January 2011
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Amazing post from Carl Gene. 222 English Emotions Translated into Chinese http://ht.ly/3Nh9U no. 53. destructive: – 具有毁灭性 jùyǒu huǐmièxìng
Who knew Genghis Khan was an environmentalist! http://ht.ly/3NgRa Killing millions was good for the planet! http://ht.ly/3Nh1Z Amazing.
Watching IP MAN a cool kung fu movie. The good guys speak Cantonese and the bad guys speak Mandarin and the really bad guys speak Japanese!
I’m very excited about my Sino Weibo 新浪微博! Now I have 6 followers! And one person responded to me! COOL!
Shanghai Daily is reporting that some Carrefour stores were charged thousands for overcharging customers. WHAT’S NEW? Always happened to me!
Today our 3 y/o made a LEGO thing and I asked him what it was. He said in English, “It’s China. 是中国!” Then he put it across the room!
Documentary: Made in China http://ht.ly/3Mygk A guy sets out to understand his father’s childhood as an American growing up in 1930s China.
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6 Americans Who Mock the Chinese Language http://ht.ly/3M2XB @lelandyee Including Dave Chapelle and Steven Colbert.
“I thought the low point was when Obama talked about how great China was.” -Donald Trump about Obama’s State of the Union.
MX was teaching our 3 y/o Shanghainese the other day. Everything she said he laughed hysterically at. Too funny.
The Guardian has the South Parkesque Chinese cartoon with an exploding rabbit baby. Yikes. It starts out all innocent http://ht.ly/3JSDR
Great collection of Hu Jintao visiting US political cartoons. http://ht.ly/3Jbre I love the one “Hu’s Your Sugar Daddy?”
GM sold more vehicles in China last year than in the US. I can’t wait to hear Chinese cursing in traffic like the US. That’ll be funny!
WOW! China Hope Live posted Chinese versions of DR. SUESS! How do they translate Zizzer Zazzer Zuzz from the ABC book? http://ht.ly/3IQdZ
Lang Lang plays with Herbie Hancock at the White House for Hu Jintao. http://ping.fm/U45H1 2nd song is the controversial one? Really?
Sunday Printouts: The Rise of Chinese Cheneys http://ht.ly/3ID7w Kristof does it again. Don’t know if I agree with the comparison though.
Sunday Printouts: China’s Dead Babies. http://ht.ly/3ID5T Heavy for a Sunday Morning but an interesting read.
Sina 微博 is ablaze with talk about the NEW SHAOLIN Temple 新少林寺. Youku http://ht.ly/3IxNn YouTube http://ping.fm/7waFP Looks GREAT!
RT @illuminantceo: “China’s People’s Daily Says Chinese companies should use microblogs” http://t.co/JL5dLUu ARE YOU ON SINA 微博？
People’s Daily: “China makes its presence felt at Vancouver motorcycle show” HOW? By showing off those awesome motorcycle handle gloves?
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RT @dcagle: Ha! Laughed at this cartoon about Obama’s meeting with the Chinese President http://bit.ly/gRovnf tcot p2 “ME TOO! FUNNY!”
Laughable Headline of the Day: “China to crack down on election irregularities” from the People’s Daily. http://ht.ly/3IgP4
Obama’s daughter practiced her Chinese with President Hu Jintao. Wonder what she said? Probably, “Your glasses are too big!”
Why does @cspan not allow Hu Jintao’s Chinese to be heard and only the voice over simultaneous translation? I want to hear his Chinese!?
Did you see those protesters in Chicago against Hu Jintao? “LIAR LIAR HU JINTAO!” They gotta love human rights to be out in THAT cold!?
Sexually transmitted disease in Chinese is 花柳病 huāliǔbìng Yes, that’s FLOWER WILLOW SICKNESS. Someone want to explain!?
I’m proofreading MX’s paper and she wrote “mChaa沱沱河ight” obviously by mistake. But the Chinese is actually the source of the Yangtze River!
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Great China blog by Expat female marrying a Chinese guy. Congrats you two! @kjsandor and her site Tales from Hebei. http://ht.ly/3HC4N
Every time MX give our 3 y/o a chocolate he’s excited and then tells me in Chinese: 爸爸不可以吃！ Daddy can’t eat it!” I then feign sadness.
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Bernie Sanders is freaking out that US Presidents Busts sold at Smithsonian gift shop in DC are all made in China. Welcome to earth Bernie.
“China has gotten cocky because it is growing at 10% while US unemployment rate is close to 10%.” -Larry Kudlow, NRO
Old video of previous president Jiang Zemin speaking only 3 English words. “Too Simple” and “NAIVE” http://ping.fm/joveG Funny!
“I worked in a Chinese restaurant.” -Barbra Streisand, her answer to why she came to the state dinner for Hu Jintao President of China.
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Don’t hit chopsticks on the sides of your bowl of rice. I did that a few times without thinking and the stares weren’t good. ChinaEtiquette
“It is a big deal. Big, big, big, big. Big deal.” -Mayor Daly about Hu Jintao’s visit to Chicago after Washington DC.
LA TIMES: Jonah Goldberg - America’s China syndrome http://ht.ly/3FvR8 Great article. Must read. “Not sure what all the fuss is about!”
China is shot through w/ corruption + bogus accounting practices that make subprime mortgage bundles look like gold bullion. -Jonah Goldberg
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“When was the last time Beijing offered its own peace plan for the Arab-Israeli conflict, for instance?” -Jonathan Eyal, Straits Times
Glenn Beck Is Worried That Chinese Culture Is Influencing America http://ht.ly/3F2CY It all starts with the Zhu Zhu Pets…
That inside-the-box thinking is why Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and a cure for cancer will never come from China. -Betsy Hart http://ht.ly/3F2um
Just introduced Super Mario Bros. to my 3 y/o and MX calls it in Chinese 超级玛丽 Chāojí mǎlì which is SUPER MARY! Hilarious. http://ht.ly/3EMtj
If you look at http://ping.fm/LT7ym right now: HU QUESTIONS DOLLAR!
Sunday reading: WSJ Amy Chua’s “Chinese Mothers are Superior” for the 10th time and the Western Mothers response. Plus reader reaction.
Nursery at church today for our 3 y/o without mom and dad. He said in Chinese: “不要，因为小朋友都是坏蛋！ No because the kids are all bad!”
MX warned me that if I drink too much beer I’ll soon have a 啤酒肚 píjiǔdù. In both cultures we have the same expression. No chance though.
Does this guy shoveling snow off of his roof speak Chinese at the end? http://ht.ly/3Exc8 我回来了！ 不好玩了！Am I right? Check it out!
I would love to meet a guy who scalps tickets and scams people on train tickets going home for Spring Festival. And then punch them.
Today our 3 y/o told me his first lie. I asked him, “这是什么？What is this?” He answered, “爸爸是水. Daddy it’s water.” It wasn’t. It was 小便. pee.
“Such figures highlight the people’s suffering,” lawyer, Xu Mingxuan in the 北京News about the driver who got life sentence for evading tolls.
Man near Beijing pretended his truck was a military truck and went through toll booths over 2,300 times. Life in prison? http://ht.ly/3DSuN