User Comments - wuansen

Posted on: Death by Ninja

I have to say this lesson helped pull me through a bad day at the office. haha.  Especially since a co-worker and I were pitching an idea to the boss about a Pirates vs. Ninjas online multiplayer game recently. (Denied of course... wouldn't want to have a good game come from this company for once...*read with a great deal of spite*)

I also thought it was good to know that "teaching someone a lesson" could be so directly phrased...

Anyway, thanks for the laugh!

Posted on: ID Check at the Internet Cafe

It seems like they've been cracking down a lot since I used to go several times a week. Used to pool together a group and go there to play LAN games as it is far easier than arranging everything ourselves. 

I've been to several where you can get take-out food delivered and they routinely come around to give more tea. I even went to one where you can pay extra to have a masseuse to massage your arms and shoulders! Funny stuff. 

As a seperate addition, I've been seeing quite a lot of hair salons with computers popping up. I've checked them out a few times. You enter and sit down and use the computer as they wash your hair and such.

Posted on: Recovering a Cell Phone Number

Good lesson.
Now if I could only get through the options to actually top-up my phone instead of getting someone else to do it!

I've been one of the lucky ones who has only gone through SIM cards, not phones. I keep moving from one city to another city within China. Does there happen to be a way to convert a number for a different locale? (Instead of buying a new number as I have been doing)

Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 3: A Call for Innovation

It was hard to provide examples that wouldnt' give away which horrible online games I might be involved with. :P

Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 3: A Call for Innovation

I work at a Chinese online game company and wow... talk about abbreviations for everything. Reading the department's QQ-like (stolen) chat room can be so confusing at times.
A common one I come across that wasn't mentioned was "PS" for photoshop. It is also used as a Verb.
把这个图PS一下。
This company also decided to make up abbreviations for English words since they didn't want to design a new interface for the English versions of the games. Though, problems that can arise include buttons or options that can't possibly fit an English word.
Example, PW for password. I was confused on that one for awhile. I get asked questions like "What is a shorter word for "Edit" (replacing the existing "改" in the Chinese version)

The other trend that I have trouble with is that sometimes they take the first pinyin letter from a Chinese word to abbreviate it. So while I spend a while trying to figure out what English word they are referring to it turns out to be CHINESE!

Examples: MM(美眉)=girl , GG(哥哥)=guy, TMD (他妈的)= swearing...

Also seem to use the same method to write about co-workers in a less obvious way. 成龙 would be CL. (I love Jacky Chan)

I can't think of any other ones at the moment but I'll keep my eyes peeled for more and post them at some other point for those that are interested.

Posted on: Lesson Preview, New Team Member

I usually don't post but I keep up with them as my questions are usually already answered but I should start participating...
As a general question to maybe Changye and hitokiri6993 or others: What are your thoughts on one learning Japanese at the same time as Chinese?
I have been toying witht the idea for awhile but I'm just worried I may start confusing myself too much.

---- Welcome Pete!

Posted on: Hanoi

Oh this is great! I went to Vietnam last summer for a month and I can say one thing that is missing is the impossible traffic! (Though one may guess from the background noise)
Scariest moment of my life was when my friend and I got on the back of one such 摩托车. We were hanging on for dear life as we were driven by a local 13 km through Hanoi traffic to a place to drink the famous 'bia ahoi' (Fresh beer). Suffice it to say we decided to refuse the offer of a lift back to our hostel. Though, after Chinese beer 'bia ahoi' is delicious.
Highly recommend: Never ride as 3 people on a small motorcyle
Hanoi beer (Hanoi too...)

Posted on: Lili and Zhang Liang 3: The Jealous Friend

I also cannot download the mp3 version...

Posted on: Rock, Scissors, Cloth

as a quick add to the list:
In Quebec we say "Roche, papier, ciseaux"