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6 Banyan Temple
I flew into China last night, and after a slightly scary taxi right from the airport (at least it was quick) I arrived at the apartment. There was no sign of the promised storms so I thought I’d been lucky with the weather but this morning proved otherwise. I awoke to the sound of thunder and my first thought was “there goes my day of sightseeing”, but then I figured I could...
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windhorsearchive asked: No, I thought it all up myself. Just got back from hanging flags across Aisle F with
Sudhamma & Nagavira. I have to say it looks really good. Hows your first day of buying gone?
Sudhamma & Nagavira. I have to say it looks really good. Hows your first day of buying gone?
windhorsearchive asked: Well, it looks like the Goats have got everything covered then,
What's with the question thing?
Tumblr doesn’t do comments. The closest thing is ‘ask me anything’ which Vidyavajra’s already used. The button’s on the right.
windhorsearchive asked: Apparently 5 Celestial beings flew on flying five coloured goats over the land where the city was founded each carrying a grain of rice and promising to protect it from future famine. Which is why it called the Rice Ear City or Five Goat City.
Some things I have learned from this mornings trip...
The lift at my hotel prohibits the carrying of explosives. From it’s place on the list it’s more important than keeping an eye on your kids
The carrying of balloons on the Guangzhou underground is prohibited.
No seriously it is, there are signs and everything.
It’s not rude to stare at Westerners. The older you are the more unashamedly you are aloud to stare. Old ladies are...
China has set tumblr free!
I set this blog up last October to share my experiences of my first buying trip in Guangzhou, however as soon as I arrived and got on the net I discovered that China had banned tumblr. I guess all of those holiday snaps and photos of cats doing ‘funny’ things must have been a threat to national security.
However it seems like the Chinese censors have relaxed a bit (maybe one of them...
October 2010
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7 hours 'til my flight
and I’m checking out the details of the hotel that I’m staying in. Because this is 2010 and absolutely every site has to have a facebook-like commenting system, the hotel has a comments and reviews section, which features some prime examples of auto-translated text.
This is one of my favourites;
Lot good, breakfast good, it is worth living. 1, no temporary room, deluxe room free of...