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Saturday, 21 May 2011 |
The Sports Programmes for the Universiade 2011 in Shenzhen has been published, but it's a bit difficult to find on the official Universiade website. So I'll summarize when each sport event takes place and in which venues.
See below for the full schedule
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Saturday, 21 May 2011 |
The Universiade is only 83 days away and the stadiums are almost finished. Indirectly I have also learned that tickets will probably go on sale soon: members of the various national teams can apply till Monday the 23rd of May for extra tickets. After this date, extra tickets will only be handed out at the venues but there will likely not be enough tickets:
"According to the tickets policy, during Games-time, the Organizing Committee (OC) will distribute a number of complementary tickets to the delegations. However, the demand of delegations is likely to be greater than the actual supply of the complementary tickets. To ensure the delegations could purchase the demanding tickets in time, we strongly suggest the delegations submit the attachment of Contractual Client System Account Application Form before 23th May. "
So I think the official ticket sale will start within the next two weeks.
update 11 july 2011: tickets are set to go on sale today
update 28 july 2011: tickets are on sale, but seems only in Chinese. See my other Universiade articles .
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Thursday, 12 May 2011 |
For months now they have been busy removing the old houses in the Da Chong area of Nanshan district in Shenzhen. In March 2010 we saw lots of people protesting at the exact same spot, but apparently (and not surprisingly) the disputes have been largely settled and not much is left of the many buildings. I must say that this was one of the older neighborhoods and didn't look very nice. My wife lived there once though and it served a purpose: cheap housing and centrally located. That central location must have been too good though, because there are plans to build many new houses. It's next to the Shenzhen Hi-Tech park and the subway, so I can imagine that the government wanted to modernize. In total 1400 buildings will be demolished over an area of 1 million square meters. Nobody can say they don't do it thoroughly in Shenzhen :) The project is scheduled for completion in 2017, but considering the scale I assume it will be a few years later, even with the famous Shenzhen speed of building.
Here are the photos taken today in the heat of the Shenzhen summer (over 30C today!):
the end of the old Da Chong neighborhood
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Sunday, 20 March 2011 |
At the end of February 2011 the first lights test was held at the Universiade venues in Longgang district. We went there several months ago when the steel frames were just visible and amazing progress has been made in the meantime. I pass the main venue in Nanshan district everyday when I go to work and it also looks great. The city has also installed countdown clocks to the opening of the Universiade games. Today still 145 days to go! Unfortunately no word yet on how to buy tickets, but I have contacted the organizers to get more information about this. According to a previous schedule, the tickets were supposed to go on sale in early 2011.
Spectacular lights test at the Universiade main gymnasium in Shenzhen
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Saturday, 26 February 2011 |
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Little India just opened a new restaurant at GouWuGongYuan (opposite from Coco Park in Futian district). It's located at the West exit of the subway (exit B) one level below ground. They advertise with Indian and Nepalese food.
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Saturday, 19 February 2011 |
Today I made whole wheat oatmeal cookies according to some recipe I found online. They tasted good and are very healthy, so I wanted to recommend them here. They were also quite easy to make with ingredients easily available in supermarkets in Shenzhen.
Whole wheat oatmeal cookies
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Friday, 18 February 2011 |
Parents of babies born in China have to do quite a lot of paperwork to obtain foreign citizenship and passport. I'll explain the procedure for a Dutch parent (me) and a Chinese parent (my wife). Previously declaring birth (without a Hukou) was complex, but the Dutch requirements have been relaxed in March 2011. Now the parents only need a legalized certified copy of the MBC. Good news!
Medical Birth Certificate book
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Monday, 14 February 2011 |
My wife has hired a yuesao (sort of midwife) to help her during the first month after pregnancy (called yuezi). She has lots of special traditional recipes to help mom recover and to stimulate milk-production. Today the first in this series: pig feet stewed in vinegar with lots of ginger.
stewed pigfeet in vinegar
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Friday, 11 February 2011 |
Wednesday (9 February) morning around 9 o'clock my wife delivered our Dutch-Chinese baby and it was a boy! We're calling him Wouter (a traditional Dutch name) and he looks very healthy. The contractions started around midnight, just as we wanted to sleep. At first we waited for a while to see what would happen, but around 1 o'clock Xiaoxiong had to go to toilet very often and it was 'leaking' so much that we suspected the water had broken. We called my parents-in-law and then we went to the Far East hospital in Shenzhen, near Dong Men.
Wouter is yawning and opening his eyes
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