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Forums > Living in Kunming > Movies and TV

Excellent work HFCAMPO, thank you for supporting my argument and giving a great example of the behaviour I was talking about. Keep digging.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Movies and TV

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.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Water Pressure

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.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > which city has the most beautiful girls?

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.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Do Kunming Drivers Know they are Inconsiderate and Dangerous

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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I agree with liumingke, there will be more and more couples that cannot have children as the pollution in China means many reproductive toxins are in the food system causing huge issues. While it may not currently be socially acceptable to adopt children, this may change with couples unable to conceive and a ready supply of healthy young women (particularly those in university conceiving as a result of non existent sex ed) giving up their babies at a young age. Add to this the newer social pressures of women having careers and having babies later and later, subsequently not being able too as they wait too long. Surely this will just facilitate a demand with a supply and in the end cause the necessary change in cultural norms. Well, one can hope.

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Not sure people would want to take a high speed train for 2 days as they are the worst of both worlds. Too fast to see the scenery out the window, too slow (and with too many things to go wrong) to get to your destination quickly.

Don't get me wrong, they are fine for a few hour trips on common routes and better than planes for short-medium routes (e.g. HK-Shanghai/Guangzhou etc), but for longer distances planes win every time. Or if you have the time, slow comfortable trains with decent windows are much better than planes.

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Yeah, I can imagine in a few months they disarm all the cops in Kunming after 12 incidences of them shooting themselves, 18 accidental shootings (playing with their guns or cleaning them when loaded), 3 dead civilians (walking past when playing with their guns), 28 necessary cover-ups (when the police use the weapon for shooting people they don't like) and 35 lost pistols (where they were stolen from sleeping cops). The authorities decide Kunming is safer if the cops don't have guns even with the threat of terrorism.

(Actually I hope none of this comes to pass, but I can imagine!)

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Gregomatt - YES! But the line doesn't stop in the train station. I was there today and walked around a bit, couldn't find where to enter the subway from the train station as (according to the article) its on the south side of the station, which is all but useless for getting to the train station as far as I can tell.

Instead I walked north to the 2nd Ring Road station (HuanChen Nan Lu) and took it south, past the train station stop. I took it only to Rixin Lu, but it goes all the way to University District in Chenggong. I aren't sure this is the best way to go, you may be able to find a way to get to the subways entrances on the south side of the Railway station, but I couldn't find it. It wasn't signposted or anything yet either as far as I could see.

It was actually really full this morning, standing room only and already pretty squashed. The trains seem to be going pretty slow at the moment too, I expect they will crank up faster after a few months shortening the travel times somewhat. 2 minutes wait between trains too.

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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.

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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!)

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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!

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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!