http://www.wiredgeek.com/taxonomy/term/52 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.wiredgeek.com/node/829 <div class="content"> <div class="hvlog"> <a href="node/829" rel="enclosure"> <img src="http://www.wiredgeek.com/sites/wiredgeek.com/files/imagecache/320-240/ikea.png" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-320-240" /> </a> </div> <p> This past weekend Diana and I headed to IKEA（宜家家居) to pick up some household items. IKEA in China is really just the same as any other IKEA with only a few minor differences. </p> <p> The only major difference was that of cultural. For whatever reason a lot of people in IKEA were simply lounging about on the furniture. Not testing it out or simply resting their feet but literally lounging about. People would pull up seats at the demo tables and have long conversations, recline on the sofas and several people were sleeping on the couches and chairs. As a westerner its interesting to me. I don't think its bad just interest. In fact if I were running IKEA I think it'd be cool because at least people thought the chairs and sofas were comfortable! </p> <p> If you picked up this blog to find the IKEA here is what we did. We took a cab. There is supposedly a bus from the dongzhimen 东直门 subway station but when we went that station was closed for repairs and we could find the bus. (We looked around the outside of the station but couldn't find any signs). The cab was 22元 from the subway station。 I suggest printing out the map on IKEA.com to hand to the cab driver if you don't speak Chinese. </p><br class="clear" /> </div> http://www.wiredgeek.com/node/829#comments china ikea travels Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:15:41 +0000 Jacob Redding 829 at http://www.wiredgeek.com http://www.wiredgeek.com/node/251 <div class="content"> <p>Our agenda for the day. </p> <ul> <li>Breakfast at the donut plant</li> <li>Mattress supercenter (She needs a new mattress)</li> <li>IKEA (It&#39;s IKEA do I need to say anything more?) <br /> </li> <li>back to apartment and job hunting</li> </ul> <p>Update on the apartment hunt: I looked at a few more places, still nothing. I have decided that I am going to sublet a place after I get back from Florida, around the 10th of September. The returning students have overrun Manhattan and all of the places seem to be snatched up. I need to give it a few weeks until the waves of returning students calms down. <br /> </p><p>Update on the job hunt: I have only applied at a handful of places but this week I&#39;m picking up the pace and will be submitting a lot of resumes to several different places. I&#39;ll keep you updated. <br /> </p><br class="clear" /> </div> http://www.wiredgeek.com/node/251#comments ikea job hunting Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:09:00 +0000 Jacob Redding 251 at http://www.wiredgeek.com