vicissitude:noun
- variation or mutability in nature or life, esp successive alternation from one condition or thing to another
- a variation in circumstance, fortune, character, etc
Learning English in China (2)
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learning English in China
Virescence : noun
1. (in plants) the process of becoming green, esp by the action of disease, etc, in parts not normally green
2. the condition of being or the process of becoming green (http://www.collinsdictionary.com)
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One downside of VPN…
One of the positive aspects of China’s great firewall is that it blocks bookface. With a VPN though you can wastebook your life away just like in England yet somehow Wastebook knows you are in China as these adverts targetted to me show…
Wastebook adverts
On a couple of points, if I wanted to meet Brits so desperately I should probably have stayed in the UK as the place is full of them.
Also I do not need to click on the advert to find out why many expats are buying memory foam beds, I just need to lie on one of the ultra-hard chinese matteresses.
Category: photos /
What to do when you read a “do not stir the animals” sign
chinese monkey poking...
Along with monkey poking feeding of animals is mandatory (despite the signs that say otherwise). On an educational front I did learn that pandas ignore bread that is thrown into their enclosure.
Also it was a good source of chinglish…
If you want to join the crocodiles you cannot stride...
Health and Safety
In a place where a family will travel crowded streets all sitting on the same scooter, where the green man at a pedestrain crossing means cross with caution and where seatbelts are optional even in the death seat next to the taxi driver; it is good to see that health and safety is still a consideration in Shanghai…
Advice for those on metro line 3
More health and safety for metro line 1 passengers
Warning on a childs toy
Category: chinglish /
Polite Chinglish signs…
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Still Jet Lagged
I chose this apartment, big lounging area small kitchen so I got my priorities right...
As a non smoker I applaud the hotels way of tormenting smokers by including this ash tray in each room…
I wonder if a box of cigarettes locked in a glass case by this would be even better...
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Day 1
Decided to go for a few things you cannot have in the UK. This is Aberdeen Turtle...
Good things about China : If you leave your passport in the toilets at baggage reclaim it still seems to be there 5 minutes later when you realise!
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