User Comments - bababardwan
bababardwan
Posted on: Battling Internet Addiction
October 31, 2008 at 2:46 AMhenning,
A google search under your user name found that you are already a pin-up here on this website here !
Posted on: Battling Internet Addiction
October 31, 2008 at 2:11 AMLove the introduction.Very relieved to have this disclaimer.lol.
Posted on: Counterfeit Money
October 31, 2008 at 1:30 AMxiaohu,
..on your drive! Was this in the back of your chauffeur driven beemer ?
Posted on: 麻烦你 (Máfan Nǐ) to Say Please
October 30, 2008 at 4:56 AMWoo hoo! I found something that even Amber found too mafan to translate !!
[hehe;just jokes;ok it's the Chinese language in general.Ok,perhaps it's odd even in English.]
Xie xie Amber :)
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Beijing
October 29, 2008 at 11:13 PM
Posted on: 麻烦你 (Máfan Nǐ) to Say Please
October 29, 2008 at 8:45 PMOk,it probably didn't make sense.I was trying to say:
I love saying mafan.It's mafan when there is nothing to say mafan about.
How should I have said that?
Posted on: Welcome to ChinesePod
October 29, 2008 at 8:42 PMturkeysub,
I wouldn't claim to understand your experience or to fully understand Chinese culture [but agree with tvan that there is racism in all cultures unfortunately ].However,I would have thought there was a difference between being genetically dark skinned and to being genetically fair skinned but darkened by the sun.Excessive sun exposure in fair skinned people leads to premature ageing and an increased risk of skin cancer.In Australia this is a big problem because here it has been the opposite.It has been considered more beautiful to get a good tan.We even now still have people paying to go to tanning salons despite widespread educational programmes about the risk of skin cancer.
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Beijing
October 29, 2008 at 2:21 AMJenny,
I really like the idea of "entirety" as you put it.Several ways of preparing the same food make it very interesting.Don't agree that it's agressive.On the contrary I find it very frugal.This reminds me of a scene from "dances with wolves" where there is a huge field of slaughtered buffalo by the white men and the Indians are aghast.Now that was aggressive/wasteful.
Posted on: Counterfeit Money
October 31, 2008 at 4:02 AMgreat advice richnirish.Kinda wish somewould would try and pass me a counterfeit note now so I could try out all your above steps.I'll have to remember to come back to this before I go to China.Thanks.