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Ah! What I was hoping for! Are the new buildings ferro-concrete, or timber and adobe? Or maybe ferro-adobe?
Ah! What I was hoping for! Are the new buildings ferro-concrete, or timber and adobe? Or maybe ferro-adobe?
Anyone have any experience with either of two tailor shops on Jian She Lu, near Shi Fan Da Xue? One has a sign which says, in Pin Yin, Yuan Ye Zhi Yi. The other, a few steps up-hill, has Sichuan Fashion Tailors on their sign. I'd like to get some shirts and pants made.
There are shuttle buses, like 212, which go to the Luosiwan Shopping center. There is an elevated train in Cheng Gong but I don't know how many places it goes to. Not much public transportation otherwise. Students at the universities complain bitterly about how boring Cheng Gong is, and university faculty resist moving there vigourously. Most Cheng Gong campuses have to provide shuttle buses to bring their faculty to work.
Does anyone know any good tailors in the area around Yunnan U., Normal U., the Science and Technology U., the Finance U.? I used to employ a woman with a shop near Paul's Shop, Wen Hua Xiang, but she's gone now.
Spend any time in the USA, and you'll meet plenty who whine and complain through every waking moment.
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I've stayed here many times over the years and been very satisfied. Central location, comfortable rooms, reasonable prices. Some might mind the noise from the Bad Monkey Bar across the street, but I've always been able to sleep. The staff is very helpful with bus tickets, excursion tickets and the like.
Does anyone know if this is still a going concern? Or destroyed by the fire?
One of my favorite places in Jing Hong! It's my landmark, the center of the hotel, restaurant, bike, etc., area. I discovered dark Beer Lao there!
But getting to the S. bus station takes another hour....
American conservative group makes inroads into China's classrooms
发布者Psycho, I'm semi-joking, semi-serious. If Salon.com is to be believed, oral/anal are becoming more common in US high schools, thanks to the Bushies "abstinence" education policies. As for early marriages, surely everyone knows that Chinese people married very early before 1949? Some places, parent arranged marriages between infants, and then raised them together. Some still do. For that matter, most people everywhere before modern times married quite young, by modern US standards.
The truth is, once into puberty, it's unnatural for people not to be having sex regularly. If you want to counter or modify Nature, fine, but you need to do so more rationally than say "don't do it! don't do it!" Teach'em to use condoms. Think of it as the lesser of evils, like the Just War. (Born-agains in the USA are rarely squeamish about war, only sex).
American conservative group makes inroads into China's classrooms
发布者Dobson-type abstinence programs don't work, except to promote anal intercourse. Confucius et al. married their children off pre-puberty so that they would be able to start having sex when their bodies told them to.
Getting away: Black Dragon Pool
发布者Catch bus #9 at Xiao Cai Yuan (the cloverleaf north of Yun Da) and it will terminate at Hei Long Tan. Alternatively, catch bus #84 going north, from in front of the Normal University. Ride it to Shang Zhuang bus stop, then cross the road and catch bus #79 going north. Bus #79 terminates at Nong Da, but it will stop at Hei Long Tan (the Horticultural Garden, too).
Of course, you can mix and match: catch #84 from its beginning in the Pedestrian Mall down town, then switch to #9 at the Xiao Cai Yuan stop.
I'm told that there is a good vegetarian restaurant at Hei Long Tan as well.
Lester Ness
Bentleys and 180,000 yuan parking spaces: Kunming's car craze continues
发布者Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and especially car ownership!
When the cage smashers come
发布者I like the cages. They make handy places to put things out to dry. Buy fresh walnuts, put them out in a basket in the cage and they dry quick. Anywhere else, slow.