On the day Canada wins it’s first Gold Medal at the Beijing Olympics, I also read that a Korean woman won gold in weightlifting, beating the heaviest Olympic weightlifter man or woman Olha Korobka.
Chinese women had been dominating woman’s weightlifting but chose not to enter an athlete in Jang Miran’s weight class. IOC [...]
..is my old alma manta, Tsinghua University in Beijing China. This doesn’t surprise me. I know how hard it is to get into their undergrad programs. I also helped more than a few undergrad students apply to US grad schools and even though I’ve been out of China for years people still [...]
At least according to a blogger over on the Globe and Mail. I saw Beijing before it was totally cleaned up for the masses. I guess that makes me lucky. Vancouver may get some of that treatment but the Police Superintendent vowed not to round up homeless people and ship them out [...]
Well it was bound to happen, people are asking for my advice and opinion on the Tsinghua School of Economics IMBA program. And even though I never applied to that program and was only in China six months, I did study at Tsinghua as an MBA exchange student from the Sauder School of Business [...]
You can’t ban the internet, but apparently in a move to keep Chinese youth from spending too much time online, they have banned the opening of additional internet cafés. I learned this through my RSS feed from Webmaster World, but it is on Reuters.
I can testify to the popularity of internet cafés in China [...]
I actually learned about this from Infinite Loop, Arstechnica’s Mac blog. The largest Macintosh store in China opened recently in Beijing. The Beijing Macintosh User Group has a blog entry about it.
It actually wasn’t that hard to find Macintosh stuff in Beijing. There is a Applecare service depot as well which I [...]
So I climbed the Great Wall or at least part of it. I thought it would be an all day thing but when we got to the wall we got just over two hours. There was some initial confusion among the non-Chinese speakers especially concerning whether you need to take the gondola, you [...]
After dinner with Hyemi and her two friends visiting from Korea we went by cab to see some Chinese lanterns. It wasn’t that great but it was better then sitting home alone by a nautical mile. One of the Korean girls dropped her camera and after that it didn’t function.
After [...]
