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Excellent work HFCAMPO, thank you for supporting my argument and giving a great example of the behaviour I was talking about. Keep digging.
Excellent work HFCAMPO, thank you for supporting my argument and giving a great example of the behaviour I was talking about. Keep digging.
If anyone should be banned from GoKM it is HFCAMPO. Even though he occasionally puts something exceptionally useful, the rest of the time he is an offensive and arrogant know it all. It's like he has moments of clarity which appear to disturb his drunken soap boxing. Telling everyone else how to live and what to believe then calling them names if they disagree is not helpful for generating any sense of community.
I used to live in the area that had the local council water workers and their families. Water reportedly never shut off ever.... The community had their own water tower and everything. South of the Iron Man on Renmin Xi Lu.
Ha haaaa... Love it when people deride others for a lack of English skills, then in the same tirade make a classic mistake. Are you sure your point is mute (ie it cannot be heard)? Or is it moot (ie it is doubtful or has little value)?
I find Guangzhou girls the hottest in China but I am into short and skinny, being short and skinny myself.
Wow. So mm was discovered again, tried his arguments out, got proved completely wrong, realised this, so left the discussion. Didn't close his account yet though so may still be back.
Arguing that not following road laws promotes social harmony and destroys local culture had to be the most idiotic thing he has argued yet. There isn't a country in the world that doesn't encourage it's drivers to follow the laws they have written more, both on and off the road. The exact point of almost all laws written is to promote social harmony by protecting individual human rights (freedom of unimpeded/unmolested movement in the case of road rules) and the rights of those at risk (the bike/motorcycle/car order of precedence for example). Sometimes governments do get it wrong and they also sometimes see what works in other countries and implement it in their own. This has little to nothing to do with destroying culture, colonialism or angry expats, it has to do with basic human rights and backwards drivers. If you have visited Shanghai and driven you will notice a stark difference between the drivers regarding following the road rules. Their culture is still alive and well.
Good on you HFCAMPO and bluegrass for stating the obvious!
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So fast, so convenient. One star off for opening before the train station stop is connected!
Wow, just wow. Possibly the best Chinese food I have had in Kunming. And in one of the nicest, traditional courtyard style restaurant I have been in. A woman dressed in traditional qi pao playing a gu zheng just adds to it.
We had okra, mushroom soup, dried beef and chou dofu. All top notch with the bill coming in at just over 250 kuai. But we could have fed 3 people for that so not too bad at about 80-90 kuai each. Not the cheapest but for the quality, it's damn good.
If you have people visiting and want to take them to a traditional Chinese style restaurant with Yunnan style food, or want a romantic night out with a gal, you can't go wrong here. Close to Green Lake (down a little alley) for a romantic walk... Just perfect.
Pretty good place for getting all your documents translated and/or notarised. Note that there are a number of notaries in the building which you can find by going up the stairs (the elevators are impossible). But you have to find the stairs to do so... go in the door, head over to the right, go up the big wide stairs which head up a floor, turn right then right again into the elevator area and right again into the stairwells. Whew!
One point off for the elevators never being available and having to hike 7-9 flights of stairs (not good if you have to go 3-4 times a day like I often did!)
This does not stop at the Jinanya hotel at Da Shang Hui as the flyers state (and is on the images tab here). They need to have another stop in the same area or else they are missing out on covering a big chunk of the city.
You can take another bus, the 919C, I believe, if you are nearby Da Shang Hui, which leaves from the bus station on HeHong Lu, nearby the Qianxing road intersection. This bus goes every hour and is white, found at the western end of the station. It is operated by a different company and takes about 1 hour 10 minutes to get to the airport due to a large number of stops especially near the airport.
Great bus though if you can catch it!
Friendly people, even got to the talk to the vice consulate, who told me she had done a stint in Malaysia's Siberian Consulate!
English is spoken by some of the Chinese girls working at the desk who are pleasant to deal with. I assume they do Visa's as well but I wasn't here for a visa, this time!
Chinese Nic Cage epic finally to reach theaters
发布者When I saw the preview for this I thought "This has a 90% chance of being unwatchable". Now that it's been sent back for re-editing by (likely) the Chinese government, I revise my estimate to 99%.
Official: Yunnan will have two bullet trains by 2016
发布者Think you will find the Wifi is local to the train (travelling with the train) and if implemented may or may not allow internet connections. Wifi is different to mobile internet (GPRS/2G/3G etc) laotou, conflating the two is inappropriate.
Theoretically they could provide local Wifi which is only local, but could connect to an on train server which allows movies to be watched through the server, much like a plane but each connected device becomes a screen like on the back of long haul flights.
If they were to also provide internet they would likely need to run another cable along the train line with some pretty high tech devices to detect the signal. Alternatively (easier) is to use the power line itself as a medium to also transfer data. On board internet though is difficult and expensive to set up/maintain, my guess is it will never happen.
Megatrudge 2014: 400 kilometers across the Gobi
发布者I have been in a few bike and running races with Chinese people before, I know exactly what you mean about them not racing smart! Funny because they also have the rabbit/tortoise story as one of their common idioms...
US-owned Sanford Health opens pediatric facility in Kunming
发布者But it does if you compare it to human health in the USA. High quality doctors and equipment while having poor overall health is a travesty caused by putting money men in charge of health outcomes.
Update: Officials fired after school stampede kills six
发布者Ha haaaa, wow, pretty amazing tiger, but not at all surprising.