Forums > Living in Kunming > Bombs on busses I've no idea if this was a bomb or a tyre explosion. However if it was a tire explosion the fact that it created such as stir shouldn't come as a surprise. After events like this people are more alert and often very nervous so something small like a tyre explosion or engine malfunction causes panic and gets blown (pun not intended) out of proportion. At its worst this sometimes results in terrible tragedies like unarmed brazilians being shot on the London Underground.
Forums > Living in Kunming > No More Plastic Bags! Unfortunately paper bags aren't the answer either.
www.reusablebags.com/facts.php?id=7
www.greenfeet.net/newsletter/debate.shtml
There's an extensive debate on this and its undecided which has a greater environmental impact.
Reusable bags seem to be the way forward.
Forums > Study > Keats School Presumably the school is named after John Keats, the poet.
Forums > Food & Drink > No Smoking at Salvador's? P.S. To qualify my previous post I used to smoke a lot, have given up but still smoke sometimes. I am absolutely not anti-smoking. But I do think its a bit nasty around food and even when I was smoking a pack a day I would have been happy to go outside for a smoke rather than breath it over someone's food.
Forums > Food & Drink > No Smoking at Salvador's? I wouldn't mind at all if you banned smoking but bring back the WIFI. I used to come to Salvadors regularly for lunch because I knew that I could have a great burrito, a decent cappuccino (I was not someone who ordered 1 coffee and sat for hours taking advantage of the free internet) and do some work using my laptop. That wired table on the ground floor is too much like an internet cafe to make it comfortable and doesnt really allow for room to have a full meal and use the computer during lunch time.
Banning something that is scientifically proven to kill and also can shorten the lives of those around is admirable. The fear about the dangers of WIFI on the other hand are hearsay and speculation.
It is rational to ban smoking, I feel it is irrational to ban WIFI.
Kunming-London roundtrip for 4,000 yuan? Maybe.
Posted byInfact I haven't yet heard back from her so I'm just assuming she finally made it to HK.
Kunming-London roundtrip for 4,000 yuan? Maybe.
Posted bynot sure about the maiden flight from HK to London but a friend of mine had a delay of nearly 24 hours at Gatwick airport for an Oasis flight the other way.