Oli's Shanghai Blog

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 [...]

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I absolutely love our local fake DVD shop. THere are two floors of movies, music dvds, cds and tv series. The people who work in there are always funny and relaxed and they’ll be honest with you if the quality of the disc is not exactly ‘100%’.
我真心喜欢我们这里的盗版DVD商店。2层楼都是电影，音乐，cd和电视剧。在那里的工作人员总是很有意思并且很放松，而且如果片子的质量不是100%的好，他们绝对会如实告诉你。
I went in last week and spent a bit [...]

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Some people moan about customer service in Shanghai, but I found one café near my workplace which actually thanks you if you take the piss out of them!
有些人常常抱怨上海的客服，可是我发现我工作的地方旁边的一个咖啡馆，他们会感谢你如果你拿他们开玩笑！

I wonder what they’d do if you didn’t pay?
我在想，如果你吃霸王餐他们会拿你怎么样？
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TESL stands for, amongst other things, Teaching English as a Second Language.
TESL表示教授母语非英语者英语.

Maybe there is some subliminal messaging in this sign?
也许这里面还有某些引申义？
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I usually try not to reprint things here (or take things from other places), but I absolutely love this picture which was taken from a Chinese exam paper (allegedly). If you like this sort of story, there are loads of funny videos and funny photos from China at Funny in China – 趣味中国!
通常我都不会转帖到这里（或者把别的地方的东西拿来用），但是我真的很喜欢这张中国考卷（真心的）。如果你也喜欢这样的小品，可以上Funny in China [...]

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