@mockingbird: Some Chinese girls are educated and some are not" - sounds like people everywhere, not only girls. Also, do you think it's "education" (please define) that makes a 'good' marriage?
Discussion of the validity of marriage and raising kids in an overpopulated world is worthwhile, but this discussion of this particular man's problem is liking firing a shotgun blind into bushes because you hear a noise - somebody could get killed - you don't know if there is a tiger, a domestic cow, a mosquito or somebody's pet dog in there.
Sorry, man, I appreciate that you've got a problem but I don't think this is the place to find a solution.
@Liumingke: Ridiculous to talk seriously(?) about divorce based only on a simple message like this.
I have always re-registered after coming back from abroad (within 48 hours, I think, is the time limit, but sometimes I've been a day or two late), but it has been simple and I have never needed to show a copy of rental agreement each time - just needed my passport (they made whatever copies were necessary), and had to sign the new registration form, the info for which they copy from the previous one. I've never done this for trips within China and there have been no problems. So it may well be the letter of the law, but anyway my local PSB folks know my face well, though for trips outside China they do expect me to come by. It's no big hassle, but of course it may vary from local PSB to local PSB.
Yeah - between them they produce nothing but bother for those of us who'd like to benefit from advances in technology. But it starts with the mindcops, and that starts from the desire of political control freaks to maintain power.
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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.
Too bourgeois.
Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.
Ain't no flies on Salvador's.
Winners: Best of Kunming Awards 2013
发布者'Cocktail party attire' - huh.
Yunnan reopens 13 international border crossings
发布者Something odd about the lengths of times listed - I think they must be for Chinese citizens. I have gotten the usual China-Laos visa at the border south of Jinghong about 6 times over the past 10 years: it always took me qabout 20 minutes, cost about US$35-40, and was good for a month (with US passport). Crossing from Hekou to Viet Nam, which I've done twice in the past 7 years, required that I get the visa in Kunming, but both times it was good for a month.
Have I read this thing wrong?
Kunming observatory plays role in China moon shot
发布者@atwilden, you're right, the whole concept of ownership in any form has always been an important social issue everywhere, with a tremendous variety of local solutions that have worked for a time, more or less, until they no longer worked - still, I like Sitting Bull's incredulousness at the idea of land ownership: the man was not stupid, and it raises basic questions. Then there's control of the seas, which has been in the news lately....as for asteroids, I dunno, but take a look at the machinations of 'the company' in the ALIEN films.
Kunming observatory plays role in China moon shot
发布者I wonder how long it will be until national regimes and/or private corporations start claiming they 'own' areas of the lunar surface. Read Sitting Bull's contemptuous comments on the White-American idea of land ownership in BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE ("They say we sold the land but we never did. Sell the land? Why not sell the sky, and the moon and the stars?")
Great Apes release first ever album
发布者Good gig at the Camel.