Friday, April 27, 2007

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Il se trouve qu'on a TV5 sur le cable! Nul besoin donc de préciser que c'est le poste le plus écouté, rivalisant sérieusement avec HBO. Une fois par jour on a le bulletin de nouvelles de Radio-Canada, c'est cool pour rester un au courant de l'actualité du Québec. On est aussi complètement dans le feu de l'action de l'élection française! :)
But
best: issuing Catherine (a kind of bad sitcom Quebecois with Sylvie Moreau and Dominique Michel) happens every night, but subtitled in French! It's so funny to see the French translation of what is said in Quebec that we started to listen regularly and we are now addicted! Cons by poor French, the translation is even less funny than the original! Not really the best representation of the Québec television broadcasting in the world!

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Jing'an Temple

Jing'an Temple (literally, the temple of peace and tranquility ") is a Buddhist temple on Nanjing Lu, not too far from home.

Not too quiet in fact it is wedged between skyscrapers and shopping malls at the intersection of two major boulevards, and is currently under renovation. Not much atmosphere that is expected when entering a temple!

The temple dates from 247 AD, but is at its current location since 1216, is almost a hundred years before the official founding of the city of Shanghai in 1292.


The courtyard




kinds of incense sticks are available at the door. The faithful the lit, then collect facing alternately to the four cardinal points.



The goal here is to reach the upper section of this trick by throwing pieces of 1 yuan!

The largest sitting Buddha in the country is here! 3.8 meters ...

A wooden statue of a goddess. 6 meters, 5 tons!




The Dragon is everywhere in China ...

A view from the balcony on the second floor

A view from outside (and Sarah!)


And now, the next temple will visit the Temple of Jade Buddha ! We'll keep you posted!

Friday, April 13, 2007

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Children beggars

Even if the sellers of fake on the street are sometimes quite annoying, we eventually get used to. Beggars too, which are quite rare but incredibly tenacious. An old granny has already followed for 2 in our street corners asking for money; after a bit we ended up buying peace.

But the worst of the worst is the mothers who bring their children to beg. Their stuff, they station themselves near a street corner, and when they see a good prospect (expats, usually), they literally let go of their children who run after us and we do not leave an inch. It happened to us yet again last night, returning the restaurant; Two children of 5-6 years max we have skipped over them with pot changes. It s'aggripent after us asking us for money, and we follow up time we give them something. Obviously, we always end up giving them a few yuan, They then return immediately to their mother that they tip their next target.

is pretty traumatic, and it's especially extremely sorry ... Thursday

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No sex this week!

We had our second appointment at the Shanghai East International Hospital for monitoring pregnancy of Sarah. It was hoped to be able to see the sex of the baby this week ultrasound, but no luck! They told us we would normally see on our next visit, or 20 weeks.

Apart from that the baby and mom are doing very well. Sarah has had powerful headaches the past two weeks, and the doctor said it was normal and probably has poor circulation. He therefore advised to stay extended when it happens.

In a similar vein, Sarah has finally found a maternity store with clothing other than overalls and sweatpants, she was obviously very happy! She also received a pair of pants she was made to measure in a small fabric store near us. $ 20 + for making fabric prices, it's pretty affordable. She recently discovered that H & M just opened a few blocks from here. All these new stores, in addition to the arrival of the sun, it really cheer! :)