Chinese junk TV fusion

What to do when you want to watch junk TV but feel like you should be using all your time studying Chinese?

Mei Wenti!

Watch junk TV dubbed into Chinese!

Summer time…or not?

Weather is finally getting warm…or is it?

24 degrees on thursday and -1 on friday, WTF!

The central heating has been turned off, I demand that the weather gods be nice and send some warmth to Beijing and let it stay!

Beijing Pole Dancing Queens

Saturday was the big day of the Pole Dancing competition, and lucky me got voted the best dancer by the audience!

The competition consisted of two parts, a panel of 3 judges decided on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd best dancers. In addition to that the audience got to vote for their favourite.

The panel of judges consisted of a woman who runs a pole dancing school (where all the other girls come from) and two men who I have no idea are, or what expertise they have in judging pole dancing. Sooo considering the fact that I am not a member of the dance school I didn’t really expect to win the judges hearts no matter how well I danced. It’s okay, I like democracy, so I value the audience vote more anyways 🙂

Here are some pictures from Saturday (I obviously didnt take any myself, and unfortunately both sarah and ulrik’s cameras won’t load their videos on to my computer, so I only have a few that was taken by a photographer hired by the Hilton).

Winners!

Oh yes… I did end up going for “Big and Chunky” song from Madagascar in the end 🙂

I love performing, can’t wait until the next opportunity arises!

Rantithetical couplet

I’m going through the new Chinese words we have to learn for the next chapter in our book… sometimes I really wonder what the use of some of the words are.
Like this week’s 对联 which of course means “rantithetical couplet”, whatever that is. I don’t think I have ever before in my life needed to use the word “rantithetical couplet”, I don’t actually even know what it means.

And also amongst the list of useful words we will learn this week is 水仙，which means narcissus. Another word I have never used before in my life.

Time to google to find out what rantithetical couplets really is…

Sexy?

Sexy?

Sarah had to answer this question when she signed up at the gym the other day. It’s hard because you don’t really know how to answer, like…do they want you to rank yourself on a scale from 1-10, or is it a yes or no question? Things in China are always that little bit more complicated, and also more fun 🙂

I’m thinking of signing up next week if I can straighten out my budget properly…

Excuse me, I think I lost my pants in your bar

Yeah, I managed to lose a pair of pants in the bar yesterday.

Not my pants though, they were Sarah’s. Duh! Dangran!

We were going to Jonas’ birthday celebration at Mao Chong (really good pizzas, I want to go to there again!). Only when Sarah and I were about to jump into a cab did I realise that a pair of her black tights had some how gotten stuck to my jacket. I put them in my pocket, but they must have fallen out when I took my jacket off at Mao Chong. And of course I forgot that I had accidentally brought them along and didn’t think about it until this morning. Ops.

I didn’t realise how bad it sounded, until I called the bar to ask if they had found a pair of pants lying around their establishment.

“Ehh Hiii, I think I lost my pants in your bar last night. I mean, I think I lost my friends pants. Ehm I mean…have you seen a pair of black tights lying around your bar from last night?”

Unfortunately, they said they knew nothing about a pair of missing pants. Sooo where can they be?

Oh the mystery of the missing pants…somewhere in Beijing a pair of pants are lying around all alone and lost.
Damn…

It might not be a white Christmas, but…

It’s a white New Year!

Woke up this morning to a white Beijing 🙂
Apparently this is the most snow they have had in 16 years. Okay, so it is about 3-4 cm deep, but whatever, I am SO excited!!!

I tried making a snowman but the snow was too loose, maybe in a few days time. It will snow again on Sunday so we’ll see if it goes any better then.

Everyone is out “shuffling” snow, cooperation in action!

China: the world from upside down

One of the many reasons I love China is that they look at things from a perspective we in the West would consider upside down.

Whereas in the West we look at Africa as a poor hopeless continent with pity (with the best intentions of course), the Chinese view Africa as the land of opportunity. Unexploited markets and industries, definitively an attractive place to invest in! I bet the Chinese businessman has wet-dreams about all the possibilities available.

We in the West tend to view young mothers as bothersome, a bit of a drag on society and in the labour force, you know, constantly having to take sick-days off work to care for her young. Can a mother ever really be devoted to her job when she, by her very nurturing nature, always will turn her attention to her child?

This is not how it is viewed in China though. Since a year back recruitment of astronauts to the Chinese spaceship program has had as one of their requirements that the potential candidates must be young mothers. This is because they view mothers as highly competent with sophisticated skills developed, such as multi-tasking, patience, time-management, and communication. Pure mental strength and therefore suitable for the most demanding jobs and tasks!

(Ministry of Defence, PRC)

Perhaps the Chinese are better at identifying strengths and opportunities than we are? Western culture has this habit of problematise and find the limits to everything. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but perhaps it would be a good exercise to combine the two approaches.

New Year’s Celebration !

Fireworks are going off outside, the compound is decorated with electric blinking lights and Ryan, Liliang and I have purchased 300 dough-sheets for making dumplings in preparation for New Years eve tomorrow!

And of course, HOLIDAY until next week!

Yay!

Bye bye Tiger, welcome Bunny Rabit!

Bad Boys of Beijing

Sleepless in Beijing tonight…so I think it is time for another episode of Sexy Beijing:

(I never get bored of watching that intro lol)