Archive for May, 2008
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
When You are in China, once in a while You see some odd thing. If You have stayed a while in Kunming, You might have seen, or heard one of those oddities, that just make You wonder. Maybe You heard the car that sings the Happy Birthday song all the ...
Posted in Kunming | 3 Comments »
Monday, May 26th, 2008
Previously I have given You a whole bunch of learning methods, I also recommended You to go to a Chinese university to learn Mandarin and encouraged You to talk to Chinese persons. However I wondered what method is useful in particular. Which one has the best ROI (Return of investment)? ...
Posted in Improve Yourself, Learn Chinese | 1 Comment »
Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Sometimes we come across a very specific word which is not in our dictionary. We need a translation anyway. So what can we do? Wikipedia rescues us, at least in many cases. This How To is written for the English -> Chinese translation, however it can be applied for almost ...
Posted in Learn Chinese, Various stuff | 16 Comments »
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Green Lake Park in Kunming is probably the only serious park that exists here. Yes, there are others on the outskirts of the city, however Green Lake is the only one in reasonable distance from the city center. It's really different from the nearby Chengdu. In Chinese the lake is ...
Posted in Kunming | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Yes, I agree, the earthquake was bad. Really bad. But the latest ideas from the Chinese government are in a similar league. Today I went to a bar for an after work beer... and it was closed. Now that I sit in front of my computer I found out why. ...
Posted in Chengdu, China in General | 3 Comments »
Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Yesterday evening was hot, a friend and me took a tour around the Kunming party scene. We started out in the Hump bar, then checked out the area behind the Hump bar for about 2 hours. There I learned how to get freedrinks:
Go into a bar / disko-bar. One of ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
My original plan was to stay in Kunming, however with the whole visa thing getting worse and worse it seems like I have to go back to Hongkong. This is to bad, as I feel that the people in Hongkong actually speak Japanese. I hope I can continue my Mandarin ...
Posted in China in General | 3 Comments »
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
It's Friday evening, You are in Kunming and don't know where to go? Check out the Hump Bar, which is a great starter for the evening. But You might as well stay the whole night. The Hump Bar provides the coldest beer in town without these stupid icecubes (You ...
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