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Posted on: A Ghost Outside
October 31, 2007 at 2:55 PMdiegolo wrote: "nice picture of ghost" Is it Jenny when she was in America? ha ha. 中文播克，万圣节快乐！Boo!
Posted on: Scary Clown
October 29, 2007 at 8:28 PMI think "IT"'s clown isn't as scary (or just repulsive) looking as the clown in this picture! Actually, I loved clowns, and speaking of which, I was a clown a couple of times for Halloween... a good clown... with one of those bald caps that make you really sweat. But yeah, why are clowns getting a rap, huh? Last clown I saw was actually in a Peking Acrobat act in the USA, but he of course wasn't dressed like a western clown... he ust had oversized pants on, a silly hat, and trick eye-glasses that he could make look like he had streams of tears pouring out of his eyes when he cried. Not so scary. But I did hate the clown doll in Poltergeist... creepy.
Posted on: Buying a Custom-Built Computer
October 28, 2007 at 6:48 AM太好了！ 我等了很久才有这样的课程．谢谢中文播克！！！
Posted on: Massage and Renting an Apartment
October 28, 2007 at 12:46 AMdmartind, amber, Ha ha... yeah, the place I just mentioned for 40元, the very last day I knew I would be going there (because I moved back to America temporarily and then to the north part of Tianjin when i came back) all the sudden they mentioned that I should get something for my back (I guess I was mentioning my back was hurting, but it usually does). Oddly, I was actually thinking about getting the suction thing done on my back... only to add one more "strange things I've done in China" to my list... and so I said sure, I'll get it. Hmmm....now I can't remember what the treatment is called, but will know it when I hear/see it. Anyone? Next on my list is to try acupuncture.
Posted on: Massage and Renting an Apartment
October 28, 2007 at 12:43 AMGreat show as usual, Amber. I used to get a lot of massages from the GOOD kind of places in Tianjin... you do have to be able to see which one is good or bad... of course, stay out of the "red light" district of massage parlors. I would find places that looked professional, had BOTH men and women masseuses waiting in the entry way wearing white jackets, and also found they would have their pictures and names up on the wall so you knew there wasn't any funny business... and believe me, as professional as that might sound, in Tianjin they were pretty cheap. In 2004/2005 I was going to a place for 40元 for 70 minutes...that's $5... for a full body massage. I'm sure Shanghai the price is quite higher.
Posted on: New York City
October 27, 2007 at 11:27 PMDon't forget that 旧金山 also has the translation-transliteration of 圣佛朗西斯科 (Shèng Fólǎngxīsīkē) but you can see why we prefer the former rather than the latter.
Posted on: Pumpkin Food
October 27, 2007 at 11:11 PMI have to add/ask a correction about Halloween: In teaching traditions in both Chinese and English (finding good things on the Internet written for children in both languages) I found that "万圣节" wànshèngjié is not actually Halloween, but is All-Saints Day (万 all, 圣 saints, 节 holiday). Halloween (Eve of the Holy day) was written as 万圣节前夜. Is that correct? Do Chinese normally just incorrectlally call it 万圣节, even though that is actually the Nov 1 holiday? Inquiring minds want to know...
Posted on: Pumpkin Food
October 27, 2007 at 11:05 PM@Changye: Also don't forget Yogurt, which I often get mixed up, even though Chinese yogurt, at least 5 years ago, was all mostly very liquidy....but 越来越 like the thick yogurt we EAT in the Americas & Britain. That too in Chinese is 喝 and not 吃 (Changye, hey, how do you write your name in Chinese, before I forget to ask?) @Tony, I am starting to learn Cantonese... realizing so many differences in characters used. Do you in Cantonese ever use 吃 then? @amber: 我了解你的感觉.你们在中文播克点com怎么过秋天的节日? 有没有感恩节和别的收获节日的活动? Lastly: Funny to see the wee little pumpkin there on the plate... I think that won biggest pumpkin at China's fair last year. :P Seriously, pumpkins there are so small, and when I show people pictures of my 外甥(wàisheng nephew http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=9741&l=8895a&id=676608437) from last Halloween, they don't believe pumpkins get that big in Idaho! And contrary to the lesson intro, Chinese, the ones I know anyway, don't even know what a Jack-o-lantern is, and have never made one! I was looking at some painted ones with two girls I do a language exchange with here, and they didn't even get why we had a name for such a thing! 哈哈
Posted on: New York City
October 25, 2007 at 2:00 PMBeing an American myself (but a very bad one since I prefer my life in China, ha ha), I didn't even know that people who have moved right away to New York can, and do, call themselves 纽约客。That is NEWs to me. I guess it just is a big step for some in their lives, and like the dialogue says, a different culture and world. I only been the New York once when I was 12 years old, and was taken away... probably the reason I love huge populated cities to this day and oddly haven't been back to New York since.
Posted on: Girly Talk
November 1, 2007 at 12:42 PMUmmmm........what does the picture for this lesson has to do with Girly Talk? Is the CPod office? Do those guys get accused of talking girly-talk??