cnotes11, my internet speed is good. I am not a technical guy, but maybe it is because u are living downtown, where so many people use the internet at the same time. I am living in the northeast, or 北市区. It's been great.
About cable channel for football. I don't know whether u are watching the so-called "Digital TV" (数字电视). If u do, there is a channel called 风云足球 (kind of CCTV-Football Channel). But u got pay extra 5 RMB a month. If you could get it, it really can provide u a good channel to enjoy football.
CNTV. An online TV of CCTV. They do have some matches in English. But others is broadcate in Chinese. Anyway, you can find many matches on the Sports TV of CNTV. I often watch tennis on it.
If you are really sensitive about accent or local vocab, Yunnan is appropriate for you to learn Mandarin. But if u have to, I'd recommend you Qujing. Though I am a local resident here, yet what they dialects can be understood by many people from many parts of China. This is based on my friends from Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang and many other place.
As for the non-pesticide vegetable, I am afraid the situation in these citites will le u down, cause vegetables in cities in China are provided by suburb areas. One of my friend told me vegetables of hi family providing to Kunming will planted seperatly from what they have for the family itself. In a word, if you wanna have these vegetable, you probably have to live in the village. So forget about vegetable thing and be focused on stduying Madarin.
Have a good time in Yunnan. If wanna know more about other stuff in Yunnna, U can contact me at stathislee@gmail.com.
Goo luck,
Stathis
Actually, there is a bus from Jianshui city area to swallow cave, which costs 10rmb. If taking the bus to Mengzi or Gejiu, you got to walk off the highway and walk nearly one kilometer to the gate. You can take the bus in the same station with those from kunming.
Confucius temple in Jianshui is the second largest of its kind in China, not the third if i am correct.
Young people are forgetting their history...right, how could i forget those history i have learned for more than ten years. It seems some people are really blamed young generation for being "foreign-oriented". It's like exposing badness to the other countries means young people don't love this country anymore. We young people do this because we are oppressed since going to the kindergarten. We can't go to a demonstration when the Olympic torch is grabbed, when those innocent sailor got killed on the Mekong River, when Diaoyu Island is possessed by Japanese... We can't do nothing but watch the gov saying:"We are always trying to settle disputes peacefully...".
Yeah, young people are lost. Do u know why? We do not dare to protest until our ordinary life is threatened.
About Marxism, Ian Fu, what China are doing now is really what Marx has said. You know much better than me.
The students are not only prohibited from involving in the protest, but they can't ask for a leave for every class, even if u are going to die. And if one is caught for going to the protests, he or she will be punished and will never ever get a chance to take a job in the gummint.
Gejiu is actually much more like a spring city than Kunming. The temperature ranges from 10 to 30 degree for the whole year. But it is too small without continuous ability to develop in the future. It may not a good place to work but absolutely a good place to spend the time when u are too old to go anywhere. Love it.
@Asanee, maybe I am too overgeneralized. I just helped my company to negotiate with three persons from Burma. Kind of Chinglish. Maybe just a coincidence.
Jianshui: southern Yunnan's cultural gem
Posted byActually, there is a bus from Jianshui city area to swallow cave, which costs 10rmb. If taking the bus to Mengzi or Gejiu, you got to walk off the highway and walk nearly one kilometer to the gate. You can take the bus in the same station with those from kunming.
Confucius temple in Jianshui is the second largest of its kind in China, not the third if i am correct.
Kunming residents rally against chemical plant
Posted byYoung people are forgetting their history...right, how could i forget those history i have learned for more than ten years. It seems some people are really blamed young generation for being "foreign-oriented". It's like exposing badness to the other countries means young people don't love this country anymore. We young people do this because we are oppressed since going to the kindergarten. We can't go to a demonstration when the Olympic torch is grabbed, when those innocent sailor got killed on the Mekong River, when Diaoyu Island is possessed by Japanese... We can't do nothing but watch the gov saying:"We are always trying to settle disputes peacefully...".
Yeah, young people are lost. Do u know why? We do not dare to protest until our ordinary life is threatened.
About Marxism, Ian Fu, what China are doing now is really what Marx has said. You know much better than me.
Kunming residents rally against chemical plant
Posted byThe students are not only prohibited from involving in the protest, but they can't ask for a leave for every class, even if u are going to die. And if one is caught for going to the protests, he or she will be punished and will never ever get a chance to take a job in the gummint.
Life after the boom – Yunnan's tin capital goes bust
Posted byGejiu is actually much more like a spring city than Kunming. The temperature ranges from 10 to 30 degree for the whole year. But it is too small without continuous ability to develop in the future. It may not a good place to work but absolutely a good place to spend the time when u are too old to go anywhere. Love it.
Kunming battling Chinglish
Posted by@Asanee, maybe I am too overgeneralized. I just helped my company to negotiate with three persons from Burma. Kind of Chinglish. Maybe just a coincidence.