Category: Beijing

北京的機場這幾年我出出入入也不下數十次, 由看著簡陋的它慢慢的建設起來...從人手去買機場稅,到現在的一切電腦化；從混亂的交通安排,到現在全面監管出租車秩序,再加上遲一些的地鐵連接。從外表上看上去一切都很完備,明年的奧運應該沒多大的問題吧，但最近的一兩次的經驗令我覺得有點保留。

讓我回想起三四年前，第一次從北京飛往別處，那時候最少要在起飛前預留三個小時從市中心出發，因路上可能會塞車及排隊買機場稅等等...隨著往後一兩年機場高速公路擴建了,系統電腦化了，有一段時間，我一般都用上一個半小時就可從我市中心的家到機場了；但最近我又覺得北京機場的效率又變慢了，慢的不只限於起飛前兩個多小時的準備，因現在國際的安全檢查更為繁複，慢亦無可口非；令我煩厭的是即便你已坐在機上，還要等很久很久才可以起飛，可能一等是半個小時一個小時，甚至兩個小型這樣子。

【明報記者報道】 前幾天北京連降了幾天大雨，首都機場數百航班被迫取消或延誤，近萬人滯留機場。而前天晚間，航空公司值班台聚集大批旅客，爭吵聲不斷。據業內人士稱，今年首都機場航班延誤頻繁，可能打破去年夏天延誤航班逾5000架次的歷史紀錄。

機場規劃不善加劇阻塞
業內人士更透露，近日的延誤主要是因雷雨。但首都機場近年大規模擴建，在整體規劃及周邊設施配套等方面確實出現問題。如機場路積水嚴重，一定程度破壞了道路排水路徑，導致停機坪低窪地段積水嚴重。此外機場跑道過長過曲，在航班多時亦容易造成阻塞，冬季下雪時問題更顯嚴重。

北京的盲目擴建既已是不爭的事實，那就看看之後這一年，他們怎樣去應對，怎樣攪這奧運?很多東西只有硬件的建設，缺乏軟件的管理還是不行啦！首都機場只是北京盲目建設的其中一個例子而已‧‧‧

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Thx all for coming the farewell party. I enjoyed it so much~~

More photos >> here

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冬天來了，又看見人們在儲白菜。

"大白菜在北京素有「當家菜」之稱，過去由於冬季蔬菜供應有限，每年立冬前後，北京人每家每戶總要儲存上百斤大白菜。 冬儲大白菜上市時，各菜店門口的大白菜都會堆得如小山般高，市民排隊爭購的熱鬧場面會定期出現。為確保市民必需，北京市蔬菜供應部門要不遺餘力地組織冬儲 大白菜貨源。"

其實在這個年頭，儘管在嚴冬，北京超市供應菜的品種仍然很多。人們儲白菜可能只是習俗或應節而已。

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Beijing is holding a big party today to officially unveil its mascot for the 2008 Olympics. Among the favorites: the panda, the Tibetan antelope, the dragon and a mischievous magical monkey out of Chinese folklore.

A countdown clock shows 1001 days until the opening of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, beside Beijing's Tiananmen Square

There're still lots of infrastructure are being constructed for the olympic. In 2008, Beijing should have a totally new look.

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The concert is held at the first weekend that i came back from Tibet. Actually i don't want to go at the first beginning as i want to take some rest. Finally i went to the concert with Jonathan and Anson. Surprisingly the live show from David Tao is nice!! I do love his new remix - "流沙","Angel" and the unplugged section. It's definitely worth to see his concert! He's doing the best for each song.

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There're two news headline that really shock me this weekend. One is "Yahoo pay 1 billion for 35% of alibaba"; another is "baidu up 354% in the first day of IPO". Why there're so many crazy stuff in beijing?

Let's take a look on the PE of baidu.com! (PE=1,099)!! I am not joking - it's the real number i calculated based on the 2005Q1 revenue from baidu and the new market cap today. The normal PE ratio for all China stock in NASDAQ is below 100. What make baidu so popular? I am not sure ... may be the effects of two hot topics that came together (i.e. search + China)? But don't forget two rivials are coming (Google and Yahoo)...

For the second headlines, that should impact me directly. As i am working in the Y!CN ecommerce sector, Alibaba is one of my major competitor. Suddenly it changed to my partner?! Really can't believe that... but that's the truth. (1 billion US Dollars = 80億 RMB). That can change all the things we established last year. How will that impact my job? (partnership, affiliate, integration) I don't know yet... but there must be sth that will be changed soon.

Nobody know what will happen if these three words come together
(China + Search + Ecommerce = ?) May be after my tibet trip :> I wil know more ...

Baidu.com slays the Street
Beijing's Baidu.com Inc., the little search engine that could, exploded onto the Nasdaq on Friday, Aug. 5. The $108 million initial public offering wasn't as big as Google Inc.'s and Baidu's revenue isn't anywhere near that of its Mountain View, Calif., Web rival. Baidu's not even the top search engine in China. But its initial public offering generated just about as much buzz as Google's did. Which probably accounted for its stock leaping 354% to close at $122.54 in first-day trading on Friday. Baidu, which was up more than 363% at one point in midday trading priced 4 million American Depositary Shares at $27 apiece, well above an already increased range of $23 to $25.

Yahoo in talks to pay $1B for China's alibaba
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Yahoo Inc., the Sunnyvale, Calif., online media company, is in advanced talks to buy about 35% of Alibaba.com, China's biggest homegrown e-commerce company, for almost $1 billion, sources close to the negotiations told Forbes.com. The deal would be the biggest investment by a foreign company in China's Internet industry, the Forbes online unit reported. Alibaba operates Taobao.com, an online auction site, and Alibaba.com, an online trading site. The deal poses a challenge to eBay Inc., the San Jose, Calif., online auction site, Forbes.com reported.

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In the previous two weeks, i went to Worker Stadium several times. On 4 July, i played football there! (Ya... really played inside the real court, coz we're preparing for the FESCO Cup. Also it's not that expensive to play inside -- only 200RMB per hour for 1/3 full court). On 10 July, we watched the CSL (China super league - DaLin vs Beijing). It's my first time to watch the football match in China. The atmosphere is quite good! For the coming week, ManUtd is visiting Beijing. I am not sure whether i will be there too. -:>

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It's my first time to try vegetarian food in beijing coz one of the visitor is vegetarian. The decoration of the shop is not that grand but the food is really fantasitc. Many vegetarian restaurant will try to make their food look like meat. This one does too, in addition, the taste and the texture is very similar to the real one. If i don't tell you it's vegetarian food, i think you can't figure out.
Even they served the fruits in a quite special way (put some dry ice in the water).

Restaurant Name: Pure Lotus (East 3rd wing)
Tel: (010) 65923627

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剛回來的第二天，北京給我這樣的一個見面禮，真對我不錯哦！我好像是第一次看見那麼大的冰雹。

Quote from Xihua News:
2005年5月31日下午，一場突如其來的冰雹突襲京城。最大的冰雹尤如雞蛋大小，老人們說，除了60年代末北京出現過這樣大的冰 雹外，這種大冰雹可以說是幾十年罕見。許多汽車在這次特大的冰雹也遭了殃，車頂被砸得星星點點，許多的自行車棚也被砸得千瘡百孔，場面狼藉。

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學會用古琴彈"滄海一聲笑"，樂也！thx jwong!

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我經常都話北京很多臥虎藏龍的高人，一般的阿叔都可以輕易做到拉腿。你不妨試一下，睇下你可唔可以支持多過10秒，唔得就要努力o的啦香港人!

走走胡同，你就可以發現很多奇人奇事，呢個你又見過未呢?

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北京的春天的確很迷人，隨處走走都是花團錦蔟、目不暇給，只可惜美好的東西總是短暫，所以一定要好好珍惜你的所有。

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今天本來想到中關村附近走走，但坐車去到西直門就感到一點不對勁。一大群人沖來沖去，好像亂七八糟一樣，起初都不知道是什麼回事。隔了一會，看見有的摘東西、有的割破廣告燈箱內的日本產品廣告，我終於意會到反日遊行來了。好奇心驅使下，我下了車再往前看看，因我都是第一次在北京看見這樣的遊行。走前一點看到被推翻路上停泊的日產汽車，這把我都嚇壞了。

日本刻意容許修改教科書，淡化侵華歷史，作為中國人，當然憤怒。再加上日本自首相小泉純一朗上任後，多番縱容右翼份子登上釣魚台，又以首相身份多次參拜靖國神社，軍國主義似有死灰復燃的現象。日本政府種種的小動作，當然值得我們譴責，但作為中國人的，好應以理性面對。

結果這次所見又再一次令我覺得中國人出醜於世人前，貽笑大方。充份體現中國人民智未開，有勇無謀。日本侵華的所作所為固然可恥，但那些中國愚民的行為亦同樣可悲。他們那副臭德行劣根性，根本與打家劫舍的流氓土匪無異。

同樣是遊行，還記得香港在零三年七一的五十萬人上街，那份祥和理性的表現，確實使身為香港人的我倍感驕傲，跟這反日遊行形成強烈對比，這次事件亦正好體現一國兩制，香港人跟中國人的分別。中國近年的確發展迅速，經濟起飛，加上中國在國際上的地位不斷提昇，超英趕美，彷彿已是指日可待的事情，可惜是中國人那種還未成熟的民智，跟西方文明國家還相距甚遠。

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Today it's really cold and snow for a while but our passion for playing football is still there. 11 peoples were playing near the East gate playground. After playing 2 hours, my hands are frozen. Remember to have glove prepared next time!!

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Last Sat i went skiing with my colleague. It's my first time to ski in beijing. Although it's human-made snow course, it give me the feel on the slope. This time i had tried the medium level of the course but still failed. Let me practice more!! Harbin, i am coming in Jan 2005.

More pics on the course>>

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The first snow in Beijing yesterday didn't bring about the significant drop in tempreture expected. All the snow melt when they're on the ground.

The Meteorology in Beijing says a white Christmas is unlikely this year as Beijing experiences a warmer than average winter because of the global warming and El Nino event.

A relatively warm winter has a big impact on people's lives in Beijing. On the positive side there are big energy savings. On the negative side the warmer there is more air pollution, which harms people's health, and the lacks of snow has caused large revenue losses at ski resorts.

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Living in farmhouse is really an inetersting experience. This weekend i joined with the local guys to go the countryside. In this trip, we need to stay/eat in the farmhouse. That's really cool! We can eat the fresh egg, corn dodger and vegetables. Also we can play with the kids in the farm. They're really funny and helpful. After getting some rest, we start to climb the great wall at night and see the sunrise. The whole trip costs only 50Rmb including sleeping in the farmhouse. Cool!

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NBA China Game in Beijing. It excited me when i heard of it first time. I really want to take a look in the China Capital Stadium. So i start to search around the web, buddies on how to get the tickets. Finally i had no luck to get the ticket because the tickets are too limited. That's what i expected too. (not very disappointed)

Later i watched the news in the TV, it reported that over 5000 aged 40-50 queued up in the ticket office to buy ticket. I can't believe those are the fans of NBA. They're employed by the Yellow COW people to get the ticket because of 4 tickets per head. That's really disappointed me. Why the police not taking any action to prevent that? They should really think about it. Otherwise I can't imagine what will happen in the olympics which is comming in 2008.

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Just test for my newly Canon Pro1:

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When i and Anson come back to HK, we just like the local China FreeWalker that we bought lots of goods. Including Canon PRO-1 and Contax T3.

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