Interessant interview op VRT deze week met een Chinakundige over de kwestie Tibet. (Link doet het niet in FireFox.) Gevonden via Sargasso.

Perhaps I’m blogging more about Romania than about China, but I guess that’s because I still have closer ties to Romania than to China, both in a good and in a bad way. A Romanian friend of mine, ...

I can’t help feeling a bit frustrated when reading the coverage of the riots on most ‘free’ news sites. I will not comment on the issue directly (way over my head), but I do believe this article do...

My Chinese bike broke down again: the chain snapped. New chain: 25 RMB + 2 RMB for labor.

Robotic vacuum + Lego + Camera I’ve attached a camera to our robot vacuum cleaner, and this is the result. I plan on doing this again and hope to make a longer ‘movie’. I’m particularly curious how...

John, owner of The Coffee Lobby: How much rent do you pay for your apartment? Ine: About 400 euros per month. John: That’s not too bad. Ine: It’s good, considering we get 500 euros per month rent f...

So I’m sitting in a Macauan restaurant, minding my own business. Thinking about one of those egg tarts I heard so much about. They are supposed to be squishy and smell good, I heard. When suddenly ...

We ate tonight. It was dish with meat, tofu and spinach. I particularly love spinach, but had no idea what the was. The restaurant we were in only served dishes that had in their names. The peo...

We went to the zoo yesterday, where I saw my first real Panda. I don’t know what I was expecting, but I left rather disappointed. Perhaps because they’re not as cuddly as they make us believe? The ...

It’s been a week since the last update. I guess that’s what happens to most blogs. On the other hand, I haven’t had anything to write about, but now I do: I bought a robot vacuum cleaner! Fmart FM...