I am in a CHINAAA ^_^ (new update -- nanjing skyline)
 

figured id drop by to say hey to you all and give an update

im in nanjing china for the month, learning (or trying to learn) mandarin and seeing the country, ill also be visiting xian, beijing and shanghai...

-traffic laws here are practically non-existant, crossing the street is a near death experience just about every time
-cities here make american cities look like villages, they are massive, with tons of gigantic apartment skyscrapers
-everything here is dirt cheap, i bought 16 dvs for the price of about one in the us, including silent hill, hostel, vendetta, etc
-people here love american culture
-chinese ppl SUCK at sports, there is a track with a soccer field and bball court, we watch them all the time, they cant make a goal or basket for SHIT hahaha
-the mentality here is very humble and modest, not like the "im better/richer than you" bullshit of the west, its very comfortable
-my group gets stares from everyone on the street
-there are more bicycles here than chinese people

here are some pics for you....
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/8126/dsc027133yz.jpg
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3024/dsc027529eb.jpg
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7613/dsc027732jq.jpg

lol, too bad none of those movies will play when you come back to states

its a DVD not a VHS you idiot.

anyways, have fun in China. I loved Japan alot when I visited there.

theyll work on my comp, which is what ill watch em on anyway

umm, dont they have some kind of regional code or something that prohibits certain dvds from playing in certain players? Ask nyck, he knows all about it

they do but these are all bootleg anyway which means they are probably region free. thing is do they have chinese subtitles on the bottom ?

China Piracy capital of the world. I think that they said that 80% of software is pirated, even what big companies use

true, but I had a chinese guy come up to me at my job at circuit city wanting to put his portable dvd player into service b/c it wasnt playing his dvd's, well it turned out it was bootleg copies from china that werent playing and that there was nothing wrong with the dvd player. Lol infact the guy was saying the bootleg dvd's from china were superior technology to our dvd's. Well ya it ended up that they wouldnt wrk on his dvd player b/c of the regional code. end of story

wow your a fuckin moron, dvds have regional codes too rolleyes:

[quote="[DAS REICH] Blitz":d69d4][/quote:d69d4]

95 % of DVD players nowadays overcome regional distribution codes.

actually looks liek a nice place, never thought it would be like that.

[quote="Short Hand":e5364][quote="[DAS REICH] Blitz":e5364][/quote:e5364]

95 % of DVD players nowadays overcome regional distribution codes.[/quote:e5364]

Yeh, unless your dvd player is one the first generations or is just plain shit, you shouldn't have much trouble changing the region it plays...I do it all the time....

LOL at the fact that the dude goes all the way to China and his thread degrades into whether his DVDs will play in the States.

Good luck learning Mandarin. I can't imagine that's an easy task. Enjoy the trip, not many people can say they've been to China. Oh yeah, almost forgot, fuck a Chinese dude. beer:

your all talking about dvds when he is sharing his stay in china happy:

Enjoy

I hope [Edited by Elton John] The Wall.

Biggest and fastest growing economy in the world, will overtake america soon
I just hate their taste for everything, NOTHING gets wasted in China, they eat everything, dogs, cats, the lot....

Their human rights abuses are awful too, alot of bad things go on, like in most countries...but I hope you have a great time sampling their culture, would be very interesting to visit such a place.
I'd love to go to Japan someday, my sister spent 2 years teaching there so I heard all kinds of stories

Whip out your dong in a night club. once all the ladies see that you don't have an asian c0k, they'll flock right over to you.

Hope you are having a good time..wish I could be there.

any hot asians you see yet? I know most are disgusting...but im sure ther emust be some good looking asians there.

Anwyays...hope ya enjoy yourself.

go to an opium den.
wish i could be in your position. my brother and i plan on going to japan sometime in the future.

its really awesome, there is beer sold in vending machines outside, and Kyoto is just beautiful.

1 Chinese Yuan is worth about 8 American Dollars.

[quote="Simo Häyhä":350bb]1 Chinese Yuan is worth about 8 American Dollars.[/quote:350bb]

Other way around.

Id die of alcohol poisioning

i hate them ignorant yellow skins

[quote="Da_Bian":603ce]i hate them ignorant yellow skins[/quote:603ce]

LOL TAIWAN!!!!

mandarin is hard as shit to learn, but its also simpler in some ways, like they dont have past or future tense, and the word structure is kind of formulaic, but there is only one way to say some sentences, even tho the english translations use the same words (like go to class - shang ke, cannot use the same words as something like go back to your country - hui guo)...

the dvds have been playing in my roommates laptop, but not mine cuz its old as shit and doesnt have a dvd rw drive, but it works on everyone elses...some of the dvds have subtitles but they can be turned off in the options. the only thing that got in the way were these retarded english subtitles at the bottom of munich (which was in english anyway), they were some wierd attempt at translating the english into english again or something. either way, at like 80 cents a piece i dont care if they work when i come home.

no one here does any drugs, the penalties if you get caught with it are extremely harsh, as are the penalties if you do anything wrong...its safe as shit here

most of the chinese girls are ugly as hell, but there are a lot of pretty cute ones, like the one sitting next to me here in this internet cafe...i think shes just about the only one who isnt playing WoW or WC3 or something right now

+1 ..great reporting HeadUp, have fun...and remember, the cute girl is a government plant. beer:

HeadUp I don't want to scare you but have you ever seen the movie
Red Corner?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119994/

Quotes: Shen Yuelin: If you plead not guilty, you will be sentenced to death. And, unlike in your country, Mr. Moore, sentences are carried out within a week. You will be shot, and the cost of the bullet will be billed to your family.



happy:

get someone to translate the mandarin from "Firefly" while you're there

[img]http://www.teamwarfare.com/forums/smilies/smileyhackedchinese.gif[/img]...

sounds like fun. you staying in a hotel, university housing or with a chinese family? LOL at your 2nd pic, looks like the Duke of Ray snuck in your pic happy:

lmfao.. a girl I know went to Thailand and bought me Munich from there.. lol the subtitles were the worst; they'd appear randomly and wouldn't make any sense at all.. it'd sound slightly similar to what the guy was saying in the movie, but wouldn't be relevent to the story at all haha.

As long as you are in China, buy a better camera ffs.

Enjoy the time over there.

[quote="Xorcist [USA]":76d61]As long as you are in China, buy a better camera ffs.

Enjoy the time over there.[/quote:76d61]

Bring me an azn chick please, 17-20, thin, can speak english, under 5'5"

Edit your fucking sig. It's way to big.

I'd love to see some pics of the terra cotta soldiers in Xian.

Thanks for the great reporting. Have fun and be careful.



..... and whoever it was that said Kyoto, Japan is beautiful was dead on accurate.

we will be in xian briefly, not sure if i mentioned it before, so i cant imagine not seeing the terra cotta soldiers...

we had a very interesting lecture from a british chap about china's education system and how the gov't plans to develop it....it made me realize how NOT communist the new country is now that its going toward a market economy because there are new unregulated ways of doing business here

time for some new pics from the mall at xinjiekou today!!

check out my 1337 china commie shirt, it says "defeat japanese miliarism" at the bottom rock:
[img]http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5504/dsc029205fh.jpg[/img]

these things are pretty well-advertised around china, NECK ELONGATORS!!!11 dont i look cool?
[img]http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/2770/dsc029268jm.jpg[/img]

ali g 'funkyzeit mit bruno' voice "vat iss, ehhh zee fahshun?"
[img]http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/6585/dsc029196ib.jpg[/img]

sweet massage chairs, im making that awesome face because i almost got penetrated...
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crazy chinese signs, i couldnt understand any of them....
[img]http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5048/dsc029330wu.jpg[/img]


i gotta get some pics of the mall up, its the trippiest place ever, its narrow with low cielings, and more lights and neon than a fear and loathing acid trip...very cool.

hope you enjoyed my sweet adventure today

love,

alejandro headup