Phoney phone price! (山寨手机的价格)

Jan 29, 2009

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If you don’t know what I’m talking about here, click here for more information: Phone game – Guess how much my phone cost! PLAY NOW! (手机游戏-猜猜我的手机多少钱！开始！ ). If you do, read on…

如果你不知道我在说什么，点击这里查看更多信息: Phone game – Guess how much my phone cost! PLAY NOW! (手机游戏-猜猜我的手机多少钱！开始！ ). 如果你看了，那就请继续…

So, business first. The price of the superphone is…..

所以，先说正事，这个超级手机的价格是…

Or, to put it another way…
或者，用其他表示方法…

GBP - £53.22
EUR - €58.34
USD - $77.38
HKD - $600.00
MYR - 277.54
CAD - $94.32

Or, to put it another way…又或者，用其他的说法…

CHEAP!

便宜!

So if you want to buy one, go to the fake market opposite 555 Nanjing Xi Lu and tell them Oli sent ya! (Actually don’t tell them that, because they won’t know who you’re talking about).

所以如果你想买一个，可以去南京西路555号对面的假货市场并且告诉他们是Oli让你去的！
（事实上别告诉他们，因为他们不知道你说的是谁。）

So here are the best guesses:
以下是最佳答案:

neko - 684rmb
kitty - 300-600rmb
Barracka - 700rmb
b.cheng – 500rmb
Lila Du – 400rmb
UltimateDave - 547rmb – CHEAT ALERT!!! 有作弊嫌疑!!!

Thanks for playing! See you soon for the next game of Chinese ‘The Price is Right’!
谢谢参与！下次中国版的“价格竞猜”游戏见！

Funniest restaurant menu ever (Part 1) (有史以来最有趣的餐厅菜单(第一篇))

Jan 27, 2009

By Oli D

chinese, food, haha, photos

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It’s Chinese New Year! You know what that means? HOLIDAY!!! You know what that means? FOOD!!! You know what that means? FUNNY CHINESE MENUS!!!

春节到了!你知道这意味着什么?放假!!你知道这又意味着什么?美食!!你知道这又意味着什么?有趣的中国菜单!!

I haven’t posted a huge amount of ‘Chinglish’ posts and funny Chinese restaurant menus since arriving in China…but the sheer amount of horror-translation in my CNY-Eve’s restaurant meant that I could not ignore it.

我到中国以来,还没有贴过很多中式英语的帖子和有趣的中餐菜单…但是大量的可怕的翻译在我的新年除夕夜的餐厅出现,意味着我再也不能视而不见了.

So much pain, so many funny words, such a nice font! Enjoy…

很多不适的,滑稽的词, 多漂亮的字体!慢慢享受…

And la pièce de résistance….

妙中之妙的一个…

I know it’s hard to believe, but this is just half of the Chinglish treasure…

我知道很难相信,但是这只是中式英语中的一半珍品…

Part 2 coming soon…

第二篇马上就来…

Goodbye Bush!　（再见Bush!）

Jan 23, 2009

By Oli D

chinese, food, photos

5 Comments

Goodbye Bush!
再见Bush!

Bush有很多意思。一个是美国前任总统的名字，另一个意思是女人的灌木丛.

Video: Barack Obama’s Presidential inauguration speech with Chinese subtitles (视频: 美第44任总统奥巴马发表就职演说(字幕) )

Jan 22, 2009

By Oli D

chinese, serious, videos

2 Comments

Check it out!
你看！

My bed is cold (我的床很冷)

Jan 21, 2009

By Oli D

chinese, diary, serious

2 Comments

7 days ago… (7天前…)

I woke up this morning, like every morning, at 8am.
今天早上跟平时一样,大概8点我醒了.

I’ve been waking up at 8am every day for the last few months, out of habit.
过去的几个月我都习惯了每天8点醒来.

Every day I realise I have nothing to do at 8am, so I go back to sleep, and have quite vivid dreams. Before I go to sleep, however, I like to turn on the air conditioning (heating) in my room, to try to defrost it for when I wake up again (at 9am).
每天8点当我意识到没什么可做的,就会继续睡,然后做一个很生动的梦.然后在我继续睡觉前,我喜欢把房间暖气打开,为了再醒来的时候(9点)可以感觉暖一点.

So I go back to sleep, but when I wake up I realise that something doesn’t feel right. I’m shivering like an epileptic in an igloo. But why?! I tried to retrace my steps…what had I done differently this morning? I woke up. I reached for the air conditioning remote control. I pressed the ‘ON’ button. It turned on…
所以我继续睡觉,但是当我醒过来,我意识到有些不对劲.我浑身抖得像一个在小房间的癫痫患者.怎么回事?我尝试一步一步回忆…今天早上我做了什么不一样的? 我醒来.然后拿空调遥控器.我按了’开’.然后开了…

Then it hit me. Literally. Cold air in my face. The air conditionig was conditioning my air to an even 18 degrees celsius. Cold air. For an hour. I was Shanghai’s biggest ice-cube.
然后惊醒了.冷空气扑面而来.空调把房间的温度调到了18摄氏度.冷风.一个小时.我成了上海最大的一个冰块.

Now all I need to do is find a huge cocktail to dive into.
现在我所要做的就是找个巨大的鸡尾酒去潜水.

Phone game – Guess how much my phone cost! PLAY NOW! (手机游戏-猜猜我的手机多少钱！开始！ )

Jan 19, 2009

By Oli D

chinese, diary, movies, photos, technology, videos

32 Comments

The following is a post about my new mobile phone. Please read and then in the ‘COMMENTS’ section guess how much you think it cost! You can guess in any currency, I’ll work it out…

下面贴的就是我的新手机。请你看一下然后在‘评论’里猜一下要多少钱！你可以用各种货币来，我会算的。。。

So…I didn’t plan this…it just happened. I have a new phone! Actually it’s not a phone…it’s a whole new lifesyle…

我没有计划过。。。就是这样发生了。我有了一个新的手机。说是手机，事实上更象一种全新的生活方式。。。

Ok some backstory…we’ve been browsing Shanghai’s notorious ‘fake market’ (opposite 555 Nan Jing Xi Lu) for a couple of weeks now. I say notorious because the majority of the products they sell are…fake. That said, I suppose if you have a ‘fake market’ and sell ‘fake’ goods, then in effect you’re selling genuine goods…anyway…

说点背景故事先…我们已经逛了上海臭名昭著的’假货市场’(南京西路555号对面)好几周了.之所以说臭名昭著是因为那里卖的大部分东西都是…假的.如此说来,我以为一个’假货市场’卖的应该都是’假’货,可事实上,那里卖的都是些很棒的东西…不多说了…

Here’s what’s in the box. Phone, battery, spare battery, headphones/handsfree, usb cable, power adapter. So far, so normal. It is ‘dual sim’, so if you call either of my Chinese phone-numbers, it’ll ring. Nobody does ring them, however, but it’s nice to know that if they did, it would.

这是在盒子里的东西.电话,电池,备用电池,耳机,usb数据线，充电器。到这里还是比较正常的。它是‘双卡’的，就是说你打我两个里任意一个中国号码，它都会响。虽然没人打，但是知道如果有人这么做，它还会响，也是件好事。

Here’s how big it is. The PSP is an ‘original’ PSP (I think – if it makes a difference). As you can see, it is mostly screen (touchscreen – the stylus plugs in to the side), with a small ‘joypad’ style button next to the numbers.

你看它有多大。这是一个‘正常的’PSP（我认为-可能有不同的）。正如你看到的，大部分都是屏幕（触摸屏-手写笔插在旁边），还有一个小的‘手柄‘一个的键在数字键旁边。

It’s not too thick really, around 10mm.

它真的不是很厚，大概10毫米。

Here’s the back. Some ‘interesting’ writing on it…oh…what’s that you say? YEAH MOFO! It says TV!

这是背面。有一些‘有趣‘的字在上面。。。噢。。。你说什么？对！那是电视！

It plays TV programmes! Like…5 channels! Minimum! Depending on where you are, you can get different ones. As you can see from the video, it’s also got a little stand which you can use when you wanna watch it but not hold it in your hand…why anyone would need their hands free when watching TV is beyond me…

它可以播放电视节目！差不多。。。5个频道！至少！你在不一样的地方，可以收到不同的节目。从视频可以看出，它可以站立，你想看的时候就不用握在手里。。。我真不知道为什么有人看电视的时候要空出手。。。

You can also record from the TV! Although I’m not sure what you’d want to record…but still…good to know right? RIGHT?! It plays movies, mp3s, photos etc…and when you turn the screen around, it rotates the aspect of the picture (like those new iPod nanos).

你可以录下电视节目！虽然我不确定你是不是想录。。。但是。。知道也没有坏处，对吗？它还可以播放电影，mp3等，图片等等。。。而且当你转屏幕的时候，图片也会跟着旋转角度（就像那些新的ipod nano一样）。

It has character input (ok my hand was shaky) as well as the normal T9 dictionaries for loads of different languages (including Turkish! Holla!). You can also change the speed that the input ‘accepts’ each stroke, so no more ‘halfway-through-a-character-then-it-guesses-the-wrong-one’ problems. I know everyone has those.

它还有汉字输入法（我的手在抖）和普通的T9词典包括很多不同语言（还有土耳其语！）。你还可以改变它接受每个笔画的速度，就不会出现你输到一半出来一个错误的字的问题了。我知道大家都有这个。

It also has an extremely (uncomfortably) loud MP3/radio player (which I keep accidently setting off on the bus). Ah well…they hate me coz they ain’t me…

它还有一个非常（不舒服的）响的mp3/收音机播放器（我在公车上需要故意把这个设置为关闭）