So what is going on around here and where does it happen? This section is for discussion on local events, festivals, and holidays as well as activities and things to do.
2010 is the Metal Tiger year according to Chinese lore.
Outbreaks of war and strife are said to hallmarks on this year but also great steps of change and effort.
I shot this video from my room in BKK as fireworks exploded everywhere
My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?
Yeah! Happy Chinese New Year to all the tyrants that run businesses and don't give a flying f*** for anyone else. May you continue to extort and rip-off all without showing the slightest bit of emotion/remorse for what you are doing.
spitfire wrote:Yeah! Happy Chinese New Year to all the tyrants that run businesses and don't give a flying f*** for anyone else. May you continue to extort and rip-off all without showing the slightest bit of emotion/remorse for what you are doing.
Bit harsh Spitfire..... I'm not sure of your experience in China, but I've been here 10 years managing initially a Joint Venture company, and now a "wholly owned foreign enterprise". Yes, business is bloody difficult at times with restrictions put on foreigners/foreign enterprises - but don't tar all Chinese (business owners or otherwise) with the same brush.
It also works both ways..... Us "Laiwai" are also in China for one reason - to make money.
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things" - Yma o Hyd.
Busiest time of the year (potentially) and many restaurants closed here in HH.
Strange?? Surely not going home.
Maybe s/fire was talking about here in LOS????
That was not Spitfire's usual sane post. I think he posted that one after a few Changs and was a little more inflammatory like many of us are posting after a few Changs.
My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?
hhfarang wrote:That was not Spitfire's usual sane post. I think he posted that one after a few Changs and was a little more inflammatory like many of us are posting after a few Changs.
Fully understand that one - guilty of it myself on more than one occassion!
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things" - Yma o Hyd.
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