Xintiandi is a fashionable street for pedestrian in Shanghai. The brick wall in most buildings are still the original ones from the 1920 of  stone gate houses typical in Shanghai.  Architecture wise, it is simply a-m-a-z-i-n-g. Every corner seems to be photo ready for the artistic type of black and white photography.  I rarely see [...]

This little monkey is now  10 months 3 weeks old. And SHE IS FINALLY WALKING ON HER OWN.  Whooo-hoooooooo.  She had her first 12 steps a few of days ago on February 20th – that’s when uncle David was in town. Yups, he came for a visit to spend the weekend with us. Briana sure [...]

Actually oma and nene have been here in Shanghai for almost 2 weeks. They both arrived on Feb 10th close to midnight, to a pretty cold shanghai temperature about minus 10 degrees (I think ?) which is quite warm for us who are used to Hohhot’s bitter cold.  Once they were settled in the room,  [...]

Yups, this is our new home. Shanghai. Better place with better opportunities for the 3 of us. I keep telling myself how relieved I am to be back in the civilized world. At least living would be so much easier here, easy access to health care,  friends to go out with (real human contacts … [...]

Finally it’s the day we’ve all been waiting for. M had been arranging the entire moving process to be as smooth as possible for us. The big headache just passed. The movers came on time –  sampai 3 hari yang lalu kita masih belum dapet kepastian karena kabarnya jalan utama dari Shanghai ke Hohhot ditutup [...]