Happy birthday to me

I dunno exactly how it came about that I'm 28 every year, but thats the deal in China :-)

Just coz my mum is Australian

Why do you all stare at me? Im Chinese tell ya!!!!

Yay China gets Christmasy

When I first came here in 2008, there were very little signs of Christmas to be found... But like everything in China, things change in the blink of an eye. My first Christmas saw me struggle to find any decorations,a tree or anything... In the early blogs there is a funny story of my bus ride home with a fully decorated tree in my hands that I found and bought at a stationary shop lol. But now there are signs of Christmas everywhere, doubled with the fact its winter, it's easy to re-find your Christmas spirit :-)

Look Blue Sky

Something going up on the crane at the building site of the new shopping centre, but the most interesting thing is the blue sky lol

Lovely, lovely sunny day!

City living

A day of new trials, Moli's groomer seems to have disappeared, so whilst i anxiously wait whilst a new groomer has her, I'll try something new myself. A new cafe near my place called "slow life coffee and book". I always think the safest bet to trying a new coffee is to go the "latte"...
This cafe is in a more interesting location than my usual cafe. If you choose to sit outside you can watch the busy walking street or go inside for a very hip cosy hangout...and yes there are also books to read, free wifi and some guitars laying about :-)...and the coffee, VERY NICE!. I'll be back here again soon.

VPN ASTRIL ROCKS

For a couple of years now I've used Astrill VPN service. If you don't already know, they've just released a shiny new iPhone app so you can simply and quickly access it in pretty much the same way as on you can on your PC ( actually more easily I think)Some other advantages seem to be combating the narcoleptic iPhone behaviour in the sense that it no longer seems to drops the connection when your iPhone constantly goes into deep slumber... Yippee

UPDATE: VPN in China is kind of crucial. Without it you can't access anything to do with google, Facebook and all the other things we are used to. Majority of the time I was there I did use Astrill, however, best search around and find which one is best at the specific time you are travelling. Sometimes one gets blocked and doesn't work and you have to find an alternative. Some are free, some are not....just find what works best for you.

Procrastination

So many things to blog about, i cant decide where to start. So i won't!