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?

I m here

hey girls. there are some SPAs promotions on cc.meituan.com, a popular group-buying website in China. Below are two SPAs charged under 30 yuan! one of them offers free shower, the other doesn't. check them out!

http://cc.meituan.com/deal/356610.html

http://cc.meituan.com/deal/936412.html

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…

I know i should not think like that, i just want to abreact my mood. people are living in the same world, but they undergo different experiences in this unequal society.

I used to devote myself to prepare the TOEFL and SAT exams, sacrificed my break time to memorize the vocabulary. And then i applied to New York University, but they refused  me.

Today, a girl ,i met several years ago, called me and tell me that she will go to NYU this September. But she told me…

I would be much obliged if some one could translate the following note that we just discovered on our door. We have already had one surprise two weeks ago. Returning from a short trip to Mudanjiang we found we had no power - had to throw all of our food out. Our employers were supposed to take care of that.

Is this note along those same lines. I'm just so tired of being nervous over things that supposedly we weren't even supposed to have to worry about.

Tom in Jilin

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

Here are some of the popular (and in most cases award-winning) films from each year;

1939: Goodbye Mr. Chips, Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Wuthering Heights, Stagecoach

1994: Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption, The Lion King, Interview with a Vampire

1999: The Matrix, Fight Club, American Beauty, The Green Mile, The Sixth Sense

1. i know it is really nerdy... but list of active and extinct volcanoes in China:

CCF Freedom Party -500 votes,  "CCS Mason Party" - Zero

Been to Ireland twice.

Been to England twice.

Never been to Northern Ireland

(The closest I have gotten to Northern Ireland* is Bristol, England

and Dundalk, Ireland)

*Hoping CCF can charter a plane, ferry or boat there. Consider

it a CCF Birthday Celebration....

 …

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!

A much beloved and respected couple who have been here in the Chun for some time have decided to get hitched. They announced it at Granpas the other night and I for one am bloody happy for them. Lets put a do on for them. But first, I leave it up to all of you to guess who they are. If you know the answer, please dont give it away. Broohahaha. Allow me to start off by saying that it is not me. Brooohahaha!!!!!…

Interesting article from  China Daily about new policies for Foreigners.

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…

Moving to Mexico. Act fast if you're interested! 

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Olympus E-510 DSLR. 



Comes with Zuiko 14-45mm and 40-150mm lenses. These lenses aren't just add-ons, they were made especially for the body.



Also a FL-36 external flash. Plus three camera batteries, four flash batteries and chargers …