Hi from Richard @ MyShantou.net
Welcome to MyShantou.net!
My name is Hong Feng (洪峰) but you can call me Richard. I am studying in Durham University, UK. I was born and grew up in Shantou, so I can say I am a 99.8% local Shantounese! Well, 0.2% was lost, or say influenced, in my life of studying oversea in the last three years. And that 0.2%, is the main reason why I want to create this blog.
While I was studying and traveling abroad, I’ve been to quite a few countries and visited their famous cities. But every time when I am back to Shantou for holiday and compare my hometown to those cities, I feel there is really a long way for Shantou to be a modernized city. Shantou is one of five special economic zones of China, however, its recent development doesn’t seem be qualified to be a highly developed economic zone. I feel I need to do something for it as a local Shantounese.
Creating a blog may be a good idea, but why it’s in English? Well, this should be referred to my experience of traveling and my foreigner friends here. I often check out the information on the Internet when planning a trip to somewhere. But when my classmates from England came down to visit me this summer, I couldn’t really find any websites in English that provide them information about Shantou. For the same reasons, I have some foreign friends who are working or living in Shantou, but quite often I heard them complaining about there is little information to help them living here. So I hope making a blog might be a good idea for them and for those who wants to visit Shantou.
This blog is not going to run by myself. My friend Maggie is the other admin (Blogger) of this blog. I knew her when I was a volunteer at an English school last summer. She has been living in Shantou for more than 1 year and going to spend one more here. She told me she loves Shantou, and as a local here, I am very happy to hear that :-). But I just want to say that this blog is not going to be run by only two of us either, we need, and are hoping, more people can come and join us! Not matter whether you come here for a short visit or have been living here for a long time, we will be very happy if you can share your experiences and your point of view about Shantou with us. We will give out user IDs for you to log in and write by yourself easily if you want to be a regular blogger of MyShantou.net, otherwise you can just send your articles or photos to our emails and we will post them here for you.
OK, finally I hope you will like this blog and here will be helpful for you. Welcome to Shantou and MyShantou.net!
Richard.H posted on September 19th, 2005 under: Living in ST | Tag: No Tags |
Hi Richard and Maggie, I am a Teochew that is born in Singapore. It is indeed interesting to discover that someone has spearheaded such a campaign for this unique culture (especially in English).
In fact, I have been researching the China history book to trace the origin of our forefather and it will be interesting for me to join your blog.
PS: I will let all cousins know of this blog during Chinese New Year gathering.
Thank you, Kenny! As one of our purposes of writing this blog, we hope to let oversea gaginang see the up-to-date change of Shantou and Chaoshan. Your concern is really appreciated!
yep!!we are gaginang!I finally know what gaginang means….
Just browsed into yr site. I’m 61, my wife’s side down the line is Shantou origin although she herself is born bred in Singapore. I’m Malaysian (of Chinese ethnicity) living in S’pore. Best wishes to you (n friends) on your endeavour.
Thank you:)
That’s funny, I’m going to Singapore next week for the May hol, and staying with a friend whose father is Malaysian of Chinese ethnicity. Haha maybe you are his dad
Hi Richard and Maggie!
My name is Cherry, a Shantou native who learnt your website by the introduction of my friend in Canada.
I DO love you pages and would like to visit it often.
Hi Richard & “Molly”
I came to know this website when I saw the Video “MyShantou.net Inverview” Maggie was refered to as Molly. I am a Singaporean Teochew Nang. My daughter is also adopted like Amy Eldridge’s daughter. But I took her from her parents from 浮洋. My half brother is also from there 浮洋. I have many Teochew opera friends living in Shantou. I have a very close one and everytime I go to Shantou I would stay with her. I am very happy to discover this website. Communicating with Gaginang gives you a kind of close & warm feeling.
Hi
Ive been in Australia for 7 years studying and spent my childhood in china. I live here with my dad and I just came back from shantou 2 days ago. Anyway I wanna call my family in shantou but i cant it prolly needs an area code or something. Im calling from sydney. Thanks
It’s 0754. So you should dail 0086-754-XXXXXXX.
hi I’ll be going to shantou 1st timmer with family’s.
chaozhou origin. pls introduce some good spot for me to visit - just a short sting there 4 days trip.
Purpose there - praying ancester.
can we meet up?
Richard,
I am Sam chin from singapore. I understand that shantou has a lot of factories producing underwear and bag. i really want to buy my stock from shantou factories however i find it very difficult to go there.
Can you guide me on:-
Do they have any direct flight from Singapore?
is it viable to travel from guangzhou by car or flight?
is there any of your friend in this line so that i can contact them?
Kindly advice.
Regards
Sam Chin.