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

Does anyone know anything about this? It could be interesting!

This is all I know

The List of the Participant Ceramists

        Reviewed carefully by the Organizing Committee of the ceramics symposium, 18 ceramists from 14 countries have been selected to participate in the 2nd…

I am thinking of a joint Changchun Friends/Changchun Live discount card which, when shown at places that agree will give a discount - restaurants, bars, shops hotels etc.

Any views on this?

PRESS RELEASE

In line with our current re-structuring to be more market focused, The CCF Board is pleased to announce that after conferring with all stake-hiolders, Mr Jack Field (aka Mahatma Jack) has been appointed the Marketing Manager for CCF

His duties will be to report to no one but himself and to significantly increase membership in Changchun. Following a 1 month probationary time…

Following on from mahatma Jack's posting on the origins of words, this is for everyone to tell us where they are from and what the word means (And H/T to Ferney for coming up with the idea)

I will start off with England:

England’s name originally comes from the term “Land of the Angles”, which was translated to Engla Land in Old English. The Angles were an ancient Germanic (or Saxon) tribe, one of the few that occupied the region now known as England…

I have heard on the grapevine that as from tomorrow (Wednesday), the buffet at the Jinan Hotel will offering South East Asian cuisine - Thai, Indonesian, Malaysian, Vitnamese etc. If anyone goes there then it would be greatto hear what it is like

I gather that there are discounts for group bookings

THIS MIGHT BE ONE OF MY MORE THAN MANY USELESS BLOGS - BUT.

WHO ARE YOUR HEROES AND WHY?

Mine are:

Socrates (Greece) - the father of reason

Shankara (India) - the man who welded spirituality and reason together

May (China) - because she keeps my feet on the ground

I have many others but this is a starting point!