Welcome to Shanghai (上海欢迎您 )
The last couple of weeks have been a bit of an eye-opener for me. A new colleague arrived in my office, and it’s made me cast my mind back to the first few weeks of my time here in China.
前几个星期算是让我小开眼界了。一个新同事来了。很多情景让我回想起我刚到中国的那几个星期。
I was super-excited when I arrived in Shanghai 20 months ago – so excited that I totally ignored nearly all of the faults which, to newcomers, are often obvious.
20个月前到上海的时候我超兴奋-由于太激动了以至于忽视了很多对于一个新来的来说很明显的不足。
The air-quality was atrocious (it’s ok, just hold your breath!), the weather was uncomfortable (that’s what aircon’s for!) and the hygiene of some places, like restaurants, leave a lot to be desired (but McDonald’s in Shanghai is so cheap!).
空气质量恶劣（只要屏住呼吸就没问题了！）天气不舒服（那就是为什么要有空调！）还有有些地方的卫生，比如餐厅，还有很大的提高空间（可是麦当劳在上海非常便宜！）
The one thing that was undeniable, however, was the friendliness and welcome of the people. Everywhere I went, I met people who were more than happy to show me around, give me info and generally help me out – which is why I’m so suprised whenever I see people who are clearly NOT friendly – like this girl:
不可否认的一点是人们很友好。我去的所有的地方，我见过的所有的人都很乐意带我转转，给我信息并且帮助我-这也是为什么当我看到那么明显的不友好的人会如此惊讶-比如这个女孩：
What sort of welcome is that for a lonely fresh-off-the-plane expat? I was considering having a word with her and trying to let her know that it’s not polite to be so abrupt with people…until I saw the front…
对于一个孤身来此的外国人这是哪门子的友好？我正想告诉她这样对人不礼貌而且非常鲁莽…直到我看到前面…
…now that’s more like it! Welcome to Shanghai!
…现在才像话！欢迎来上海！
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November 19th, 2009 | 
Unless DON’T means don’t talk to me and STOP means stop following me.
i think the girl means if you like me ,don’t stop,come on boy!
i am agree with Clark~
Don’t Stop…太淫荡了
Hi, Oli. I traced your blog via your comment on yeka’s post(http://yeka.blogbus.com/logs/50366330.html). What you wrote is really interesting.
B.T.W. your Chinese is awesome!
Haha thanks – I have a great teacher :) I looked over your blog too and it’s cool~
Well, your teacher must be outstanding
:)
我打中文你应该看的懂吧。
Don’t Stop是“不要停”啊，她想干什么。
哈哈,你还真有趣~很高兴认识你.
PS:麻烦把我连接名字由改为:谢~
合作愉快~
呵呵 好可爱。。。。
其实衣服很好看…
寓意深刻。。。 哈哈
你的博客我已添加。
很不错的博客，还是双语的，风格很棒，继续保持哈，交个朋友！
很可爱的文字，无论是英文还是中文，呵呵。
有点小幽默。
链接已经加上，博客和趣味中国。
很高心认识你，链接已经加上，你把我的链接给加上吧！
连接词：php爱好者or php学习
域名：http://www.phplover.cn
很幽默的文字，很高兴认识你！
链接已加上，并且订阅了您的博客
感谢Oli的细心，博客也用两种语言！这件衣服上的文字有点冷幽默！
i think 90% of your commentees are morons, reminiscing about what a t-shirt means, charlie murphy…
anyway, come visit me first week of febraury 2010. i’m off to japan after and will see in in HK for fiona’s :D
I think 100% of your comments are tear stained and I WANT THAT TO CHANGE! i want to visit you but i think our RDV is going to be in HK due to my lack of time off…but I will try. In the meantime why don’t you do some writing for me?! $1 per 20 mins of typing IN WOW MONEY YOU’D BE A MILLIONAIRE WTF
What did that girl think of you, shooting her front and back, in the first few minutes of her arrival?
Girls love stalkers taking pictures of them – Don’t you read the internets??!
I’m afraid I did not know that. I won’t be afraid of taking my camera out anymore!
雙語對照的形式，真是我所喜歡的（我自己也有時候這樣做），不過，發現你找了好多類型的網路上的朋友啊，不知道怎麼交流的過來呢
Twitter帮我跟所有人保持联系！！Including you!
呵呵 Oli你的blog里面总是有很多有趣的事情啊
Hi, your double language blog is absolutely awesome and always funny, my enjoyable stay here, haha.