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We are now in Shanghai. We are currently staying in a hotel but hopefully we’ll be able to move in to our new serviced apartment next week. Finding apartments here in Shanghai is not difficult but finding the perfect one is and fortunately after 10 days of visiting different flats (prior to that is a month of surveying offers and surfing the net for flats), we found it. The flat was recommended to us by a nice couple who are about to move in to the same building themselves. They are also expats and they Marcus’ superiors at work.

Flat rent is Shanghai is expensive specially those which are in certain locations. The flat we got has 2 bedrooms, 2 toilet/bath, 2 balconies, a storage room, a living room, a kitchen, and a dining room. Compared to our previous apartment in Changchun, this one is tinier but is way more expensive. The cost of living in Shanghai is pretty much the same to that of Europe’s secondary cities so I don’t know if we could really earn a lot here. If we really want to earn, we should tighten our belts more. Dining out and travelling will be less often and shopping budget will be the same but for sure we’ll get less from it (sigh*).

We have two years to live here and we are yet about to see if it was the best decision to move in this city.

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This week’s earnings is just “oh-kay” but not because there were no opportunities to write about but because I simply have no time to write. We’ve been packing and preparing a lot of stuff for our big move and that’s what keeping me busy right now. I am just glad that I was able to get Ruthi to update my two blogs, My Pink Notes and Bizarre Marriage. I wanted her to co-author my other blogs but I think that would be too much for her since she has 5 blogs herself to take care of. I have also other friends who I think can write well but they are all busy so there’s just me.

I hope that this upcoming month will pass away quickly so I can resume to my normal blogging mode.

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If you noticed, I changed my theme again! With the rise of 125 x 125 ad spots, I have to have a theme that allows me to display 125 x 125 banners nicely so that’ the main reason why I changed this blog’s theme. I am quite happy with my theme now because, I think it is a lot better compared to the previous one.

If you visit my other blogs: Blogleafs, Digitally Designed, and The Two Geeks, you’ll notice that they all have ad spots and by the way, if you are interested to place your ads in any of my websites, contact me because I offer them at a very cheap price. Very cheap, as in you’ll be surprised to learn how cheap it would cost you to place an ad in any of my blogs.

Here’s a party idea you might want to consider next time you are throwing yourself or your friend a party. Plan a paintball party. I got that from bachelor party of my husband’s Italian colleague. The other boys at work devised a cool bachelor party plan for that guy and the plan includes all the guests dressing up as mafias—dark suit, dark glasses, greasy hair, and moustache! The party started from midday so they’ve got a lot of activities done which includes a mafia gathering, a staged mafia wedding, an encounter (paintballing), and then a police arrest. After the encounter, the police officers took them all to jail where they spend the rest of the party. The “jail” is a small quite bar they’ve booked earlier.

Ok that was a little bit too grand so maybe you can trim it up to fit your budget but don’t remove the paintball part. And if you are wondering where you could get paintball stuff, visit pntball.com because they’ve got a lot of paintball guns and accessories at reasonable prices. They sell Tippmann, Spyder, Smart Parts, Dye, Empire, Draxxus paintball gear and other paintball equipments to choose from. You may order tippmann paint ball guns or you may choose any of their paintball gun packages. Remember, their prices are lowered so it’s the best time to check them out now.

It sucks! Blogspot.com is again blocked in China (and who knows where else)! It was free for a few months and I thought it will never be censored again (at least until I left China) but it happened. I don’t have a blog at Blogspot.com but I do have a lot of blogging friends who have their blogs hosted there so I am also not happy because this means that it will be more difficult for me to blog hop, to do my usual rounds and to comment. I will be relying on the freegate software to surf blocked sites but unfortunately, after a few minutes of using the software, it will stop working so I have to disconnect and reconnect it again. This software is very helpful but I like it more when I do not have to use any proxies or software just to surf blogging sites.

Wordpress.com has always been censored. Every now and then, they unblock it for a couple of days or so but that’s it. I have one blog at Wordpress.com and I even thought of living it because it has always been difficult for me to manage and update it due to this problem.

I hope that this is just temporary.

Note: I got the graphic from dailygalaxy.com.