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 <title>Do you know “SI-CHUAN”?</title>
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 <description>&lt;!-- google_ad_section_start --&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it’s just me, but I tend to get annoyed at conversations which devolve into endless queries as to my mental capacity.  This happens quite a bit in China:&lt;br /&gt;
Person on plane: “I’m from Sichuan. DO. YOU. KNOW. SI-CHUAN?”&lt;br /&gt;
Me: “Yes, I do. I’m from New Hampshire. Do. you. know. New. Hampshire?’*&lt;br /&gt;
Person on plane: [blank stare]&lt;br /&gt;
Now I’m [...]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&#039;read-more&#039;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chinalyst.net/node/55771&quot;&gt;read more &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;!-- google_ad_section_end --&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:02:00 -0600</pubDate>
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 <title>Living in China is Easy…</title>
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 <description>&lt;div class=&quot;feed_logo&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog&quot; class=&quot;aggregator2_logo_link&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/graphics/feedlogo.gif&quot; class=&quot;aggregator2_logo&quot; alt=&quot;Adventures of the Humanaught&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- google_ad_section_start --&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.5jshop.com/en/eshop/default.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/5jshop.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;5jShop&quot; class=&quot;right&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Living in China is easy - or so says the tag line of my new favourite Web site, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.5jshop.com/en/eshop/default.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;5JShop.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The site offers home delivery of groceries in and around the Jinji Lake/SIP area of Suzhou. Yeah, we just click, click, click…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&#039;read-more&#039;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chinalyst.net/node/51627&quot;&gt;read more &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;!-- google_ad_section_end --&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:47:00 -0500</pubDate>
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