I’m proud to present my newest project together with two fellow gongfu brothers (Fred and Kim):

gongfu brother 功夫兄弟

We’ll post stories about our training around the world as well as some good and some not so good (or funny) gongfu we find around the Interwebs. First article is the translation of my article here on training traditional training in gongfu:

真功夫 On Traditional Training in Gongfu

Attention geek speak following:

Just implemented PubSubHubbub on this blog using a very easy guide (PubSubHubbub + WordPress + Feedburner + FriendFeed = Realtime Awesomeness). In the process I moved my RSS feed to FeedBurner, so now you can read the whole posts directly in the feed (incl. pictures and videos). What PubSubHubbub essentially does, is push updates of my blog in realtime to services subscribed to the feed (for example FriendFeed). This means you can now see a new post from my feed in near realtime appearing in my FriendFeed stream and Google Reader.

I went out of the house, walking through the sun I smelled something familiar. It reminded me of spring in Teheran. There’s lots of similarities between Teheran and Beijing. Not only the masses, traffic and polution, but there’s the dry weather, workers watering the greens and flowers in spring and lots of small details that kind of subconciously make me like this city even more. Not many people see these simliarities, but even chinese and persian culture have lots of things in common. Is Beijing maybe the Teheran I always wanted?

It’s been more than 5 weeks since I moved here and I know it’s also been nearly a month since my last real post on this site. We took lots of pictures, but most of them are inside of restaurants. Seems like the only thing we’re doing these days is working, sleeping and – on weekends – watching movies and trying out nice food places – doesn’t sound very interesting, but it’s been relaxing and fun. I’ve also been cooking a bit more these days.

As for gongfu, it kind of looks like my blog activity. First I was busy, then I was lazy and now I got problems with my wrist, but I’m planning on definitely starting training in May! – I promise

A really well done and creative self-introtuction by gradtuating designer 马文

Source: 八八吧 :: 88 Bar

I was planning to try out friendfeed for a long time, but never did. Today I finally registered an account:
http://friendfeed.com/puja108

As I have both my blog and my del.icio.us account in there, I won’t have any of the “News around the Web” posts on here anymore. My recent 5 del.icio.us additions can still be seen in the right “navspace”.

Third day in Beijing. Had a nice realxing Tuesday alone with Pingping and met up with Fei Ai and her friend Aron yesterday. We had lunch together with Pingping and after picking up Aron’s suit we sat a little at Houhai, drank and talked a little.

Today I’m gonna look at some apartments around Wudaokou. Seems like there’s lots of nice and cheap ones free at the moment – the recession also has its’ good sides

Nothing very special these days. Seem to be allergic to something floating around in the air these days. Oh, nearly forgot: NEVER drink a “Green Tea Latte” at Starbucks!!! The “Green” in doesn’t mean real green tea (like any normal person would think), but some kind of sea-weed tea!! I posted a pic of that “delicous” brew and yes, it really tastes as bad as it looks!

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Nice and easy explanation of the economic crisis.

<br/><a href='http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=533e05d2-9f12-4a86-bdda-efd0455fcd36' target='_new' title='Kylie'>Video: Kylie</a>

So cute!!! Makes me wanna “make this picture much better”, too

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard