Yensid asked me a question on The 12 Chinese zodiac animals, his question is: There was a movie about Chinese Zodiac in disney channel what was the title?

I don’t know, I never heart about that. But today, I watched a movie, Kung Fu Panda, is it the key of Yensid’s question?

Why I use so many adj words? Because I like Kung Fu Panda very much, I give full mark to it. Yeah, I have to say, Kung Fu Panda is cool, great, wonderful, excellent, funny, beautiful and more.

Cool, there are a lot of Chinese Kung Fu actions in the film, the best section is Panda and his master fighting in chopsticks, that’s florid Kung Fu style.

Great, the animals in the film are all symbolizing lucky in Chinese culture, and most of the animals are Chinese national treasure.

Wonderful, the scene is good at Chinese painting style, the house, montain, foods and many items in daily use are nice to me, I enjoy it immensely.

Excellent, the context of that scene clearly, and the story developed excellent.

Funny, it’s a cartoon film of comedy, the dialogue and facial expression are full in humor.

Beautiful, this admits of no doubt, the colourful pictures are very beautiful and cause to be enjoyable and pleasurable.

More, my english is poor, so, you must be get more harvest after watch it. My friend liciece also reviews this great movie in his blog: Kungfu Panda.

The last, if you want to read more about Chinese Zodiac animals, The 12 Chinese zodiac animals and The 12 Chinese zodiac animals II may be useful for you :D

More about Chinese Movies’ review:

- Movie Review: The Forbidden Kingdom
- Movie Review: The Assembly
- Movie Review: Se Jie or Lust Caution

So, if I need more traffic, I have to join more the other websites, I’m sure that bloggers will succeed if we employ our cards well.

Today, I checked out an interesting Forum called Thoughts.com, it provide users with free blog and gallery, and many other useful functions, you can upload photos, videos and podcasts, or chat in the community forums and bookmark the latest news.

Personally, I think its free blog service is a good chance for me, because I can creating a mirror blog on it, and place my own blog’s address on each post. Then, the more friends read my articles, the more traffic will be arrived to here :D

When I joined it, I found that its blog service advanced with jurisdiction management: it allows me to decide for each blog post if I want it to be public, private, or only viewable by my friends. The jurisdiction management looks like Flickr or the other cool community websites.

Then I posted some articles and uploaded a few of photos on it, then added a few of friends via its Friend-Networks, the friend network looks like facebook, because I have get a lot of traffic from FB, so I trust the Thoughts also could give me traffic too.

Besides offering blog and gallery, Thoughts.com offers community forums and bookmark, these functions will also useful to get traffic. So I invite you to get on the bandwagon, set up your mirror blog and try to get traffic from it.

Who knows, you might become the next success blogger one day, enjoy ;)

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- I joined Facebook to get traffic
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- Find out the ways of traffic source in flickr

Chinese ZongZi - Rice Wrapped in Bamboo Leaves - Consterj asked where he could buy these in Manhattan to bring home, I thought eBay must be sold it, but when I searched Tzung Tzu, zongzi and many other keywords in eBay, I could not find the goods.

Dragon Boat Festival - Janetluo launched into a detailed explanation about Dragon Boat Festival, and tell us why people eat zongzi or threw it into water today.

Chinese Traditional Food：Tzung Tzu(glutinous rice dumpling) - There are some photos to teach you how to cook Tzung Tzu, I found this blog is valueable, because you can find many Chinese food’s cook methods there.

Free Port Analyzers - Defeat Spyware And Botware - Great, it’s an useful and easily article teach me how to defeat Spywares, everyone should learn it I think, you have to defeat spywares and botwares always.

For example, we eat mooncake in the middle autumn, dumpling in Chinese new year, and Zongzi in the dragon boat festival.

Zongzi made of glutinous rice, stuffed with different fillings and wrapped in bamboo leaves. The shape of zongzi range from relatively tetrahedral to cylindrical. Wrapping a zongzi neatly is a skill which is passed down through families, as are the recipes.

The fillings used for zongzi vary from region to region, but the rice used is always glutinous rice. Depending on the region, the rice may be lightly precooked by stir-frying or soaked before using, and the fillings may be sweet.

I like Zongzi, if you does not heart it before, I suggest you taste it, it’s great delicious.

Dabei Boxing is a major boxing for Kungfu, but there is few people practice it, because it is more harder than the others. It is a combination system of Taiji, Bagua and Xingyi, to do well takes years of practice, it takes time to get achievements.

Because of Dabei Boxing is too hard, so old persons does not practice it. Fortunatly, the researchers of this boxing published an easy version for old ages. They can improve their function of the heart, and improve their function of the lungs via this great sport.

My mother likes Kungfu very much, she practices Kungfu many years, and practices everyday. Last year, I have wrote about the lovely Chinese old lady: My Mother Likes Chinese Martial Arts Very Much.

Recently the lovely old lady had learned how to Dabei Boxing, and she asked me recording the video of her labor.

But today, there are more and more LaoWai in China, they come to China for study, work, business, travel or found families.

How much does foreigner make in China? Are they really can find higher salary than Chinese?

In contrast, Chinese or full-time blogger lives in a low income level in China, but LaoWai also can not get enough preferential policies or enviable salary.

Recent years, more and more foreigners come to China, there are over 200,000 foreigners work in China, so they have to working hardly to earn money as same as Chinese workers.

Usually, they work in the embassies, foreign companies, or teach English in schools, and do a part time works for movies or advertisements. But the most LaoWai works in telemarketing or translation.

Their salary almost with Chinese high salary workers, the salary is about 6,000 to 10,000 RMB per month. Of course, this level income is high for the most common workers, most workers’ salary just about 2,000 to 5,000 RMB per month.

Compared with serval years ago, LaoWai’s salary become lower and lower.

Update: I suddenly remember my friend Mabel, she worked in GanJi Friend Link Team. She told me that she is a girl, not a boy. For my mistake, please let me advertise her company website again:

If you lives in Beijing and need to find jobs, GanJi will give you a lot of help, you can: search jobs in it (job wanted), post your job-hunting infomation (job available), or try to get some part time jobs.

The last, this service is just opened for the LaoWai in Beijing now ;)

I think these articles are very valuable for me, because it lessons for me to know how a Western man think about China. It is a guide for me write more blogs for LaoWai who are interesting on China.

John Chow said: One thing for sure, if you can cover your housing cost, you can live like a king here on the average Canadian income.

Yeah, I agree with him. My friend went to Japan four years ago, and he worked nearly 3 years in Japan. Then he came back to China and brought back a lot of money.

Now, he found his own company in Beijing. Can you guess what he worked in Japan? He got 3 part-time jobs: wash the dishes, Chinese teacher for kids, 711 shop assistants.

So, many Chinese working in abroad, and go back to do boss.

But it is hardly to make money in China, even hardly to make money from a full-time blog work. There are a lot of reasons:

1. Many western company don’t trust Chinese, they do not like Chinese IP, and do not like cooperate with Chinese;

2. The net speed is too low to open foreign websites, for example, I have to try more than 10 times and wait for more than 2 minutes to open John Chow’s blog;

3. China has a great firewall that blocks many western sites;

4. You have to pay 35 dollars to get money from PayPal, or you have to spent more than 60 days and 10 dollars to get money via a cheque;

5. And many other problems.

The mini cards are small, it is great diaphanous. I selected 10 best photos from my gallery, and the other side, I print my contact infomation, so the mini cards become a name card of mine.

Just in time, my friends called me to join a party, I brought the mini cards in my pocket, and showed it to my friends, they suprised too. In that day, the cards all gave to my friends, they were happy I believe.

I think I should order more from Moo, because it is really cool. But I have to wait a long time to get it. How long it be arrived to Beijing from London?

I ordered it at 14 Apr 2008, and it was dispatched at 22 Apr, the timestamp on the letter told me that the gift arrived Beijing at 17 May, then I got it at 20 May 2008.

So, you know, I wait more then 30 days for it. How many days it is!

Some photos of the Moo Mini Cards:

1. Ganji Website:

The Engish version of ganji serves as a information provider for the foreigners who are living in Beijing. It offers an array of sections which include housing, personals, jobs services and for sale. In order to guarantee to the users getting the timely and first hand information.

In there you can find classifieds information you need and also in there you can post ads to attract people’s eyes, it is like a bridge which make people’s communication become possible.

2. Kijiji Website:

Another classifieds information website, which Kijiji is a group of free, local, community-based classifieds websites. Kijiji offers a convenient, fun, and easy way for people in the same city to meet, trade, share ideas, and help each other out in areas such as goods, cars, services, housing, jobs, and personals.

Kijiji first launched in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, China, Japan, and Taiwan in February 2005. Later that year, Austria, Switzerland, and India also joined the family. Today, Kijiji now has over 17 million users across these markets and is a leading classifieds site. In 2007, Kijiji expanded into Belgium, Turkey, and the United States.

3. Why I wrote this topic?

Some days ago, MabeLuck left a comment in my blog, he works for GanJi Website, and his comment is:

Dear ShangNing:

I often read your articles on your Blog and like them very much. I very appreciate your writing style and your words, and I was stuck by both of them.

Recently our company’s English version website is put into service. The content of our website also connects with foreigners living in Beijing. Here foreigners can find useful information which is related to basic necessities of life. Our goal is to make foreigners’ life in Beijing more convenient, colorful and available.

The reason I write this letter is to ask you for the permission whether you can add our website address on your blogroll and if you like we can also add your blog website on our website and let more foreigners and Chinese read your articles and share their experience with you.

Here is our English website address: en.ganji.com and there you can find the introduction of our company and our Chinese version website link.

If you are interested in this, please contact us. I am looking forward to your reply.

Sincerely yours
Mabel

I was exciting when I read this comment, because I know that it is a great website, I would get more traffic if it links me. So I replied him in time, then I found that my blog appeared on the Friend-Link page of GanJi English Version :D

1. How to join the contest?

Three simple steps to join the contest quickly. Join the CuteKid first; upload photos with a step-by-step wizard; then you will be asked to join the contest finally.

2. What prize for winners?

There are five categories: Baby (birth - 12 months), Toddler (12 - 24 months), Preschooler (2 - 4 years), Big Kid (4 - 8 years), Pre-Teen (8 - 12 years).

Each category winner will receive some cash or prizes and entry into the year contest. And the year contest’s winner will get a large fund and an own website, and more.

3. How to take greate baby photos?

Babies are the most beautiful and lovely being, they owned the wonderful expressions and extravagant acts. Babies are the greatest subject of photographs the world over, They are cute, cuddly, unselfconscious and unpredictable.

So you can get a lot of great baby photos if you do. There are some tips to teach you how to take great baby photos, they are not only advantage for the cute kid contest and more.

a) Use natural lighting: If possible, try to take photos during the day when flash is not necessary. Bright light looks unnatural and washes out colors and facial features. Instead try capturing your subject out of direct sunlight, but turn on all the indoor lights to give a softer all round tone on your baby’s skin.

b) Make the same level of the child: This tip will make babies more comfortable and give you a better view of their features. The simple method is: call your friend hold on baby, or you can kneel down, so that you baby can see and react to your own expressions.

c) Get rid of distractions: Get rid of distractions in the picture when taking your pictures. Having too many people around can be distracting, anything that moves or makes noise should be turned off if possible.

d) Include other people: Try taking pictures of the baby with other people as well, including yourself. This can help to frame the baby or focus its attention. Try including a favourite toy or household item, which will make your photo tell a compelling story.

e) Be aware of all moods: Smiling babies are cute. But so are crying babies and pouting babies and messy babies and sleeping babies. You’ll be amazed at how truly beautiful they are in non-traditional picture taking situations.

The last, I would like to wish you every success in the Cute Kid Contest!

Note: The preceding was a paid review.