Beijing Hikers's picture Beijing Hikers Submitted by Guest on Wed, 03/09/2022 - 11:56

Try the Beijing Hikers version of this hike on Sunday (March 13)

  1. Climb all the stairs to the top temples
  2. Hike out into the hills behind the temples and make a circuit, coming back to the village below the temples to finish
  3. Big meal in a village restaurant after the hike

Cost covers guides, transport, tickets, and the post-hike meal.

For more info and bookings please visit https://www.beijinghikers.com/hike-in-beijing/view/453/yajishan-temple-circuit-2/

Hikes in the hills around Beijing, every weekend since 2001. www.beijinghikers.com

Taytayhe95's picture Taytayhe95 Submitted by Guest on Sat, 01/29/2022 - 15:39

Guest wrote:

I am his great niece, I have been talking to my father about him and learning more about my family history. Would love to share what I know and hear what you have found out!

Hey Mackenzie, I am a born and raised beijinger. I am a big fan of your great grandfather and I have done various researches on the places he has listed on his map. I would continue to study my masters degree in the US. I would like to link up with you as I am planning to do a Documentary on Gen.Frank Dorn. It would be an honor, if we could link up. I would share what I have found as well. Cheers Mackenzie.

Taytayhe95's picture Taytayhe95 Submitted by Guest on Sat, 01/29/2022 - 15:38

Guest wrote:

I am his great niece, I have been talking to my father about him and learning more about my family history. Would love to share what I know and hear what you have found out!

Hey Mackenzie, I am a born and raised beijinger. I am a big fan of your great grandfather and I have done various researches on the places he has listed on his map. I would continue to study my masters degree in the US. I would like to link up with you as I am planning to do a Documentary on Gen.Frank Dorn. It would be an honor, if we could link up. I would share what I have found as well. Cheers Mackenzie.

Taytayhe95's picture Taytayhe95 Submitted by Guest on Sat, 01/29/2022 - 15:37

Guest wrote:

I am his great niece, I have been talking to my father about him and learning more about my family history. Would love to share what I know and hear what you have found out!

Hey Mackenzie, I am a born and raised beijinger. I am a big fan of your great grandfather and I have done various researches on the places he has listed on his map. I would continue to study my masters degree in the US. I would like to link up with you as I am planning to do a Documentary on Gen.Frank Dorn. It would be an honor, if we could link up. I would share what I have found as well. Cheers Mackenzie.

Taytayhe95's picture Taytayhe95 Submitted by Guest on Sat, 01/29/2022 - 15:36

Guest wrote:

I am his great niece, I have been talking to my father about him and learning more about my family history. Would love to share what I know and hear what you have found out!

Hey Mackenzie, I am a born and raised beijinger. I am a big fan of your great grandfather and I have done various researches on the places he has listed on his map. I would continue to study my masters degree in the US. I would like to link up with you as I am planning to do a Documentary on Gen.Frank Dorn. It would be an honor, if we could link up. I would share what I have found as well. Cheers Mackenzie.

BauLuo's picture BauLuo Submitted by Guest on Fri, 01/28/2022 - 23:27

Giovanni Martini wrote:
Well I think I had a static shock one time when I was about eleventeen. I rubbed my feet against regulations of mom against newly lain rug made of finest polyester which gainfully produced an electric imbalance in my body. Thereupon, opening door , spark be big, I fell on floor. Which caused me mom to immediately yell and scream, which was the norm of a Monday morn, whilst I lay, feigning unconsciousness, reading Thomas Hardy.
BauLuo wrote:
Giovanni Martini wrote:

Still and all, I understand. Fiddling with cell phone apps has been like this healing journey for me. You see, I'm a survivor of those nasty Beijing winter static electricity shocks and I find my Huawei Honor to have been an empowering partner for me as I work through the nightmare.

off topic but applicable. Us Canajians like me don't get roused easily. We will give you the benefit of the doubt 17 times outa 20. But not 20 times outa 20. And once we is roused, then god help you.

So you're what? One of those static shock deniers? More children in Haidian alone were static-shocked last year than Hef diddled bimbos in his whole 8 decades. That should give all of us pause.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

BauLuo's picture BauLuo Submitted by Guest on Fri, 01/28/2022 - 21:03

THERE IS NO GODDAMN LETTUCE IN GREEK SALAD!

How can I make this clear. Greek salad is composed of roughly equal parts cucumber, tomato, green pepper and onion. There is no f*cking lettuce within a kilometer of it. Upon this mixture of vegetables is doused a vinigarette based dressing which is roughly 60 percent olive oil and 40 percent vinegar and other spices and condiments to your liking. 500 grams of feta cheese are cubed and mixed with the salad. A handful of (`handful' meaning at least 10 but probably less than 20) of black calamata olives are distrubuted on surface of salad. Eat. Why is it that in the grand city of Shanghai, at a so named `Greek Restaurant' for 80 kuai, I get a bowl of lettuce, one black olive and a few shavings of feta cheese? Query me that.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

BauLuo's picture BauLuo Submitted by Guest on Fri, 01/28/2022 - 12:01

Giovanni Martini wrote:

Still and all, I understand. Fiddling with cell phone apps has been like this healing journey for me. You see, I'm a survivor of those nasty Beijing winter static electricity shocks and I find my Huawei Honor to have been an empowering partner for me as I work through the nightmare.

off topic but applicable. Us Canajians like me don't get roused easily. We will give you the benefit of the doubt 17 times outa 20. But not 20 times outa 20. And once we is roused, then god help you.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

BauLuo's picture BauLuo Submitted by Guest on Wed, 01/26/2022 - 19:57

Giovanni Martini]</p> <p>[quote=BauLuo wrote:

"Remissness"? It sounds like the reptile house at the zoo. Too many serpentine syllibants there. Might I suggest a more elegant synonym? "Remissicissitude," or perhaps "remissition," or---for a Teutonic touch, "Remissigkeit"?

I miss my Swiss miss and my Swiss miss misses me. Repeat 20 times with ass to mirror with other hand held mirror (in hand of course) videotaping for instank upload to tiktok. Wear a kilt and a pink bum floss. Instant fame for twenty seconds, which if yer smart and quick about things may lead to a prime role on an early morning news program on NBC, thereafter, verilly, a shot at the presidency, or at least competing against Joe Biden and Justin Turdeau on Jeopardy.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

BauLuo's picture BauLuo Submitted by Guest on Wed, 01/26/2022 - 07:36

There is a bit of remissness here Miss Julie. I think it always important to distinguish 是 from 属。 Whilst in English it may make perfect sense to say ` I am a Cancer' (indeed, viz Justin Trudeau) or ` I am a Scorpio' and etc. the same does not hold using Chinese, wherein the more specific word 属 should be used. Which meaning is `I am according to the classification of such and such'. Which, in my case is a Dragon of the Wood variety. I found it somewhat interesting that shy Chinese interlocuters, afraid of uttering the words `How old are you?` , would query me about my Chinese astrological animal, thus to suss this out.

Now, 是 is sun 日 over 正， and 属 is corpse over the mighty Quin. 尸上寓 （that by the way is not the correct hanzi, but my computer clearly is not well ennabled.) Many times I can understand the concepts instantiated in hanzi; other times obscure. Of course concepts are endless, whilst sounds are limited. Thus I have come to believe that representation of language via representation of sounds is a good deal more effecient than representations of concepts. Goddamn Phoenicians!!

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

BauLuo's picture BauLuo Submitted by Guest on Tue, 01/25/2022 - 22:28

Giovanni Martini wrote:

"...if you want to throw them for a loop respond with I’m a rat, or monkey, or tiger!" (unquote)

Ya can't have a bevy of assassins. Unlessun they was all female. 'Bevy' as a descriptor meaning ` a bunch of' but only when describing a bunch a females. Or Justin Trudeau and pals, which is much the same. Eg. `when I was down in Khartoum, me and my bevy of sycophantic hangin on gals was havin a grand ol' hootenany down by the bayou'. That's okay, no fault. But don't go usin `bevy' reckelessly. I am sensitive to this and I might get triggered.

Throw them for a loop? I'm a genuine old-fart what grew up in a Great Plains hamlet back when Bill Gates was still getting mugged for milk money. By the time I was 11, I knew what my Chinese animal was. I mean, it was not exactly esoteric knowledge anywhere, even then. Not like, say, our old Thule Gesellschaft gatherings, where the Master would smite the flagstones with his ash-wood staff 9 times and intone----Oh, s***. I breached my oath. Sorry, gotta run. Bevy of assassains to elude and all...

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

BauLuo's picture BauLuo Submitted by Guest on Sun, 01/23/2022 - 16:17

Quote

"found that the popular training center company had organized courses for some students over the winter holiday. Authoritities have since ordered Xueersi to cease all educational activities" unquote.

You can only study when WE say you can study. And then you must study VERY HARD !

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

BauLuo's picture BauLuo Submitted by Guest on Sun, 01/16/2022 - 01:21

Giovanni Martini wrote:

If the adventure involves beer, shouldn't that be "Magical Micturate Tour"?

So there I was, minding my own bloody business, micturatin, 3 am ish, -- as needs be to avoid bladder burst,-- mid-street; when up comes policeman, which caused the immediate ensconcement of me hose into pants, with further micturation dribbling , nay, streaming, down leg, enforce, collecting hence in galoshes, which afterwards caused a squishy squashy sound as I made a way home, the policemans reprobation ringing in my ears : "If I catch ya pissin in the street agin this week, I'll throw ya in the drunk tank".

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.