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Tal
Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 12: A Dodgy Opportunity
July 10, 2009 at 4:18 AM- 她/他 是我的老板 (also used in marital relations)
你说的太对了！
Posted on: No TV Before Your Test!
July 10, 2009 at 4:13 AMSo you were a lucky dog and a clever dog! 
So many times young students of mine will ask me jealously about the freedom enjoyed by western youngsters. They sigh with envy and can hardly believe it! I try to tell them that working hard at school when you are so young is a good thing, that so many westerners regret that they didn't!
The grass always looks greener on the other side of the hill! 中文怎么说？( = How to say that in Chinese?)
Posted on: Ordering Songs at Karaoke
July 10, 2009 at 2:10 AMKnow what you mean mate, I was kind of surprised too! Hmm, maybe there's some kind of cosmic connection between liking KC's music and an interest in Mandarin Chinese? 
Posted on: No TV Before Your Test!
July 10, 2009 at 2:00 AM可怜的小孩儿！中国父母真严格！我怜悯中国的孩子要考试，他们得学习很努力。Kělián de xiǎoháir! Zhōngguó fùmǔ zhēn yángé! Wǒ liánmǐn Zhōngguó de háizi yào kǎoshì, tāmen děi xuéxí hěn nǔlì. (Poor kid! Chinese parents are so strict! I feel sorry for Chinese kids when they'll have exams, they have to study very hard.)
go_manly, 加油，加油！ Great work mate!
Oh I like the reference to 'Mother Television'! Like 'Mother Earth' or 'Mother Nature' right? 
Posted on: Ordering Songs at Karaoke
July 9, 2009 at 2:59 AM@xiaophil - 哈哈哈！I know that song well, grew up loving the Beatles. In the same situation, I think I'd have been a-mumblin'. (But I think you can usually rely on such slangy English not getting across to a Chinese audience!)
@calkins - hey man, I'd like to see that "all-(beautiful)-women Japanese ensemble" vid, but it seems to be blocked in mainland China, can you just post a link to the main page so I can get there another way? 
Posted on: Ordering Songs at Karaoke
July 8, 2009 at 10:45 AM真利江，放心吧！我绝对没有得罪！嗯，我觉得说这样我说错了！
Posted on: Ordering Songs at Karaoke
July 8, 2009 at 10:23 AM@rj - dude, you know I like the taste of my own words! 
"21st Century Schizoid man", that's exactly what I meant by bombastic brilliance!
@pete - strangely enough "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" is one of those songs that I always (in the theater of the imagination) prefer performed by Elvis Presley, or at least someone who can channel him like this guy, (youtube so proxy it.) In fact I think there are a number such songs which should only ever really be attempted by people other than the ones that wrote them.
@baba - 老兄谢谢！"但是我和彼得潘很像！" 可能也是吓人的，邁克爾-杰克遜也说这样！
Posted on: Ordering Songs at Karaoke
July 8, 2009 at 9:27 AM真利江，挺直接的问题啊，你让我潮红！要是我给你直接的回答的话，我觉得没有好玩儿！我就告诉你我在六十年代出生的，但是我和彼得潘很像！
I saw Rush live in Liverpool when I was about 17. All the other guys of my age at school were into that kind of heavy rock, but to be honest I guess I enjoyed the album covers more. That was in the days of vinyl records of course, and an album cover could be a real work of art. Irrational of me 姐 (!), and I hope you won't mind me saying so, but I never had you down as a Rush fan!
Posted on: Ordering Songs at Karaoke
July 8, 2009 at 4:35 AMxiaophil, yeah I guess you could call me that! I listened to all those bands in my youth (oops, my age is showing - lol), but recently I've been listening to King Crimson a lot and rediscovering how gorgeously and bombastically brilliant they were!
As for MJ I was never a fan, but the guy was a magnificent performer and a troubled soul, and I bow my head for his passing.
Posted on: No TV Before Your Test!
July 10, 2009 at 7:13 AMHomer Simpson, a sage for our times!
Always worth quoting this guy pete, (I feel we're just like brothers under the skin or something y'know dude.) And I agree with you about TV being as bad as the atom bomb (even though it does good stuff), and just the other day I was... doh, it'll have to wait dude, 动物世界 (Animal World) is coming on...!