Category Archives: china

The 2008 Olympics

Posted on Monday, 11 August, 2008 by Jeremy

Although I’m not usually that interested in watching sporting events that don’t involve some kind of combustion engine but I must say I’ve been really enjoying the Olympic coverage on television. So far I watched the Womens cycling road race where it was pouring down rain in rivers as they rode around the Great Wall of China – cheering on the young Russian girl in blue who managed to pull a 1 minute 40 second lead over the rest of the pack before being unable to hold the lead towards the end and I had to tear myself away from the television as I found the China VS USA basketball match excellent viewing. I was unaware that the Chinese basketball team was so good and I would consider the Americans to be pretty good at Basketball. (Not watching basketball normally) … Continue reading →

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Return from the void

Posted on Tuesday, 15 April, 2008 by Jeremy

This week I made the decision that I really ought to be writing more often. If I did have any regular readers I’m sure I’ve lost you all now through my lack of regularity. The truth of the matter is I’ve been so busy over the last month or so that I haven’t had the time nor the inclination to write much unfortunately. There has been quite a few big changes in my life and I’ve undertaken activities that take up alot of my free time outside of work, and I’ve not at the break time at work to fill you in on what has been happening. I’ve recently changed jobs. I now work in the city, but I have to get up very early in order to make the train (5:30am or so) but when I get home from … Continue reading →

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Way out

Posted on Thursday, 29 November, 2007 by Jeremy
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Be Wonderful!

Posted on Thursday, 29 November, 2007 by Jeremy
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A near miss

Posted on Sunday, 25 November, 2007 by Jeremy

I was impressed by the large number of people in China who despite the cheap local petrol (which was probably still expensive to someone on an average wage) had chosen an electric bicycle in order to encompass their entire transportation needs. It has to be said though that whilst it had pedals for assistance and shop owners had powerboards for people to plug their bikes into whilst they shopped – the machines didn’t seem to keep up with traffic and were used mostly as bicycles that didn’t require pedalling and were used in the bicycle lanes. When I saw my first electric bicycles and scooters I had visions of people adding batteries with higher capacities and output coupled with high efficiency brushless motors so they could tear around the streets on their eco-friendly racing machines, but in reality none of … Continue reading →

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