Posts Tagged ‘Strange’

Sinopenn is no ChinaSmack by far, but I do still have my resources into what the Chinese are posting on the various bbs’s (hint: it starts with “Google” and ends in “Translate”). When short skirts are too short… What do you get when you cross a short SHORT skirt with the digital age? You get [...]

Suzhou’s naughty nurses

Posted: 13th July 2009 by Eric D in SinoPenn
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This picture was posted back in 2006 according to the original article.  In 2006, the World Health Assembly in Suzhou erected a simple billboard with the message, “I like big needles!”.  Seems innocent enough, sort of.  Big needles?  Suzhou simply wants to show off their abilities in the healthcare industry, as well as the idea [...]

Ramones Fans in China?

Posted: 3rd July 2009 by Eric D in SinoPenn
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Well… probably not really.  Not these guys anyways.  In the last couple months, I’ve caught about 5 different people wearing these Ramones shirts, mostly in the colors below.  I only managed to snag 2 pics but I’ll continue to be on the Ramones hunt.

Some things just amaze me.  This Post on nikdaum.com reminded me of what a few of us watched going by Big Bamboo downtown last week.  A bike, with a woman on there somewhere, surrounded by styrofoam boxes came rolling down Nanyang road in the early afternoon.  Judging by the boxes in the front, it’s not [...]

Imported Coke & Pepsi

Posted: 15th February 2009 by Eric D in Uncategorized
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A Coca~Cola in Shanghai generally only costs 2.5 RMB. Here at Lotus Supermarket at the Songhong Station, Line Two, the imported version is 7.5 RMB. A Pepsi Cola also generally costs around 2.5 to 3 RMB.  Here again at Lotus,  the imported version is 13.00 RMB.  What’s the difference in the taste?  How the hell [...]

One of the nastier places to try to drive (and walk for that matter) in a civilized matter right now is Jianhe Road & Yan’an South Road during rush hour.  Construction currently going on on the road has somehow released a strange chemical in the air making drivers here act in a much more irratic [...]