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The weather and the Human Race

August 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment

The past week has been pleasantly cool, peppered with intermittent rain.
Didn’t need to turn on the air con anymore. Not quite sure if summer is coming to and end, but the sun has been pretty shy of late. If the retail outlets are anything to go by, it’s definitely autumn. Tank tops and shorts have [...]

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Tags: running · shanghai · shanghai food

Itchy to spend money

August 27th, 2008 · 7 Comments

CY and HF got this recently. It works with the Nike Plus sensor which tracks your pace, distance, calories burned and so on, without the need of an Ipod Nano. And when you’re not running, it’s a sleek sports watch. How cool is that?
HF could get me a voucher to buy that and a pair [...]

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Tags: retail therapy · running · shanghai

Early morning

August 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Woke up at 6.15am.
Crawled out of bed, half hoping it’s raining so I have an excuse to stay under the covers.
Bright sunny morning, unlike yesterday’s rainstorm and floods (click for pictures). Damn.
So I gobbled a small tub of yogurt. Had a glass of water.
Brushed my teeth. Put on my running gear and I’m out into [...]

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Tags: running · shanghai · shanghai food

Of foodies and nudies

August 18th, 2008 · 4 Comments

I was a couch potato on Friday night.
Made a comforting bowl of tomyam fried rice, sat in front of the tele to watch Olympic replays and some live games and finished half a bottle of wine all by myself. Nice.
Woke up reasonably early the next day.
Walked to the Wagas at The Loft in Jianguo Xi [...]

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Tags: cooking · friends · running · shanghai · shanghai food · yongfu lu

The trouble with shopping when you’re illiterate

July 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Last week in Muji, I bought a King-sized bedsheet (it had a K sticker on it, can’t go wrong there) and two little bundles of what I thought were pillowcases. Turned out they were bolster cases. The labels were all in Chinese and Japanese. How the hell was I supposed to know?
I was at the [...]

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Tags: retail therapy · running · shanghai · shanghai food