By Vienna | November 25, 2008

Motorized Scooters

A time to walk in a park, a chance to play with your kids, and a quiet walk with your dog. These are just some simple pleasures in life we normally don’t pay attention to in our daily lives but imagine one person who’d appreciate a chance to do all these? Somebody who wants to […]

By Vienna | November 25, 2008

Soon in Shanghai

That’s me right there in a subway train with my one of my good friends. That was still in Changchun and I think this photo is taken about two years ago. Judging on how I look and on how I dressed up in the picture, one can tell that this is oolllldddd.

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By Vienna | November 13, 2008

Growing Friendship

In four week’s time, my German lesson will be over and there will be a long break before the next course will start. I am please that not only my German is improving; my social life seems to be getting better as well. Earlier in my study of German, I was somewhat distant to my […]

By Vienna | November 13, 2008

Evening Sight-Seeing

The Shanghai Financial Trade Center, world’s current second tallest building, officially opened its doors to the public sometime in August. This building is next to Jin Mao Tower, another skyscraper. According to rumors, the opening on top of the Shanghai Financial Trade Center building was originally planned to be a circle but because it would […]

By Vienna | November 4, 2008

Inferiority Complex Attack

Emily, one of my Irish friends I mentioned in my earlier post, decided to stay in Shanghai to live with her boyfriend. I consider them friends because we spent a lot of time together in the last few weeks and Emily’s boyfriend is a colleague and friend of my husband. Emily’s sister Tina already went […]

By Vienna | November 2, 2008

Lesson Learned

I was introduced to two Irish women, Emily and Tina, last week and we instantly warmed up to each other. They are sisters and Emily is the girlfriend of Marcus’ friend and colleague, Henry. Henry is British so Tina kept teasing them about how it’s a miracle that they can stay together because Irish and […]

By Vienna | October 17, 2008

This Halloween

I dropped by at the department store to pick up a few things awhile ago and I noticed that a bunch of people were gathering in one lane of the store. I went closer to check what it was all about only to find out that there’s an ongoing sale of Halloween costumes and I […]

By Ruthi | October 12, 2008

Bridging

I finally got the chance to take a weekend break from blogging. It was not really very special but at least I was able to breathe in fresh air and pig-out on all-pinoy-food and catch up with the latest news with my friend Medy. After being entertained by Maya’s crazy antics [Medy’s 3-year old daughter] […]

By Ruthi | October 8, 2008

More Reliable than Her Ex

My friend called me last week. She has problems with her car. She needs a new one because the old one needs to retire permanently now. It has been more than 15 years old and has served her more faithfully than her ex-husband did. LOL. Anyway, the only problem is that she has no money […]

By Vienna | September 25, 2008

Something We Should Know About Ruth Parasol

Ruth Parasol, as many of you might have heard, is a self-made billionaire known for being a founding member of the largest online gaming community but many of us don’t know that Ruth Parasol is also a strong believer of philanthropy. In fact, she is the person behind Bonita Trust—an independent charity found on […]

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