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January 2008
Seems Like a Freeze Out
Wednesday, 30 January 2008 1:57 P GMT+08
You couldn?t make it up.
Here I am sitting, shivering my pieces off in the coldest winter in living memory.
Category: Liuzhou Life Food and Drink
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Ignore Foreign Languages
Tuesday, 29 January 2008 5:12 P GMT+08
They love their red banners round here. As I've mentioned before, everywhere you go you can see long thin red banners full of propaganda and other nonsense. No one notices them any more. If they ever did. But this one caught my eye.
Travel Disaster
Monday, 28 January 2008 2:25 P GMT+08
I’m sorry to go on about this, but it is cold. I’m told that this is Guangxi’s coldest winter since 1951. I wasn’t around then. I didn’t exist. So I have to believe them.
Laowai Deported
Sunday, 27 January 2008 4:41 P GMT+08
Liuzhou has won the race to be the first city in China to deport a foreigner this year.
Category: Liuzhou News Stupidity
Winterlude
Saturday, 26 January 2008 9:50 P GMT+08
It could get quiet round this blog for the next week or three. There are various reasons for this.
Media attack environment?
Saturday, 26 January 2008 5:18 P GMT+08
Liuzhou Government's website has a section in English. Or Chinglish. I seldom look at it as it is full of propaganda and has little really useful information. But ...
Category: Liuzhou News Propaganda
Toothbrush Kettle
Saturday, 26 January 2008 1:23 P GMT+08
I was looking through the website of a kitchen equipment company earlier today. I'm thinking of buying an oven. I chanced on this bizarre contraption, whatever it is.
Category: Humour Random Photographs
The Ghost of Electricity 2
Thursday, 24 January 2008 6:57 P GMT+08
The BBC reports that China is suffering from power shortages. Have they just woken up? This has been going on for years - and gets worse every year.
Category: Liuzhou Life
so far away from home
Thursday, 24 January 2008 11:51 A GMT+08
As ever at this time of year, China is on the move or about to be.
Brass Monkeys part 2
Tuesday, 22 January 2008 12:43 P GMT+08
It's cold. Very, very cold.
Category: Liuzhou News Liuzhou Life
BBC Bollocks
Sunday, 20 January 2008 11:07 A GMT+08
I don't usually blog about international politics. There are others who do it much better than I ever could. It's just not an area of major interest to me.
Category: Propaganda
The Worst Music Video in the World
Saturday, 19 January 2008 10:46 A GMT+08
China's military, The People's Liberation Army, the world's largest standing army, no doubt has some crack regiments somewhere, but the vast majority seem to be young kids, male and female, in uniforms obviously designed for their elder and larger si
Crash Landing
Friday, 18 January 2008 2:28 P GMT+08
I'm often asked, by both Chinese people and by other laowai, why I have stayed in China so long. I rarely give the correct answer. I claim that I am waiting for the statute of limitations to run out or some other joke answer, but now I can reveal the
Category: Travel
Photographic Failure
Wednesday, 16 January 2008 10:14 A GMT+08
At the weekend, I went off for a trip into the wilds of north Guangxi. It was a pretty boring business trip, but the worst thing was the freezing cold! Too cold to take any pictures! Can someone please invent a heated camera!
Category: Travel Random Photographs
Toast
Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:15 A GMT+08
The picture above is from today?s local paper. Clearly a story about the criminal irresponsibility of parents who protect themselves while on motorcycles but leave the welfare of their children in the hands of the gods.
Streets of Liuzhou
Friday, 11 January 2008 11:49 P GMT+08
For no obvious reason, I have gathered together some of my pictures taken around Liuzhou and made a little slide show. You can watch here if you are so inclined.
Category: About Liuzhou Random Photographs
Brass Monkeys
Thursday, 10 January 2008 2:08 P GMT+08
For the past week or so the weather has been particularly nice. Warmish sunny days around 21°C although it does get cool to cold in the evenings.
Category: Liuzhou Life
Toilet Thieves
Wednesday, 9 January 2008 1:47 P GMT+08
A while back the local authorities realised that it was costing them more to collect the fees for public toilets than they were actually making so in a rare example of socialism with socialist characteristics they handed over the toilets to the peopl
Category: Liuzhou Life
A Self Criticism
Monday, 7 January 2008 9:41 P GMT+08
To the leaders of this modern, forward thinking, freedom loving city,
Minority Stamps
Thursday, 3 January 2008 12:07 A GMT+08
I was looking for something on the interweb and came across these Chinese stamps which were apparently issued last summer. They depict each of the officially recognised ethnic groups in China.
Category: About Liuzhou Art and Painting
A New Year's Day in the Life
Tuesday, 1 January 2008 11:37 A GMT+08
China doesn't really celebrate the Western New Year. Oh, yes they make a fuss on television and the President waffles on for a bit, Jackie Chan sings some god-awful song and everyone bashed on regardless.
Category: Liuzhou Life About Liuzhou
Be Careful!
Tuesday, 1 January 2008 12:56 A GMT+08
Random Photograph No. 7.
Category: Random Photographs