The Book Club will meet Tuesday, January 9, 2018, at The Park, to discuss Mikhail Bulgakov's novel, THE MASTER AND MARGARITA, in which Satan arrives in both Roman Jerusalem 2000 years ago and in Moscow in the stalinist 1930's and turns out to be the most interesting and dramatic dude in town (think Milton's PARADISE LOST).
The Kunming Book Club has a wechat group in which many regular attendees participate, but meetings are open to all. Readings, locations and times of meets are chosen by attendees. New participants welcome.
That's creeping up on Chinese New Year, so you might want to check early on tickets to Jinghong. From Jinghong on you can probably just buy tickets the day before at the bus station.
Yahoo is not a brilliant site for news, but it works consistently for me here - perhaps there was a glitch for a week or so once, but that was a long time ago, can't quite remember.
I am a foreigner and at my local PSB I have never needed my landlord to go with me to register, I just needed lease and photocopy of his ID the first time, when I moved in. Later trips in and out of the country, I just had to show up with my passport - did this last week.
OK but them sings are right there in the train toilet, and there are plenty of other ones that could of bing avoided in 30 minutes or less for less than a hundred rmb.
Why is it that state organizations, as well as private ones, don't bother to find a native English speaker and pay him 50 kuai or so before designing a sign? Note that toilets on all the trains I've ever been on (probably near a hundred) in this, the world's most populous country, have a sing reading "Please flush closet pot".
For foreigners here without families to go back to, the Spring Festival is a bit inconvenient; for everybody, the travel situation is annoying. However, I still really like the idea that, once a year, the population says 'Enough already! Stop everything, we're going home to be with our families, everything else can be on hold.'
Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Provincial toilets soon to be less disgusting
发布者OK but them sings are right there in the train toilet, and there are plenty of other ones that could of bing avoided in 30 minutes or less for less than a hundred rmb.
Provincial toilets soon to be less disgusting
发布者About time.
Why is it that state organizations, as well as private ones, don't bother to find a native English speaker and pay him 50 kuai or so before designing a sign? Note that toilets on all the trains I've ever been on (probably near a hundred) in this, the world's most populous country, have a sing reading "Please flush closet pot".
Jin Feibao runs bomb-shortened Boston Marathon
发布者@Campo: Interesting.
Around Town: Spring Festival 2015 business schedules
发布者For foreigners here without families to go back to, the Spring Festival is a bit inconvenient; for everybody, the travel situation is annoying. However, I still really like the idea that, once a year, the population says 'Enough already! Stop everything, we're going home to be with our families, everything else can be on hold.'
Year of the Goat
发布者Example above should be cousin, not 'couson'.