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Christmas Eve

This guy was an expert at flutes, and tuned percussion playing some really difficult clasical repertoire


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Blog: Will Santa come to China Mummy?
Date: December 25th 2008

You would think that in a country like China Christmas would be a non event but how wrong could I be. Christmas Eve in Shanghai is bigger than Ben Hur with Christmas trees on each corner, Santa hats and tinsel being sold by the street sellers, and restaurants’ staff all wearing something Christmassy. Celebrations are purely commercial and occur on Christmas Eve with KTV (karaoke) a favou ... read more


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