in the future. I […]

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Beijing ChinaUninet Office Photos

These photos were taken last day, I went to Beijing Chinauninet Company near The World Trade Center (GuoMao).

It’s one of the most famous companies in China Internet.
The office looks so relaxed, all kinds of things covered the table and their employees dress down as much as everyone. I like office like this style, it administers […]

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

ShangNing would be addressed as Mr Shang

I recieved emails from my friends usually, but some friends called me “Mr. Ning”. That’s wrong, my family name is Shang, Ning is my given name.

We Chinese name different from those of personal names in Western cultures.
Most noticeably, a Chinese name is written with the family name first and the given name next. For instance, […]

Thursday, March 6th, 2008