User Comments - sydcarten
sydcarten
Posted on: Learn From Failure: Joe Constanty
October 6, 2009 at 8:28 PMI find it difficult to raise even the slightest bit of interest in financial matters, markets, business and how to make a buck. That's just not my bag.
Dare I say it? For me, this series of shows is too narrowly focused on business, and features little that I want to hear about.
I would prefer a series that covered a more broad spectrum of stories from China about culture, lifestyle, science and technology, music, arts, education, regional stories etc.
Posted on: National Day
October 5, 2009 at 10:11 PMbread and circuses
Posted on: National Day
October 3, 2009 at 9:02 AMShit, shit, SHIT!!
I don't know what the F*%$ is wrong!
It seems I'll never manage to embed a picture in my CP postings.
I give up, OK... here's a link to my picture, assuming it won't be blocked by the Great Firewall of China:
http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2283571570101545090WdqSYH
Posted on: National Day
October 3, 2009 at 8:56 AMOkaaaay.... here's my FINAL attempt to post a picture in here:
If this works, you should be able to see the PRC flag flying in front of the Australian federal parliament house.
If not, I'll just go and head-desk repeatedly for a while...
Posted on: National Day
October 3, 2009 at 5:37 AMI was in Canberra yesterday, and even there the day is being commemorated:
DAMMIT! I don't think I'll ever learn how to insert images in CP discussions!!
Posted on: National Day
October 2, 2009 at 11:16 PM@ andr3y
I suspect his role as co-founder of the Kuomintang has a LOT to do with it!
Posted on: It's Stopped Raining
September 30, 2009 at 12:51 PMif you translate the name 小雨 into English you get Little Rain, which sounds like a native American name.
And I first remembered the character 雨 because it looked to me like an open umbrella with raindrops falling INSIDE it!
Posted on: Funny Business 5
September 29, 2009 at 3:32 PMI am not chianeses
Posted on: Happy Birthday China
September 29, 2009 at 3:29 PMHappy birthday PRC?
I think I'll just leave it to other ppl to say that.
I may seem like someone who doesn't have any political opinions
But I'm actually someone who has definite political opinions but thinks that this site, managed in Shanghai, may not be the appropriate venue for me to voice those opinions.
Pity we can't always just say what we are thinking and feeling.
Posted on: To Tip or Not to Tip
October 9, 2009 at 12:48 AMI still remember a particularly bad restaurant I went to in Germany.
Normally I always tip in a restaurant with a waiter serving your table, but at this restaurant the service was so slow and the waiter so arrogant and surly that I was pretty pissed off by the time the bill came.
A 10% tip had been automatically printed on my bill, as paying a tip is the expected custom there.
Instead of paying the tip, I took out a pen and crossed out the 10% printed on the bill, then I counted out the exact amount of the bill (minus tip) in coins and notes.
I tell you, I was just WAITING for someone to challenge me abt not paying the expected tip. I wanted to give someone my opinion about how crappy their service was, and undeserving of gratuities.
No-one asked. Perhaps they already knew.