Archive for the 'China 中国' Category

南昌大学第十四届校园歌手大赛

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

我昨天晚上(2007年4月5日)在南昌大学北区逸夫馆报告厅看《南昌大学第十四届校园歌手大赛》。比赛由主办南昌大学学生会。我昨天下午不知道南大有比赛,然后朋友来就告诉我。我有一点空,所以我们一起去比赛。去大赛比我一个人在房间学习非常有意思,当然!我听过最多大赛的歌,但是我听不懂。我印象是都歌手好听。只有一个人唱一首英文歌:《I Believe I can Fly》(原文歌手:R. Kelly)。他感情唱歌唱得强烈,非常好!我现在不可以唱中文歌,以后。。。不知道。哈哈!慢慢来。。。

Inconvenient convenience store

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

The other day I took a walk on Zhong Shan Road (中山路 zhōngshānlù) which is part of the shopping centre of Nanchang. I’ve never gone shopping there, but I still enjoy the area with it’s crowds of shoppers and activity.
Zhong Shan Road is dotted with mostly middle-aged ladies trying to grab my attention with cries [...]

Canada Post stamp: Year of the pig

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

CBC reports that Canada Post (加拿大的邮局) has released it’s latest stamp celebrating the year of the Pig.

Canada Post stamp: Year of the pig
I think most Chinese people I’ve met (and foreigners too) are quite surprised when I say how Chinese traditions are woven into Canadian life. A symbol of a Chinese festival being specially acknowledged [...]

Friendly orange encounter

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

“Hello,” said the little girl. I guessed her age to be less than 10-years old as I looked up from my dinner.
Sitting alone in a quiet corner of CBC Chicken I smiled as I replied: “hello.”
“What is your favourite colour,” she asked after a slight pause. Obviously curious about the bearded foreigner, she felt confident [...]

Dinner conversation

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

A city block in China is huge compared to those in North America. Often the area within a Nanchang city block will contain a small maze of streets connecting the random collection of buildings.

A quiet hidden street
Another foreigner introduced me to a small restaurant that was in an area hidden from me until I was [...]

My first experience with Apple

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

After more than a year without a computer, I finally conceeded to the fact that I’ll be in Asia for another 2-years at least and I really need a computer. For a variety of technical reasons and handy features (like the built-in camera), I chose to buy an Apple MacBook. Nanchang has a small compter [...]

Sighted near School

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

For a moment I thought the dog was doing a trick. A mop was hanging from the steel structure in where a small street intersects a nice shopping district around our university. The dog was holding onto the mop with his teeth. I almost expected people to start clapping at the strength and endurance for [...]

Don’t be scared. I’m friendly.

Monday, October 30th, 2006

I’m sick today. 不好!I missed class and don’t feel optimistic about tomorrow. Speaking a foreign language is hard enough without having your ears plug up so you can’t even hear yourself!
In Tianjin I had purchased three sets of flash cards that each have 100 cards to help learn 汉字 (Chinese simplified characters). I don’t use [...]

苹果

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

It’s tough to write from the internet bar. There are plenty of reasons to avoid the filthy internet bars, ranging from the stale smoke-filled air to inconvenience of having to walk 30-minutes from my house (each way) to the only internet bar that is satisfactory for me. Instead of quickly checking email, deleting spam, and [...]

The only sightly ambiguously clear beginning

Monday, September 11th, 2006

For months I’ve been in the dark about many critical issues, including when school starts. It always seemed like the strangest thing to be unknown by a school. Sure, I understand that the Chinese language courses for foreigners are operated much differently than degree courses, and approrpriately so, but I still couldn’t understand why no [...]