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Funny and sad!

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You want to see South Korea. You have never seen a greater example of the majority of a student population condemned to a life of mediocrity by the most mindless , incompetence
of (and I use the word loosely) teachers .

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Brilliant!

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hahaa~~~so funny=====p)~~~~

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Beautifully written….

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I’m inclined to both honour and agree with both your and Xiao Shuang’s views on war.

See, I was raised where ANZAC Day is the biggest, most important holiday. We don’t celebrate ANZAC Day to glorify war (as I’m sure you do not), but to remember. The ethos is “lest we forget”- we don’t remember that they fought for our country, but that they suffered and died for our country, and we don’t want to inflict that suffering on any subsequent generation.

Because all war is evil, but most wars are inevitable and some wars are necessary. It makes no sense to judge those who’ve served their nation. When the call came, they stood up, and they’re bigger men than I’ll ever be, and I have a huge amount of respect for them. And for you.

An old friend of mine, a former soldier, but not a veteran (life’s good as a Kiwi), used to tell me that the greatest pacifists are soldiers. He told me, “Look, as an armoured corpsman, I know that should push come to shove, my life expectancy once my vehicle enters the battlefield is two and a half minutes”. He had another way of explaining it that went along the lines of “I’ve played around with these weapons and I know what they’ll do to you if they hit you”.

The last few years in China I’ve been blessed to meet several American vets- Desert Storm and Afghanistan- and the stories they’ve had to tell back up what my mate back in New Zealand had to say- but they strengthen the argument with actual combat experience.

Do I have a point? War is always evil but sometimes necessary, but regardless of the circumstances I have the utmost respect for those who go off to fight.

Is China right to send naval vessels to combat piracy? Sure, I know the real reason is to protect the interests of the rich and economically powerful, but innocent lives need to be protected there. And yet I can’t entirely fault the pirates- they have families to raise, and they have to raise their families in one of the world’s most precarious countries. My prayers go to those on all sides of this particular conflict.

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This must be what my Chinese sounds like to most of the people around here.

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Love it.
Have often commented on the exasperation where when you learn a new language the locals seem to think that your IQ expands proportionately to your vocabulary. The super arrogant Dutch are the worst at this behaviour!

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I wrote long thread about it a few months ago and a security hack deleted the story. Maio had sex with many boys, willing and unwilling, for many years. He carefully selected his targets: those confused about sexuality, those from torubled families, those with delinquency issues…He was a sick and pathetic man….

Happy to visit with you via email…

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Father Maio - a pedophile in Diocese of Pueblo? please tell us more.

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Nice.

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Nice.

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I resign my post as a Chinglish observer! This just beats the anything out of anything Chinglish or half-Chinglish that I’ve ever seen!

“Seeulateragulator.” This is a total classic. To which I add:

“Afterwilecocodile.”

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I resign my post as a Chinglish observer! This just beats the anything out of anything Chinglish or half-Chinglish that I’ve ever seen!

“Seeulateragulator.” This is a total classic. To which I add:

“Afterwilecocodile.”

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I read this and alternatively laughed and cried. My mom speaks similar Chinglish so when I read all the comments above, it didn’t even seem grammatically incorrect, I just subbed in my mom’s voice and Cantonese.

Some of my favourites were:
cookie the rice: “making the rice” is interchangable with making a meal. The word, “fan” actually literally means both things.

have the small: literally in cantonese: do you have small bills? sometimes we say, “do you have loose bills” it would be even better if she asked you if you have the loose

you the one people go?: haha, again, this is the exact Cantonese grammar! the “alone” is always before the verb.

but my favourite…. craysheen: colloquial Cantonese is tseeseen: sticky wires, aka “crossed wires”

Love it.

M

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I read this and alternatively laughed and cried. My mom speaks similar Chinglish so when I read all the comments above, it didn’t even seem grammatically incorrect, I just subbed in my mom’s voice and Cantonese.

Some of my favourites were:
cookie the rice: “making the rice” is interchangable with making a meal. The word, “fan” actually literally means both things.

have the small: literally in cantonese: do you have small bills? sometimes we say, “do you have loose bills” it would be even better if she asked you if you have the loose

you the one people go?: haha, again, this is the exact Cantonese grammar! the “alone” is always before the verb.

but my favourite…. craysheen: colloquial Cantonese is tseeseen: sticky wires, aka “crossed wires”

Love it.

M

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to shunt conversation, conversation being itself the rightness and reason for social media, is to assume that consumers are less informed about their own needs than the corporation that is pitching them.

Very well said. And I think it’s that loss of control over the spoon feeding that media traditionalists fear when it comes to social media and its clear benefit to the consumer.

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to shunt conversation, conversation being itself the rightness and reason for social media, is to assume that consumers are less informed about their own needs than the corporation that is pitching them.

Very well said. And I think it’s that loss of control over the spoon feeding that media traditionalists fear when it comes to social media and its clear benefit to the consumer.

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Thanks Elliot…And you are right: Google and Yahoo! have not set the bar very high on their attempts to jump into his market…

Since i have long been a cheerleader for Baidu, and have been often criticized as an apologist, I thought it best to leave out the comparisons in this one.

Baidu, in addition to tuning in to its PR team, should form an Ad hoc group of thought leaders that can inform and educate them without fear of reprisal….

You’d be a great addition

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Thanks Elliot…And you are right: Google and Yahoo! have not set the bar very high on their attempts to jump into his market…

Since i have long been a cheerleader for Baidu, and have been often criticized as an apologist, I thought it best to leave out the comparisons in this one.

Baidu, in addition to tuning in to its PR team, should form an Ad hoc group of thought leaders that can inform and educate them without fear of reprisal….

You’d be a great addition

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Nice reflections and excellent writing by the way! Its an interesting tie you are making - that Baidu doesn’t “get” social media and fails to enter into conversation with its community. I would argue that many companies (including Google and Apple) that are widely followed in the blogosphere fall into the same camp.

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Nice reflections and excellent writing by the way! Its an interesting tie you are making - that Baidu doesn’t “get” social media and fails to enter into conversation with its community. I would argue that many companies (including Google and Apple) that are widely followed in the blogosphere fall into the same camp.

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I agree with the inner listening, for sure…

Letting go of ego is not always an easy thing…That is where feedback and conversation come in…We are social animals after all…

Thank you for coming by and commenting….Always appreciated…

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Thanks Matt…

I agree it was likely not an easy decision…

Agreed too–and I apologize for not mentioning—that the panel did a bang-up job with short notice….Kudos to the AdTech team!!

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Another interesting post!

I was also at ad:tech Shanghai mostly on our booth (http://www.sinotechgroup.com.cn) where the buzz in the exhibition hall was ‘where is Robin’. There were many interesting theories about why he did not show and what the implications are to the image of Baidu.

Clearly, not a good day for the PR team at Baidu. I am a believer in the simple answer is usually the right one and can accept that he was holed up in his room with a bad cold. I guess that making the call to pull out of the keynote late in the evening before the start was not the best choice in timing. However, Robin is an astute man and must understand the need to correct the perceptions and practices of Baidu so pulling out of the event on the eve of the conference surely would have been something he did not take lightly.

The management of this situation appeared lacking and the Baidu team should have prepared to support this issue far better. As it turned out, the panel did a good job for the opening although I expect a good deal of blogophere chatter about this.. even if we may not be able to find these results in the Baidu index.

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