Forums > Living in Kunming > I CAN'T FIND......WHAT ? Jessica
We get wholemeal organic but we have to go direct to the farmer in Guizhou when we are there. I have no idea when we will return.
I think you can get whole meal bread four in Metro. If it is not whole meal, at least it will be course flour. You could then make your own, dead easy with a pasta machine.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Legal weapons. Legal?
A cosh, but not a knife.
There is a thing called an Asp. It is like a telescopic baton, but metal. The police use them en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASP,_Inc. . Usefull if you take some aikido lessons in how to use it. You see these around Kunming in the bird market and elsewhere.
Electrical things like Tazer may well be illegal.
Mace may be illegal. However, any perfumed spray, especially those with alcohol, will do the same job is sprayed in the eyes. Then run like hell.
Avoid anything potentially lethal or capable of causing grievous harm to anybody, because you won't be willing to use it. If you don't use it, it can be taken from you and used against you.
You don't need to harm people, you just need to get them to stop attacking you for long enough for you to run away.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Child Support Advice As has been pointed out.
It is illegal for her to get pregnant out of wedlock. End of story.
Unless you want this child and see a future with this child, which is unlikely.
Tell her to go to the police, you will not pay a penny.
Don't do a paternity test, unless demanded by the courts. Otherwise you just make things more complicated for yourself.
If you do want a future with the child, which is unlikely to be permitted, then get a paternity test.
Unless you have other commitments here, go home to your country and leave not forwarding address.
If you are a teacher this is easy as you have no commitments after June. Wait till the dust settles and return to another city in China.
Sorry it this sounds brutal, but it does not sound like she is thinking about either you or the child, and she is probably being driven by the parents. She won't have the baby is the most likely occurrence. Her parents will probably take your money and then the girl will have an abortion. It will be impossible for her parents to marry her off if she has a child already.
Sounds heartless? This girl is not dealing with matters of the heart, she is blackmailing you.
Forums > Living in Kunming > DIY stuff, tools, wood etc. The green stuff I am talking about that was taken off the market in about 1990 in EU was a green painted on wood treatment with a fungicide that was harmful to humans.
We got an H&S notice to handle any existing timbers with gloves and avoid other contact with exposed skin as it was taken into the body through the skin (adsorbed?).
That does not mean that other green product is not safe.
Forums > Travel Yunnan > Getting a break from Kunming? There is Anning hot water spa village just west of Anning. Thermal baths, some hotels not too expensive for a communal hot spring. Or more expensive if you want a spa bath in your room.
Very quiet mid week and some hill walking.
Snapshot: A trip to the world's tallest bridge
Posted bySome of those villages might still be quite isolated, as the connections to the highway might still be hard to reach.
$17 billion Chongqing-Kunming railway nears completion
Posted byThe train won't suffer fog or China Eastern delay disease either.
Spring City's tallest skyscraper nears completion
Posted byTier ones, in the downtown/CBD areas will always be a good bet, but not so good in the suburbs unless serviced by or soon to be serviced by, Metro/subway lines.
Lower tier cities also have potential. Henan, Zhengzhou has boomed. Due to the city being named as an expanding rail hub for the Belt and Road initiative. Also, anywhere not yet serviced by a metro line. There is still room in this latter category in Kunming, but there is a need to be fast as the metro line as planned should be completed by next August.
I would also avoid buying new. Some of the more upmarket villas in SW Kunming are very poorly built, many are apartments and villas are overpriced and people are fighting to buy the more affordable.
Buying second hand may be less of an investment opportunity, unless a new metro line is going through. However, you can see quality or other issues more clearly and find out the reputation of buildings and management, you can buy already decorated (ready to occupy), there will be fewer unknowns.
Mid-Autumn Festival, China's harvest celebration
Posted byTranslation is perhaps a better word than adaptation. There are over 40 translations of the poem listed here www.google.com/[...]
Mid-Autumn Festival, China's harvest celebration
Posted byThe story of Li Bai always reminds me of:
The Little Fete
by J.C. Cooper
I take a bottle of wine and I go to drink it among the flowers.
We are always three -
counting my shadow and my friend the shimmering moon.
Happily the moon knows nothing of drinking,
and my shadow is never thirsty.
When I sing, the moon listens to me in silence.
When I dance, my shadow dances too.
After all festivities the guests must depart;
This sadness I do not know.
When I go home,
the moon goes with me and my shadow follows me.