Category Archives: China

Outsourcing CNAM examinations to China!

Since I am often sent expat in China this year, I have quite a few issues to follow all CNAM classes in France . . .
As a result, we are now approaching the second term examination period, (namely next week), and I’ll be in China as well. Fortunately, I succeeded to outsource my ENG110 exam [...]

China Earthquake, “Liberation” flame outburst

I’m just back from China, where there had been a terrible earthquake as you all know. Figures are not yet stable, but authorities now speak about 30,000 deaths, 100,000 injured, and hope that the death count will not go over 50,000 …
This is definitely a horrible catastrophe for China, and I can’t even imagine the [...]

New pictures upload

It’s been a while since I had time to upload pictures to this blog, but I finally had 5 minutes for doing that. The new set includes:

New pictures of Shanghai Yu Garden by night in the Shanghai by nite album
New gallery : Shanghai Kungfu Tee
A brand new album for my Suzhou trips with 4 galleries [...]

Dongguan SMS Spam Problem

Those last weeks were quite busy on the business trip thing, been to SuZhou (苏州) and Dongguan (东莞)… but now I am facing a little problem in Dongguan … I am beeing spamed ! using SMS, tons of SMS.
About 20 to 30 Spam SMS an hour (!!!) issued by a non disclosed sender, Saying ‘GMCC’ [...]

Why are Chinese (Asian?) more attractive ?

Well, it’s been some time I go from France to China and back, some colleague pointed at me that French/European guys think Chinese (Asian?) girls are more attractive than European … usually …
I didn’t realize that before but actually, it’s not really only about physical traits, I finally figured it out why (or at least [...]

Installing Debian in China

It’s about a week now I am trying to install a debian netinstall from China … while I thought this would be easy, it actually was slooowww … deadly sloowww …
Couldn’t find a Chinese debian repository, only found this one :
deb http://ftp.hk.debian.org etch main contrib non-free
And man, that’s deadly slow from Shanghai, 10 on peak, [...]

Shanghai by night

Been in Shanghai about a week now, I never had time to take some pictures around … well, that’s done now. Went to the main river (sorry forgot that name …), a very nice place if you ask me… After that, tried to come back walking (party only this time)
现在一个星期在上海,没有时间去照相。但是昨天做了

China download, a complete failure story

It’s a known fact that China to ‘rest of the world’ internet link is not really the fastest ever … well tell you the truth man, that’s painly slow !
Yesterday I had to transfer a 30MB archive from a Chinese customer to France, it all started at 7am, with me opening an ftp server [...]