Registered and verified "real-name" accounts could be optional, visibly marked in posts. Readers could then learn to ignore others, if they so choose.
It would still leave the possibility to contribute anonymously for more secretive people.
We started with a foreign name, which can be easily and harmlesly pronounced in Chinese, and therefore transliterated into Chinese written language.
Our son now has this Chinese name, which can be pronounced (more or less) according to foreign pronounciation. Observing however, that this particular foreign name can be pronounced in two different ways abroad.
However, when we got his Chinese passport, his Chinese name was transliterated into Pinyin and then it no longer matched the expected English form of name.
If we in future get him foreign passport, he will have my family name on it, and the given name is initially required to be exact Pinyin version of his Chinese name.
We can then separately request to have this name changed into correct foreign version.
Heads up!
Earlier this month I made a regular bank transfer from my foreign bank to my Bank of China account, like I have done numerous time before.
However, the money didn't arrive to my account (usually it just takes 3 days or so), so after a week of waiting we today went to the main BOC branch on Beijing Lu to ask about it.
Turns out, you now have to indicate in the message of the bank transfer, what the money is for. In my case, something like "Money for living expenses in China" would work.
Previously, I have just put some meaningless text like "Hello" in it, thinking that it is a message just for the recipient (myself) and not serving any greater purpose.
Because this information was not included in the transfer, the bank just held the money. I didn't even receive call or anything about it.
We did this the other way - our son has all Chinese paperwork, including hukou, ID and passport, and we are considering if/when to get foreign passport. I can only assume that this new change works this way too - we can get the foreign passport without it becoming challenging to hold his Chinese passport at same time.
However, this challenges me:
"my son can get a Hukou, ID and indeed a Chinese passport and STILL get the Entry/Exit permits"
If he has Chinese passport, why would he need Entry/Exit permits? At least our son (1yr) could travel to Europe just fine with Chinese passport. Of course he needed Schengen visa, since he doesn't share my nationality yet.
But I have understood that a Chinese passport would allow one to leave the country, and the foreign passport for the destination would allow one to arrive there = no separate Exit/Entry permits needed.
Though previously the problem of holding two passports would have been a problem, since China would have interpreted the presence of foreign passport as the Chinese nationality being cancelled. This would have been apparent from foreign visa & entry/exit stamps (or lack of them) in the Chinese passport.
I think that bigger concern than server space may be privacy issue.
If you want to delete your data (or some of it), but it doesn't really delete it...
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Video: Zen and the art of patisserie with chef Igor Nataf
Posted by@sezuwupom : "JanJal is living the good life [...] Igor's delivers to your door."
You forgot to mention that I recycle and care for environment, which is why I would prefer to pick up my bakeries on my way rather than have someone on scooter deliver it wrapped in plastics. Even if it would leave the plastic maker and the scooter driver jobless. They could find new jobs in Just Hot, which I keep in business.
But I wish best of luck to Igor's. If location is everything, they have some catching up to do to reach out to potential customers like they are doing in this paid review..
Video: Zen and the art of patisserie with chef Igor Nataf
Posted byWent here one morning after grocery shopping in nearby Walmart.
No surprise, shelves were less than half-empty like they are in all upper scale bakeries I've visited in Kunming, specifically in the mornings before lunch.
They all seem to get stocked up few hours after lunch time, which for me is too late because I like to consume my sweets at home(=office) couple of hours after lunch, without making a separate trip for it.
Thus my staple bakeries remain from big and soulless chains like Just Hot, that have their donuts ready before 11am.
What does organic mean in China?
Posted byThey also say time is a healer, and it takes time to grow. While time does get peope killed, it also helps greatly in reproduction. Without time, we would not have gotten where we are now - nor would we get to develop into extradimensional beings bound by neither space nor time, if we ban it now.
What I propose, is that we do not ban time, but instead develop ourselves beyond time, so that we no longer depend on it, and becomes indifferent to us.
On a related but more serious note, should humanity also develop beoynd organic in our feeding patterns?
For most people, things like "organic" or "free range" has already developed past hunting wild game and gathering roots and berries. For the minority that still practises such, our current methods to grow our food must appear as strange as eating protein grown in reactors would sound to many of us.
What does organic mean in China?
Posted byA store we frequent for vegetables and meat is Q+Life in B1 level of TKP Shopping Mall (Beijing Lu / Baiyun Lu). My wife has bought for their green advertising, I cannot vouch either way but I'm satisfied with the quality.
It's official: Yunnan facing serious drought
Posted byWell, we are having minor thunderstorm right now. Earlier in the week my phone's weather forecast showed daily rain drops in Kunming from end of this week til end of eternity, Or was it just the two weeks ahead it can show.