Answers of the Day
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Jul 29,2013
@OhChina
Speaking only for myself, It is not that I dont want Chinese to love their country. What I dont want is when my students treat another student like crap just because her mother is Japanese. Or when they destroy another persons car because it was made in Japan. Or when citizens of a particular country are treated like crap for a war that happened 70 years ago. That is not "...
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Jul 27,2013
In Beijing, I assumed it was one of those ostentatious displays of affluence where people gain/have face by flashing all the money that they may/may not have. Sort of like, how a lot of people in China cannot just go to the park--they have to have a nice chair, and sit around with an iPad, wearing pricey sunglasses, exc. Or how some parents dress their 3 year olds in pricey designer business...
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Jul 27,2013
If you're single, I recommend finding a Chinese partner. You can teach each other your languages.
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Jul 26,2013
Sanlitun and WudaoKou.
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Jul 24,2013
There seems to be many different options here. i have recently married my Chinese partner and want get to know my bride parents a little better since we can't communicate (I'm Australian). I am now moving to Beijing to be with my wife who is currently there now. She tells me that only her father (who has influence) at a govt level can not really help me in my career orientated relationships...
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Jul 24,2013
Well, you could and undoubtedly there are many people now working in China that have done exactly the same thing. However, you have to ask yourself if it is morally and ethically right to do so. As a teacher in China, you will encounter numerous incidences of cheating, plagiarism, dishonesty or just good old fashioned bare faced lying. Before getting on your high horse criticizing what you see...
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Jul 23,2013
If you don't mind sitting in an over-crowded tent with questionable fire safety, with a bunch of people who can't handle their drink and are insanely loud and annoying, then by all means go.
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Jul 22,2013
What has your experience given you? Why are you still here, and not somewhere else? (there are positive reasons for it... economy, relative quality of life, etc). How has it changed you in a positive way??
What else do you need to do in order to feel more 'fulfilled'??
Answer these, and you'll start to see it wasn't all a...
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Jul 21,2013
A few months ago, I got so sick that I slept, on and off, for 36 hours straight. When I finally crawled out of bed, I remembered that, at some point, I had put my hot water boiler on my bedside table, and had been guzzling hot water every time I woke up.
I don't even see lines when I come home. My first week back from China, ever, I walked right past a bathroom line that included a...
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Jul 20,2013
Why don't you just go out with Crimo? He's willing to go out with almost anybody. I also thought I heard him one time say he was interested in you. WHy don't you just hook up with that Expat?
3/10 I'm just mad you haven't looked at anybody here like my boy Crimo . .. -
Jul 19,2013
Some foreign nationals do have successful businesses in China but you have to be very, very diligent at the planning stage. You must fully understand the risks that you face and have strong contingency in place when faced with these. Business planning in any country is vitally important. In China, it reaches new dimensions in terms of importance. That is the best advice I can give. Plan, plan...
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Jul 18,2013
From reading your question, it seems to me that if you are having "damn fun" as you put it, then these girls are probably not the most innocent of girls you will find in China, it takes two to tango after all, or 4 in this case. My point being, that it is probably not just you who is seeing 3 girls at once, there is a fairly good chance that these girls aren't just seeing you. I say this from...
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Jul 17,2013
China is probably the only country that thinks good behaviour comes from slogans (e.g. that making children memorise Marxist quotations will somehow reflect in their behaviour).
Instead of giving people human dignity, a sense of self-worth, and the ability to improve their conditions, the Communist Party would prefer to throw a few slogans out there and imagine that's as...
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Jul 16,2013
I have seen this many times here, from the robots lined up outside the premises being given their daily programming to the robots who only react within the strict confines of that programming. Ask them anything outside of "go to table, take order, relay order to kitchen, repeat until business closes" results in total confusion as their programming tells them "does not compute". I am amazed...
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Jul 15,2013
I'm not stand-offish or combative in my everyday interactions.
Just in discussions, I won't tone down my opinion on things I care about (ideological control is one of them). I find having my opinions restricted quite an indignity. Wrong country for that, I know! In the West, if I'm in a room full of Christian homophobes, it won't change my stance on gay marriage, or stop...
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Jul 14,2013
First, ask them not to smoke. Qing Wu Xi Yan (iirc).
Second, if they continue ask the manager waiter to ask them to stop.
Third, if they still continue, take a video.
Next you have to decide if you want to follow through with it, but then tell the waiter you have the video and are going to call the police.
It is probably easier to leave...
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Jul 13,2013
for me, i have changed in the following ways:
China has made me more patient
i have developed my sense of humour with all the absurd things that happen on a daily basis.
It has also made me more focused in my use of language: i am now more exact when i speak.
i have become more polite, so my manners contrast with the daily manners of the locals (see above for...
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Jul 12,2013
well put.
but once the students arrive in the foreign universities it is a different story.
Guanxi gets a student so far, but there are students who try to bribe and threaten their way to exam success - resulting in at least one arrest: "This is how business is done in China"on the other hand, one European university was almost closed because a suspicious number of...
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Jul 11,2013
THANK YOU!!! I thought I was the only one! always nestle "coffee mate" or that other brand G-7.
The few times I do find the black coffee, I buy LOTS, as I never know when will be the next time I will find it!
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Jul 10,2013
I introduced my girlfriend to some of my favourite acts, such as Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, The Velvet Underground etc, and she's now a fan of them all. Hoping to take her to a Leonard Cohen concert one day (before he gets too old) as I gave her a recording of Cohen concert I attended back in 2008 and she loved his music and charm onstage.
