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Forums > Living in Kunming > Thai visas no more?

My experiences at the Chiang Mai consulate have generally been better than those with Chinese immigration officials in Hong Kong, and the folks there are friendlier.

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > One night love? to heaven or to hell?

I think laotou's advice is good advice to a Christian. I don't begin to buy what Gracejin says but I do believe that Christian ideology can be usefully directed to deal with social concerns. It can also be used to promote bunk. Fact that I look for a different rationale to deal with human problems doesn't mean I have to negate decent efforts by decent people, Christian or not, to deal with them. Christianity has a mixed record in dealing with social problems, as does every other ideology. It's worth the trouble to argue about ideologies, but it's stupid not to accept decent goals and results, regardless of where they're coming from. We're never all going to agree about everything, and if we did I'd really begin to worry about widespread brain control - in fact I already do, evidence is everywhere (read Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent, on the US media) - in SOME ways Chinese media control is more honest - everybody knows it exists, and that's an advantage.
Like I said, I think Grace's focus is pretty nonsensical, but there is plenty of Christian work going on that is not nonsensical - Grace, look around, & don't buy ideas just because they either come or don't come from some category you happen to think 'must be' correct.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Air quality.

@HFCampo: Sorry, I still don't understand why metal particulates in the air won't blow away like everything else (dust, etc.) in the air.

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Problem comes from systemic, actively-promoted reliance on air travel, which by any reasonable standard is neither necessary (except for real emergencies (e.g., Philippine relief), not just speeded-up business relations) nor sustainable for the atmosphere, natural-resource usage, etc.

In short, get a horse.

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Blobbles, I agree - but largest/best effect in past performance needs to be examined carefully, that's all - on a $ for $-value basis, and also on the appropriateness of the aid delivered, who gets it, etc. There is also sometimes the question of hidden agendas, such as certain types of 'assistance' offered by the US Agency for International Development, which has been involved in warmaking and promoting economic exploitation - but this is a bit off track and leads to the whole question of 'development', which is often a misleading term. I also think the combination 'criminal/revolutionary' might be separated out a bit.

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There really is a problem with having the chengguan do the regulation, since they are sometimes a bit brutal. The main problem with the interference with vehicle traffic, however, is that there is too much vehicle traffic, not too many street sellers. As for the audio speakers, I find them annoying, and I think it's absurd to imagine that they actually enable anybody to sell more items and make more money, especially in areas where everybody's got one. But I don't really think the idea of Noise Pollution has hit home here, and probably won't for quite awhile.

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mmkunmingteacher, I sympathize about street marketing in general, though I don't call it 'lovely charm', and am happy to accept the minor inconveniences that it sometimes causes. However, anything can get out of hand, as Wenhuaxiang has (with potentialities for, and realities of, actual violence), and there is nothing 'un-Asian' about the idea of regulation (I take it you are not from an Asian culture, all of which are different from each other).

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Suggestion for Americans: skip the Thanksgiving dinners, send the cash to the Philippines. Suggestion to retail restaurants serving such dinners: send you profits to the Philippines. Suggestion to everybody: watch how people really behave, given the choice. Suggested thought experiment: why is it like this, really (obvious answers to be reconsidered)?

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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.

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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.

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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.