Comments on: Qing Dao travelogue

By: betus promotion code

betus promotion code — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 03:03:54 +0000

Awsome article. Bookmarked for future referrence

By: betus promotion code

betus promotion code — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:34:02 +0000

Good work, keep us posting, you are good writer!!!

By: betus promotion code

betus promotion code — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:24:25 +0000

Interesting article i totally agree with the comments above. Keep writing !!

By: Migraine Ichitala

Migraine Ichitala — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 20:02:45 +0000

Hi webmaster and commenters ! The blog was absolutely remarkable! Lots of great knowledge and brilliant ideas, both of which we all need! Keep ‘em coming. you all do such a awesome job at such Concepts. can’t tell you how much I appreciate all you do!

By: Alfonso

Alfonso — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:03:02 +0000

Hi Jamie its the first time i read your blog and this entry is very interesting , im also from a corrupt third-world dump (mexico) but i had the opportunity to live in China and travelled east asia. China its an amazing country and you need to give it a second chance ,yea compared to the lifestyle you have in japan , china is so depressed a lot of pollution , not civilized citizens ,men and women spiting in the streets and grey . Take the advantage of your fluent Japanese and IT knowledge , move to Dalian is a city near qingdao , in Dalian there a lot big japanese companies ,in fact theres a lot of japanese influence there , thanks to the jap companies you can find more people who can speak japanese , there are japanese like koreans in qingdao . The best way you can learn chinese is with your wife she will be the best teacher you can find , but if you want a formal method try ocean university (海洋大学) they have semestral programs or summer programs . Hope you can find the good side of a corrupt third-world dump and enjoy it !.
Gracias y adios (thanks and good bye)

By: jamie

jamie — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:43:16 +0000

@will: if you can survive there for 3 years it cant be all that bad eh. maybe theres hope for me yet.

May I ask what do you do in Qing Dao? Any advice on job if I wanted to live there? I really dont want to go the teaching english route, but with close to zero chinese skills I doubt I could do anything else. I wonder if theres a need for english speaking computer technicians…

By: jamie

jamie — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:41:04 +0000

Woah, Helen, thanks for dropping by. Got married september last year, but you didnt miss anything since we didnt actually do a ceremony.

You should totally come visit, though I cant promise ill be in kyoto next year. Might be living in china by then!

By: will

will — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:38:40 +0000

nice writeup…..sounds like maybe your first visit to China as it is peppered with plenty of experiences and feelings that most westerners have on their first trip. As someone who has lived and worked in Asia (China/Taiwan/Korea) for most of the last 20 years….and lived here in Qingdao for the last 3 years….i can say that there is some exaggeration in your post. But still, i smiled knowingly at a lot of what you described.

There’s a lot to like about China…but the longer you stay here, the more you see of the fucked up and ugly side of the place, the people and the society (but hey, gotta love the women!). You’ve just had a glimpse.

I’m sure you’ll enjoy your future trips to Qingdao….by China standards it’s a pretty darn nice place to live.

regards,
Will

By: Helen

Helen — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:03:14 +0000

Lol… when I was in Wuxi, a three lane highway was turned into a 6 lane highway. i agree with everything you said, i think china is dirty. i didnt like shanghai because right next to the new beautiful buildings were heaps of construction mess, along with murky black river water. as for trash being useful, i wonder if that’s why my mom refuses to throw out stuff, even broken electronics are kept.

btw, when did you get married? congrats!!!! are you still in kyoto? i am thinking of visiting next year.

By: Leon

Leon — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:21:59 +0000

Cool, finally we get to here the story when you’re not piss-drunk

I want to go and eat freaky food and catch nasty diseases, etc but you just confirmed everything I feared about Chinese toilets…

If I could take a dirtbike overthere and just camp in the countryside, pooping in the ground, I’d love to go…

Stoked to meet the in-laws in March. I gave up on that learn Chinese book, I’ll just smile and nod!
.-= Leon´s last blog ..I’m extreme =-.