I believe Metro tightened their regulations recently although if you have work here there is a very good chance your company has a metro card already and you can use their number to get in and pay (play the semi-retarded laowai if troubled, most of us have a natural ability to pull it off). I lived the past two years in an area north of Beichen and it was pretty good. New apartment blocks and much lower prices than in down town KM. The flip side is the insane congestion but with the metro system starting up next year it's going to be easier to live in the outlying areas. I've spent 3 years in Kunming and I've never heard of foreigners only buildings with unrestricted TV and internet. Can you elaborate?
Wonder why several of those links seem to be banned. Are local weather forecasts sensible information during peace time these days? Somebody ought to take a good hard look at the gfw.
Tengchong it is. You don't happen to have the shop's name, phone number or website do you? If they are reputable I don't mind paying a little bit more than cheapest-price-off-Taobao. Can you recommend a named set to ask for? R15, Razr or something?
I get why many policeofficers won't make statements due to ongoing investigations coz "Xing was healthy before going into the interrogation waiting room. He went through some emotional changes during the interrogation, but no torture was used." sure sounds fishy.
That said the more time I spend in China the less compassion I am willing to extend to thieves.
I honestly don't get why it seems to be so important for people to have a car. I assume there is some face and a little showoff-iness in it around here, but then again isn't there everywhere? Whenever my gf hints of the idea of buying a car I always say that if she can find more good reasons to do it than I can NOT to I'll go ahead and buy one. It's not even close.
-Expensive, polluting, dangerous, crashes (not the dangerous kind but the fender bender kind you see all the time), gasoline prices, theft risk, parking lot price, parking fees, lack of parking space, carvalue plummet, not to mention the traffic jams happening everywhere. Oh,, not to forget that you can take a taxi to and from work the 15-20 times a month you need to and it will still be much cheaper than buying a car and paying what is needed to keep it running.
Went there yesterday and it totally made my week. Nice decor and friendly staff and a real salad bar. Sadly we both wanted mexican food so I can't really say much about their other courses. The food was great but just a tad spicier would have improved the dish. The best thing was that we almost had the place to ourselves and we could have a quiet conversation without shouting, spitting Chinese people in the background. I realised how much I had missed that since coming here.
We went to Chicago Coffee a couple of days ago and it was a nice experience. The place is cozy with soft comfy chairs (I realized how much I have missed one since coming here) and they have a nice little collection of English language books in the corner consisting mainly of classics and travel litterature. I was looking forward to trying their advertized tortilla bar but it wasn't up and running that evening.
Instead we went for 2 12 inch pizzas -roast chicken and pepperoni- but we quickly realized that 1 would have been enough. Those things are heavy. I am mainly into Italian style pizza but Chicago's double layered pizzas are well worth a try. Their coffee seems to be a bit on the expensive side but people say good things about it and they have got a nice selection. I wouldn't mind dropping by again some day,, hopefully when they've got the tortilla thing going. English speaking staff btw.
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GoKunming New Year's Eve Preview
发布者You're right, it does in fact make you sound like a party pooper.
China blogs: 1980s turkey, corruption show, Copenhagen, top lists
发布者Love the turkey-story.
Third detainee this year dies in Kunming police custody
发布者I get why many policeofficers won't make statements due to ongoing investigations coz "Xing was healthy before going into the interrogation waiting room. He went through some emotional changes during the interrogation, but no torture was used." sure sounds fishy.
That said the more time I spend in China the less compassion I am willing to extend to thieves.
American fugitive and environmental activist sentenced to prison in Dali
发布者drugdealing, arson, faked papers and known terrorist associations. Seems like a swell guy.
Kunming adding 900 vehicles to its roads daily
发布者I honestly don't get why it seems to be so important for people to have a car. I assume there is some face and a little showoff-iness in it around here, but then again isn't there everywhere? Whenever my gf hints of the idea of buying a car I always say that if she can find more good reasons to do it than I can NOT to I'll go ahead and buy one. It's not even close.
-Expensive, polluting, dangerous, crashes (not the dangerous kind but the fender bender kind you see all the time), gasoline prices, theft risk, parking lot price, parking fees, lack of parking space, carvalue plummet, not to mention the traffic jams happening everywhere. Oh,, not to forget that you can take a taxi to and from work the 15-20 times a month you need to and it will still be much cheaper than buying a car and paying what is needed to keep it running.