Well, that’s over with for now
This is one of the reasons for my being so extremely busy. This, my friends, is the first super-official issue of What’s On Xiamen — it’s gone back into print. Yes, it’s a proper magazine and all that. I had very little time to put it together, and I work with a group of people who barely speak or understand a word of English. They do work very hard, though, and we managed to get an issue out in time for the Spring Festival holiday.
So, to celebrate the re-launch of the magazine, did I go for a fancy dinner and have a few self-congratulatory drinks? Did I go out and party? Did I go out and throw a party?
No. I came home and re-designed the website. I shit you not.
I have no time to party like it’s 1999. I have to work all this weekend (ah, those wacky Chinese holidays), and I go back to Singapore for a fortnight next week (impending hiatus alert — my mother doesn’t own a computer). So it’s a quiet magazine re-introduction to the Xiamen scene, with the hope that people like the new version.
It’s now very late, and while I’m pleased as punch that the first issue is out, I now have to prepare the second.
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putting out a print magazine can be such a mad, mad rush. but the satisfaction of seeing the printed end product can be such a thrill. And then you come back down to earth after spotting the mistake only you can spot on flipping through the finished thing.
heh.
congratulations anyway.
Congrats, Andrea! It sounds like you’re swamped, but I hope you have some time to celebrate the fruits of your labors.
Congrats! The cover looks very pweety. All red and feisty. Feels very ‘ong’!
Their resident photographer is incredibly talented. I wish I culd claim credit for the photography, but sadly, no.
Waiting to see the mag. Comment on the web-site, is there or can you put the addresses of listed places in Chinese characters so we can make idiot cards for the taxi drivers?
I was gonna try that today. If you download the listings in pdf (see the menu), you should be able to get by for now.
How did i not stumble upon your blog earlier!? I’m arriving in Xiamen in the next few days to study mandarin for a year…and i’m thoroughly energised by your blog and the tidbits of whats happening. thanks. Fantastic re. Whats On Xiamen! Maybe i can help out if you ever need it. And so great to hear from a Singaporean who doesn’t just like to shop and who doesn’t just say the government is good because it brings ’stability’. I’m half singaporean half kiwi.
might see you around Xiamen!
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