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tangmoo
Posted on: Scary Clown
November 1, 2007 at 2:20 PMThere are lots of different types of clown, and so it's not dissimilar to beijing opera, as they are supposed to have a type of 'personality'. I guess kids don't like people who hide behind masks, because it's unfamiliar in the same way that people didn't like the incredible hulk (clearly a man in shorts painted green) and their behaviour is unpredictable without any apparent moral boundaries.
Posted on: New York City
November 1, 2007 at 1:03 PMkayaitch - i'm guessing the likelihood of a London lesson is low and i'd seriously expect 'Curious town in Ohio Lesson' before we get to 'London Lesson' ^^. Have you not noticed how generally korean and chinese textbooks (Yonsei et al) are totally N.America focussed? However, the Japanese language books (Japanese for busy people et al) seem to have a more balanced view of the world outside it's borders. Get used to it as that's just how the world works.
Posted on: New York City
October 29, 2007 at 1:17 PMHenning, Maybe the lesson is about John Carpenter's 80's classic '从纽约的逃命'.
Posted on: Opinions on Poetry
October 23, 2007 at 8:44 AMEven looking at the northern chinese can tell you that they are related to the koreans. They have a similar facial structure, body structure and even a predominance of single eyelids suggests this to be true. From experience, you'd never get a korean admitting to this but the chinese seem to be accepting of this fact. Chinese folk-lore says that the japanese are made up of china's bravest men and most beautiful women who went to find the 'elixir of youth' in order to keep the emporer alive forever. They didn't return though and founded japan.This is another tale that liven's up a classroom full of chinesers.
Posted on: Of Beauty Pageants and Plastic Surgery
October 22, 2007 at 12:43 PMAs a general rule, you tend to see more single eyelids in the north, than in the south. probably something to do with the manchu/korean influence. This might explain why eye-surgery is popular in the north and leg-lengthening is popular in the south.
Posted on: Ordering Xiaolongbao
October 22, 2007 at 9:46 AMLondon is a xiaolongbao free zone. I've looked many times and judging from the restaurants in the UK, and from asking my dongbeinese buddies from the restaurant down the road. There doesn't seem to be a large shanghai community here, so no 大閘蟹 either. Tianye, did you try the xioa-long bao from the take out place near shenyang's gugong close to zhongjie? They were awesome.. but due to local demand expect long queues.
Posted on: Number Two
October 19, 2007 at 12:18 PMWere you allowed to change your mind after you paid?
Posted on: Yang Jie's Diary: Date with a Nerd
October 18, 2007 at 11:46 PMShe probably knows some very powerful gong-fu so the boys are scared.. ...and where is my CPod mug? is it strictly for milk tea? I might be the first british person to get a CPod mug.
Posted on: Opinions on Poetry
October 18, 2007 at 11:43 PMBill, I've worked in both software and in chinese universities. I'd pretty much disagree with everything you said, even in the spirit of Zeitgeist. Sure Sun Zi may have added one brick into the wall of modern cryptography, but it's just one brick. China has a long way to go. Remember, when China entered it's 'dark ages' in 1966 europe & america were busy building computers and redefining modern physics and biology. China's come a long way, but it's still yet to prove itself in modern terms. oh, I love chinese poetry.. can we get back to that topic?
Posted on: New York City
November 5, 2007 at 10:32 AMKayaitch - 自助者天助. You make it, I'll listen to it, and make sure it's full of obscure pub-and-polo vocabulary. Anyways I remember the earlier chinese textbooks where they call everyone 同志 and nowhere outside of china gets a mention, certainly not NYC. PS. My other half said that in china, the british people in english-language books still wear morning suits (top hat and all ) and fish and chips rather than being wrapped up in paper.. is a delicate piece of fish laid pleasantly on a few well arranged chips, rather like haute-cuisine. ^^ So on second thoughts, maybe it's better that we let everyone live in ignorant bliss instead of revealing the truth. ^^