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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: terran_emperor on August 03, 2009, 08:24:30 am
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Posting this now incase i cant post on Wednesday.
Wishing you Good Luck in China
HLP London won't be the same without you...
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Who's gonna talk me into going clubbing til 4am now? :(
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Apart from that though it should be just the same. Just noticed that my hotel provides Wifi access so you can expect drunken posts. :p
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You're welcome to my title :lol: make notes Goober.
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you going to China? cool!
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Yay! Have fun out there!
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Don't get eaten and have fun
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Apart from that though it should be just the same. Just noticed that my hotel provides Wifi access so you can expect drunken posts. :p
Be prepared for drunk moderation.
Note: Rice wine is highly potent. More so than beer. You has been warned.
Have fun!
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So where are you hiding?
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Who's gonna talk me into going clubbing til 4am now? :(
I was unaware you needed convincing to do that.
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Who's gonna talk me into going clubbing til 4am now? :(
I have taught you all I know about dragging people to clubs in London. Now you must teach terran_emperor. :p
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Well technically out of three times of you asking me I said yes twice o_O. . . Also jinquee for the lols that last time :lol:
Also i'm sure you'll find somewhere that plays "boom boom boom boom. . . . .etc" out there.
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What's Baldrick's Poetry got to do with all this? :p
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What's Baldrick's Poetry got to do with all this? :p
Depends if "you want it in your room" or not.
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Hopefully there will still be a HLP London for you to come back to.
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How long are you going for?
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Fifteen years :nod:
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I'll be in Henan for a year. But I'm stopping in Beijing for two weeks first. :)
Fifteen years :nod:
But that's only if the police catch me before I get to the airport. :p
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For a year doing what? That's a heck of a vacation. :P Anyway, enjoy the boonies. :p
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Beijing is a vacation. I'll be working in Henan.
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Working doing what?
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/me resists urge to quote full metal jacket. . But fails to avoid making reference.
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Well I'm in Beijing now so I might as well unsticky this. I'm just opposite the Temple of Heaven. I think I'll have a wonder over there tomorrow.
Right now I'm just killing time until the 24th when I fly out to my real job. Still Beijing's a pretty cool place to kill some time. :)
Working doing what?
Teaching English.
I really worry about the fact that they might give me a blackboard without a built in spellchecker. :p
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I really worry about the fact that they might give me a blackboard without a built in spellchecker. :p
:lol:
All the best Kara
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Have you visited the Summer Palace? And do you plan teaching English in Beijing? I had hard times with taxis since no driver spoke English. Having a Chinese friend with you was a must (for me at least). Another place to go and have a look at is the street were they sell tea (there are probably many). This one was about a kilometer long and had hundreds of tea shops along side. But there you definately need a Chinese guide.
Has the air quality improved? Back then I couldn't see high rise buildings 5 km away from the Tsinghua University dormitories, and that was in May. Also, spending that one and a half months in Beijing became a drag some times. If I tried to go anywhere from the University Campus, I needed a Chinese friend to tell where to go and which bus to take. I didn't want to bother them all the time. You probably have it differently.
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Good luck Karajorma. I expect to see a few thousands chinese students joining the community soon. ;7
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:lol:
That would be pretty awesame.
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No it wouldn't. They'd all be speaking horrible Engrish.
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Is it possible to speak horrible engrish? Engrish is supposed to be horrible. What would bad engrish sound like? Good English?
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Bit late on the bandwagon, but I wish you well, kara.
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Have you visited the Summer Palace? And do you plan teaching English in Beijing?
I only got here yesterday so I haven't seen anything yet. I'll be teaching in Henan not Beijing.
I had hard times with taxis since no driver spoke English. Having a Chinese friend with you was a must (for me at least). Another place to go and have a look at is the street were they sell tea (there are probably many). This one was about a kilometer long and had hundreds of tea shops along side. But there you definately need a Chinese guide.
Has the air quality improved? Back then I couldn't see high rise buildings 5 km away from the Tsinghua University dormitories, and that was in May. Also, spending that one and a half months in Beijing became a drag some times. If I tried to go anywhere from the University Campus, I needed a Chinese friend to tell where to go and which bus to take. I didn't want to bother them all the time. You probably have it differently.
I'm currently online only cause I'm waiting for a friend to show up. :) Then we'll go and see the sights. I'm learning Mandarin at the moment anyway although at the moment I know very little. I figured a year in China will be a good crash course in the language. :)
Good luck Karajorma. I expect to see a few thousands chinese students joining the community soon. ;7
I've already told the Diaspora team to work hard while I'm on holiday or I'll start outsourcing their jobs. :p
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I had hard times with taxis since no driver spoke English. Having a Chinese friend with you was a must (for me at least). Another place to go and have a look at is the street were they sell tea (there are probably many). This one was about a kilometer long and had hundreds of tea shops along side. But there you definately need a Chinese guide.
Has the air quality improved? Back then I couldn't see high rise buildings 5 km away from the Tsinghua University dormitories, and that was in May. Also, spending that one and a half months in Beijing became a drag some times. If I tried to go anywhere from the University Campus, I needed a Chinese friend to tell where to go and which bus to take. I didn't want to bother them all the time. You probably have it differently.
Yeah, I've lived here for 4 years now and I have only seen one or two taxi drivers that speak english. In major cities it is slightly better because at least a few people can speak English, but "out there" in the less developed areas, english speakers are extremely hard to find.
没关系，你会说中文的时候，找到一个很漂亮的女朋友是比较容易。 ;)
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Has the air quality improved? Back then I couldn't see high rise buildings 5 km away from the Tsinghua University dormitories, and that was in May.
Apparently it has, (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8189921.stm) but it's still no good.
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Well, all the best in China karajorma. You won't forgot to mention FS2 to all your students will you? Just say its good for learning English. ;)
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Take care of yourself and don't do anything I wouldn't do.
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That sounds like no fun at all Lib. :p
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That sounds like no fun at all Lib. :p
Thank you for saying what I didn't trust myself to.
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In case you haven't figured it out yet, I'm not a very fun person to be around. That probably is a large reason why I have no friends who aren't 500 miles away who I've never actually met.
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Being fun's overrated, anyway. Now, being a cynical sarcastic bastard, there's the ticket.
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Being fun's overrated, anyway. Now, being a cynical sarcastic bastard, there's the ticket.
Fun's objective and contextual.
Cynicism is a plain one trick pony.
Karajorma, have you scouted out any restaurants you were talking about last week?
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I've been to a couple of Chinese restaurants. The food is pretty good over here. Rather different from the Chinese food you get at home though cause that's mostly based on Cantonese style and I'm about a thousand miles from there. :)
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Speaking of British folk in foreign lands...
http://www.thevine.com.au/news/articles/greek-woman-'sets-fire-to-amorous-british-tourist'.aspx (http://www.thevine.com.au/news/articles/greek-woman-'sets-fire-to-amorous-british-tourist'.aspx)
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As much as that makes me cross my legs and wince, good on her. :lol:
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I fully agree with that.
Anyone drunk enough not to take the fact that his genitals were now highly flammable plus the fact that someone he was molesting was holding a lighter as enough of a reason to stop acting like a twat really deserves to Darwin Award himself out of the future gene pool. :p
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I just learned that you've gone to China and wanted to wish you luck. Have fun learning Mandarin.
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Well there's no better way to force you to learn to swim than to jump into the deep end of the pool.
I'm learning to read it pretty quickly actually. All the place names are in Chinese and English so I can pick up the characters just by looking for the difference in spelling between two similar places. Gives me something to do on the subway anyway. :D
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I hope you pick up quick on the subway. . .
Wait, did you say the names are in english too? Oh. . . That takes the fun out of it. Lol.
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I don't think I'd be brave enough to use the subway if the writing wasn't also in English. I've puzzled out enough to be able to use it now but back when I started it would have been quite daunting. What's really funny is that the Chinese don't seem to be that much better at it. I've seen no end of confused Chinese people trying to use the ticket machines for instance. :p
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Subways in that part of the country, IIRC, are pretty new. Give it a year or two.
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Yeah but they at least speak the language the machine uses. :p
What's really funny is that the cost of a ticket is 2 yuan but the machine doesn't take 1 yuan notes. No idea why. :p
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You should see the GTMs we use at Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit. They don't accept coins if you're topping up the standard transport card. :rolleyes:
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Sound business :yes:
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What also makes me laugh is that you have to enter your destination in order to get a ticket out of the machine. Quite sensible until you realise that all journeys on the subway cost the same amount. :p
That said the system itself is pretty damn excellent.
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Well there's no better way to force you to learn to swim than to jump into the deep end of the pool.
I'm learning to read it pretty quickly actually. All the place names are in Chinese and English so I can pick up the characters just by looking for the difference in spelling between two similar places. Gives me something to do on the subway anyway. :D
Wow, big change of attitude and career! I thought you were still moving from chemistry to programming languages!
Good luck with the Mandarin then - my hubby's been learning for a while, but it's always easier when you are immersed in the culture. ;)
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What also makes me laugh is that you have to enter your destination in order to get a ticket out of the machine. Quite sensible until you realise that all journeys on the subway cost the same amount. :p
That said the system itself is pretty damn excellent.
Maybe they will expand the system later, so why not have a ticketing system that takes this into account?
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I was thinking along the lines of it being a tracking system for the lines so they know where and when to add more trains/cars to keep things flowing smoothly.
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You mean they don't?
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I was thinking the same thing FUBAR but then I realised that they dispense the cards at one station and collect them at the other one so they could get all the data they want without needing human interaction.
On top of that they have a ticket counter that simply gives out cards without any need for a destination, they simply take the money and give you a card.
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...they dispense the cards at one station and collect them at the other one...
Wait, how do they do that? Money trains? :confused:
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Er....What?
They give you the card at the station you get on the subway at and take it from you (when you insert it into the gate machine) at the other end. So the card really doesn't need to have any information on it in order to collect usage data.
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Oh, okay. I was thinking in the realm of recycling used cards. :lol: