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    • Archive for September, 2007

    Spanish

    Posted on Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 in education.

    Started with Spanish classes today
    Yes indeed, since I will be moving to Spain next year after the Olympics, I thought it a good idea to receive some basic education before I go there…
    I remember when coming to China back in 1998 all I could say was “nihao” and “xiexie”. Actually there are loads [...]

    Wikimapia

    Posted on Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 in web stuff.

    Just found a very interesting map function. Since I use a lot of the Google Maps functions on my websites, I’m always looking for new stuff and this one is actually pretty cool. You can add stuff yourself, without having to register for it. The disadvantage of that obviously is that there is also quite [...]

    new phone

    Posted on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in gadgets.

    In the weekend I bought myself a new mobile phone as I was getting really sick and tired of my SonyEricsson K300. The user-interface is not superfriendly, but I already had gotten used to that for a number of years; what pissed me off mostly however was the bloody joystick!
    Basically Ericsson has for a long [...]

    victim of blog censuring

    4 comments
    Posted on Friday, September 14th, 2007 in news.

    Last year I commented one or two times on the blog of a correspondent (Bettine Vriesekoop) of one of the most renowned newspapers in The Netherlands (NRC Handelsblad). She used to be a Dutch top table tennis player and for some reason people think she can write nice stories, so she ended up in China [...]

    inefficiency 2

    Posted on Saturday, September 8th, 2007 in Beijing Olympics, service.

    Today I went to the local police station to get my new temporary resident permit (see inefficiency story) and I assumed correct: they only could give me one for 3 extra days and I should come back again the day I receive my passport back with my new year visa…
    Of course I tried to get [...]

    inefficiency

    1 comment
    Posted on Thursday, September 6th, 2007 in Beijing Olympics, service.

    It’s the time of the year again that my visa is up for renewal. I waited as long as possible for it to change, because each year they tend to “steal” a couple of days from me and since next year I will be very busy with my homestay project, I don’t want to have [...]