User Comments - sushan

Posted on: Will you Marry Me?

照顾 - 有 朋友 生病 了、  可不可以 说、 "好好照顾自己巴", like 'take care of yourself'?

Posted on: Outrageous Power Bill

My latest apartment has no running hot water in the kitchen, something I hadn't thought to check before moving in. But then three months' gas bill came to a grand total of 19 rmb, less than half of what I paid living in other places.

As for providing pinyin and translation, I no longer do this because of pera-kun and the many other online annotators available. I would rather have comments in characters rather than people not bother to make them due to the trouble of writing things out three times.

Miantiao, the most important meaning of 抄 in Chengdu is for 抄手 - Sichuan style wontons! 'caosir' in sichuanhua.

Posted on: All the Things You Can Hit: 打 (dǎ)

打错了 - can be dialed the wrong number, or knocked on the wrong door, or tried with the key to open the wrong door, as I found out today

Posted on: All the Things You Can Hit: 打 (dǎ)

给 (某人) 打个好 - say hi to someone for me

I learned this sometime ago, but can't recall hearing a Chinese person use it...or maybe am remembering wrong.  Anyone else?

Posted on: Food Oddities and Eye Exercises

I've gotten used to a lot of things like tripe, black and white fungus, and chicken feet. Haven't gotten into rabbit heads; don't like the brain of things like roasted duck but I do love the bill; it's crispy and has great flavour from the marinade or whatever it's basted in.

A group of older people in my complex sometimes do the eye massage together. Looks pretty strange if you don't know what it is. And many book stores have illustrated guides in the medical poster section (I love Chinese medical posters - the reflex maps of the hands, feet, and head; the eye charts that are all E.....)

Posted on: Google vs. Baidu

Wow, thank you. Now to get someone to do it all up in calligraphy for me....

Posted on: Google vs. Baidu

On the Baidu Business Overview (no idea how I landed on this page), it says:

"Many people have asked about the meaning of our name. "Baidu" was inspired by a poem written more than 800 years ago during the Song Dynasty. The poem compares the search for a retreating beauty amid chaotic glamour with the search for one's dream while confronted by life's many obstacles. "…hundreds and thousands of times, for her I searched in chaos, suddenly, I turned by chance, to where the lights were waning, and there she stood." Baidu, whose literal meaning is hundreds of times, represents persistent search for the ideal."

The banner of the page has the poem, and I managed to find part of it online:

众里寻他千白度 回头蓦见 那人正在灯火阑珊处

but am still looking for the full version. I think it is a great metaphor for online search!

Posted on: Taxi Culture in China

If you are in a taxi war with someone a nice way to resolve it is find out if you can share up to a certain point.

Posted on: Personal Trainer

Two stick-thin women in the dressing room also wrapped each other's midsections tightly with plastic wrap. (保鲜膜) before exercising. This supposedly increases your metabolism and thus contributes to the fat burning.

I would really like to know where this idea came from; my best guess that exercise and calories are closely tied to the idea of 'heat'...and you get hotter when exercising while wrapped in plastic?

Posted on: Personal Trainer

我 也 不 想信...but today...member (young guy) finishes his set, trainer leads him by the arms to the mirror and uses his fingertip to trace the outline of the muscle that was just worked. Beside them, another  young guy does careful bicep curls with the pink 1kg weights.

and our inspiring workout track? 恭喜, 恭喜, 恭喜 你。(The song that plays over and over again at Spring Festival) First time I've heard it so far this season. Good thing I had my own MP三.