Ek Chin tan: March 2008

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Twitter in Shanghai

Twitter is a new social messaging network which is becoming quite popular
these. Chinese twitter clones have also cropped up ( Fanfou, jiade). So what
is twitter?

Its a microblogging service which you can update using your mobile phone.
How can it be used? And is being used to..

- Subscribe reuters
- Updates from restaurants
- Cricket scores
- Ask a question ( which movie to see?)
- Make a recommendation
- What are you doing?
- Olympics medals update
Etc..

The updates are sent to people you are following. Can be sent from PC/Mac
but twittering is popular on mobile devices ( psp,mobile phone, itouch etc).

Twittering from mobile via SMS from China will be a bit more than domestic
sms charge as the twitter SMS intl number is in UK. Receiving updates should
be free. If you have an iphone or smartphone, you can use one of the many
twitter web applications ( pocketweet, itweet etc) and twitter using your
edge or wifi service.

Happy twittering!

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Turning ten

Party at bastian with close friends, games, perfect cake and yum food.

Sunday, March 23, 2008

ERA

It is touted as a must see show if you are in shanghai. A 2 hour show
of acrobatic skills and motorcycle dare devilry, worth seeing.

Attica - Bollywood Event

A bollywood DJ on the same day as holi celebrations in Shanghai promised to keep up the spirits. Attica is touted as a hip place and supposedly a large crowd was going to turnout for the event. When we reached, we saw a long line of people queuing to get in..mostly foreigners. As we entered the place, we hardly saw or heard anything Bolly like. After a while, we discovered that the Indian-do was happening at another corner of attica. It was quite dark and could barley make out a large mass convulsing. Exited in 20 mins after a few customary ‘hellos’.