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Last week, intrepid Shanghaiist intern Kate Ray traveled with a classmate to the nearby island of Putuoshan, most famous for its Buddhist temples and monasteries. After a week of eating seafood and being stared at by tourists everywhere for looking somewhat non-Chinese, she has safely returned to Shanghai to share her hard-earned knowledge about the island...

Shanghaiist remembers being totally hooked on the second season of the reality TV series Survivor, primarily because we were impressed with the um, substance of one particular contestant on the show. That seemed like ages ago, and we haven't watched an episode since. But we might need to start tuning back in next year, as CBS has announced that the 15th season of the show will be held in China. Originally, the reports indicated that the location would be inland China, one of the few times the show would take place in a non-island setting. Apparently, charming but geographically challenged host Jeff Probst clarified things recently:

But bars, saunas, nightclubs and mahjong parlours, serving people aged over 18, will be exempted from the ban till mid-2009. London, Dublin, New York, Hong Kong -- one by one, they all fall down. Can Shanghai be far behind (there's only one correct answer to that one).

This has been a rough week for your -ist pals, though you wouldn't know it from the great posts all over the network. Plagued with server problems, our tech team (led by the great Neil Epstein) toiled around the clock to solve the glitches as they arose. Seriously, we've said, typed, and thought the phrase "server problems" more in the past week than we have for the last 35 years combined. Why not say it a few more times, just for fun? For example, SFist is sure the San Francisco Chronicle wishes they could blame server problems for this error. But this San Francisco man that appeared on "The Daily Show" is, sadly, no glitch in the system.

Jimix Seve on Beijing Xi Lu

Two days into the Spring Festival and Shanghaiist has already developed “cabin fever”. While most of our friends and colleagues have left for Vietnam, Thailand, London, Sydney and Harbin respectively, we’re having to make do with a week in our apartment, listening to the distant (and not-so-distant) snap, crackle and pop of fireworks, and waiting for the latest cold spell to kick in.

We’re not exactly loath to do some nude swimming here at Shanghaiist. In fact, there are plenty of places we’d go skinny-dipping. You know the pool where Elle Macpherson swims around naked in the film Sirens? That’s one of them.