User Comments - oneringtorulethemall
oneringtorulethemall
Posted on: Fighting over the Bill
October 10, 2007 at 4:18 AMPaying for dinner is a sign of respect, of friendship. If you treat someone and then expect someone to treat you in return, it's flawed and pointless. Then you get in this ''I give you this but you must give me this in return'' and then it's worse than going dutch, it's trading in a hypocrite way. I quite simply hate it when people go: ''Ok, you had a glass of juice but I had a sip, so I should pay you half a yuan. Ok who ate the most bread, you should pay most.'' It drives me nuts. I try to pay most of the time but wil gladly accept if someone chooses to treat me. It makes me happy to pay for dinner and I don't expect people to thank me for it. Would anyone reassure me and tell me that they also enjoy treating the people they care about without any further hidden agendas?
Posted on: The DVD Vendor
October 3, 2007 at 7:37 AMThis being said, this lesson was very useful as I went to buy some DVDs! Cheers!
Posted on: The DVD Vendor
October 3, 2007 at 7:36 AMI've been studying this lesson with a Chinese friend. According to her there's quite a few mistakes in the pinyin such as: 好莱坞： hǎo lái wù is wrong and should be: hǎo lái wū 不错 sould be bú cuò not bù cuò. Just thought I'd let you know some mistakes made it through.
Posted on: Fighting over the Bill
October 10, 2007 at 5:08 AMI feel the same way, danjo. I seldom let my students pay for anything. Considering how well off the foreigners are in China compared to the students, it would be unacceptable, morally speaking. Thank you for sharing, I was getting worried here!;-)