http://www.sanyabounce.com/blog Baywatch, Bananas, Killer Surf and Bad Hawaiian Shirts Thu, 13 May 2010 07:48:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Something for you budding James Camerons and YouTube fiends out there. We've launched the Waboba Asia Video Competition. The first prize is a weekend at one of Sanya's five-star resorts. The prize includes flights to and from Sanya from anywhere in Asia, plus two nights in a five-star hotel, plus ... http://www.sanyabounce.com/blog/?p=668 The Bounceologist is moving onwards and upwards. We are now contributing posts directly to the Waboba Blog Asia website. Here's one about the Sanya property bubble and that terrible sinking feeling you get when you realise you backed the wrong horse. And what a bubble it is. Prices here doubled overnight. http://www.sanyabounce.com/blog/?p=660 Apologies for the oceans of time since the previous post. Among the many things keeping us from blogging are preparations for the Second Surfing Hainan Open on November 6-8. We've been building the website for the event, and if all goes according to plan (assuming there's a 3G signal at ... http://www.sanyabounce.com/blog/?p=639 We're not letting you off lightly. Pack up your guts, trunks, bikini, shades, SPF30 and your best sense of adventure. You've got things to do before the rocking starts at the First Annual Sanya Music Festival... For full details, click here. http://www.sanyabounce.com/blog/?p=584 [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="I Dreamed a Dream"][/caption]Is it or isn't it a bubble? In his latest Real Estate Review, Mario over at Sanya Expat takes the view that the Sanya property market could well be a bubble, but a bubble with room to grow. Mario's report is a handy overview ... http://www.sanyabounce.com/blog/?p=542 [caption id="" align="alignright" width="220" caption="Segway Sanya Style"][/caption]Aw c'mon, mobile phones, man bags, cigars, cocktails with curly straws and umbrellas in the top... they're all just like so NOT NOW, like so way back last week or something, LOL, ROFL, :), etc. In the Sanya beach style happenin', the cool ... http://www.sanyabounce.com/blog/?p=490 [caption id="" align="alignright" width="220" caption="Sea, Sky and Windsurfer"][/caption]"People believe a little too easily that the function of the sun is to help the cabbages along.” Gustave Flaubert And Flaubert was right, of course, because as any sailor, surfer, windsurfer or kitesurfer will tell you, the sun is actually there to make ... http://www.sanyabounce.com/blog/?p=316 [caption id="" align="alignright" width="220" caption="Fat Daddy's Fit Daddy"][/caption]"So the Hieronymus Bosch bus headed out of Kesey's place with the destination sign in front reading 'Furthur'...." Tom Wolfe The turning point for Sheldon Habiger, one of the founding partners of Element Fresh, came on a damp January day in Shanghai, 2006. After ... http://www.sanyabounce.com/blog/?p=327 We've just taken a lightning tour of the Sanya treehouse hotel - lightning because the usual entry fee to the Sanya Nanshan Cultural Tourism Zone, which hosts the hotel, is 150 yuan per person. Our host, Leon, could get us in for free, but only for half an hour. He ... http://www.sanyabounce.com/blog/?p=274 [caption id="" align="alignright" width="220" caption="Photo by: Perfect2 Wedding Photography"][/caption]"Two cliches make us laugh but a hundred cliches moves us because we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion." Umberto Eco In the middle of Sanya Bay, between the rambling edge of the city and the ... http://www.sanyabounce.com/blog/?p=139