Smeef posted:

I'm down for rabbit head on Friday night.

Magna Kaser posted:

Caberham's face turns red when he eats hot pot. It doesn't turn red when he eats the other things.

THE LUMMOX posted:

Mackieman posted:

I feel I was denied some critical, need-to-know information:

Baijiu will gently caress your world right up.

upThanks, thread.

Mackieman posted:

So, this thread was exceedingly helpful in several aspects of my information gathering for my trip to Shanghai. Now that I have been here for a couple of days and have attended two separate dinners in my honor (I have no idea why they think I'm important), I feel I was denied some critical, need-to-know information:

Baijiu will gently caress your world right up.

upThanks, thread.

Mackieman posted:

So, this thread was exceedingly helpful in several aspects of my information gathering for my trip to Shanghai. Now that I have been here for a couple of days and have attended two separate dinners in my honor (I have no idea why they think I'm important), I feel I was denied some critical, need-to-know information:

Baijiu will gently caress your world right up.

upThanks, thread.

RocknRollaAyatollah posted:

EDIT: You're a strange and curious animal, a foreigner. It's like having Spider-Man come to your birthday party when you're 5 for most Chinese people.

Facepalm Ranger posted:

Still contemplating it, but I don't really want to spend up to £2,000 to go back into education, plus I don't really have that much to spare on something that feels like I'm basically choosing a swimming pool at random to jump into blind folded.

We're still looking at visas as the embassy websites aren't 100% clear.

EDIT: sigh, I can only find chengdu and Sichuan universities that do Chinese tuition, is there anywhere else I've missed out?

xenilk posted:

Has anyone here bought tickets from 247tickets.cn ?

I want to buy tickets for the Avicii concert on Nov 29th, trying to figure out where I'll pick them up.

http://www.247tickets.cn/tickets/avicii

quote:

"***********THE PROMOTER HAS SAID THAT THESE TICKETS WILL NOW BE AVAILABLE FROM MID NOVEMBER. WE WILL BE DISTRIBUTING THE TICKETS AFTER. WE WILL CONTACT YOU TO ARRANGE PICKUP OR DELIVERY ONCE THE TICKETS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED.*******

Magna Kaser posted:

Southwest Minorities School, Southwest Finance School, probably others. The prices are all about the same.

SB35 posted:

The website you just linked says:

Facepalm Ranger posted:

Thanks man, I had a look at Southwest Minorities School (or as it calls itself "Southwest University for Nationalities") and it's prices for a year seem much more reasonable than Sichuan University at 6000 RMB per semester with around 12-16 hrs per week, which is pretty good I guess and the course starts in March which would give me a month to settle in.

My girlfriend is gonna get her mum to call them and find out more info and how I can apply but this seems like the longest and cheapest option thanks for suggesting it.

EDIT: Any ideas how much a student visa costs or is it classed as 12 month Multiple entry one? gosh! They sure do make getting into China hard.

Arglebargle III posted:

Crossposting for ~serious business~ because I want people to see this.

Real advice time, and this time it's not about me or about my dumb job. We have a student who was pulled out of our program because her family didn't want to pay and because some cousins had a bad experience (probably failed out) of American universities. The thing is she's a top student, like #2 in her class, and she's back for a visit and talking about how miserable she is in Chinese high school and how she wants to come back to our program and go to an American university. I have no doubt that if she graduated from our program she would be accepted to a number of good American colleges, maybe with generous scholarships.

Her English is really good, her attitude is really good, her grades were almost perfect, she's one of those students for whom I would write a glowing college recommendation letter. She was one of the students selected for a trip abroad last year because of her English ability. She says that if it didn't cost anything she could continue here at our college prep program. A coworker suggested trying to get sponsorship for a scholarship at our program. We're all trying to think of ways to help her out.

Do you guys have any ideas?

Tom Smykowski posted:

WHY???
The death of the #1-China-Goon-Crew-That-Is-Better-Than-The-Lame-Hong-Kong-Crew draws near.

Arglebargle III posted:

Crossposting for ~serious business~ because I want people to see this.

Real advice time, and this time it's not about me or about my dumb job. We have a student who was pulled out of our program because her family didn't want to pay and because some cousins had a bad experience (probably failed out) of American universities. The thing is she's a top student, like #2 in her class, and she's back for a visit and talking about how miserable she is in Chinese high school and how she wants to come back to our program and go to an American university. I have no doubt that if she graduated from our program she would be accepted to a number of good American colleges, maybe with generous scholarships.

Her English is really good, her attitude is really good, her grades were almost perfect, she's one of those students for whom I would write a glowing college recommendation letter. She was one of the students selected for a trip abroad last year because of her English ability. She says that if it didn't cost anything she could continue here at our college prep program. A coworker suggested trying to get sponsorship for a scholarship at our program. We're all trying to think of ways to help her out.

Do you guys have any ideas?

BadAstronaut posted:

The death of the #1-China-Goon-Crew-That-Is-Better-Than-The-Lame-Hong-Kong-Crew-That-Itself-Is-Soon-To-Be-Overshadowed-By-The-Shanghai-Crew draws near.

Magna Kaser posted:

ba can we meet up and talk about video games and emails and video games about emails? I have a great concept kicking around it's like papers, please but you have to get 25k subscribers to your corporate mailing list in a dystopian future or your family will go hungry. Also if the click rate is less than 25% they cut off a toe.

i plan on making it entirely out of sonic the hedgehog sprites

Magna Kaser posted:

ba can we meet up and talk about video games and emails and video games about emails? I have a great concept kicking around it's like papers, please but you have to get 25k subscribers to your corporate mailing list in a dystopian future or your family will go hungry. Also if the click rate is less than 25% they cut off a toe.

i plan on making it entirely out of sonic the hedgehog sprites

BadAstronaut posted:

Sure I can do all of these things, and I know this hedgehog and even some of his companions so sure lets do this thing. Also does the toenail have polish on it and is it because of a carpet hunting minigame that is an adventure game with more content than the actual video game emailing main game?

BadAstronaut posted:

The death of the #1-China-Goon-Crew-That-Is-Better-Than-The-Lame-Hong-Kong-Crew-That-Itself-Is-Soon-To-Be-Overshadowed-By-The-Shanghai-Crew draws near.

Tom Smykowski posted:

CHENGDU FOOD STUFF GOON EATING MEETING

WHEN?
Tomorrow. 6? 7?

WHAT?
Eating 干锅 Gan guo (Dry pot??). Maybe a rabbit head or two.

WHERE?
Southside is probably the easiest to meet. I don't know any gan guo places in the south. We could meet somewhere easy (Jiuyanqiao or Chuanda?) then move on from there. Because there are a million gan guo places all over.

Unless one of you Southies has a suggestion. Or you could brave passing Tianfu Square and try some northside food

WHY???
The death of the #1-China-Goon-Crew-That-Is-Better-Than-The-Lame-Hong-Kong-Crew draws near.

Bloodnose posted:

Hahahahaha "not Outback".

The best places for steak are as follows, all in TST:
Steik World Meats
The Intercontinental
BLT Steak
Morton's
Ruth's Chris

caberham posted:

You can choose 24 kinds of mustards, 6 kinds of steak knives.

Verlay posted:

Has anyone here gotten onboard with the CSC scholarship? My uni (an art school) just got in cahoots with the local embassy to offer the program and I'm a bit curious if anyones got on the scholarship and studied something besides Chinese. From what I understand I have to take a year (or two) of language courses if my intentions to study some fine oil painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Magna Kaser posted:

I did, and another guy from my same program actually got in an art program at the Central Academy of Fine Arts on it. There's a language requirement, but it's purely based on your actual language ability and not a certain amount of classes taken or credits or anything. It's HSK 4 for undergrad and 5 or 6 for grad, but it's all very loose and if you get good enough recommendation letters you can skip that.

If you can't speak any Chinese the classes would probably be pretty rough, though.

ZombieParts posted:

Southwest Universities for Nationalities will give you a student Visa. You'll want to get the year long Visa because that one is actually one year long. If you sign up for just one semester you're going to end up with something more like a 4 month Visa and you're going to be forced to exit China, get a new Tourist Visa, and then start all over if you stay any longer. It's also really fun to stay in the dormitory there because there are Koreans, British, Americans, Yodas, Australians and a few other nationalities hanging around so you have quite an interesting time. SW University will give you a book that has addresses for where to get health check and where to notify the police that you are staying in Chengdu. They give you all the paperwork.

They take about two weeks to process your Visa so make sure you have plenty of time left on your tourist Visa if you enter China on it.

That place was great for me. I had lived here on a purchased business visa for a year while working at a private school and without warning the business Visas became nearly impossible to get and I had to move quickly. I went in, gave them the money and they gave me books and a class schedule. I got a really well done Chinese language course out of it and a year long Visa that gave me a chance to get a proper job.

Verlay posted:

Thanks! Do you know if it's possible for to study Chinese for a year at a Language university and then take courses at CAFA. The CSC site states "students who do not meet the language proficiency requirement for the major study shall take 1-2 years’ Chinese language classes before they start the major program" and "students with no prior knowledge of Chinese language shall take 1 year foundation courses at the assigned universities." I'm not sure if that means "study Chinese on your own time" or "we're going to make you learn Chinese here".

Facepalm Ranger posted:

Thanks, so do I have to choose the year long course then?

Verlay posted:

Thanks! Do you know if it's possible for to study Chinese for a year at a Language university and then take courses at CAFA. The CSC site states "students who do not meet the language proficiency requirement for the major study shall take 1-2 years’ Chinese language classes before they start the major program" and "students with no prior knowledge of Chinese language shall take 1 year foundation courses at the assigned universities." I'm not sure if that means "study Chinese on your own time" or "we're going to make you learn Chinese here".