3.1.2010 von Jean Jacques.

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Spent a pleasant evening with Klaus & Petra at our house planning their planned visit to Shanghai in May. Quite looking forward to that…

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21.8.2009 von Jean Jacques.

I have a wireless network working at home… About time too. Quite a good week on the tech front. New Satellite, new wireless network and not forgetting the piece of furniture was delivered yesterday…

Shame I have to go away this weekend for work.

I guess it is almost past aperitif time. Hope not.

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18.8.2009 von Jean Jacques.

It looks like I cannot upload pics from my phone into Facebook and that all my mobile posts from this week did not go through. I did not have any problems last week in Taiwan, but I am back in China of course…

Anyway it has been a busy week at work. Took the time last Friday to look around for things to do in the local paper of course…

Went and bought my first bit if furniture on Saturday… In fact it should be delivered the day after tomorrow. Looking forward to that…

Food shopping in the local wet market (basically right across the street) is nice and cheap…

Of course a day is not complete without a stop in Nova for a refreshing beer and watch the world go by…

Later in the evening a couple of drinks and a bite to eat at the Fat Olive…

Sunday morning, golf practise. It has been a long time. Got myself some golf shoes and a blister…

Lunch with friends and back to Nova for coffee and nice afternoon with maybe 1 too many bottle of Rose…

Everything good comes to an end. Back to the office on Monday…

I still enjoy that walk even it has been rather wet. Sometimes had to wait in the evening in the office till it stopped raining…

Anyway it was fine when I left home this morning…

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15.7.2009 von Jean Jacques.

China halts electric shock therapy for web-addiction

The Ministry of Health (MOH) on Monday issued a new regulation, banning all electric shock therapies for treating young people who are addicted to the Internet, and shut down a related clinic. The clinic, located in Linyi city of Shandong province, was taken charged by Yang Yongxin, a local psychiatrist who initiated the therapy in 2006. Yang’s treatments include electric shock of between one and five milliamperes and psychiatric medication. At first, he was highly praised by the Chinese media as he successfully treated over 3,000 patients who used to be addicted to online games, such as Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft. However, as more and more patients were talking about the feeling of pain and being tortured, experts started to question his therapy. “Electric shock therapies are suggested to be applied to those with severe depression and psychiatric disorders,” said Wang Xianglan, another psychiatrist from a hospital affiliated with Guangzhou-based Sun Yan-sen University. Many children said they had to experience huge pain like “millions of needles piecing through the brain.” “It’s inappropriate to treat these people like they are psychos as it’s not clear if web-addiction should be attributed to mental illness,” said Wang. A draft which intends to define people who hang out online over six hours per day as psychos was submitted to the MOH by The Military General Hospital of Beijing last December,but didn’t get approved yet.

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23.12.2008 von Jean Jacques.

From Otsego to Paris via Hannover, Oslo, Hyeres to Shanghai etc etc,  Merry Christmas to all. 2008 has been quite an exciting year and I bet 2009 will be even better. Cannot wait.

Thanks to everyone.

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20.12.2008 von Jean Jacques.

Spent yet another week in Kuala Lumpur before flying back to Europe for the festive season and a couple of weeks well deserved holidays.

Wanted to buy those but they did not fit in my hand luggage.

Anyway, I tanked up with some hot weather expecting the worse in Germany, but it is not as bad as I thought and it is unlikely we shall have a white xmas.

I have a lot of catching up to do with family and friends over the next 2 weeks. Need to relax too.

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15.12.2008 von Jean Jacques.

Back in Shanghai for a short week before heading back to Malaysia on me way to Europe.

Planned a little “aperitif” towards the end of the week to thank everyone here for a great welcome and help during my first 8 months in Shanghai.

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