Welcome to irishbornchinese.com's blog. This is specially for IBCs (Irish Born Chinese) to post articles with regards to IBC's life in Ireland and comment on articles posted. The real reason for this site is that I wanted to bring together all the 2nd generation IBCs, either hang out, or chat on irishbornchinese.com's message board. Here you can talk about almost anything, fun places to be, games, music etc. In the future (or sooner) I would like to be able to link up with other overseas born Chinese forums/sites. Of course, even if you are not an IBC, come join in the discussions/views, and send me your articles. "Let's get together." Enjoy! -- Vicky Lee Wei Kay (李韋岐)
Well, I did not realise that the forum feed was broken as the side links in the main page was fine. I was adding the forum feed to my Facebook profile and I realised it hasn't be automatically updated since August!?!
Now the tecchie part, for those interested... Anyhow, after some help from my hubby, we suss that Python2.4 was b0rked on my account on the remote server. Ran latest virtualenv and installed Python2.4, Elementtree and SQLAlchemy. There were some migration issues that were ironed out re. SQLAlchemy. Once that was done, all was hunky dory again. I'll have to keep an eye on it the next couple of days.
So apologies for those who think that nothing is happening, it's cos the forum feed was broken and I did not realise for a long time.
It's 2009, happy new year to one and all! No new year's resolution for me, I'm just putting my head down and working like a maniac on my personal projects. Ok, maybe that is my resolution! o.O
It's the end of the year already, wow. I just want to wish one and all the very best this Christmas and New Year's.
From Indo because I could not find it on the Aer Lingus site.
The new flight timetableMonday-Friday:
Heathrow-Shannon at 6.40 and 19.10.
Shannon-Heathrow at 8.45 and 21.10.
Saturday:
Heathrow-Shannon at 6.40. Shannon-Heathrow at 8.45.
Sunday:
Heathrow-Shannon at 19.10. Shannon-Heathrow at 21.10.
And 1-way ticket prices for EUR19.99.
That's what I heard from Newstalk this morning. I did a quick search, not many news sites picked up on it yet, as the official announcement won't be made till later today according to The Irish Examiner.
There will be 2 daily flights between Shannon and Heathrow. Great news for my family who lives quite near to the airport and use to fly to Heathrow for their connection flight to Hong Kong.
It'll be great news for businesses (who are left) in the mid-west who were badly hit with the cancellation of the service.
Update: Indo - London calling as Aer Lingus prepares for Shannon U-turn
Update: Indo breaking news - Aer Lingus to resume Shannon-Heathrow flights
This is a great idea, should have this in the Republic as well.
Here's the article:
Northern Ireland Environment Minister Sammy Wilson's pre Christmas initiative came as a result of the increasing number of foreign nationals living and working in Northern Ireland.
They cd is available in Polish, Lithuanian, Portuguese and Chinese. Not sure which Chinese though.
Two bottles of corrosive liquid were dropped from a building onto the busy streets of Mongkok, and many people (46 last count) were injured. That's very disquieting given that is one of the shopping places I would be at if I was in Hong Kong.
That's what the pilot told management who (with his co-pilot) tried to take off on the taxiway instead of the runway in Hong Kong International airport. Suffice to say, the two pilots are no longer employed.
HK$1 wonton noodles, that's how much the current crisis is affecting the catering sector in Hong Kong. Tasty Congee & Noodle Wantun Shop's dollar offer is pretty enticing and it's their three month promotion to claw back customers who are cooking at home more.
From Irish Times:
The programme, run by the Immigrant Council of Ireland, will pair newcomers with Irish citizens or long-term residents and aims to ease people's transition into Irish life.
This will benefit many who are alienated when they first arrive to Ireland. And it definitely helped this Chinese person, Junyu Wang:
"I have lived here for some time now, but I remember when I first arrived, I found it difficult to find information on health, employment, immigration rules, education and social welfare issues[...]
Just want to point out the website mentioned in the article: www.immigrantcouncil.ie
Just saw this article.
It includes irreplaceable objects from the Ming Dynasty, Tibetan Buddhist paintings and rare prints and regarded by experts as one of the most important Asian collections in Europe.
The collection has been on display since November 13th. More information at National Museum's website.
Good news for now, but for how long until the outsourcing issue is resolved. See reuter's article.
The EU is proposing a hefty fine of upto EUR250K and 10 years in jail for hiring illegal immigrants instead of targeting illegal immigrants.
If the proposal, known as the Sanctions Directive, is ratified, bosses will be hit by fines that will increase in proportion to the number of illegals they employ and re-offences could lead to criminal prosecutions. They will also be liable for any unpaid taxes and barred from public procurement tenders for up to five years.
(Source: Irish Independent)
Industrial action will happen from November 24th, and travel agents are advising people not to travel with AerLingus this Christmas (Irish Independent).
It issued the notice of action after management walked out of talks on its plans to make €74m savings by outsourcing and cutbacks. Under the terms of an agreement with the airline, the union cannot take industrial action before November 24.
More:
- [Irish Times] Siptu serves Aer Lingus with strike notice
