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Tal
Posted on: Love Tangle 3: One Night Stand
September 30, 2009 at 12:18 AMThe lesson itself is great I'd just like to say. I'm also gradually feeling a lot more comfortable with the UI level these days.
@ all those folk experiencing connection/download problems. In my view these things are happening because it's National Day in China, (and the 60th Anniversary to boot.) In China such events are marked by endless and constant rejigging of the Great Firewall, which means that internet speed can be almost zero one moment, then suddenly fast; sites can load one minute, then they are blocked the next. If you use Google a lot here you'll find it is often blocked if you search more than 2 or 3 times. It should get better in a week or two.
Posted on: Love Tangle 3: One Night Stand
September 29, 2009 at 2:15 PMMay I make a small request/suggestion regarding the Audio Review MP3?
In future can there be a general rule that whoever speaks the English translation does so in a clear and normal tone of voice, and does not adopt a 'funny' or 'amusing' style of delivery?
It's my habit to listen to the 3 MP3 files many times repeatedly, and personally as regards the English voice in the Audio Review, I like to hear a straightforward, natural intonation purely as a memory 'hook' to help me fix the meaning. I do not enjoy (and in fact cannot bear) hearing some 'comical' performance. I have just spent 20 minutes editing out this lesson's Kermit the Frog fun from the (much missed) departing staff member. Pity someone involved in file production could not simply have nipped it in the bud before the file is passed on to customers as a finished product.
Posted on: Happy Birthday China
September 27, 2009 at 2:18 AMAh yes, Happy Birthday China, ya-dee ya-dee yah! All 老外 here can celebrate this with gratitude for the latest internet crackdown which is wiping out access to VPNs and proxy sites right across the board, taking down services previously unaffected by the "Great Firewall", now making it all but impossible for us to enjoy Youtube or Facebook or Picasa photo albums or any little taste of home and freedom not sanctioned by our Beijing masters.
Three cheers for the People's *Republic*!
Posted on: Funny Business 5
September 25, 2009 at 11:14 AMOrnery? *checks head* Nope, haven't grown any yet! Oh wait...
Posted on: Funny Business 5
September 25, 2009 at 7:49 AMThat's 'cos it's a CPod ending. ;)
Posted on: Funny Business 5
September 24, 2009 at 7:13 AMNo more lovely 手表 for 老王的老婆 then? How will she feel about life behind a witness protection screen?
Posted on: Two Tough Ladies
September 22, 2009 at 2:05 PMYou certainly don't see this kind of thing every day. I can't talk about Shanghai, but I'd say in 5 years of living in Guangdong I've personally been witness to only 2 or 3 incidents of public quarrelling involving snarled insults and violence.
Such incidents quickly attract sizable crowds of onlookers, most of whom look on disapprovingly with serious faces. But they still look on, a few with relish, people being what they are.
The last such incident I saw was between a 三轮车 driver and some other guy who had somehow given offence. The 2 of them were being held apart by other guys. I don't know how it played out, I usually glance and go.
Posted on: The Final Show
September 22, 2009 at 10:59 AM
There once was a user named twelve-oh-one-five
Whose comical verses seemed barely alive.
Even Amber said: ‘Pish! It's nice to be missed,
But they're not just untrue they're contrived!'
Posted on: Coming Up Next: 接下来，然后，还有，那么
September 20, 2009 at 8:14 AM
Here's Dashan on a Segway. 这么少人知道大山非常喜欢赛格威电动车。我认为他收集。
Posted on: 游大观园
October 1, 2009 at 12:33 AMYou're most welcome yingshilangbu. Actually I too have a special fondness for that verse. Although I know it by heart and have pondered the words many times, I always feel as you have.