Ouf!! I can finally access my website! I’ve been trying for days to write an entry here but the page wouldn’t load.
I guess that everyone has already heard about the earthquake which occured in Taiwan by now. The earthquake has caused deaths and injuries. Many problems also arose because undersea fiber-optic cables were damaged. (more information at link 1,link 2,link 3)

Since the Taiwan earthquake, internet speed in Shanghai has been very slow. It’s faster than the day of the earthquake but still not normal. I can connect to my Windows Live Messenger sometimes but I know some people who aren’t able to. Chinese websites load fine for me now (unlike the day of the earthquake) but most websites I usually browse cannot load or take a long time to load completely. Big images just won’t load.:( Surprisingly, the gmail website loads fine for me. (Yay for gmail and gmail chat!) Still, it’s really frustrating not to be able to browse my favorites websites.
I’ve always thought that the Internet connection in my university’s International students dorms wasn’t fast enough but now that this has happened, I’ll stop complaining about the internet. (at least for a few months… :P )
The internet situation has improved little by little but I’ve heard that it will take a few more weeks for everything to be back to normal.