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Q: Have you ever had the feeling of being wasting your time here in China?
Life is about wasting your life anyway...
I met my wife, started what seems to be a good career that allow to feed my family while being both in China and back home, doing what I enjoy to do. It could have been much worse.
Ahh China
or as we call it
The Twilight Zone
royceH:
Because my email communication is monitored by the authorities where I live, and subsequent;y shut down on two occasions now..., I've taken to calling this place Phantasia.
But Twilight Zone gets the vibe of it satisfactorily enough.
andy74rc:
I'm not a native english speaker., but I'm no Chinese at all. What is the correct syntax?
I would rather you tell us why you feel you are wasting your time here in China, but then you must be Chinese based on your Chinglish question.
And No.
royceH:
Actually I believe the poster gets an 'out' in the Chinglish stakes here. Consider the question typed in some kind of rushed 'real speak' mindset, and it could be ok.
This website contributes NOTHING to that feeling.... shit. I am out of beer.
royceH:
A great thing just happened in my apartment.....I was down to my last two cans of beer and my back/hip is almost out of order and I have tomorrow off and I want to drink a real lot of beer tonight but I can't get down to the small shop downstairs to get more so my wife volunteered to go down and buy some more. She's just come back with a box of big Qingdao cans.
This is a true story. I'm now drinking the 2nd last cold one and 3 of the new ones are in the freezer. 3 more in the fridge.
If I need more after that then I'm a disgrace.
Life is about wasting your life anyway...
I met my wife, started what seems to be a good career that allow to feed my family while being both in China and back home, doing what I enjoy to do. It could have been much worse.
No, I make big bucks with my own business and also have a high paying job that I like. I have a lovely and very beautiful Chinese girlfriend (yes even by Chinese standards), dedicated to our couple, not greedy, not superficial (she studied in the UK long enough to learn about the substance of things and open her eyes about how superficial most people are in China), a great cook (and not only Chinese food), she doesn't have all these disrespectful habits that most people in China have (talking about you right in your face, yelling instead of talking, chewing with open mouth and overall being peasants).
You see, I am not wasting my time here, oh and we plan to get married, and also plan to buy a house cash in some Pacific island paradise in a few years, maybe Vanuatu or French Polynesia, only for holidays, stay in China for the big money.
andy74rc:
I do too make pretty decent bucks. And I have good wife and an adorable daughter. Still...
If I had stayed in USA I would have died a year ago, so...
No
Oh, definitely. I'm definitely wasting my time in China. But if not China, where?
I'm the type of bloke who excels in time wasting. Now. Not before. But now, I'm into time wasting. Why not? Time is to be spent. How do you spend your time?
andy74rc:
Speaking of free time, I just do waste it, apart for the cooking side. I'd be glad if I could instead spend it on wrenching on bikes, and China isn't that suitable place for it for a number of reasons I hope/guess I don't need to detail
I agree with royceH. To a certain degree, most people are "Wasting their life" somewhere, somehow, in some way. At the moment, I'm "spending" my life in China. This time last year, I was spending it in New Zealand. 30 years before that, I was spending it in Ecuador. So, do I think my life is being any more or less wastefully spent here than in NZ? No, actually - about the same: both countries offer similar opportunities to live a fruitless, pointless existence - ha ha. Conversely, both countries also offer plenty of opportunities to make one's life count and be significant. On balance, I don't think I'm any further ahead or behind here in China in the "search for significance" sweepstakes: in some ways, my job of teaching here is more significant than selling computers in NZ, in other ways it's more pointless and unfruitful. Relationship-wise, my fiancee provides a much better avenue for personal growth than my ex-wife. So for me, it's really "swings and roundabouts".
