Posted in china, economics, tagged china, economics, guangdong, rice on May 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A Wake-Up Call to Guangdong
So here’s another article related to the current rise in grain prices. This time, it talks specifically about my beloved ancestral home’s province - Guangdong.
Sadly, I don’t have much time to write today, so I’ll just leave with that link.
Posted in china, culture, politics, tagged china, politics, boycott, nationalism, msn, patriotism, carrefour, 9/11, (l) China on April 16, 2008 | 17 Comments »
So if you have Chinese friends on your MSN messaging account, you would probably notice a lot of these (heart) CHINA things next to their names. And if you’re in China with a cell phone you’re probably getting messages at 2:00am at night telling you to boycott Carrefour.
I’m not going to rant about how idiotic [...]
Posted in random, tagged china, football, starcraft, zhao ziyang on April 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
A couple hours playing football in the parking lot behind Microsoft and many hours of Starcraft with my co-workers using our work computers sure does make one forget about all the troubles in the world for a while. I mean when you’re trying to avoid security guards while running a post or got a trillion Hyrdralisks [...]
Posted in random, tagged learning chinese, chinese characters, chinese lessons on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
I will now begin having a separate page for my own special free Chinese class. Ok, so the purpose of that page isn’t really to teach Chinese, but just so I can get more practice writing. The themes of each lesson will be based off of the Spoken Chinese (汉语口语）book published by Sinolingua. The dialogs, [...]
Posted in random, tagged china, crop circles, online games, browser games, tower defense, how to waste time at work on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
So I’ll take a break from China for today and put up a bunch of links to online games that I play at work to waste time:
- Not exactly the most action based online game I’ve ever played, but very deep and doesn’t take up a lot of time.
Human Age - Similar to Renaissance Kingdoms but [...]
Posted in random, tagged edison chen, south china tiger, yellow and violent on March 14, 2008 | No Comments »
I don’t really have anything to say today, so I’ll just post a fake news article that I made for English corner discussion purposes.
”New pictures of the South China Tiger have been found on Edison Chen’s computer hard drive, but the government has refused to allow the photos to be released because they are considered [...]
Posted in random on February 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Back when I was in the states, there was this rumor that during Christmas, employees would get a Christmas bonus check right before the holidays. I don’t think my parents ever got one, or at least they never talked about getting one, so I always assumed it was just some kind of myth made up [...]
Posted in random, tagged china, chinese, pig, stupid on January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
蠢猪: Chun3 Zhu1 - 1. Stupid pig. 这只猪真的是只~！This pig really is a stupid pig! A derogatory name used to demean or otherwise belittle a stupid pig. 2. Stupid pig. 你是个~。You are a stupid pig. A derogatory name used to demean or otherwise belittle a person or thing that lacks sophisticated metal capabilities who may or [...]
