Very well done cafe/tea house/bar, quiet but not boring, balcony with a sea view, a design company owns it (I think!) - it shares the premises! So the design is tasteful, and not tacky. Unfortunately I didn’t get a picture and we never got aro...

Maggie Ad posted on March 13th, 2008 under: ST event | Tag: No Tags | 3 Comments »

I should’ve written earlier, but I actually visited Shantou in January (08!) for a week - a whirlwind of meals and visits and one night of hard drinking. It was for my friend Henry’s wedding. I never actually made it to the wedding - had...

Maggie Ad posted on March 13th, 2008 under: Shantouer, ST event | Tag: Friends, Maggie | 1 Comment »

Only half an hour into our walk through the Pu, we had a group of about twenty teenage boys trailing us and shouting at ear-splitting volume. This is what it feels like to be a celebrity, I thought. This is what it would be like if I were Ben Affleck ...

ZhongYuan posted on March 13th, 2008 under: Living in ST | Tag: No Tags | 6 Comments »

Just a note of clarification on writing credits here. All the recent news summaries are written by Shantou J-school students — not by me, as the photo and the title “author” on its side might suggest.
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ZhongYuan posted on March 7th, 2008 under: Blog news | Tag: No Tags | 2 Comments »