Nanjing. Jan 2012 Immediately after arriving to Nanjing, we checked into our hotel and then left to visit a large zoological park called "Hongshan Forest Zoo". There isn't much snowing in Shanghai as you might get 1-2 days of snow and then it melts away rapidly. Our real first taste of snow was when we... Continue Reading →
Here is a lady checking her fireplace in a fruit shop. Shenyang is a city of -25 to -30 degrees Celsius during winter. The government heats up the all the households living in apartments using centralized floor heating. However for retail shops, restaurants, shopping centers, farms etc., its a different matter. You are pretty much... Continue Reading →
Shenyang. Dec 2016 Snow man, Shenyang style with Snow beer bottles for arms. Snow beer is manufactured in Shenyang and is a local Shenyang brand. Did you know that despite being sold only in China, Snow beer is the largest selling beer brand in the world? I didn't know that. And I had been drinking... Continue Reading →
Shenyang. 2016 It snowed almost every night in Shenyang. Most of the time, I am out of my apartment going to work at around 7.00 - 7.30am in the morning. At that time, you can still catch nature's snow designs from the night before. Parked cars and bicycles will be dressed in snow. But it... Continue Reading →
Shenyang. Dec 2016 I lived in China for 10 years. And it's been 4 years since I relocated from China to Melbourne. Only today have I taken the time and effort to google this: Why do they paint trees white in China? And they always only painted the bottom half of the tree. I mean... Continue Reading →
Shenyang. Dec 2016 I was in Beijing for one year working on a project in our BMW office in a high rise building. But Shenyang is where I had spent a longer time. The BMW plants were here. Most of my office friends were here. My own change management department colleagues were here. Plus close... Continue Reading →
Beijing. Oct 2016 One day I walked out of my office in Beijing after work and realised it was pouring heavily. There were no cabs around. I dashed to the nearest restaurant across the street and took sanctuary there. Standing at the restaurant's porch together with this Terracotta soldier, I wondered what to do next.... Continue Reading →
A view from my apartment window as Beijing wakes up another day. Here are some interesting facts about Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China: World's most populous national capital city with over 21 million residents Home to the headquarters of most of China's largest state-owned companiesHouses the largest number of Fortune Global... Continue Reading →
Beijing, 2016 It was November in Beijing in 2016. I was planning to return back to my Shenyang office after staying in Beijing for one year. At that time I was staying in a hotel called "Home Inn" for the last 20 days in Beijing. This is the view from my hotel window one early... Continue Reading →
The lowest it can get in winter in Shanghai was about 2-5 degrees centigrade. It will snow couple of days intermittently and then it will go away when the sun came. Going from a tropical climate of 30-33 degrees centigrade in Singapore to this was a real change. But it was not really that bad... Continue Reading →