Richard Roman's Blog – May 2012 Archive (7)

I walked past this place on Sunday and they told me it would open on the following day (yesterday) - anyone tried it yet?

It is just round the corner from Grandpa's just off Xikang Liu

Mason is this jolly chap who keeps stealing content from this site and posting it elsewhere without asking us! Jolly good show. That is what I like to see - ethical business practices!

Anyway - he is very elusive - no-one has ever seen him! Is he the figment of some master of the Universe?

We seek him here!

We seek him there!

We Frenchies seek him everywhere

Is he in heaven?

Is he in hell?

Come on Mason, please…

The Harbin-Dalian high-speed rail will officially open on July 1st. Once open, the trip from Changchun to Dalian will only take two hours, and the trip from Changchun to Harbin or Shenyang will only take about an hour.

http://www.echinacities.com/changchun/city-in-pulse/changchun-dalian-high-speed-rail-opens-on-july-1st.html

I have created a new box on the front page to link to useful websites which are relevant for living in Changchun

I have started off with two:

ChangchunLive

and

an online site for learning Chinese

The box can be found under the Videos.

If you know of other useful sites, please let us know and we will put them in

While former U.S. president Richard Nixon was advised to avoid drinking "baijiu," or Chinese liquor, during his visit in 1972, the emperors of a 1,000-year-old dynasty craved the drink, according to researchers in northeast China's Jilin province who are working to analyze the oldest alcohol-distilling devices ever found in the country.

Feng Enxue, an archaeologist from Jilin University, said Monday that researchers have been brought in to study two large iron boilers, as well as…

All hail the firgotten fountain pen - from the letters page of the daily Telegraph

 awesome and funny!

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/MJDI-f11zf4