User Comments - raptorak
raptorak
Posted on: Scams and Bus Culture
February 14, 2008, 05:32 PMTip for scams in Inner Mongolia: When you go to Mongolia, you pay per horse not per person. This means you also have to pay for your guide who rides along with you and anyone else pretending to help who comes along.
Posted on: Buying a Pet and Food Poisoning
February 14, 2008, 05:27 PMOh my god this subject has me crying! It is so true about China, and reminds me of how funny it is to see a friend for the first time after they have been out for a couple of days with food poisoning i.e. John Wayne walk, horrified thousand-yard stare and still naively believing that they will never eat a jirouchuanr ever again! Although a recent victim myself (at Chinese new year do NOT accept dumplings made by the guests at the hostel no matter how festive it seems!), it is still a pretty funny subject. Only last week (after eating aforesaid new year hostel dumplings) one of my friends laduzi`d himself whilst cruising the streets of Kunming and only a swift jingzhi movement saved him from touching cloth.
Posted on: 定做的噩梦
December 25, 2007, 11:42 AMMerry Christmas everyone, especially the guys at Chinesepod, keep up the good work but I hope you are having a hard earned rest! I just experienced my first Christmas in China, very strange but am having a lot of fun! To be honest though, Christmas Eve in Tianjin was more like Halloween than anything else, "Scream" masks and glowing devil horns being worn and sold everywhere! Also, it is the first time I have ever seen a queue going round the block for the Church (?!) and for Pizza Hut!
Posted on: Bazza and Dating Chinese Girls
December 19, 2007, 05:10 AMOn the subject of dating Chinese girls, I came to Tianjin to teach English with about 11 other people, and at the moment (4 months in) only one of us has a Chinese girlfriend. I would say that most of us are quite interested, but are probably a bit too wary of the "sleazy foreigner" label that often comes with dating Chinese girls. I think it really depends on what you are doing in China and where you are. I know people who came with the same organisation as me but are living further south, and they seem to be having more "luck" than us guys up north! =)
Posted on: Bazza and Dating Chinese Girls
December 01, 2007, 01:29 AMHi guys, this podcast doesn't seem to be working...
Posted on: Teaching English in China
May 29, 2007, 01:06 AMchipmunks =(
Posted on: Football (Soccer)
May 27, 2007, 01:14 PMLots of running all over the field Barry? Given what you said about baseball when it was challenged, how about giving football, which is arguably the most popular sport in the world, a little bit of credit?
Posted on: Franklicious Comes to Shanghai
February 16, 2008, 09:22 AMchipmunks =/