User Comments - sebire
sebire
Posted on: No Kidding
January 17, 2008 at 10:36 PMYeah, I want to know what's happening with Wang Wei et. al. - are they still on Christmas holiday or something?! (Lazy students eh...)
Posted on: Bumming a Smoke
January 14, 2008 at 8:33 PMBazza, there is now no way I'll forget how to write 烟!
Posted on: Lost Cell Phone
January 14, 2008 at 8:01 PMRoninDC: Hehe, I don't have a laptop, and even if I did, testing out my half-empty minimalist rucksack half crippled me over the weekend, so it'd definitely be the laptop that broke the camel's back. howard97: Odd about the Orange thing. Maybe I'll just ask them.
Posted on: Lost Cell Phone
January 13, 2008 at 3:26 PMbbjt, according to orange.co.uk, there are no agreements with China Mobile or Unicom. I think China Mobile only have network agreements with O2(UK). RJBerki, I hope to check Cpod, because I'm worried that I'm going to forget all my Chinese otherwise! I have a month in India to forget everything before I arrive in Beijing. My mum has demanded that I contact her in some manner at least twice a week. I hope that I won't be having too much fun that I forget - I didn't ring them once during my first week at uni, and they got upset...
Posted on: Lost Cell Phone
January 13, 2008 at 11:01 AMThanks guys for all the tips - I was aware that in India there's this internal roaming issue with the networks, but I didn't realise that problem affected China as well. I never really wanted to take the phone in the first place, but I am doing it to soothe my poor mother's nerves. I think it is going to be used less for calling them, but for them to contact me if there is an emergency at home (though fat lot of use I'll be if I'm in some backwater). Unfortunately, Orange don't appear to have network agreements in China and most of India, so I can't roam using Orange anyway! As I said, thanks for all the tips - I'll have a look into it!
Posted on: Lost Cell Phone
January 12, 2008 at 11:52 PMRJBerki, quite a few - India, China, Singapore, Aus, NZ, Fiji, US. So trying to get a SIM to cover all that cheaply is not that easy!
Posted on: Lost Cell Phone
January 12, 2008 at 2:43 PMHmm, Lonely Planet claims I can get an Indian SIM for about £1.20...
Posted on: Lost Cell Phone
January 12, 2008 at 2:39 PMWell, I'm typically spending between 4 and 6 weeks in each country, so if each time I get a SIM card it costs more than around £10, it may not be worth it.
Posted on: Lost Cell Phone
January 12, 2008 at 12:30 PMHmm, I was just thinking of getting one of those international SIM card things (I'm going to several countries, and don't fancy buying a SIM in each one), then I can just use my normal number. That's assuming I don't lose my phone somewhere. How cheap are phones in China?
Posted on: Choosing a Chinese Name and Safety
January 19, 2008 at 12:05 AMWhen I was a little kid, my chinese teacher named me 華婷立 (I think they're the right characters?) I'm not sure why she thought it up.