Believe it or not

The mystery behind the Chinese names of Sweden and Switzerland

Sep 2nd, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Believe it or not, Random Shanghai stuff...
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Explained here by David Petersson.
The problem for these two countries is that their Chinese names are nothing like their native names.
Personally I think these two countries should be renamed to be more in line with the Chinese names, Swe...


Shanzai Scrabble

Jun 14th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Believe it or not, Random Shanghai stuff...

As readers may know, China is Shanzai crazy. What is Shanzai you may well ask? It is the culture of copying, or even bettering, products and things from other parts of the world. So here is a Shanzai Scrabble, called Challenger. It is much better qu...


Shanghai in 360 degrees

Jun 9th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Believe it or not, Random Shanghai stuff...

See Shanghai in 360 degrees.
Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower in Shanghai

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Everything you needed to know about the Expo and more

Jun 3rd, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Believe it or not, Random Shanghai stuff...

Shanghai’s ICS Channel, an English channel only broadcast in Shanghai only, is doing a blow by blow commentary on everything that i going on at the Expo, in English. You can watch it online here. Shanghai Eye watched it for the first time yeste...


Interesting animated gif

May 26th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Believe it or not, Random Shanghai stuff...
Interesting animated gif

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Meet Yigu Pigu

May 14th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Believe it or not

The Sun has the exclusive here.
Apparently a children’s TV character swears in Mandarin Chinese. The jury is out on this one.

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UPDATED: Humanmetrics

May 13th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Believe it or not, Random Shanghai stuff...

Find out what kind of personality you are with this simple test. The test is based on Jungian principles…there are 16 types. Annoy your friends with your new found knowledge.
U{DATED: with the correct link, doh!

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A moment in time

May 11th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Believe it or not, Random Shanghai stuff...

Thousands of people around the world took photos of their location all at exactly the same time, to see the results go here
They’ve made a real cool web thingamajiggy- as they say, ‘make no plans for the rest of the day; you’ll...


Untangling language- NYT on English issues in Shanghai

May 11th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Believe it or not, Random Shanghai stuff...
Untangling language- NYT on English issues in Shanghai

The NYT has a rather tee hee haha article on Chinglish issues. I drift to the view that it has a certain poetry to it, and should be left alone…
I thought cash recycling machines were for washing your money anyhow? They’re ATMs>.? Ey...


Japanese stripper zombie film

May 1st, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Believe it or not, Random Shanghai stuff...
Japanese stripper zombie film

Its been a while since I put up a ‘believe it or not’ item. This fits the bill nicely- a trailer for an upcoming Japanese stripper zombie film. Oh, erm, and 3D too apparently. View it here.

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