I work for a small company that arranges business classes, all of the work is at company locations. The other day I was walking past Skyways to a job, and a Chinese guy came up to me. He asked me how I was doing. I said fine.

He stood there, eyes darting around, licking his lips. I started to move off and he stopped me.

"I have a job for you." I never met this guy and wasn't looking for work. I started to move on, and again he stopped me.

He said something like "hey man it's easy money, you just go in twice a week, tell them whatever, easy money, go ahead, let's do it."

Frankly speaking I think that is disgusting, it's an insult to everything – to teachers, to students, to the concept of "teaching". The sad thing is, this guy sees it as monkey work that he can squeeze a few dollars from – and he's not wrong.

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Which age is gonna be the best to become a dad ?Becoming  a dad in my early 20's will it be able to influence my kids more than what I can do in my old age or age never is a problem for this??.At this age of robots  and Internet how much influence will I have over my children  to lead them .Will the robot manny at the playschool be inspiring my kids more than I can.My kids are gonna be out in this complex world and all those complex questions evolving in their minds have to be answered .Are they going to be convinced by my answers or by their technological friends?Children of all ages are exposed to technology and that  for sure is  stimulating  them in all aspects. Am I gonna loose that intimacy and emotional attachment from my kids that I am having with my dad .As I grow old there is going to be a technological gap between me and my kids which is gonna put them in danger if I may not be able to guide them properly. When I am saying this I know how many  tweets and SMS I make everyday ,how many hours I am spending online , internet friends,long hour chats ,etc..



"Their Brains get used to too much auditory and visual stimulation and in the absence of these stimulation ,they do not know what to do with themselves.They get anxious ,restless and bored ". This is what a Stanford university professor of psychiatry and behavioral science have to say when asked about the impacts of technology on kids.To be a dad is it very difficult and complicated when will I know I am ready ? My biological clock gonna send an alarm when I am ready..  ho thats  gonna calm me down. 
 DAD I LOVE YOU FOR EVER.
According to the anthropologist Maurice Godlier the parental role assumed by human males is a critical difference between human society and that of humans' closest biological relatives - chimpanzees  and bonobos  who appear to be unaware of their "father" connection.Hello nanjing Dads and future Dads Hello

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The internet as we know it today,traces its origin back to defense department in 1969. But here we are. China being the number one consumer of Internet and world wide web with the active user population of approximately 420 million according to China Internet Network Information Center. High ranking government official says “China's Internet is open”.

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I took a stroll to Xuanwumen Lake on the weekend and caught a strange sight as I walked through the main gate: a huge mess of green stuff in the water. I walked closer and discovered that they were water lilies.

Looking closer, I caught this snap of the seed pods:

Later, I was walking through Xinjiekou station and saw some street people selling seed pods in the station.

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Is Stallone your man?   This is the movie for you if you worship the ground he floats over.  I saw the poster and knew the movie was coming out, however, I didn't know much about the film before viewing it.  I didn't actually know he directed it until the opening credits began....

Expendables follows a group of aging mercenaries, most of whom were big stars at some point in the 1980s.  As for the story, it's a little weak on exactly what is going on.  this could be from local censorship hacking pieces out of the film (there's a scene near the end that's obviously missing something).  We know the Expendables are hired to take out a dictator of a small island country but what exactly is happening in that country is a bit vague.  Sure, there's some meanness and killings but the problem isn't fully established. 

The idea of the Expendables  is pretty cool.  A group of mercenaries struggling to cope with their personal problems while fighting the world's bad guys.  Granted, most of the issues these guys have are relationship problems that tend to drag.

Expendables has a strange and often child  like perspective.  There are moments where it feels like a high school WWE fan put sequences together but I'm sure it was Stallone attempting boost his image as "The Action Star/Father Figure"- similar to Cruises editorial control over Mission Impossible III.

If you like action that keeps going and going like the energizer bunny then you might love Expendables.  There are some ridiculous sequences that take you out of the film and there are some pretty cool ones including a character operating a gun system on the nose of a plane that is totally frakkin' cool.

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So I'm going out tonight!

Just want to make a brief comparison of the two schools I went/go to, University of California Berkeley and the University of Chicago. (Just for fun!)

1. Academics:

Apparently the University of Chicago is more like Ivy League and Cal Berkeley is still struggling as a public school.  

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Harold and Kumar arrived in Shanghai with wide eyes. They took a train to Nanjing, and then they took a taxi to their new home for the next year, English Frist, a national chain of language schools.

English Frist had really slick brochures that they used to lure young naive graduates with. In reality, they were one of the most notorious language mills in town. When they arrived at the school their bags were confiscated.

Two migrants with gold in their teeth began to rifle through them. Then Harold and Kumar were pushed into a room. There, a scowling man with a Belgian accent read them the riot act.

He told them that he didn't take any guff, and that as long as they behaved, he would consider giving them their passports back. He told them their apartments weren't ready, so they could sleep in the classrooms, "just for a few months." Then he put them to work, on 12-hour split shifts, teaching 'mixed classes', which meant grandmothers, business people, and toddlers.

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I am officially under contract now to my new school: Jiangsu College for International Education（江苏国际预科学院）.  I am an English "instructor" in the Canadian Program. I shall report for work on August 30th--the first day of our program semester.

The school treated me like a prince today. One staff member accompanied my wife and baby to look for an apartment, while a second staffer took me for my physical exam and helped get me oriented in my new job. They paid for everything all day, and I couldn't have hoped for anything more from them. Of course, we are still in the honeymoon period--the school and I--but, I have worked in this type of program twice before, so there shouldn't be too many surprises for me.

Our campus  is in Gulou sandwiched between Nanjing University and a second school. It is near Beijing and Shanghai roads.

[BTW We could use one more teacher if you know anyone who is currently underdemployed. (You could contact me privately.)]

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According to an article on Alibaba.com, the transformation in the Qinhuai River over the past five decades is vividly depicted in a local tongue twister: "Vegetables and rice were cleaned (in the river) in the 1950s; clothes were cleaned and irrigation was done in the 1960s; the water quality deteriorated in the 1970s; fish and shrimp vanished in the 1980s; and people's health was finally threatened (by the river) in the 1990s."

I walk past a stretch of this river almost every day. For most of the summer, the river has been swollen, spilling well over the banks. Last week, I noticed something else unusual: a huge amount of fish, huddled close to the shore. Here's a shot:

Towards the shadowed edge on the right, there were several large fish as well, they seemed to be gasping for breath. Unfortunately, every time I got close with my camera, they would sink into the murky depths.

Over the past week, there seemed to be a massive die-off, as an unusual amount of larger fish were floating belly-up in the water. I see no reason to show you pictures of dead rotting fish, however, so you'll just have to take my word for it – there are a lot of very big fish in the river. Considering how polluted it is, I find it amazing that they can survive.

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                             Gypsy Party and Hello Nanjing at Regalia hotel group

Regalia Hotel,in 1865 area is a beautiful hotel located in good and a quiet area bit far from the center,you must get a taxi to get there. It is very clean and elegant throughout with lovely little touches. Gypsy Party was outback a floor below the main entrance right out on the square, with excellent environment surrounded by trees.

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