Victor Hsu, or guccio, day-time job banker in Shanghai, is the main guy behind Moleskiner.cn (打造中文谱写的Moleskine传奇 (Creating a Handwritten Chinese Moleskine Legend).

On his Flickr, he’s detailed him and his friend (an MS employee)’s “just Geeky!” collection:

Items of interest: x4 Moleskines, MUJI stationary (sketchbook, pen bag & pencil box), Hipster PDA, HP iPAQ,…

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We’re taking a respite from the usual translated comic today because I’ve stumbled upon something much greater: a forum post entitled 找一找你心中的最帅的帅哥 (Find your ideal hot boy).

In the post are six pages full of airbrushed men, presumably all from Japanese manga/anime. They range from the dark silent type:

(Character = Sasuke from Naruto.)

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Following up on the previous post, the Etymology of 顶你个肺 (“Hit Your Lung”), Sinodrom pointed out that the comments section of the original Chinese blog post suggests an alternative, more widely accepted, explanation for the term.

A translation of the first comment:

The writer is wrong, I don’t know if your…

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ESWN reports on a set of controversial photographs, involving a group of female RenMin Univeristy Graduates, that made their way onto the internet.

Netizen’s initial clamor: “Whores!”

Southern Metropolis Daily’s rebuttal: “Nobody should criticize these female students who are brave enough to set themselves free.”

My take: “Looks like they’re having fun,…

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ESWN has translated a post on ChineseNewsNet about the existential crisis of a mainland Chinese doctoral student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Here’s the ending:

“This problem had been present a long time ago, but it only manifested itself much too late.  I believe that this problem is shared by my fellow students.  I believe…

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From a strip called 铁头日志 (Ironhead Journal).

This one’s a pun, so I’ve added some pinyins in (look for the non-English words with numbers at the end). Translations in red.

Link to original strip on Sina.

From BBC News:

“Earlier this week, Microsoft senior counsel Fred Tipson said concerns about repression in China might make it reconsider its presence there.

Mr Tipson was speaking at the first Internet Governance Forum held in Athens which debated many issues of internet policy.

But now Microsoft has said it is “committed” to staying in the country.”

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UPDATED: See part two of this post here.

PostShow links to 十八摸’s article on the etymology of “我顶你个肺” (“I hit your lung”), which I’ve translated below:

”’In the Crazy Stone 《疯狂的石头》movie, the catchphrase of the Hong Kong bandit in the movie, “我顶你个肺” (“I hit your lung”) has come into vogue. No longer confined within…

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ESWN has a post on Star Maps of Chinese Media.

From Roland’s “translation of a description of a talk given by the renowned mainland media verteran Qian Gang (錢剛).”

“Here is how Qian Gang descibed the mainland media through this star map.  He believes in the past, the stars that represent the mainland…

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Brady over at O’Reilly Radar has a post about Anothr, a Skype-based RSS reader that was launched at the recent Chinese Blogger Conference. It IMs you through Skype whenever a feed is updated.

He also offers this observation, “unlike many other bots it is using Skype, reflecting it’s popularity in
China.…

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