Living on a Narrowboat
‘If a job’s worth doing’ mentality clearly demonstrated in this gem of a video of a Chinese baggage handler in action captured by an Australian tourist.
Looks like a China Airways logo in the foreground.
As you can see from the reactions on the Facebook post, netizens agree, your luggage will be handled in this way and you should pack accordingly.
Shuttlecockball or Jianzi 毽子, is a national sport in China.
When I used to go into school, the kids could do many of the tricks this woman is doing in the first 30 seconds of the video…
…Later on, it’s more advanced.
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So…
Read this article about us all holding on to our knickers with regard to the China situation.
The author cites the cause of the problem being the shift toward free-market.
The problems in liberalization of capital markets are causing instability.
China is a fine place to invest after all.
Having lived there, I know many of the problems first hand.
Yes, China is a bureaucracy.
And as they say, the bureaucracy feeds the bureaucracy. Making the bureaucracy feed the capitalism may cause problems.
Not just, as the author suggests, in the logistical, functional, and organisational aspects, but also in cultural. And China has 5,000 years of culture as any Chinese man will be more than willing to tell you.
Making a cultural shift from Communist Bureaucracy to Free market capitalism takes time. Maybe a generation. Maybe longer. Continue reading “China: Wisdom and leadership with a friendly face”
Irish guy has taken it upon himself to make a stand.
In this case, it’s in the name of the male of the species, beneath the Eros statue in Piccadilly Circus, at 9pm on a Saturday night.
His stand is against the female of the species, who he stands and harasses for approximately 2 minutes before he receives a shock from onlooker female, who may the girl’s friend.
Back in China: This Chinese girl is on the Shanghai metro, being tailed by other Chinese girls, who you can hear giggling at her actions towards the male passengers on the train.
Word is, she split up with her boyfriend, who has lama genes.
Now she’s missing him and has taken it to the men on the metro, looking for another lama-type to hook up with.
This is the best way she knows.
The Chinese love a good spit anyhow, this one has just found an excuse, in her eyes. I’m not sure about the other passengers on the train…
Chinese Oscar time.
No need to roll out the red carpet, these aren’t the best actors, but they do try.
If anyone has ever tried smashing a windscreen with parts of their body, they’ll know how hard it is…
Martha lives in China.
With a Chinese boyfriend…
I read this interesting story about the costs and expectations for a young foreign man wishing to marry a fairly middle-class Chinese girl.
