User Comments - hiewhongliang

hiewhongliang

Posted on: 城管与小摊贩

January 7, 2011 at 3:35 PM

我还是不大明白城管和警方的关系。表面上看，城管好像是个小小的市政公务员，于西方city council inspectors有所相同。可是阅读进来“城管打警察”的新闻，城管看来权力广大，不存在警方执法控制之下。到底是怎么回事啊？

http://bbs.news.163.com/bbs/society/195279724.html

Posted on: Discussing Divorce

January 6, 2011 at 3:32 PM

After John's research into 净身, I now have a completely new perspective on this weird contraption called a bidet (净身器/Jìng shēn qì)! :-)

Posted on: 你买家财险了吗？

January 6, 2011 at 2:54 PM

5：20 “。。。因为很多人没这方面的意思。。。没有保险的意思。。。比如说，我母亲一直追我结婚，但是我还没有这方面的意思。。。”

哈哈，有“婚姻”保险就不必什么考虑了吧！

其实，不是搞笑，查起来真的有“婚姻保险”这一回事：

http://www.kblcw.com/cms/html/81/t-242281.html

Posted on: A Visit to the In-laws

January 2, 2011 at 3:12 PM

Hi sydcarten. There are many factors that goes in spelling of names than pinyin. I'll give two examples from my family: 1) My father and his brother have the same surname, but different romanizations ("Hiew" and "Chiu"). It is purely because when they were born, something happened when the birth certificate were filled out by my Chinese grandparents and the local hospital staff in Malaya, none of whom understood anything about how Chinese names are romanized. 2) My wife's great grandparent was from Guangzhou. His name in Cantonese was Lui Hop Yek. When he arrived in Australia it got converted to "Louis Hopyek" (all his subsequent descendants all had the surname "Hopyek" :-S).

Strange, but true...