http://blog.bobchu.com Bob's Travels & Daily Life Sun, 04 May 2008 05:16:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You may have read about my glee a few days ago, upon discovery of Wikipedia being accessible... however it looks like the Great Firewall of China is able to "filter" certain Wikipedia's pages about topics, that perhaps the government doesn't like so much. For the listing compiled ... http://blog.bobchu.com/2008/05/04/well-wikipedia-is-backbut/ Decided today I wanted to make a Cake/Pie/Some sort of Dessert - "Western" desserts just aren't the same here...at least I haven't really found a place that makes em' just like back at home...However having no oven, makes this somewhat of a difficulty... I really wanted to make a cheesecake, and ... http://blog.bobchu.com/2008/05/02/birth-of-a-pie-death-of-a-blender/ Well today is the last day before the May Day Holiday. In years previous, for this holiday, people over here got 7 *cough* days off. However with all the mass migrations that happen during long holidays (ie. National Day, Spring Festival, May Day) where most people travel back ... http://blog.bobchu.com/2008/04/30/holidays-in-china/ As you can see, I've pretty much neglected my blog for the past few weeks...Still working on those pictures from my winter break :-p Currently Im tied up with 8-10 hours of Chinese tutoring/classes a week - usually after each session for about 20 minutes or so my head continues ... http://blog.bobchu.com/2008/04/30/yeahi-havent-been-updating-as-much-as-i-should-have/ Just got back into Suzhou about a week ago and had my first week of classes - not too bad....just need to rearrange my hodgepodge of a class schedule ;-) My break was ok - really COLD (was suppose to be warm)...Hopefully in the next coming days I'll get around to ... http://blog.bobchu.com/2008/02/24/yepim-still-alive/ About a half mile from my place, is Hanshan Temple 寒山寺 (also known as Cold Mountain Temple). Its a lot cheaper to visit than the gardens (20 yuan)and also pretty touristy - At the gift shop they have buddhas you can do prayer to, then purchase :-p - Got ... http://blog.bobchu.com/2008/01/11/a-visit-to-hanshan-temple-%e5%af%92%e5%b1%b1%e5%af%ba/ Aaaahhh...Finally done with grades!  Turns out  its an average of  70-30 ratio  of As vs Bs - I only gave out 3 Cs Now...besides doing some traveling, just have to figure out what Im  going to teach next semester ;-) http://blog.bobchu.com/2008/01/09/done/ Visitors! http://blog.bobchu.com/2008/01/08/visitors/ Well the folks at Square-Enix just earned a few more brownie points in my book...with the term "Burninated"     I guess to understand the "awesome-ness" of this word, click on this link to see what started it all, or prepare for the wrath of Trogdor....     http://blog.bobchu.com/2007/12/26/burninated-huh/ Yeah...behind on several posts, but thought I should atleast show off my Christmas Decorations :-D... My Charlie Brown Tree (More lights than bristles) - Got the tree for 5 yuan at the local grocery store...the red "glass" balls were more expensive - 7 yuan (lights were free - last ... http://blog.bobchu.com/2007/12/25/merry-christmas/