Anyhow, here are the pictures I took of it during its two weeks of time here. The ones of him in the plant and elevator are from when I took him around the dorm building early one morning.
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Rabbit pictures
Ok, here's the story. On the 30th of last month, we were heading out for a field trip with our teacher when the girls saw a guy with a rabbit in the lobby. He said that he had found the rabbit and had given it a bath before taking it to reception to try to get them to take it as he didn't want it. The girls gushed all over it and said they would take it, so while we were out Christine and Eryl bought rabbit food and a cage. Unfortunately, when we returned the rabbit had died. The girls were taken by grief. So, on the 8th of this month we all went to a store and Eryl bought a bunny of her own... on the day before she would depart Hangzhou to visit her friends and family in the Philippines for more than two weeks. I was the one tasked with taking care of him during that time. This I did, and the bunny was returned to her when she got back. Two days later he died. I make no further comment.
Anyhow, here are the pictures I took of it during its two weeks of time here. The ones of him in the plant and elevator are from when I took him around the dorm building early one morning.
Anyhow, here are the pictures I took of it during its two weeks of time here. The ones of him in the plant and elevator are from when I took him around the dorm building early one morning.
Friday, July 21, 2006
No pics, but sit a while and read
Just finishing our 2 week break, I've had a lot of time to sit back and relax. been playing games and watching movies, also been out walking around town. I've left my camera in my room pretty much every time, so I don't have any pictures. I can see though that there are lots of pictures up already.
I've been out electronics shopping a couple of times, and well, I guess I've been spoiled by big box stores. Out here there is this one street that has 4 large buildings with various electronic gadgets and what-not. However, they're all these small little booths all crammed together, a sort of electronic bazaar if you will. I notice a lot of the booths carry the same stuff, all of which to be bartered down I assume. I never really payed attention at comparing the prices of things I'm not interested in. Only problem I find is that I find a lot of the products to be a little dodgy. and Electronics are not something I want to take a chance at and see if the quality of the 70% non-brand name stuff is worth it. I'm already severly dissapointed at the quality of the batteries, sometimes only lasting maybe a week or two before dying out. There is name brand stuff there, at a higher price of course.
Stuff I've been looking into:
some kind of mp3 device. Ipod would be nice, but the prices here are pretty high for thoes babies, my guess is it's next to equal the same price back home. I'll probably settle for some generic one with a decent amount of space.
Memory key: I find a lot of us are transfering files between eachother, movies, games, etc. usually bigger files that it's easier to give than to make them download themselves. and my 64mb key just isn't cutting it. the 1gig keys are pretty cheap, or I could get a portable hard drive. problem being, portable drives and usb keys are the thing EVERY little shop has, and usually has 20+ different kinds.
I tried looking around for Computer parts, trying to see what kind of price range I'm looking at if I want to build a computer. sadly it was quite the task. Computer cases are cheap, same with power supplies, RAM is quite easy to find, but that's where it kind of stops. Video cards I can find, but they seem to be all flashy(and by flashy I mean just look nice), and thus, expensive. I don't see why something that's going to be covered in a box needs to have these fancy looking shapes and fans... but that's not really the worse part. As far as Motherboards and Processors go, I really can't find a place that will sell them seperatly. As far as I've observed, the shops that have them make you sit down with their employees, you tell them what you want, and they build it for you. While that's all fine and dandy, but usually when you have to get someone else to get the parts and build it for you, the price goes up just for that. Lastly, I haven't seen anything that looks like a sound card.
I'd also like to mention that I dislike the topfloor of all of these buildings, in that every time I step foot on the floor I have 3-4 guys yelling "Hello! DVD, VCD!" at me. It kind of feels that they think that the only reason I came here was to buy pirated videos. Though I did find it funny the one time when a store owner tried offer David the Sex and the City dvd box set.
That aside I figured I'd do some non-electronic shopping. I took a trip down to the Shopping area of town. My trip wasn't that great, unless I wanted Clothing, but even then it really wasn't much. I would say that 80% of the shops along the street sell clothing, or clothing related items (shoes, accessories). I feel that right now I'm sitting pretty good on the clothes department. There are some large department stores, but sadly, they're full of clothing, and rather unbalanced at that. one perticular building:
first floor: mens clothing
second floor: womens clothing and accessories
third floor: womens clothing and accesories
forth floor: womens clothing and accesories
fifth floor: kids clothing
the fifth floor was when I said "screw it" and just started heading back down stairs. a lot of other buildings have a similar layout, but maybe put mens on the fourth floor. now I'm not saying this entire road is just womens clothing, that's a seperate road I found on a seperate trip to "The orange labled roads on the map that are probably someplace interesting". there were other mens stores in smaller shops along the road, but just that. clothing, clothing, clothing.
And I'd also like to comment on the diversity of the clothing, the mens clothing was next to all the same, shirts(either button up, T-shirt, or golf), slacks, shorts, belts. THATS IT. While our females have every differnt style ever imaginable, but that must be why they can have 3+ flowrs dedicated to them :P
I swear the only shopping places I've found that don't have clothing are the WuMart, the next best thing to Walmart, the trustmart(again, kind of a walmart clone). and this one tourisy shopping area that mostly sells gift-like stuff. which, although a great place to buy stuff to send back home, Isn't what I was looking for on my shopping excusion.
One thing that dawned on me, "Where the heck do you get furniture here?". As much as I've seen, I've seen 0 places one might buy furnishings. Although I'll see one when
Cynthia, I think some of the other girls, david perhaps too and I do some furniture scouting for the larger campus's dorms.
Well, that's all I have to say for now.
-Devan
I've been out electronics shopping a couple of times, and well, I guess I've been spoiled by big box stores. Out here there is this one street that has 4 large buildings with various electronic gadgets and what-not. However, they're all these small little booths all crammed together, a sort of electronic bazaar if you will. I notice a lot of the booths carry the same stuff, all of which to be bartered down I assume. I never really payed attention at comparing the prices of things I'm not interested in. Only problem I find is that I find a lot of the products to be a little dodgy. and Electronics are not something I want to take a chance at and see if the quality of the 70% non-brand name stuff is worth it. I'm already severly dissapointed at the quality of the batteries, sometimes only lasting maybe a week or two before dying out. There is name brand stuff there, at a higher price of course.
Stuff I've been looking into:
some kind of mp3 device. Ipod would be nice, but the prices here are pretty high for thoes babies, my guess is it's next to equal the same price back home. I'll probably settle for some generic one with a decent amount of space.
Memory key: I find a lot of us are transfering files between eachother, movies, games, etc. usually bigger files that it's easier to give than to make them download themselves. and my 64mb key just isn't cutting it. the 1gig keys are pretty cheap, or I could get a portable hard drive. problem being, portable drives and usb keys are the thing EVERY little shop has, and usually has 20+ different kinds.
I tried looking around for Computer parts, trying to see what kind of price range I'm looking at if I want to build a computer. sadly it was quite the task. Computer cases are cheap, same with power supplies, RAM is quite easy to find, but that's where it kind of stops. Video cards I can find, but they seem to be all flashy(and by flashy I mean just look nice), and thus, expensive. I don't see why something that's going to be covered in a box needs to have these fancy looking shapes and fans... but that's not really the worse part. As far as Motherboards and Processors go, I really can't find a place that will sell them seperatly. As far as I've observed, the shops that have them make you sit down with their employees, you tell them what you want, and they build it for you. While that's all fine and dandy, but usually when you have to get someone else to get the parts and build it for you, the price goes up just for that. Lastly, I haven't seen anything that looks like a sound card.
I'd also like to mention that I dislike the topfloor of all of these buildings, in that every time I step foot on the floor I have 3-4 guys yelling "Hello! DVD, VCD!" at me. It kind of feels that they think that the only reason I came here was to buy pirated videos. Though I did find it funny the one time when a store owner tried offer David the Sex and the City dvd box set.
That aside I figured I'd do some non-electronic shopping. I took a trip down to the Shopping area of town. My trip wasn't that great, unless I wanted Clothing, but even then it really wasn't much. I would say that 80% of the shops along the street sell clothing, or clothing related items (shoes, accessories). I feel that right now I'm sitting pretty good on the clothes department. There are some large department stores, but sadly, they're full of clothing, and rather unbalanced at that. one perticular building:
first floor: mens clothing
second floor: womens clothing and accessories
third floor: womens clothing and accesories
forth floor: womens clothing and accesories
fifth floor: kids clothing
the fifth floor was when I said "screw it" and just started heading back down stairs. a lot of other buildings have a similar layout, but maybe put mens on the fourth floor. now I'm not saying this entire road is just womens clothing, that's a seperate road I found on a seperate trip to "The orange labled roads on the map that are probably someplace interesting". there were other mens stores in smaller shops along the road, but just that. clothing, clothing, clothing.
And I'd also like to comment on the diversity of the clothing, the mens clothing was next to all the same, shirts(either button up, T-shirt, or golf), slacks, shorts, belts. THATS IT. While our females have every differnt style ever imaginable, but that must be why they can have 3+ flowrs dedicated to them :P
I swear the only shopping places I've found that don't have clothing are the WuMart, the next best thing to Walmart, the trustmart(again, kind of a walmart clone). and this one tourisy shopping area that mostly sells gift-like stuff. which, although a great place to buy stuff to send back home, Isn't what I was looking for on my shopping excusion.
One thing that dawned on me, "Where the heck do you get furniture here?". As much as I've seen, I've seen 0 places one might buy furnishings. Although I'll see one when
Cynthia, I think some of the other girls, david perhaps too and I do some furniture scouting for the larger campus's dorms.
Well, that's all I have to say for now.
-Devan
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
7/08/06 Misc pisc
Lots of piccies for this day.
1: This is what my thermometer read after being put on my windowsill for a few minutes. Awhile later it went over 40, but I forgot to take a picture, doh.
2: Karine in the car. With a little plastic wrapper carefully balanced on her head. Hehe.
3: Us eating at a Korean restaurant at the mall that we all liked.
4: A coffee or some type of drinks place where we chilled after a few hours in the arcade.
5: David and Christine trying to look like models and not doing a bad job at it.
6: These prices are so low that...
7: Eryl with her rabbit that she bought to replace the one she never had. Long story.
8: The rabbit on Christine's hand.
1: This is what my thermometer read after being put on my windowsill for a few minutes. Awhile later it went over 40, but I forgot to take a picture, doh.
2: Karine in the car. With a little plastic wrapper carefully balanced on her head. Hehe.
3: Us eating at a Korean restaurant at the mall that we all liked.
4: A coffee or some type of drinks place where we chilled after a few hours in the arcade.
5: David and Christine trying to look like models and not doing a bad job at it.
6: These prices are so low that...
7: Eryl with her rabbit that she bought to replace the one she never had. Long story.
8: The rabbit on Christine's hand.
6/30/06 All-you-can-eat restaurant and party at the Canteen
So on this day Lin Laoshi took us out to an all-you-can-eat restaurant specializing in teas. However, we found that their limitless food was far more worthy of note.
1: Chickens feet! Yum yum!
2: The various teas that we were originally given. They certainly look nice, but it tasted just like ordinary tea to me.
3: All the food that we helped ourselves to. I think we went out again and got about two more loads of equal magnitude over the course of the meal.
4: The utterly fantastic ice cream that they offer. It was heavenly.
5: The tea menu.
6: On our way back there was a parked Police Mororcycle, so I snapped a shot.
7, 8: Back at the canteen they were throwing a dinner party for all the graduates. This was one of the fruit sculptures they made.
9: And here's the other.
1: Chickens feet! Yum yum!
2: The various teas that we were originally given. They certainly look nice, but it tasted just like ordinary tea to me.
3: All the food that we helped ourselves to. I think we went out again and got about two more loads of equal magnitude over the course of the meal.
4: The utterly fantastic ice cream that they offer. It was heavenly.
5: The tea menu.
6: On our way back there was a parked Police Mororcycle, so I snapped a shot.
7, 8: Back at the canteen they were throwing a dinner party for all the graduates. This was one of the fruit sculptures they made.
9: And here's the other.
6/17/06 Gross and gory stuff, be forewarned
Just two pictures for this day.
1: I found this bee/spider/moth thing on my bathroom window, which I had left ajar. I started closing it after this.
2: David's healing scar. He received this when the bike he was trying out in the store's handlebars decided to detach themselves.
1: I found this bee/spider/moth thing on my bathroom window, which I had left ajar. I started closing it after this.
2: David's healing scar. He received this when the bike he was trying out in the store's handlebars decided to detach themselves.
6/11/06 Party!!!
So we had a huge bash at a rented apartment. It kicked ass. We made our own food and played games all through the night. It was a mess afterwards, but the Chinese students didn't mind cleaning it up after we had left. We're so evil.
1: Taken earlier in the day, this is what our flooring will look like if we opt for the unfurnished rooms next semester.
2: The girls chilling.
3: The guys from the Chinese group, also chilling.
4: The groups mingle.
5: Uno: transcending cultural and language barriers across the world.
6: Xie Laoshi tries to tape me, but the surprise is on her!
7: The girls making dumplings.
8: The guys join in too!:)
9: Look at all those dumpling wraps.
10: Thomas chilling.
11: The busy-ass kitchen.
12: Dinner is ready!
13, 14: Everyone diving in.
15: This is from a different day. I think I downloaded a whole bunch of days' shots to the computer at once. We're at the night market, and Jenny's showing off her Chairman Mao watch. His hand waves (read: spasmodically jerks) with each tick.
16: A creative method of putting up a booth right on top of a parking meter.
1: Taken earlier in the day, this is what our flooring will look like if we opt for the unfurnished rooms next semester.
2: The girls chilling.
3: The guys from the Chinese group, also chilling.
4: The groups mingle.
5: Uno: transcending cultural and language barriers across the world.
6: Xie Laoshi tries to tape me, but the surprise is on her!
7: The girls making dumplings.
8: The guys join in too!:)
9: Look at all those dumpling wraps.
10: Thomas chilling.
11: The busy-ass kitchen.
12: Dinner is ready!
13, 14: Everyone diving in.
15: This is from a different day. I think I downloaded a whole bunch of days' shots to the computer at once. We're at the night market, and Jenny's showing off her Chairman Mao watch. His hand waves (read: spasmodically jerks) with each tick.
16: A creative method of putting up a booth right on top of a parking meter.
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