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Entries for September, 2008

October 1st National Day — A plan for seven days trip

Since the National Day is a 7-days holiday, it’s time to plan a long distance trip. Beijing would be the best choice.

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October 1st National Day — A plan for one day trip

Don’t have any plans for the 7 days holiday?  Here are a few tourism places i would recommend you.  Most of them are within 2 hours drive, maybe shorter.

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Mad About English

The 2008 Beijing Olympics showed the world what the real China is. Maybe it’s about the time for you to learn Chinese (English)?

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Funny Pictures —Part 2

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This Sunday, Mid-Autumn Festival

This Sunday is Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival. It’s the 2nd biggest festival of China. (first is Spring Festival aslo known as Lunar Festival) What do Chinese do during the Mid-Autumn Festival?

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Let’s talk about Chinese cuisine

There are eight regional cuisines, (八大菜系): Anhui, Cantonese, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Sichuan, and Zhejiang. Among them, Cantonese, Sichuan, Shandong, and Jiangsu cuisine  are often considered as the standard of Chinese cuisine and due to their influence are claimed as the Four Great Traditions (四大菜系)

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A new word for myself —– Expatriate

For a long time,  I call those foreign people who live in China ” foreigners”.  I just figured there is a better word for this term  — expatriate.  Thanks to 流浪的笨笨 from yantaibbs.

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How to register a QQ number

What’s the most popular instant message program in China? It’s not MSN messager or yahoo messager, or whatsoever. It’s QQ messager. When someone wants to add you as a friend on QQ messager, they don’t ask you for your emails. They will ask you for a QQ number. So How you get a QQ number?

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