A earthquake happened at 8:28pm tonight. It was recorded as 6.7 and 7.2 around the sea near Taiwan, but I felt it’s about level 4 or 5 in Shantou.
My families were frightened, although Shantou is on the plate boundary, earthquake is rare. As f...

Richard.H posted on December 26th, 2006 under: Living in ST | Tag: earthquake | 2 Comments »

One year ago when I was thinking to start this blog, I asked one of my Australian friends about his view of living in Shantou. He said a lot of things, but one of them was about the Lin Bai Xin library in Lin Bai Xin square. “It has been there for y...

Richard.H posted on December 23rd, 2006 under: Fun place | Tag: Library, Work | 1 Comment »

I randomly found some good photos of Shantou again in Flickr. I’ve emailed the photographer and she agree to let me share them here. Very nice, I like them.
Album link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ilomoeverything/tags/shantou/

Richard.H posted on December 18th, 2006 under: Shantouer | Tag: Photo | 4 Comments »

This namecard has been with me since 2005, just never got round to writing it up. If you want to earn money you should go to Shantou (preferably Chenghai) but if you want culture, go to Chaozhou, which has 1000 yrs of history.
Chaozhou has seve...

Maggie Ad posted on December 17th, 2006 under: ST event | Tag: Chaozhou, culture, shops | 2 Comments »