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Odd Things Chinese People Have Said To Me

By dinglesp | July 13, 2008

Hmm, another no photo post, I’ll be shedding readers like Swiss James sheds hair at this rate (actually I heard that he just moults for the summer and grows back a huge ginger mott in the Autumn).
Anyway, here’s a few questions I’ve been asked by the Chinee over the years. I’ll add some more when [...]

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How to swear in Chinese

By dinglesp | July 9, 2008

I’ve taken several sets of Chinese lessons and both times I was stunned by what I was taught. It was all ordering food, telling taxi drivers to drop you off just before the corner and asking strangers if they have any brothers or sisters, now, all of these can be handled perfectly well by pointing [...]

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Seagull 1963

By dinglesp | July 3, 2008

It seems that no Shanghai based blog is complete without male accessories, and while I’m not as metro as some of my good friends I do like a nice watch. I’m not really interested in expensive (or fake), mainstream stuff, it’s always the obscure, interesting stuff that interests me (yeah, I’m a cheapskate).
Anyway, I saw [...]

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