Comments for Steve and Pam Wise http://spwise.com Home Thoughts from Abroad Sun, 20 May 2012 02:32:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Amazing Grandkids by Steve and Pam Wise http://spwise.com/2012/05/19/amazing-grandkids/#comment-2668 Sun, 20 May 2012 02:32:45 +0000 http://spwise.com/?p=4441#comment-2668 Wow! Great pics, hon. Thanks!

]]> Comment on Fabulous Calgary Week by Sonya http://spwise.com/2012/05/16/fabulous-calgary-week/#comment-2661 Fri, 18 May 2012 22:20:16 +0000 http://spwise.com/?p=4411#comment-2661 Pam, look forward to seeing you when you are near T.O. but am glad you were able to start with your family.

]]> Comment on China Day 5: Train to Shanghai by Steve and Pam Wise http://spwise.com/2012/05/12/china-day-5-train-to-shanghai/#comment-2649 Sun, 13 May 2012 13:58:49 +0000 http://spwise.com/?p=4307#comment-2649 Harshness, yeah Mark I think that about says it. Don’t know if it is just the crush of so many people or the weight of all that government control, but Beijing is not a happy place. Throw in so much pollution that you can’t see much beyond two city blocks and the whole thing becomes a waste of time and effort. Don’t know how you stood it for as long as you did.

Shanghai at least was upbeat and lively, but even there you’ve got the Great (internet) Firewall, whcih is why I am posting these things having been back in KL for a week. Don’t think I could work in a country where I couldn’t blog or have access to Facebook. Stupid paranoiacs!

Anyway, nice to hear from you. How are you doing back in Canada?

]]> Comment on China Day 5: Train to Shanghai by Mark Meyer http://spwise.com/2012/05/12/china-day-5-train-to-shanghai/#comment-2646 Sun, 13 May 2012 01:02:36 +0000 http://spwise.com/?p=4307#comment-2646 Living in the region of Tianjin for two years I always felt there was a harshness amongst citizens on the streets, whereas in Shanghai – compared to Tianjin/Beijing- my perception was that there seemed to be more of a cosmopolitan atmosphere in Shanghai. One place that I really enjoyed in Shanghai was the museum. It was so big and so many different exhibits to see.

You know Steve, I think you may now be able to understand the sense of irony I felt when I first meet the newly arriving Canadian staff in 2009. There were a lot of complaints about the poor air quality whereas I feeling the opposite.

]]> Comment on China Day 5: Train to Shanghai by Steve and Pam Wise http://spwise.com/2012/05/12/china-day-5-train-to-shanghai/#comment-2645 Sat, 12 May 2012 23:02:54 +0000 http://spwise.com/?p=4307#comment-2645 Sally that is SO interesting! You must have been born VERY late in your Dad’s marriage, LOL! Stay tuned to this site, because there is a fascinasting little tale about my father and Shanghai that will be coming up in a week or so, once these other posts are finished

]]> Comment on Lotus Blanc for Dinner by Steve and Pam Wise http://spwise.com/2012/03/22/lotus-blanc-for-dinner/#comment-2644 Sat, 12 May 2012 23:00:00 +0000 http://spwise.com/?p=4200#comment-2644 You are absolutely right. It makes me furious to see these good people being taken advantage of by these creeps. I basically do not go out by myself in Phnom Pehn because I don’t want people to think that I am one of ‘them.’

]]> Comment on China Day 5: Train to Shanghai by Steve and Pam Wise http://spwise.com/2012/05/12/china-day-5-train-to-shanghai/#comment-2643 Sat, 12 May 2012 22:56:13 +0000 http://spwise.com/?p=4307#comment-2643 Love you dropping by to take a look from time to time. Pam is going to be back in Ontario in a week. I’ll be back end last week in June. Love to do dinner or breakfast or something with you and Larry when we are home.

]]> Comment on China Day 5: Train to Shanghai by Sally http://spwise.com/2012/05/12/china-day-5-train-to-shanghai/#comment-2642 Sat, 12 May 2012 20:10:47 +0000 http://spwise.com/?p=4307#comment-2642 Steve my father was in Shanghai in the 1920′s as a foreign police officer. Shanghai at that time was a British Colony. It is now difficult to find further info about this group of people as many records were destroyed in fires. He was there from approx 1927 to 1930. So I read with interest your blog on your travels.

]]> Comment on Lotus Blanc for Dinner by Cambodian Music http://spwise.com/2012/03/22/lotus-blanc-for-dinner/#comment-2641 Sat, 12 May 2012 19:32:33 +0000 http://spwise.com/?p=4200#comment-2641 I find it particulary sad that people from developed countries are traveling to an impoverished country like Cambodia to prey on children. Cambodians generally look up to foreigners, particularly Westerners, as models of fairness, benevolence, and justice. The acts of the sex tourists are threatening to undermine the good deeds of those foreigners who are in Cambodia to do good.

]]> Comment on China Day 5: Train to Shanghai by Sandra Hern http://spwise.com/2012/05/12/china-day-5-train-to-shanghai/#comment-2640 Sat, 12 May 2012 15:01:18 +0000 http://spwise.com/?p=4307#comment-2640 I’m enjoying reading your very descriptive narratives of each day of your visit to China, Steve. Looks interesting, but I will enjoy it through your eyes only!

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