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sebire
Posted on: Lost Cell Phone
January 12, 2008 at 10:53 AMI'm not going to steal phones! It's just that my parents want me to take a phone with me when I go abroad, but I refuse to pay roaming fees. In any case, it seems that the only phones in my house that are unlocked don't work on Chinese mobile networks (supposedly). I just thought then that I could pick up a dirt-cheap phone whilst I was out there, so that my parents don't get totally stressed out, and then use it as a spare when I get home. In the UK, unlocked phones are far more expensive than the locked phones.
Posted on: The Non-Chinese Speaking Tourist and Toilets
January 12, 2008 at 10:42 AMAuntySue, you'll find a lot of squat toilets to be quite long, with a hole at one end. Just squat over the hole at the back, and even if you pee vaguely horizontally, it'll just hit the other end of the toilet. I have never, ever peed on my own leg or missed the toilet. Don't worry! If you're squatting over a normal toilet, I would imagine you'll just have to turn down the pressure a bit.
Posted on: The Non-Chinese Speaking Tourist and Toilets
January 11, 2008 at 11:08 PMYeah, I swear I heard that it was something to do with preventing bowel cancer because you clear everything out of your system that way, on account that we've had a couple of million years to evolve such internal plumbing. Anyway, I've always found Malaysian toilets to not be overwhelmingly pleasant, so hopefully the majority of Chinese toilets are not much worse than those. And squatting is easy - just make sure you're trained as a child ;)
Posted on: Lost Cell Phone
January 11, 2008 at 8:53 PMIf these phones are all not locked to a network, does that mean I can use it anywhere in the world (assuming it's tri-band or whatever?) That'd be really useful!
Posted on: The Non-Chinese Speaking Tourist and Toilets
January 11, 2008 at 7:05 PMSquatting is supposed to be better for the bowel. Squatting of the flat-footed variety, that is. It is something about the muscles all being lined up to push everything out!
Posted on: #32
January 10, 2008 at 7:14 PMAnd the woman's voice even sounds a little like the original actress! Well, I thought so.
Posted on: #32
January 10, 2008 at 7:14 PMThe big giveaway is the man's first line. I only understand half of what the woman was saying, but I the first line just seemed so familiar, and then the penny dropped. I think I was barking up the wrong tree for a while with the "intelligent, neurotic" hints.
Posted on: Singapore
January 9, 2008 at 10:26 PMHaha, Auntie68, I'm British, and my dad is English. His only Malay phrase translates as "I can speak Malay good!" which he likes to trot out every now and then, much to my mum's amusement. I remember being in primary school and not realising that some of my vocabulary was Hokkien/Malay and all the other 5 year olds looking at me in confusion.
Posted on: #32
January 9, 2008 at 8:36 PMThis film is such a chick flick! And I would hardly describe it as particularly intelligent :p It's a good film to watch when you can't be bothered to think. I'll admit though, I've seen it more than once.
Posted on: Lost Cell Phone
January 12, 2008 at 11:00 AMI think the mobile phone company that I was getting this info from was only talking about their roaming agreements - I bet my unlocked phone will work in China!