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Buildings that will make you laugh in China

Every time you travel to another place, you are met with challenges that are new to you, especially if you never traveled to new places. Today, let's take a look at some new buildings that you'll find when you travel to China.

Alibaba Founder, Jack Ma

He was born in 1967, September 10th in Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou. In 1999 he started a Alibaba, the company that is now operating worldwide, in 2014 he his company went public in the US.

Luxurious Wedding in Tangshan

This month 23rd, Tangshan city, Hebei province, citizens were flabbergusted when they saw a fleet of luxurious wedding cars, the amount of all the cars combined was more than 200 Million dollars.

Monday, November 21, 2016

An African Man Who Works as Traditional Medicine Doctor in China

On 14th Novermber, in Chengdu city, Sichuan province, as reported by Tencent news.
When we were walking around Chengdu city, one traditional medicine hospital, we met an African doctor who practices Chinese Traditional medicine tendering to an old man. This Doctor is a Diallo, who have been living and working in China for more than 30 years practicing Traditional Chinese Medicine. "Daye, shibushi ganjue hao yixie le?" we heard him asking the old man using fluent Chinese Mandarin which means "Grand pa, do you feel good now?". After he fell ill one day, the old man was taken to a hospital to receive medical attention, at first he hesitated upon seeing that the doctore was a foreigner, but after he pursuaded that the foreigner is a good doctor, he agreed, and after one week of recieving treatment from a foreigner he is feeling better now and walks without problem. "I can't believe that a foreigner doctor can use our Chinese Traditional Medicine to treat us".  The old man wa heard praising Dr. Diallo.

In 1964, Diallo was born in Mali from a family of Doctors. 20 years later he came to China to study Chinese Traditional Medicine. After he completed Chinese language course in Beijing, he went to Guangzhou to study medicine.


He completed his bachelor degrees and went on to study Masters and Phd in Sichuan province. He started working on a hospital in Sichuan, it was not easy at first, he remembers that patients were refusing to be treated by him when they saw that he was a foreigner.
Fast forward more than 30 years now, he says he have passed through a lot of difficulties, but he's already get used to the life here and he loves his job.

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Friday, October 28, 2016

How to Cure Cold and flue Sans Medicine

When seasons changes, espeacially when they comes earlier than thought, many people gets cold and flue easier. After I started feeling the symptoms of cold, I told my Chinese friend about it. He told me an easier way to get rid of the sickness as soon as possible without using medicine, and I didn't believe untill I tried it.

Cure: You need Ginger and Coca cola.
Grind ginger to small pieces, or just slice it into pieces.
Mix it with Coca cola and then boil it.
When it is boiled pour it in your favorite cup and drink. Get a rest and if you do it right, the next day you wake up you will be as good as new.

You need to use this as soon as you start to feel the symptoms, don't wait till it is too late.

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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Learn Some Chinese Part two

I want/need...
    
             Chinese                    Prounciation                               English

            我要/想                   wo yao/xiang                               I want/need

        我想/要吃饭             wo xiang/yao chi fan                  I want to eat food

         我想/要尿尿               wo xiang/yao niao niao                 I want to pee          

       我想/要去非洲         wo xiang/yao qu feizhou             I want to go to Africa

       我想/要去厕所         wo xiang/yao qu cesuo                I want to go to the toilet     

       我想/要去城市里     wo xiang/yao qu chengshili         I want to go to the city/town

        我想/要回家               wo xiang/yao huijia                      I want to go home

           去/过去                     qu/guoqu                                      Go

            回/回去                      hui/ huiqu                                   Back/ Go back

            这个                              zhege                                        This

             那个                             nage                                          That

Notice any mistake? Please let us know! See you
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Learn Some Chinese Part one

Phrases

       Chinese                         Pronounciation                  English

        我和你                         wo he ni                           Me and you

        我爱你                         wo ai ni                            I love you

   我爱坦桑呢亚             wo ai tansangniya                 I love Tanzania

        我爱中国                     wo ai zhongguo                I love China

           我去...                         wo qu....                          I go...

          我要....                       wo yao....                         I want ...

          我吃....                        wo chi ...                           I eat ...

        我喝 ...                        wo he ....                           I drink ....

       他/她喝                        ta he ....                            He/She drink ...

      他们/她们吃                 tamen chi ....                      They eat ....

       我们吃...                      women chi ...                      We eat ...
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Chinese

Pronounciation

English


Ren Person

Wo I/me

Ni You

他/她 Ta Him/Her

我们 Women We

他们/她们 Tamen They

东西 Dongxi Thing

Chi Eat

He Drink

Shuo Speak/Say

Shui Water

饭/餐 Fan/Can Food

水果 Shuiguo Fruits

果汁 Guozhi Juice

Jiu Alcohol
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Friday, December 25, 2015

Stephon Marbury: His Life in Beijing

Name: Stephon Marbury
Chinese Name: 斯蒂芬·马布里
Stephon Marbury was born in February 20th, 1977, New York, USA. He is a professional Basketball in China. He joined Milwaukee Bucks after being drafted at number 4 in NBA from University of Georgia, he was soon sold to Minnesota Timberwolves.
In 2010 he joined a Chinese team Shanxi Zhongyu. The same year november, he joined Guangdong Foshan team. Two years later he joined Beijing Ducks and lead them to win CBA(China Basketball Association) cup three times. When he joined Beijing Ducks, it is reported that he was working really hard, and he was also exercising and playing with extra efforts in every match. The team's coach Mr. Min Lulei commented that "Beijing Ducks can survive without me, but can not survive without Marbury"
        Beijing Ducks won 2012, 2014 and 2015 CBA cup. In 2012 the Beijing Government gave him "Beijing Honorary Citizenship". The highest honor given to the foreign workers in China.
       2012, 2014, na mwaka 2015 aliwezesha timu ya Beijing Ducks kuwa mabingwa wa kombe la CBA. He have won the hearts of many Beijing citizens due to his efforts and simple way of life. He uses public transportation and eats in local street restaurants which makes him exceptional as a superstar who lives a normal life.



In Beijing there is a statue of him elected to honor his contribution to the Beijing team. There is even his museum in Beijing.


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Thursday, December 24, 2015

How Chinese Celebrate Silent Night

24th December is a silent night, and it is the day that many of us are planning on how to spend the Christmas the next day. To Chinese this is different, because there is actually no official holiday except for a few places, to them it is a normal day. There are about 1 million Christians in China, this is a very small number compared to a total population of about 1.4 billion. Businessmen and entrepreneurs have found an opportunity to use this day and its popularity to promote their products disregarding whether you are a Christian or not. To make this day special, Chinese celebrate it with a twist to make it interesting.
Foreigners living in China gets surprised when their hosts advices them to send an apple to someone you care about on this day, because they don't know why. After asking we got an answer, that to Chinese it is a good thing to eat an Apple(which is Ping guo in Chinese) during Silent Night(which is Ping An Ye in Chinese). "Ping" is present on both words, Apple and Silent Night, so they goes together. "Ping An" means "Peace" and "ye" means "Night", so when you eat an Apple during that day, you will be at peace and happy.
We wish you a merry Christmas.
  
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Sunday, December 20, 2015

Chinese Famous Actress Libingbing

Name:Li Bingbing
Chinese Name: 李冰冰 
Li Bingbing is a Chinese actor who is famous worldwide. She was born in 1973, in Heilongjiang Province, Haerbin city. He studied acting in Shanghai and got her first degree.
In 2000, after taking part in the film "Juvenile Justice Bao", she got a lot of fans in China, the same year she took part on the film "The Smart Kid", she won best actress award in the Singapore International Films awards from her role in the movie "Dream Home". She took part in the movies "Waiting Alone" and "A wolrd with no thief" to which she won Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers awards. She also took part in the TV show "8 heroes" in 2005 and in 2007 she won China Movies awards for her participation in the movie "The Knot".     


Libingbing in the movie The forbidden Kingdom
In 2009 she won Taiwan's Golden Horse awards due to her acting on the movie "Rumor". She also acted on foreign movies such as, "The Forbidden Kingdom", "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan", "Resident Evil 5" and gained a lot of international fans. She is signed un the US company UTA.
In 2013 she was chosen as the the most popular superstar in Asia, and she were chosen as the Gucci's spokesperson. She also participated in the movie "The Transformers 4".

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The Story of Baidu Founder, Robin Li


Baidu CEO
English NameRobin Li
Chinese Name: 李彦宏
Born in 1968, Shanxi, Yangchuan from a normal family. When he was a little kid, he liked the Opera, and he was signed to a Shanxi Opera company when he was a primary school student. But when he reached Secondary school he quit the Opera.
In 1987, he joined Beijing University studying Library and Information Major(now called Information Management) after scoring the best student in his town in the University Entrance Exam(Gaokao).
When he reached the third year of his university major he bought Toefl, GRE and other books so he can qualify to move to the US to study Computer.

Life in the US:
In 1991 he was admitted to the University of New York Buffalo's Computer department. There, he studied Computer during the day, and English during the night, at the same time he started writing computer programs. Most of the time, he were sleeping at 2 in the night.

Silicon valley:
"When I was in Silicon Valley I got an idea to use technology to change the world, and change my life"
In 1994 during summer holiday, he got an invitation to work at a Wall Street company, Dow Jones. There he worked for three years and a half, he was collecting and publishing economic and marketing information to the web.
In 1997 he changed his job and joined a silicon valley company, Infoseek. Working on this company he got the opportunity to read Wallstreet Daily magazine daily, and that is where he learned how Microsoft defeated IBM and became the world's largest computer company in the world. He also learned a lot of secrets that Microsoft used to become the Software Giant and defeat another Software Giant, SUN, he learned a lot of ways for a company to thrive. These stories made him realize that, for a big company to thrive, technology is not the only way, but business and marketing are the most important.

Back to China
After spending 8 years abroad, web technology started to develop fast in China. At that time he was going back to China to research the local market. In 1999 he concluded that he was ready to start a company at home. He rented two hotel rooms in Ziyuan Hotel and employed an accountant, 5 engineers and a friend whose name is Xuyong, together eight people started Baidu Company.
After a few months he secured a 1.2 million Dollars Loan and he used it to expand the company, after success during this time he managed to secure an investment of 10 million dollars from the same company that loaned his company 1.2 million dollars.
In 2001, he made an announcement to change the algorithm of their search engine, introducing some new reforms that many Investors and shareholders were afraid that they will lead to the death of his company. But he insisted, and from his confidence after saying that, when he invision something, it is going to happen, they let the plan go ahead. As soon as the reforms took place, Baidu company became a very successful company, number two in the world after Google in the world and number one in China.
In 2014, Robin was announced the second riches man in China, with a fortune of almost 14.7 Billion.

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Sunday, November 30, 2014

Story of the Alibaba Founder, Jack Ma




Name: His English name is Jack Ma, and his Chinese name is Ma Yun(马云).
Little History: He was born in 1967, September 10th in Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou. In 1999 he started a Alibaba, the company that is now operating worldwide, in 2014 he his company went public in the US. Its shares were sold at 21 billion dollars, surpassing China Agricultural Bank. This also made him the wealthiest man in China by the time, and he were the first person in China to be featured on the cover of the Forbes magazine.

When he was a kid he liked English language so much that he usually made foreign friends who were living/working in China so he could learn the language. His story shows that he was not really school-smart but he managed to make a lot of friends. After failing more than three times in University entrance exams, he managed to pass and invited to study Education in the University of Hangzhou, where he got his first degree in 1988.
All this time he didn't know a thing about computer, but his foreign friends told him about computers and the Internet, during their conversations he discovered the power of Internet and computers. He started talking to his Chinese friends about the power of Internet and computers but many of them mocked him because at the time, very few people knew about them. they thought he was a fraud or he was a daydreamer, but one day he invited his friends to his home to show them how internet is used, they bought some liquor and waited for the whole night for half of a website to open, this is when even those friends who were mocking him started to praise him because they never saw something like that before.

During this time he were also helping his foreign friends to create websites, and he also started his own Yellow pages company, this was the first website in China. He went on to work on various other communications projects with different companies. He started Alibaba in 1999, at that time its aim was to connect farmers and buyers, when it succeeded tremendously, he also transformed Alibaba to be a company that connects manufacturers and buyers directly all over the world. The company also went on to open few sister companies such as Taobao, which is one of the largest retail company in China, he also created an online payment company Zhifubao to help people pay online easily. Untill now, these companies are leading companies in China.
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Friday, November 28, 2014

Chinese Young Woman Making Millions of CNY Selling Chinese Chestnut

The girl in action
Full Story
She is only 21 years old, but every night she carries a basket full of Chinese chestnuts and roams around town, especially in the restaurants where many people meet to eat some night time BBQs while their quenching their thirst by drinking some beers(popularly known as "yexiao" in Chinese). In two years time, she has sold more than 30 tons of Chinese chestnuts, and she has been a famous person in the town that she is working.
She goes by the name of Ms. Liu and she lives with her father, her parents divorced. Because her father had some health problems, he wasn't able to help her financially, and when was in high school, she started working part-time jobs to support herself. Most of these jobs didn't satisfy her, and so in 2012, she decided to start her own business, selling Chinese Chestnuts. In the beginning, her boss used to pay her 2.50 RMB(approximately 40 cents US$) for each bag she sells. Later her salary went  10,000 RMB a month(about 1600 US$).
There are many young girls who do the same job, but very few who can generate the same amount. When asked about her secret she said "When you are selling things to other people, you need to be obedient, you can't force somebody to buy, you need to ask what they need first, then when they agree, you can let them taste, this way the client will trust you more and do business with you". For example, tow clients who just bought from her didn't want to buy at first, but after a little a chat with her, they bought. Service is the key, you don't need to force someone to buy, you need to convince them to buy.




How hard is her job?
When people hear her story, they think that her job is very easy, especially when they hear that she is a girl, but to say the truth, her job is really really difficult, the same as any other salesman job out there.
She goes out at 6pm, and she finishes at midnight 1am. All this time she doesn't have time to sit, she walks and stands for the whole time, plus the rude clients make her job much much harder.
Because of the atmosphere of her workplace(most of the people are drunk), she meets all kinds of weirdos. Some people who look down upon her, insult her and many other bad encounters. But she says that she doesn't listen to those people, apart from the psychological and physiological problems, other problems includes carrying and standing or walking for a long time which gives her back and waist pains, she enjoys her job, though. Other challenges include breaking the nuts which injure her tender hands, making her hands look like old woman hands.


Dreams of Being her Own Boss
After working hard for a while, she managed to make enough capital to start her own business, she has planned for a budget and next year she plans to quit her current job to start her own business.


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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Luxurious Wedding in Tangshan

Rolls-Royce 
This month 23rd, Tangshan city, Hebei province, citizens were flabbergusted when they saw a fleet of luxurious wedding cars, the amount of all the cars combined was more than 200 Million dollars.
Luxurious cars
The wedding held in a luxurious hotel, in which one table alone costs around 10 thousand CNY(around 1500 US$). There were more than 1000 guests and they ordered more than 100 tables, from the ground floor to the 3rd floor.
Arriving 
Apart from that, they also invited some famous people such as the famous Hunan Television MC Lixiang.
MC LiXiang arriving at the stage
Famous actors such as ZhangWeiJian,  YuanLiuNeng na YuanZhaoSi were also invited.
ZhangWeiJian
YuanLiuNeng
YuanZhaoSi

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Saturday, November 22, 2014

Emotional Farewell between a dog and his Trainer


The dog holding tight trainer's bag.
On the 21st of November this year, two Dog's trainers retired, and after the dogs found out that they were leaving the facility, the didn't take this easy at all. It turned out to be a very emotional moment showing how man's best friend reacts when separated from his longtime company.
The dog waits outside when it saw his trainers luggage.


You ain't go nowhere, I will hold tight to you for as long as it takes!

             
But bye byes are inevitable, the dog finally decided to let go, and this picture was captured showing the moment full of emotions
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Thursday, November 20, 2014

Funny Pictures

Transport around town

Dear lady, what happened to your stockings?

What is happening here?

When you have a PhD in Exam Teaching

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Asia's Most Beautiful Model

The girl goes by the name of Aixiangzhen, she was born in 1988 and in 2008 she attended Miss China and finished at the 3rd place.

Since then she won fans all accross Korea, Japan and other Asian countries.
Apart from good figure, her facial features are also stunning, she likes sports and Yoga, something that makes more fans admire her.

At 1.8m height, she only weighs 50kg.
Since she joined University, she liked reading fashion magazines, but she never thought even for a single day that she will be a model. One day when she was at her 3rd year, her friend joined Miss China pageant, but she didn't want to go alone, and so she forced Aixiangzhen to join as well. She joined just so she can accompany her friend, she never thought that she will win, in the end she finished at number 3, and this opened her way to modelling industry.
She have signed contracts with many companies such as LV, Gucci, CK etc etc

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Monday, October 13, 2014

Richest Street Sweepers in the world

She drives her car holding her street sweeping broom when she goes to work
In Guiyang, Guanshanhu District, there are over 1000 street sweepers. Among them 800 of which were owners of old houses, when the government bought these houses for a top dollar, they got rich in a day, many of them bought new cars such as BMW, AUDI and many other luxurious cars.
 Mr. Yongchong in his BMW, on the side is his garbage truck, which he is about to hop in to start working as a garbage collector.
Here is another one, exiting her car to start street sweeping.
Sweeping the street and her car is seen beside her.

Another one is seen sweeping the street, and the red car is hers.H
These are a few of the ones who agreed to have their picture taken, most of them were working as street sweepers to support their lives because they had no other choice, but after getting the new found fortune, they didn't abandon their works and many of them said they will continue working the same jobs until they rich the age of retirement.

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Saturday, October 11, 2014

Fraudster Caught When Trying to Change Identity

After illegally obtaining 1.8 million CNY(around 3 hundred thousand US$) he decided to create a new identity. But to be cautious, he waited and after the National holiday he returned to his village to make a new identity card. Bad thing is that, as the police were interviewing him they discovered that he is the fraudster that they were looking for.

How:
He goes by the name of Mr. Lee, and he is 46 years old. He used fake engineering certificates and fake contracts with a fake account to which his name was declared that he was given a deal to expand buildings of a certain company and so to start the project the company needed to pay him 1.8 million dollars. Soon as the company gave him the money, he disappeared, the company reported him to the police.
After a year, he went back home with the aim of changing his Identity, when police started filling his data to the computer, the computer flagged him as a wanted man and so they detained him for more questioning.
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Friday, October 10, 2014

Man Who Planned to Rape a Girl, Changes Plans as Soon as He Sees the Girls Face

From the Back
Front
This happened in Beijing when a young man who goes by the name of Mr. Wang met with a young woman named Miss Yin. He only saw him from the back and really loved her, he went on to follow her to where she is living.

According to reports, the young man had just finished high school and he went to Beijing to visit her mother. After knowing where the woman is living, he also found that in that neighbourhood, people don't lock their doors when they sleep, and so he decided to go to the girl that night. At night he carried a knife and a broom then headed to where the young girl was living. He found her sleeping and he used his broom to hit her so she can faint, luckily the young girl didn't faint, she woke up instead. He pulled out his knife and threatened her not to make noise, when he was pulling down her clothes, he accidentally saw her face. This moment he found out that, the young girl was actually ugly af, and so he stopped his plan, he told the girl not to report to the police or he will kill her. The girl called the police as soon as the boy left and police caught him.
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Sunday, September 28, 2014

Man Refuses to Pay the Bill Saying, He Didn't Eat Anything, The Woman Ate Everything

Man refuses to pay the bill(Learn how to say Bill in Chinese here) of the food he and his date ordered. He claimed that the woman have to pay since he didn't eat at all, everything was consumed by the woman.
This event happened in Wenzhou City when two people(both in their 30s) were introduced by their friends, they set a date in order to know each other, but the bad thing is that, as soon as they met, everyone found that the other was not their type. But they decided to eat dinner together, when the manager present them a bill, the man refused to pay the bill, and the woman insisted that a man must pay the bill, the manager decided to call the police.
The woman says, everyday when she goes out, it is customary for a man to pay the bill, this is the very first time she hears a man asking a woman to pay the bill, and also she met the men who prefers going dutch, and if this man wants to go dutch she will pay half the bill. The problem is that the man refused to pay the half.

When the police arrived, they met both of them not speaking to each other, they were busy with their phones. After listening to both side of the story he advised them not to take things far and everyone just pay their half. Each paid their half and left. But here I think we know why they are 30 years olds with no lovers.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Jack Chan Son Caught in Beijing

Jaycee Chan with Jack Chan

Jack Chan's son, Jaycee Chan was caught by police in Beijing after hosting a party with other celebrities in his father's mansion, unfortunately they were caught using drugs and after the search and testing, police confirmed that they had drugs in their blood, and Jaycee Chan was caught with 100 gram of Marijuana.
Check the video below for more details.
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