http://www.ifgogo.com Chinese in English Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:10:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So nice that we three sisters who were born in Nanjing had a good time in last May to visit the old place where we lived after birth... That is a big courtyard where it was Kuomintang's general headquarter of  combined service and then after liberation, PLA Nanjing military Region Political department ... http://www.ifgogo.com/335/visit-to-birthplace/ Update: Google is now unblocked. I am sure it's blocking rather than "technical maintaince" since it's working fine with proxies. Now, Google is almost totally blocked in China. A lot of its products, like Google Reader, Google Mail(GMail), Google Code... is not accessible in mainland China. What a shame for us. What ... http://www.ifgogo.com/333/china-blocks-google-on-june-24-wednesday/ They could blocked Youtube, but they could never block people's creativities! Here's a very popular video from China recently, by "紫禁双鹤堂zimo" (Zi Jin Shuang He Tang Zimo), a Kuso version of Linkin Park's <In The End>: http://www.ifgogo.com/332/comedy-video-kuso-of-linkinpark-intheend/ After Facebook, Youtube, Plurk, Twitter is now finally blocked in China. Though people have predicted this and I know it's sooner or later, it still make me so sad. I am a super fan of Twitter and I have got nearly 4000 followers, 70% of which are from mainland ... http://www.ifgogo.com/331/twitter-is-finally-blocked-in-china/ I went to south China with 2 sisters for about 2 more weeks and when I came back home I got a pps file from a friend, on which there are great compassion and vows. They come from the most venerable master Sheng Yen, who was the founder of Dharma Drum Mountain and passed away ... http://www.ifgogo.com/329/great-adages-slected-from-master-sheng-yen/ Some months ago, my friend Elliott Ng from the U.S asked me what Chinese LOST fans are thinking/discussing about LOST. I promised to post something here, and as the season 5 is now finished, I think it's time to share something here with you western LOST fans. The easiest ... http://www.ifgogo.com/328/what-most-chinese-lost-fans-think/ We were discussing statistics when my American colleague told me about a story of his friend's family. Whenever they travel by air, they break the family up and take different planes. My American colleague thought that this made no statistical sense, that is, the chances of a plane to crash ... http://www.ifgogo.com/327/live-or-die-together/ Just want to share some BBQ photos (taken yesterday). I have always appreciated HKUST for setting up a BBQ place at the beach for students. You can book the stove on student intranet. Everything is just so simple. In these photos, one GG is an exchange PhD students. The other people except me are MPhil and PhD students from the same CS lab. For me, ... http://www.ifgogo.com/326/bbq-hkust-beach/ I learnt the trait of independence from my mum, who gave me lessons in person on how to be steely and independent when I was a child girl. Even though we had a lot of quarrels in my adolescence and I was strongly against her dominating parenthood, I eventually turned ... http://www.ifgogo.com/324/is-being-too-independent-a-good-thing/ Well, I'm glad to announce that my third plugin for WordPress – WordPress Comment Digg is now offically released, via the platform of ifgogo.com – a group of funny bloggers from China. Download Link on WordPress.org. Thanks to Jun He, who helped me with a lot coding with MySQL and PHP. ... http://www.ifgogo.com/323/wordpress-comment-digg-plugin/