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One tip.
I learned this the practical way while travelling through Yunnan.
Wear a motorbike helmet with proper visor covering your whole face. Very funny to see the reactions when you take your helmet off. Especially when in rural area nobody wears a helmet and they must have realised that you were an alien.
Works as well with police officers. First let them talk to you for 5 minutes and then take your helmet off to make them understand that you didn't understand a word they were saying. They let you off 100% of the time.
PS: I never tried this without motorbike. Might be even more effective if you actually don't have a motorbike.
Lugu Lake airport officially opens for business
Posted byBail - You are already to late. The Lugu Lake area is already completely commercialized.
37% of Kunming university students consider plastic surgery
Posted bySomebody seems to be reading this blog because the horrible androids have been replaced in my elevator with a more human looking model in a for the rest same advertisement.
The website of mylike still has the androids on it. One even in a very irritating overlay but then in a mirror image.
37% of Kunming university students consider plastic surgery
Posted byFirst of all statistics in China don't mean a thing so this whole article becomes irrelevant.
Related to this topic see as well:
www.theguardian.com/[...]
In the elevator of my apartment block there is, since a few days, hanging an advertisement of Mylike aesthetic medicine which looks to be offering cosmetic surgery. On it the usual before and after pictures of two girls. As usual both are Photoshopped for maximal effect. Before a girl with a very strange shape of the face and a terrible skin condition and of course rather brown. After a scare synthetic construction with a milk white skin without a single blemish. The after shots are so Photoshopped that they become caricatures. Every time I am in the elevator I can't stop myself from looking at it because it is so hideous. Still I try to remember the name because even after the most terrible accident and with a completely burned face I still don't want to receive cosmetic surgery at this place.
Report: Kunming police fire shots on Wenlin Jie
Posted byThieves not hit but bus is. Luckily nobody in the bus was hit. Collateral damage? Get these guys but stop shooting.
Around Town: Yunnan Provincial Library
Posted by@mPRin
You are mistaken there. It is not only foreigners that have the 500 kuai deposit, everybody who borrows none Chinese books has to pay this. If foreigners only wish to borrow Chinese books they pay the standard deposit.
The value of the books you borrow is not allowed to surpass your deposit. This means that I am regularly restricted in the amount of books I can borrow so I wish I could pay even a higher deposit but this is apparently not possible.