|
|
Post by Norbert Radd on Feb 21, 2006 8:26:24 GMT 7
Is the city of Shenzhen without cable TV?
Please excuse this query because I don't know if this forum has any Shenzhen denizens and I'm surreptiously typing this in the office rather than working so I can't surf the forum until everyone leaves for yet another meeting.
Cheers. NR
|
|
woza17
SuperDuperBarfly! 
Posts: 2,203
|
Post by woza17 on Feb 21, 2006 16:15:09 GMT 7
I would bet my 18 inch black and white Konka TV that there is cable TV in Shenzhen. It's availbale in Dongguan.
Why do you ask? Are you thinking of moving there?
I have been thinking of getting cable but then I think I can buy DVDs and download stuff or listen to the radio on the internet.
|
|
|
|
Post by Norbert Radd on Feb 21, 2006 19:30:15 GMT 7
thanks for the feedback.
the fao told me at 9 am the city was w/o cable today, thus I'd had no cable for 27 days. I threw a snit ift and tomorrow I'm supposed to get cable. go figure.
cheers.
|
|
woza17
SuperDuperBarfly!
Posts: 2,203
|
Post by woza17 on Feb 21, 2006 20:35:50 GMT 7
You threw a wobbly because you don't have cable.
Tell me more about your working conditions?
|
|
|
|
Post by Norbert Radd on Feb 21, 2006 20:52:43 GMT 7
You asked so i''ll tell: i'm alone in a student dorm room that would normally have 6 students and in January, it finally was arranged 1/2 way OK and the cable went out 1/26. I noted the date because i PAID rent on the place last summer for no cable. W/ no cable, I first bought a radio and when that got too boring bought a DVD player. RMB400 for a couple of accessories I don't really want blows. I also cook in my room rather than the kitchen b/c there's no 110v. I get NO fringe benefits and pay for my water and electricity. This is only my 2nd term. My dean likes me and considers me an effective convo-lab instructor. Cheers.
|
|
|
|
Post by Norbert Radd on Feb 21, 2006 20:55:34 GMT 7
what's a wobbly? I said if I couldn't have my TV on I would go watch it at my wife's in Seoul. The fao at my school does nothing. I speak chinese so they figure I don't have to do anything. For 6 months I heated water for the bath on my hot plate.
|
|
|
|
Post by Mr Nobody on Feb 21, 2006 21:09:29 GMT 7
"Chucking a wobbly" is just (yet another) Ozslang for getting cranky and hassling. It's just part of our our South Pacific dialect of Usanian, to go with our South Pacific peso and the world's greatest cricket team, or something.
|
|
|
|
Post by George61 on Feb 22, 2006 4:16:54 GMT 7
"Chucking a wobbly" is the same as "spitting the dummy"
Note for Woza....we chuck....we don't throw!
|
|
|
|
Post by Lotus Eater on Feb 22, 2006 7:49:40 GMT 7
I also chuck a dinger and occasionally have a spac attack. Not the same as a Mac attack - which has nothing to do with apples. And every once in a while, I'll have a hissy fit or blow a gasket.
BUT I still don't understand why you would want cable when there is so much riveting material to be seen on CCTV 9.
|
|
|
|
Post by George61 on Feb 22, 2006 8:12:23 GMT 7
But do you ever "arc up"?
|
|
|
|
Post by Lotus Eater on Feb 22, 2006 8:22:50 GMT 7
I'll occasionally 'fire up' or even get my knickers knotted or in a twist, but only if my feathers are ruffled.
|
|
|
|
Post by Norbert Radd on Feb 22, 2006 12:32:10 GMT 7
I only speak directly and let the people know what's the problem. In China, that's called losing face but I found out the deal with the incompents' again and it is the same story as before, viz., they got a boy doing a man's job, i.e., some student does "it" and when they're not here, there's no cable.
I used to watch this Colombian Mandarin dubbed show at 6 AM and could actually understand a lot. It was a cowboy Bay Watch.
|
|
|
|
Post by Norbert Radd on Feb 22, 2006 12:34:22 GMT 7
I'm ready to blow a gasket when I think of all those episodes I've missed. There was also a wonderful yoga/ aerobics program out of Guangzhou.
|
|
Newbs
SuperDuperBarfly!
If you don't have your parents permission to be on this site, naughty, naughty. But Krusty forgives
Posts: 2,085
|
Post by Newbs on Feb 22, 2006 15:05:13 GMT 7
Ahh, Lotus, where I come from a dinger is a condom.
|
|
|
|
Post by Lotus Eater on Feb 22, 2006 16:35:29 GMT 7
Ahh, Lotus, where I come from a dinger is a condom. A dinger for your donger? Ahh, yes, well I have chucked them (out) in my time as well. |
|
|
|
Post by con's fly is open on Feb 22, 2006 17:43:10 GMT 7
Takatoshi had a conniption again when I declared him out playing musical chairs. I mean, you can't leap into a chair knees first, then blow your stack when you get called on it. I don't go postal when I lose at chess.
Sadly, it's a rare day when Takatoshi doesn't go rank.
|
|
|
|
Post by Mr Nobody on Feb 23, 2006 21:50:05 GMT 7
I just read all the posts in this thread since my last one in one go.
My brain hurts.
|
|
gengrant
SuperBarfly!
Hao, Bu Hao?
Posts: 1,818
|
Post by gengrant on Feb 25, 2006 16:51:36 GMT 7
great. David Hassellhoff does Brokeback Mountain...I think the end of the world may be at hand...  Norad, did you contact Topway? they're the cable service provider in SZ...if you speak chinese, they may be able to help...or direct you to the person who can...although this is sometimes asking a lot... just trying to help... |
|
|
|
Post by Norbert Radd on Feb 26, 2006 8:50:47 GMT 7
There's more snow on my TV than the winter olympics. the cable TV is done by a student who's returned. The FAO was aware of this problem in September and knew it would happen again at the end of the term. I thought I had my position clear, i.e., watching TV's essential to my Chinese learning. I thought the problem was resolved. I thought wrong. That's what you get for thinking. It was a good lesson because I am now working on receiving my plane ticket for July
|
|
|
|
Post by Miss Motz on Feb 27, 2006 11:41:05 GMT 7
Oh my lord you guys are nuts  Just to pu tmy two cents worth in late , you can also have brain explosions, chuck a hissy fit........ isn't the English language a charm??? no wonder people have drama's with translating it !!! I bought some DVD's in Bali last year (yes the odd person walked in front of the video camera at the movies, interesting concpet I thought, but it gets a bit old after watching the movie a few times) and the dubbing is hilarious from English to Indonesian and back to English again , serious case of Chinese whispers.!! |
|
Ruth
SuperDuperMegaBarfly
God's provisions are strategically placed along the path of your obedience.
Posts: 3,915
|
Post by Ruth on Feb 27, 2006 11:57:36 GMT 7
Miss Motz, just wait until you get here and those kinds of DVDs are all you have for watching TV in English.
|
|
|
|
Post by Lotus Eater on Feb 27, 2006 12:22:29 GMT 7
And once you are here you will buy so many DVDs you won't have time to get through them all let alone watch them more than once!
Each time you leave the campus you will just drift past the local DVD shop and collect a couple more - and if you are a little forgetful (because you haven't had time to see the DVD) you'll buy the same one again as well.
I have hundreds - and took home all the ones I had seen - but the cabinet is still overcrowded.
Of course all of my watching is professional - I teach a Film Appreciation class and therefore it is part of my JOB to assess many movies to decide which ones are appropriate for my students. I live such a difficult life!!
|
|
|
|
Post by Mr Nobody on Feb 27, 2006 12:24:50 GMT 7
I have a bunch of movies (all bought in the same 'students' open air market) all with the same subtitles, seemingly translated into english from the Chinese translation of a korean play of the same name by a frenchman. The subtitles bear absolutely no relationship to any of the movies at all. Mostly, I think they are burned copies from downloads or something, only a few are obviously filmed at theatres. They never ever have any extra features, and these are unobtainable in the area. DVD 9s are only used to put together collections.
|
|
Ruth
SuperDuperMegaBarfly
God's provisions are strategically placed along the path of your obedience.
Posts: 3,915
|
Post by Ruth on Feb 27, 2006 13:02:51 GMT 7
Sometimes we'll be watching a movie and it will turn to black and white for a couple of minutes. Some wording such as 'this movie is the property of xxx and is for screening purposes only. Not to be rented or sold.' Well, I figure we're screening it and I don't intend to rent or sell it, so it's all good.
|
|
gengrant
SuperBarfly!
Hao, Bu Hao?
Posts: 1,818
|
Post by gengrant on Feb 27, 2006 19:30:06 GMT 7
mine too...of course...  |
|
Just to pu tmy two cents worth in late , you can also have brain explosions, chuck a hissy fit........ isn't the English language a charm??? no wonder people have drama's with translating it !!! I bought some DVD's in Bali last year (yes the odd person walked in front of the video camera at the movies, interesting concpet I thought, but it gets a bit old after watching the movie a few times) and the dubbing is hilarious from English to Indonesian and back to English again , serious case of Chinese whispers.!! 