User Comments - RJ

Posted on: City Series: Bali

@bodawei

actually I was talking about a coffee "siphon".

http://www.harioglassusa.com/?gclid=CLadxZuw7JwCFVRM5Qod8Wjvsw
(enter, and see siphon under coffee)

The syphon optimizes extraction time and temperature to make a quick but excellent cup of coffee. Jack Nicolson used one to make kopi luwak in the recent movie, "the bucket list"

@orangina

I tried your cold extraction technique last night but the resulting coffee fell short. Thanks for the idea anyway. I love to experiment.

Lets just hope that Kopi-Luwak is one product that does not have a Chinese "knock-off". 

Posted on: City Series: Bali

Bill

I will take a look.

Posted on: City Series: Bali

Henning

you can buy a pound of Kopi Luwak for $180.00 or as little as 56g for $40.00 here:

http://www.animalcoffee.com/

I am also quite interested in coffee extractors. Anybody have any experience with these?

Posted on: City Series: Bali

btw- in addition to probably being bad marketing, "poop" is usually a word only used when talking to children. It sounds strange to hear an adult use that word (at least to me). This brings up an interesting language point. Which Chinese terms for this "function" are appropriate when? Obviously your choice of words would change depending on your audience. By translating all of them as "crap" I cant tell what level of formality the corresponding Chinese terms would have.

Posted on: City Series: Bali

Jenny,

It sounds like you were not impressed by the flavor of coffee made from excreted beans? I will try this one day. Its on my "bucket list".

Posted on: Chinese for Trekkies

Henning,

this revelation of the last years you mention, was this due to a special project you were working on, or just age related wisdom?

I do agree. We are first, a lot alike.

Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 14: The Finale

langzu

with the pdf open, change the URL at the top of the page from .pdf to .html and it will display the text version. This is always a dependable back up when the text version link is broken.

Posted on: Chinese for Trekkies

denswei

Is it the varying cultural concepts and categories inherent in different languages that affect the cognitive classification of the experienced world, or the cognitive classification of the experienced world  that affects the varying cultural concepts and categories inherent in different languages? I find this quite fascinating and have thought much about it. In the end, can we really understand each other? At the very least, one has to see that learning a language is prerequisite to understanding a culture, and understanding the culture is prerequisite to learning proper use of a language.

Henning

all the more fascinating. Great stuff.

Posted on: Grammar Lesson

Jenny,

To answer your question, In High School (in the US), we sometimes had english twice a day. One class would be grammar, and the other "literature". When we had english only one period per day we often switched to a grammar book for periods of many weeks at a time. Im sure it varied from place to place but I think all school systems did teach grammar to some extent. We always found it to be quite boring of course, and I never followed the rules, I just knew what sounded "right". The number one question was always: "why do we have to do this stuff"? The grammar teachers were always women that were at least 100 years old. I think it was a requirement. During the last couple years of High school, the focus was English literature, and they eased up on the grammar. Today, Im not quite sure what they do.

Posted on: China Street Smart with John Chan

Phil

Of course you have to draw the line at not doing unethical business deals. I work for a rather large company, and one that insists on no unethical business, so maybe its easier for us. My sample size is not all inclusive, the same as yours is not.

As for Chinese, Im not sure how much speaking Chinese helps in actually doing business. Speaking a little Chinese can help you socially, which is important to business, but I would think to really benefit from Chinese in the business world, you would have to be quite fluent.