Paper-cut - folks traditional art

When tourists visit China, they often bought some art crafts as gifts back. I'd like to introduce some web site about traditional art product here.

The paper-cut is one of the folks traditional decorative art which China popularizes the most. Probably because its so easy that, cost cheap, result stand and see, meet surface wide and welcome generally material; Because it suit rural produce leisure by woman, it acts as practibility can beautify life also most. They can be put up on the wall, or on the window (named as window flower).

Most of the paper are red papers, red are the greeting color in China, so originally it's created for festivals, celebrations.

They can be simple, also can be very elegant and beautiful. It describes scenes or stories from book, also describes the living pages around.

For more, please go to The paper-cut site. Scroll down, you can see some art products are being sold there.
The page language is mainly in Chinese, but there's a button at the right of it's navigation bar which can translate it into English through third party site, as always you can use google's translation site to read it in English.

What's we live for

Milton wrote some touching conversations between he and his son at reflection time. His son came to the hospital in last 12 months, but they still keep smiling.

One of my previous boss is good at talking, he also said some smart words in short terms. One of them is very impressive, when people asked why he still ate food with grease after his
gall-bladder was removed, supposed he would stay away from them, he said: I liked such kind of food, that's we live for.

The influence of House price

recently some employees from electric industry of Shenzhen, China are discussing the influence of House price.

Many factories, companies have to move away from Shenzhen, one is because of the price of the company building is high, another is because of the house price is too high for their employees to afford, thus, the industry structure of the city has to be changed by the house price.

Hotels,Flights,Cars reservation

Working hard all along the year, now it's near the end of the year, to take a vacation and travel around is a good idea to have a relax.

One of my friends are very good at planning, even more proffessional than business travel company, so when she organized a group travel, everything was very simple and easy, all I need do is to bring my passport and money she budgeted.

Last time a friend in New york invited me to have a travel there, I got headache on the visa preparing and fight/hotel/car booking, they said, if you don't have a car, you can't travel freely, then a lot of things need me care: look up the infomation and made the decision, finally I did not go.

So now when I see this AD

I'd like to review the Hotel Reservations to get know what convenience it can bring me.

It's available now in following 15 countries,

United States
Österreich
Belgique
Canada
Danmark
France
Deutschland
Great Britain
Ireland
Italia
Nederland
Norge
España
Sverige
Schweiz

This site can be read in English and Espanol, some other sites can read in Chinese., but it's OK for me.

Travellers can Reserve Online, or Call their Hotel Experts via

1.800.447.4136 (USA & Canada)
00.800.1276.3549 (Europe)
(1) 817.333.5105 (Worldwide)

Let's read a short story first, when taking the shuttle bus of the airport, the driver will ask you which airline would you take, so he can put you off at the cooresponding onboard gate, here is a small mistake one may make:

"Which airline?" -driver
"American Online" -you (you want to say "American Airline" in fact)
"Ok. No problem, I'll find you a pay phone so you can travel through the internet." - driver

The online reservation system will not play kidding to you, it can smartly recoganize what you want, provide smiliar options, destination places for your to select, for example, when you type New York, it will say, there're two places match the meaning of New york, could you select?

It provides reservations for 5 kinds of things:Hotels,Flights,Cars,Vacation Rentals,Vacation Packages. Here a vacation rental is defined as any suite-type lodging that has self-catering facilities (wet bar, refrigerator, microwave, etc.). It's good for personal travel. I always glad to buy some fresh seafood in the market and cook by myself:)

I compared the services and prices. Comparing the hotel price of New York to a list from other hotel reservation provider, there's no obvious advantages, the lowest hotel price are very close, since I don't have preferred hotel, so can't compare the exact hotel and room. The most Advantage is that it provides Vacation Packages, like one stop service, you can reserve Hotels,Flights,Cars as a package. When you choose cities, dates, it will provide more than 20 options. following are two examples.


It's really convenient for people like me. Maybe the package price are more valuable, I did not find other site can provide this, so can't compare. Hope this is also useful for you.

This post is sponsored.

Thanks giving

A Shanghai TV program is choosing touching stories and people of the year through public appraisal.
One of the story is very impressive, about a 108 old lady. She came to a family as the nurserymaid when she was 60 years old, 10 yuan every month (the total income of the family is about 100 yuan per month), there're 4 sons in this family, she is a great lady, can cook and sew the clothes by hands, and actually her salary was all used to buy the children toys or snacks, now she has been with the family for about 50 years, all the children respect and love her like their old grandma.
Love gives, love returns.

Spain [f.] We, the cities

Yesterday when I passed by the People square, I saw an poster of "Spain [f.] We, the cities", it said "One hundred women present Spanish cities and contemporary architechture." so I enterred the exhibition hall and had a tour.

Unexpectedly, there's no architechture showing around, all can I see is ladies standing and talking, seems the background is cut off, and language is in Spanish, Spanish is beautiful language to listen:) but I can't understand one word. So, I only spend less 2 hours there. There're several things impressed,
1. Isabel from google is also one of them, standing near the exit, and the wall before the exit, several LCD is showing google earth, all are very small.
2. not only artechture designer, processor presetning their opinion, but also people from other industry, like firewoman,judge, people who lost of eyesight, nurse, a nurse said, the way with no obstacle will reduce a lot of their workload, otherwise they have to go to the patients' home.
3. an old lady who won the 2004 architecture award said, if woman wants to get real freedom, not depends on man or marriage, she needs to be independent on economic.

I took a visit to other exhibitions as well, and took some pictures by mobile phone. Some of them I never came in before, there're a lot of great exhibitions.

following are some exhibition place in Shanghai, most of them are for trade shows.
A site Allshows.org is now collecting infomation of Trade, Cultral, Art shows in Shanghai.

Shanghai Listed Company Expo city
Shanghai International Agricultural Exhibition Cen
Shanghai East Asia Exhibition Hall
Shanghai Multimedia life square Conference & Exhibition Center
Shanghai Everbright Convention & Exhibition Center
Shanghai International Convention Center (SICEC)
Shang World Trade Center
Shanghai International Agricultural Exhibition Centre
INTEX Shanghai
Shanghai Multimedia life square Conference & Exhibition Center
Shanghai Science and Technology Museum
Shanghai Science Hall
Shanghai Art Museum
Shanghai International Agricultural Exhibition Centre
Shanghai Automobile Exhibition Centre (SAEC)
Shanghai Century Park
Shanghai Mart
Shanghai gym Palace
Shanghai New International Expo Centre
Shanghai Exhibition Center (SEC)
Shanghai Nature Museum
Le Royal Meridien Shanghai
Millennium Hongqiao Hotel(Millennium Hotel)
Pudong Shangri-La
Sofitel Hyland Shanghai
The Regent Shanghai

Classical music or pop song

Recently I move my pop song CDs to the store box and only leave the Classical music CDs on the shelf.
Some of them are all Piano, I find this can help one raise peace and easily focus on the things working on.
Old songs can bring people to memories easily, there's a very famous show called "Same song" (同一首歌)， started by CCTV on Jan.27, 2000, played all over the country and also been to USA, Korea, Japan, Canadal.... Many music stars from China mainland, HongKong, TaiWan, and other areas will play the pop songs in the perfomance. Most audiences became very excited when they heard the old songs, some of them are 70s ladies and gentlemen, emigrant many years ago.
Friends or family can sing the song together, so the song is easy to be with the old time; while listen to Classical music, people are usually silent, so that's not easy to keep in touch with old friends or time, it's not historically.

Play Ping pong

In my childhood, we often play pingpong after school and dinner, and in the weekend. It can be set very easily, desk table or dinner table can be used as the pingpong table, some books or small things can be used as the boundary, and sometimes, if there's no partner available, we can play by ourseleves, ping it to the wall:)

I found a 3D ping pong game from the recommendation of widgets group in blogcatalog
I think it's better to put here than in the side bar. so far my best score is 8:11, the competitor is CPU.

A Story of Loan

I'd like to share a story of a business man. One day the man got a business travel, he drove to the port to take the ship, near the port, he found a bank, entered it and applied for a loan of $10000, with his car mortgaged. The banker processed the application, and let his car parked in the bank storage.
Two weeks later, the man returned from his travel, and went to the bank to retrieve his car. The banker completed the deal, and can't help curiosity: "As we know, you're a millionair, why you'll need take loan of $10000 from our bank?"

The man replied with smile, "Where else only need $1000 parking fee for two weeks?"

Well, I can't remember the exact number in the above story, just remember it's really interesting. Isn't that man a smart one on financial operation?

Take a look at the Loan.
It provides Unsecured loans and Homeowner loans .

Don't be too lazy, good financial operation is kind of fun:)

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Games played in Chinese childhood - Blowing Soap Bubble

The set of blowing soap bubble is often sold near the gate of the garden. Walking in the sunshine, blowing bubbles, watching their beautiful dancing movement (ひらひらと舞う姿) and colors, it's a good time. And some of us may have experience playing so at mother's washing time.


Can you blow one in another? I can't. I saw little girl can do so very easily.

Told from the oil painting on canvas of Jean-baptiste-simeon Chardin (1699 - 1779), Soap bubble is also a type of game in western life.

In these scenes, although other figures can be visible in the background, the first impression is of a single figure, on which the eye concentrates even while this figure concentrates on a task. Such concentration is typical of Chardin; even when the subject is a boy idly building a card house, or blowing bubbles, there is an intentness that lifts the trivial pastime into an occupation. Unlike Greuze, Chardin never allows his people to ogle the spectator, to act the housemaid or village girl; they are absorbed, absorbed almost literally in the wonderful paint surface which seems to express integrity by the very oil medium.

There're some scientists also writing some research papers about soap bubble, very interesting, they study the wave, force through soap bubble. And, there's a book avaialbe on Amazon called "The Science of Soap Films and Soap Bubbles (Paperback)
" by Cyril Isenberg. It takes 220 pages to say about the soap bubble:

Superb presentation of the molecular and macroscopic properties of soap films and bubbles, including many demonstrations that can be readily performed with simple household materials. Emphasis on application of soap films to solution of physical problems, e.g. the motorway and minimum area problems. Over 120 black-and-white illus., 41 color photographs.

Did you think of cource the bubble has a short life? ah, we often heard "economic bubbles", not cheerful words, yes, bubbles are easy to break, but if you take special care of it, it can also live long. AEngland physical scientist who is famous for his study on liquid air kept the bubble in a special bottle, away from dusties, dryness, and the shaking of the air, then the bubble can live more than one month. Move amazing, some people can keep it for years. I just know it when do some research for this posting, can't imagine it.

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Games played in Chinese childhood - rolling the iron hoop