We’ve all had it before – the vacation from hell. I just recently had mine. We returned to KL for the Chinese New Year holidays. It has been 2 years since we went back to KL together as a family. I was looking forward to some real R&R to meet up with friends and just [...]
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Unbelievable! Wikipedia is back!
Posted in China, Travel on June 30th, 2007 No Comments »
Two days ago, I had a dreaded suspicion that the ce-nsor-ship here is getting worse when Yahoo and Flickr couldn’t be accessed. Today I had an interesting surprise – Wikipedia English is now opened! This is the strange bit of living here!
Also, today I went to this place called ‘798‘ which is an old factory [...]
Earthquake & the loss of the Internet
Posted in China, General, Travel on December 30th, 2006 No Comments »
We came back to Beijing from Taipei on Wed. At about 20:36 local time, on Tue there was an earthquake at Kaoshiung which you may have heard about. We were on the 11th floor of the building and I suddenly felt a sway while sitting on the couch. Mary didn’t realise it was an earthquake [...]