User Comments - da_beijixiong

Posted on: Gong Xi Fa Cai!

我和老婆的家人在中国大连过春节。

It was like WWIII - it was amazing, absolutely amazing, and I loved the cold. Living in Singapore, it's just so hot all the time, day-in, day-out, so it was great to have nice cool days with beautiful blue skies (yes, they were blue on most days).

One thing that was interesting is that everyone I meet said 过年好 Guo4 nian2 hao3, which no one has mentioned here. My wife assures me that this is said in China, and not just to friends and relatives.

Oh, the food, the food, the food and the booze! I've been to see my wife's family several times before, but nothing prepared me for the intensity of the fireworks, festivities and the food and booze being shoved down my throat. It was like Xmas we have back in New Zealand but on steroids. Even on somedays we started drinking before 10am - oh yeah!

I'm on the dry and a diet for the next year. I'm sure my liver has given up on me but as I say 中国啤酒象水，干杯！However the 白酒 that stuff certainly is nothing like water, if anything like damn rocket fuel!!!

Lastly, our daughter (6 months old) is already making money, damn good money. The amount of hongbao she recieved was amazing, she was like a little rock star.

Posted on: Chinglish in Reverse and University Culture

boy this podcast made me laugh...

my fiancé and i have just had a wee girl (6 weeks old) and am finding that i am almost talking exclusively to her in pu3tong1hua4 普通话 .

My fiancé’s mum is staying with us, so have been through the one month confinement routine, and have the joys of having to really apply the lessons learnt here. As a result of this, several of the words of the podcast have made their way into my daily vocab, along with some of the following:

我不知道 wo3 bu4 zhi1dao4 (I don't know)
真的吗 zhen1de ma (Really?)
调皮 tao2pi2 (Naughty)
什么 shen2me (What)
妈大熊猫打我 ma1 da4 xiong2mao1 da3 wo3  (Mum the big panda hit me) use this a lot when wo3 hen3 tao2pi2 and my better half decides to give me a playful smack!)