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Shayla Qiu

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Cookies! Cookies! #cooking

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Friends complained about the new icon of instagram on Wechat and they have one consolidated comment that it is ugly. I have to say fairly. It is ture. :P #instagram #design #icon #instagramicon

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It is 10 AM on the day before Chinese lunar New Year. Yesterday this road was crowded by cars at this time. But now it is almost empty. People who worked in this city went back to their hometown to celebrate the Spring Festival and enjoy the annual family reunion. And it becomes the most quite time of this city in one year. Happy New Year. #Wuhan #Chinesenewyear #Chineseculture

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Mushroom? steamed stuffed buns! #mushroom #buns #baozi #chinesecuisine

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I bought a sandglass on Taobao to remind me to be efficient and also remind me to rest my eyes. Although it can not alarm, it makes time visible. The traditional way has its own benifits. #sandglass #traditions #efficiency

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Today, 12th December, is so called Double twelve Alipay shopping Festival in China, which has been held since last year by Alibaba. People can enjoy a 50% off in shops like carrefour if they use alipay to check out. I still remember last Double Twelve Festival most of the users who enjoy the discount were young people. But this year people who are crowded in supermarkets become the elder ones. The temptation of high discount really helps Alibaba to enhance the popularity of Alipay and broaden its users from young generations to elder one. Alibaba is trying to grab more users by controling their choice of online payment tools. (The picture was from the weibo of Southern Daily showed elder alipay users waiting outside asupermarket.) #Alipay #alibaba #onlinepayment #shopping #Doubletwelvefestival #双十一 #支付宝

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Coconut trees everywhere. #Sanya #Coconuttrees

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One afternoon to stay in the hotel and doing nothing but reading is what a vocation means. Enjoying the warm breeze is so luxury in November. I love Sanya! :D #Sanya #vocation

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I happened to find Wechat allows users to send messages to himself/herself. I guess a new type of tree hole, or draftbox emerges. :p #wechat #digtaldevice #newideas

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It is the most amazing Chinese-style fish tank I have ever seen! #Chinoiserie #fishtank #fish

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Now Carrefour is using coins-in shopping carts to force people to put back the carts in the right places. Only when customers put back the carts in the specific location can they get their coins back. I guess it do helps. But I also wonder whether it will reduce customers' use of the carts and then reduce the possibility of the impulse buying. Like me, if I get a cart instead of a shopping basket, I am likely to buy more discount products that I do not need. Only Carrefour knows the answer. #carrefour #shoppingcarts #salesstrategy #newideas #everydayobservation

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It is my yesterday’s writing, which looked better than 3 months ago. Here are two important tips I learned from Chinese calligraphy practice: 1.) Keeping practice everday even 15 minutes per day. Today’s writing will always be better than yesterday as long as you insist. 2.) write as slowly as you can. The soft writing brush is hard to control for a green hand. A slow writing will help us to control the brush. That is why I always feel calm down after writing. I slowed down. I guess “practicing” and “taking it slow” tips could also apply to many other skills learning. #Chinesecalligraphy #learningtips #everydayreflection

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I am falling in love with Chinese chess recently. It is a good way to train comprehensive thinking. :) #Chinesechess

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Zongzi, something you can not miss today! #Chinesetraditionalcustom #zongzi #dragonboatfestival

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Charity color run! New style to celebrate Dragon Boat Festival. :D #charitycolorrun #dragonboatfestival

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I watched the Disney new film Cinderella last weekend to see the blue dress that my friend Ying admired so much. But the only thing I notice, which was omitted when I was a kid, is that the magic of the crystal shoes was not lost at midnight. It does not make sense the magic of every other things expired but the crystal shoes right? #cinderella #magic #crystalshoes

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This is an estate advertisement on my delivery package. I guess the express company must charge for the ads. But my question is that why customers pay for their delivery to read the ads they do not expect. : ( #delivery #ads #service