- How is work?
- How is the baby?
- How are our grandparents/your parents?
- My blood pressure/blood sugar count are all normal, and all my organs are functioning perfectly
- No, I do not have any chronic diseases
- No, the jet lag is okay
- I work for a PE fund
- We're like a body shop that borrows cash to buy old cars, fix them up, and sell them back out onto market
- Yes, my startup went down in flames
- Yes, it was a good experience
- No, I do not have a girlfriend
- No, I do not need you/your friend/your colleague to introduce me to anyone
- Yes, that girl is cute, I agree
- Sure, a movie with her would be fine
- Oh, such a pity, I will be leaving before May 1st so we won't have time to meet! But it's okay, a girl that knows how to support herself is really awesome, I'm sure she will find someone great in the future
- Yes, my phone sucks
- Yes, I would really enjoy going to Zhongguancun with you to get a new Android phone, to make sure I don't get gypped
- Yes, I have lost weight
- Yes, I should be fatter
- Yes, I will eat anything
- Thank you, this food is delicious
- We got this cheese from an organic farm in Wisconsin
- I know we really want to fight over the dinner bill but couldn't we just all split it and not cry/scream/yell at the dinner table
- That includes you, mom and dad
In Beijing
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Shady Sands
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Chairman Ray
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Shady Sands
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On April 19 2013 13:12 Chairman Ray wrote: OO what kind of cheese did you get? A whole bunch of different ones - there's a gruyere wheel in there, gouda, almond crusted brie, sharp cheddar | ||
Sermokala
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Have fun in Beijing. | ||
Ximeng
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sths
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LeapofFaith
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nobodywonder
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expect to get some funky fruits and other Chinese specialities too. Anyways, I guess I hope you enjoy/get through it. I like my family reunions in China, although I know my cousins fairly well and are similar ages. | ||
nobodywonder
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LeapofFaith
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synapse
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The responsibilities of the new generation haha :D | ||
Gaius Baltar
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Cambium
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On April 19 2013 17:37 nobodywonder wrote: sorry for the double post, but how is the beijing food? my family is from the south, around Hangzhou, Zhejiang, so I was wondering about Beijing and northern food. I've only gone into the tourist food traps. fucking 狗不理 worst restaurant experience ever What didn't you like about it? I liked it when I had it. It's also from Tianjin, but you probably knew that. Beijing's food scene is very eclectic, like any major metropolis, you can find food from anywhere. Some local 'street' food is pretty good, like donkey meat shops, while others are just disgusting like this really weird congee that's black. This like is pretty comprehensive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_cuisine#Restaurants_known_for_Beijing_cuisine If you go higher class, you have peking duck (I like Da Dong), which is okay. Not spectacular, but decent. Then you have machu cuisine, which is interesting, and I really enjoyed. My favourite restaurant in Beijing is called 'Na Jia Xiao Guan' (http://www.thebeijinger.com/directory/najia-xiaoguan), everything there is slightly on the sweet side, but very rich and well balanced. Highly recommended for anyone and everyone who goes! And I was told there are these super high-end exclusive restaurants who do extremely meticulous dishes, but I've never been invited to one, so I wouldn't know. | ||
ieatkids5
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HornyHerring
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digmouse
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Sayle
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That's a pretty good list though, mind if I use it too? | ||
Shady Sands
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On April 19 2013 20:42 HornyHerring wrote: That's pretty antisocial behaviour lol. When the alternative is asking and/or answering the same twenty questions over and over again with different relatives, I don't care | ||
c0ldfusion
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On April 19 2013 21:18 Shady Sands wrote: When the alternative is asking and/or answering the same twenty questions over and over again with different relatives, I don't care Why not just not go? Seems like the obvious choice to me. | ||
Steveling
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You may find you have a cool uncle or two. | ||
ZerONine09
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BLinD-RawR
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Tarot
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ComaDose
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Family gatherings are ALWAYS so much easyer when your already in a relationship. EDIT: untill recently now that its "time" to get married | ||
babylon
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EtherealDeath
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gl hf haha | ||
Raysalis
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TheEmulator
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zdfgucker
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On April 20 2013 04:42 TheEmulator wrote: You should be somewhat appreciative that your family makes an effort to know about your life, whether they actually care or not. I go to family functions, and literally 9 out of every 10 family members ignore me, and make 0 effort. And the ones that do just go "so, how's school", and that's it. It's all fun until the 500th person asks when you will marry and proposes to marry her, her you never heard of, her whose name you recall but can't put a face to it, her whose unattractive face you recall, etc, etc. I don't even want to imagine how it's like for a sheng nv. Man that gotta be hell on earth. | ||
babylon
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On April 20 2013 04:42 TheEmulator wrote: You should be somewhat appreciative that your family makes an effort to know about your life, whether they actually care or not. I go to family functions, and literally 9 out of every 10 family members ignore me, and make 0 effort. And the ones that do just go "so, how's school", and that's it. Of course he should be more appreciative of his family, but it's kind of pointless to turn this into a competition about who has it worse; someone will always have it worse, and people will always say, "You should be more appreciative! At least you have parents!" or something of that sort. I mean, really, he's not going to print out bullet points to give to all his relatives, because that would be extremely disrespectful, and if he's going to be that disrespectful, he might as well just absent himself from the meeting. (Less effort required + more free time to dick around.) | ||
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flamewheel
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On April 19 2013 13:05 Shady Sands wrote: In other news, would any TLers in Beijing like to meet sometime between the 23rd and the 26th? I'll be around until the 23rd lol | ||
lazyitachi
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I know that the cases are kinda mounting in China... Stay safe! | ||
c0ldfusion
United States8292 Posts
On April 20 2013 04:56 zdfgucker wrote: It's all fun until the 500th person asks when you will marry and proposes to marry her, her you never heard of, her whose name you recall but can't put a face to it, her whose unattractive face you recall, etc, etc. I don't even want to imagine how it's like for a sheng nv. Man that gotta be hell on earth. What's a "sheng nv" ? | ||
sths
Australia192 Posts
What's a "sheng nv" ? I think its means leftover women. As in women past 30 who have not found a husband. Yes I know, retarded. But then China never really had a women's rights movement like in the west. | ||
docvoc
United States5491 Posts
I feel really bad for girls like that, then again sometimes I feel like the fam asking you why you don't date susy when you are sure they understand why susy isn't/never has been taken EVER gets annoying. For my family its more like, "So honey, when is she converting?" LOL. | ||
Shady Sands
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I've got a slew of stuff lined up the afternoon of the 25th, but my evening that day is free. Would that day work out for everyone who's PM'd me and/or posted in this thread? Feel free to suggest a place | ||
Thienan567
United States670 Posts
On April 19 2013 21:31 c0ldfusion wrote: Why not just not go? Seems like the obvious choice to me. It's a Chinese family reunion, and from the looks of it a massive one at that. If he's not going to attend he'd better have a damn good reason, as in "sorry but i just got married but then my wife died" good reason. | ||
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On April 23 2013 01:54 GettingIt wrote: Man I really want to visit China one day, but I'm not sure whether to go to Beijing or Shanghai. Anyway...this blog makes me wonder what the criteria is to get featured. Anyone know? Just write some really cool stuff consistently or do some nice stuff for the community and you will eventually get featured. Keep in mind Shady Sands usually posts high-quality stuff (at least imo). | ||
Phyrful
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digmouse
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On April 22 2013 10:07 Shady Sands wrote: Okay, met up with Gaius at 798 - thanks to his idea to go and check out the Gao Brothers art studio, ended up with a three hour two-on-one chat with one of the Gao brothers, fairly famous Chinese artists with relatively hardcore political views. I've got a slew of stuff lined up the afternoon of the 25th, but my evening that day is free. Would that day work out for everyone who's PM'd me and/or posted in this thread? Feel free to suggest a place Gaius we actually should go out for a drink some time, haven't met you for like half a year! | ||
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Shady Sands
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On April 24 2013 23:55 Gaius Baltar wrote: Come along on Friday. Shady's concocting something. Yep... probably going to invite a couple of TLers, and maybe see if we can schedule something with Mike Pettis or another such illustrious expat. No guarantees though | ||
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On April 24 2013 17:06 Random_0 wrote: Great seeing you in BJ, Shady. Keep in touch. You too Random! | ||
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