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- Naygon
What can you tell me about China? I mean, I've read your QBN blog posts. But, that's probably not the breakdown I'm really looking for. Give it to me in a sentence or two.
- e-pill0
horn honking, fire cracker popping, short short mini skirt cuties, dusty, dirty mildew, nose pickers, throat hawking spitting old women, MSG in all food, no coffee, rain rain rain, hot and super humid, KTV aka whore house-kareoke bars, massage, sexy massage, chow fun, fish smelling dirty laundry, mopeds, people standing in the middle of the street, knock offs of all kinds, army police, fake apple stores, super poor versus super wealthy, did i mention honking 24 hours??
is that ok, this is for Fujian provence in the city of Fuqing [pronounced: FUU-CHING] not as we hope to be pronounced as "FUCKING" but i call it the FUCKING CITY!!!
- e-pill0
perhaps you should direct this thread at either ephix who used to live in hong kong and jevad who still lives in hong kong or nylon or mydo who live in shanghai.. as i am just a visitor, they actually live here, although, they live in the nice cities where anything i have in nyc htey have if not more so.. cept in nyc we have more culture diverse people as the chinese citties are more towards 60-70% chinese versus nyc which is everything..
- Naygon0
No no I wanted your take on it.. as an outsider.. have you met up with any QBN'ers yet?
- georgesIII0
CAN YOU SEE THE GREAT FIREWALL OF CHINA FROM YOUR BALCONY?
- yes, its like god, it surrounds us all like a tight giant condome-pill
- where are you from originally?ohhhhhsnap
- NEW YORK CITY!!e-pill
- e-pill0
ive met jevad back in 2008 twice, trying to get some time off to meet mydo in shanghai, but my development deadlines are killer as i am working 6 days a week on average of 14-18 hours a day.. i may get some downtime after july 6th when another designer from the states comes here.. but not sure if i will get to goto shanghai, or taipei.. i have tons of people i want to see in taipei, also we have an office there, and i do want to meet mydo, but not sure if it will happen on this trip, as again my deadlines are crazy as i have to design and develop a lot more than usual ..
but in terms of meeting qbners, ive met over 250 thru out the world.
- qoob0
Do you speak Chinese e-pill?
- slightly.. very basic.. here in Fuqing, they have their own chinese language that is wayye-pill
- ..way different than the chinese i know from hong kong and or shenzhen or dounguan.e-pill
- words and their meanings are completely different.e-pill
- its like in shanghai, where they have their own dialect.. completely different.e-pill
- mydo0
- e-pill0
i have to get back to work..
- mydo0
there are over 750 starbucks in Shanghai.
alternatively, 104 listed non chinese cafes http://www.smartshanghai.com/lis…
and out of the 5000 restaurants listed on that site i'm sure a lot of them have great coffee.I can think of at least 20 places that do a good espresso martini too.
- you are just twisting the knifee-pill
- why don't you just get your own and make it at home? order it online. and get a grinder.ohhhhhsnap
- i mean... if you're serious about coffee ;)ohhhhhsnap
- id rather just wait til i get back to the states or get to shanghai or taipeie-pill
- mydo0
one that i took recently...
10,000 px version add .jpg to this url...
http://img.mydot.co.uk/2242_Pano…- or click here http://img.mydot.co.…mydo
- damn thats clean!!! a far cry from the dusty hole im in.e-pill
- how much of the city arent we seeing??e-pill
- this is about 20% the main business district is behind the building in the sunset.mydo
- the city is so big it's night on one side and day on the other...sine
- I love this picture mydo. Are you on the twitters?instrmntl
- gorgeous image.sea_sea
- pango0
ahhhhh Fuqing!!
no wonder i thought you're working for a taiwanese company. They speak the same dialag. Hear them talking on your video.- actually i was in a car with 3 guys from taipei, outside of them the dialect very different.e-pill
- from 2007-2009 i was working for a taiwanese company though..e-pill
- ohh... so they were from taiwan. different? sound the same to me... can only recognize few words.pango
- the dialect, or 'hua', changes from city to city, it's hard!BuddhaHat
- moldero0
fuck, kill, marry.
- Naygon0
How many QBN account do you have?
Do you still play Battlefield?
Any more robot renders to share?- i lost count .. and or lost passwords to over 25 accounts but i think i have 50+ total.e-pill
- havent played battlefield since i moved to florida, i left my ps3 in ny..e-pill
- havent done new robots as i left my puter in ny as well with all my files..e-pill
- i been living in a hotel since january so didnt want to bring anything til i got my own place.e-pill
- Naygon0
PS Mydo.. remember when you looked up your name on UrbanDictionary.com? True?
- erm, nope, pretty sure i've not seen that before. i like it. http://www.urbandict…mydo
- 23kon0
I'm China-bound in September/October with the GF to see her family and my first taste of that part of the world.
Think it's gonna be Hong Kong, Qingdao (GF's hometown) and Shanghai.
Very much looking forward to it!
- hong kong is my most fav city in the world.. you will have a lot of fun.. in sept its very hot thoughe-pill
- you should contact jevad or ephix for all info..e-pill
- contact mydo, he lives in shanghai..biggest city in the worlde-pill
- i like going to Aqua in hong kong.. jevad hates it.. but i like it.. http://www.aqua.com.…e-pill
- BuddhaHat0
e-pill pretty much nailed it in his first response, except for the coffee thing? I went through quite a few cities in the year I was there, and found plenty, from Shenzhen to Harbin.
The old women and men hocking and spitting everywhere comes as a shock initially, but you get used to walking down the street and stepping on a loogie every 4th or 5th step. If you step to avoid it, you'll probably just step on another one.
KTVs are the Chinese idea of a good time. They are not overly entertaining for anyone else. Sadly, in a lot of places, it's that or a restaurant. Some small towns have one bar, which is always packed with heavy drinkers, and the Chinese can get pretty messy when they drink. I went to one small town outside of Hangzhou with an African friend of mine, and for many it was the first time seeing a black person, or someone as tall as me (6'4").
There is a huge disparity in incomes there too. One of the places where I worked was filled with Mercedes, BMW etc in the car park, and across the road there was an empty field, where the incredibly poor were growing what vegetables they could, and living under tarpaulins.
Fireworks are used to celebrate EVERYTHING. Weddings, birthdays, 新年快乐 （Happy New Year!), Spring Festival, building openings.... just everything. Shanghai on Chinese New Year sounds like a fucking warzone.
Also, there are 3 different kinds of police, and pretty much all of them don't give a fuck. I saw one fight break out at a restaurant between a dozen guys, two cops tried to stop it, got threatened, and ran away.
Crazy country!!
- oh yes shenzhen has a ton of starbucks.. i was talking about Fuqing where im at now..e-pill
- no coffee here.e-pill
- so you're developing a healthy appreciation for tea :)
Had a bath in red tea yet? Bizarre.BuddhaHat - you are 6'4?? damn!! at least you got the #4 in your height!! w00t!!e-pill
- i drink green tea 5 times a daye-pill
- instrmntl0
y0 Eddie! Glad you're doing great out there. That's not really a question.
- BuddhaHat0
Oh yeah, PS. It's heavily polluted, and humid as fuck. Some days I'd get a kilometre down the road on my bike and turn back, because I was just choking on the pollution.
A dirty day in Shanghai
A nice day in Shanghai
Awesome temples
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Oh yeah, and kiss goodbye to fresh, raw vegetables when you come here... they cook everything; which is good. There were some fields I rode past where human waste was definitely being used as fertilizer. Gross.
- i have to disagree on the veges.. their fruit and veges are superb, at least here they aree-pill
- i get daily peaches, plums, apples, peppers, dragon fruit, limes all super fresh..e-pill
- the veges are all cooked but i guess im used to it like that..e-pill
- yeah the fruit is amazing, it actually tastes like something. But you peel most of it, or it hangs off a tree. Not like the veg.BuddhaHat
- vegetables.BuddhaHat
- PS. This is the first time you and I have been even close to the same time zone and posting at the same time. Hi Eddie!!!!BuddhaHat
- Eddie!!!BuddhaHat
- hiya!!e-pill
- BuddhaHat0
Oh yeah, e-pill, best way to get through the firewall on a Mac is to get an Express VPN account for $100 a year, or $12/month, and on a PC you can get away with free software like u21 or FreeGate.
- ephix mentioned this to me..so what does that mean? i can access all the blocked sites?e-pill
- i miss youtube the most as i see a blank screen for all the music heree-pill
- Yeah, you can access everything with Express VPN (PC&Mac). FreeGate is flaky.BuddhaHat
- I know, I missed YouTube so much! But don't forget Tudou, Soku etc, they have lots of music.BuddhaHat
- 现在你可以说汉语吗？BuddhaHat
- waat?!sea_sea
- woh suu dao..
later buddha!!e-pill