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Posted on: Matchmaking in the Park
December 21, 2011 at 2:31 AMThe Indians in the US don't seem to have a set of parks they can use, but this particular Indian at least made the dating process seem funny.
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/culture/features/11621/
Posted on: Do You Like Shanghai?
December 20, 2011 at 3:53 AMWhat's interesting is that my roundabout way of answering your post pointed out the disadvantage of joining United's frequent flyer program, and being loyal to United: I'm starting to see that United is charging travelers to Asia a lot more than other airlines. Annoying.
Posted on: Do You Like Shanghai?
December 20, 2011 at 3:28 AMBritish Airways Flight 168: leave PVG 14:15 head eastbound arrive LHR 09:25 (next day), Boeing 777 (self-satisfied smirk, smirk)
Posted on: Do You Like Shanghai?
December 20, 2011 at 3:01 AMI looked at the lesson title first, then looked at the picture. Right away, I was reminded of a former colleague back in the 80s that thought he was boarding the airplane for Washington DC, but had actually boarded the airplane for Denver. It takes a few days to live that down.
Posted on: Self-Taught Degrees in China
December 19, 2011 at 3:29 PMIn that case, maybe the Chinese system works like how I thought it does after all. In the US, you can drop out of high school, then goof around for a few years, then get a GED, then go to some community college or a 4 year college somewhere.
Posted on: Doing Business in the Bath House
December 19, 2011 at 2:54 PMI just came back from a bath house. It was a Korean one in the Wangjing area of Beijing. There were quite a few women as well as men enjoying the (these are all my names) ice cold sauna, the dry heat sauna, the steamy hot saunas, and the bed of rocks where it was coed. It seemed like a pretty legit place.
Posted on: Self-Taught Degrees in China
December 19, 2011 at 11:27 AMThanks Bodawei. I knew about the portion where someone leaves the Chinese educational system, and then can do vocational training. I ended up giving some money to a Chinese girl from a village for nursing training, and she had only finished 9th grade (I recall one of her older brothers had gone through to high school, then had some college level education). But I somewhat take from your statements that a formal 4 year bachelor's degree program can also be attained, even by someone that only finished 9th grade in China?
Posted on: Self-Taught Degrees in China
December 19, 2011 at 2:48 AMInteresting to know that China even allows for self-taught bachelor's degrees. I thought once a high-school age person didn't go to college, that was that for their education in China permanently.
Posted on: Preparing for Pain
December 14, 2011 at 2:11 AMTomato can (my definition): boxer that spews so much blood when he gets hit in the ring, its like "someone broke open a tomato can in the ring". I read something like this a while ago, but upon further googling, it doesn't seem to exist. Only these more mundane definitions exist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato_can_(sports_idiom)
http://www.docsports.com/boxing/boxing-terms.html
Don't hear this term much these days.
Posted on: Getting an Official Receipt
December 27, 2011 at 8:56 PMI guess the Finance department's inability to read Chinese is why I also never bothered to have my taxi receipts to/from the airport reimbursed back in the US office. I should try getting them reimbursed sometime just to see what Finance does.