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GuestBob posted:The E/E PSB in Pingdingshan actually made a specific request that we submit renewals 15 day in advance of their expiry rather than 30 days as we have done in the past. It's their culture please respect it.
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I respect their lunch hour.
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Jun 19, 2014 08:11
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Gifts? Anything in particular that goes over well? I'm going to be there all of July for business. Mostly Guangdong cities, but will go up to Zhejiang to visit a few factories. I was thinking of bringing some hard to find items from the US. Not sure what items are hard to come by. Besides American Booze or Cigs, is there something I can pack that would be a hit?
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Jun 21, 2014 03:06
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FYI anyone in China buying crap in the steam sale. As far as I can tell, UPlay straight up doesn't work without a VPN running. I let it run for like 1 hour without my VPN going and it couldn't update, the second I turned my VPN on it was p fast though. I did have to download a few hundred megs to update it though. Just a warning if you don't have a decent VPN that ubisoft games are bad news.
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Jun 21, 2014 04:16
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GuestBob posted:I respect their lunch hour. Lunch 2-and-then-slack-off-for-2-more-when-returning-to-work hours.
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Jun 21, 2014 04:18
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Magna Kaser posted:FYI anyone in China buying crap in the steam sale. Which is balls, because these new Rayman games look so good...
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Jun 21, 2014 04:21
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I wonder who's side it's on. Techincally EA and Valve don't sell anything in China but I get pretty decent download speeds off of Origin and Steam. GFWL also worked fine when I was playing Dark Souls and SF4. FC3 is especially fun since it has to sync to the server every time you want to go to the pause menu in game. You can't play it non-VPN'd even in single player.
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Jun 21, 2014 05:36
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dont buy ubisoft games
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Jun 21, 2014 09:28
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caberham posted:Quick online search says that your wife can get a type A transit visa valid for 72 hours. That's not a bad idea, even though I won't be traveling with her, her brother is living in Tokyo now.
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Jun 21, 2014 09:31
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What are peoples' downstream bandwidth? I'm stuck at 4Mbit.
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Jun 22, 2014 10:58
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 and actually doing something  So I guess I'm doing okay.
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Bloodnose posted:
Enjoy your 8 gigs of game and like 42 gigs of uncompressed ogg files or whatever haha
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Jun 22, 2014 15:43
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synertia posted:Enjoy your 8 gigs of game and like 42 gigs of uncompressed ogg files or whatever haha Yeah I played it for three hours then uninstalled it. It was a huge disappointment and I'm really glad EA let me try it for free to find out I would never want to buy it for any amount of money.
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goldboilermark posted:You don't need to worry about sim cards, you can pick those up all over the place. They really aren't hard to get working at all. However, if you have like an iPhone or another type of phone, it may not work or may need to be unlocked. iPhone5 doesn't need to be unlocked. Hey, forums were down so I couldn't respond, but thanks for the answers. She got in last night and is setting; I'll be going over myself in a few weeks. Excited, mostly to hang out in Beijing for a few days (I assume there's not much to do in Tianjin, but I'll be writing a bunch). Any thing you can recommend we do / eat at?
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Jun 26, 2014 16:53
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Welp, due to a fuckup at Fedex I am not going to China this summer. Maybe this winter.
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Jun 27, 2014 20:05
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Use DHL for international shipments
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Drunk Tomato posted:Hey, forums were down so I couldn't respond, but thanks for the answers. She got in last night and is setting; I'll be going over myself in a few weeks. Excited, mostly to hang out in Beijing for a few days (I assume there's not much to do in Tianjin, but I'll be writing a bunch). Any thing you can recommend we do / eat at? Do you have PMs? I wouldn't mind typing up a long list of stuff for y'all at the office today.
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Jun 28, 2014 00:39
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I hosed up bad. I went and bought a return ticket without looking at my visa first. I was thinking it ended on August 20th, bought a ticket for August 10th, but it turns out my visa is up on august 5th. (One of my old ones was on the 20th, and I don't think I've looked at this thing in almost a year.) Is there any way to extend a Z visa for a week, or is this even going to matter at all?
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VideoTapir posted:I hosed up bad. I went and bought a return ticket without looking at my visa first. I was thinking it ended on August 20th, bought a ticket for August 10th, but it turns out my visa is up on august 5th. (One of my old ones was on the 20th, and I don't think I've looked at this thing in almost a year.) You have a Z visa?? I'm guessing you mean a residency permit? I guess you could just overstay... and pay the fine.
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Jun 28, 2014 02:41
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Yeah, but I want to come back, that's not going to gently caress me over is it? Christ, that's like 2500 kuai.
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Jun 28, 2014 02:56
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VideoTapir posted:Yeah, but I want to come back, that's not going to gently caress me over is it? You can usually get a week extension. I did once, it cost like 400rmb or something.
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Jun 28, 2014 03:25
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Put on your best smiling white face and just say sorry at the airport. It's only 5 days, you probably won't even have to pay.
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Magna Kaser posted:You can usually get a week extension. I did once, it cost like 400rmb or something. I go to the PSB at Yonghegong for that?
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VideoTapir posted:I go to the PSB at Yonghegong for that? I don't know what yonghegong is. I was living in Hangzhou and just went to the psb, yes. This was like 2010, though.
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Jun 28, 2014 05:13
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Show them your ticket as intention to leave and I bet its no problem.
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Jun 28, 2014 05:15
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That's pretty much what I did. I needed to fill out one form but didn't need to show any additional paperwork, it seemed pricy but wasn't a hassle.
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Jun 28, 2014 05:48
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Magna Kaser posted:I don't know what yonghegong is. I was living in Hangzhou and just went to the psb, yes. This was like 2010, though. This would be the central PSB office where one goes to drop off one's passport to get a residence permit, not just any local PSB office where one goes to register one's residence, right?
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VideoTapir posted:This would be the central PSB office where one goes to drop off one's passport to get a residence permit, not just any local PSB office where one goes to register one's residence, right? I am literally a baby who has only lived in smaller Chinese cities that only have 1 PSB full stop, so I cannot answer this question. I've always registered just at the local paichusuo which is often nothing more than a 10m booth. But I went to the place I get the visas and junk. Ailumao fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Jun 28, 2014 |
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The PSB can extend your RP under exceptional circumstances or put you on a 0 entry L Visa dated from the expiry of the RP but I'm not sure that they will do this without the support of your employer. Worth a try though. And yes, it would be the E/E PSB branch, no other police branch is capable of issuing anything immigration related. Why not go to HK for a bit at the start of August and then just fly back to whichever airport in Beijing you are going to be leaving from. Also, you switching jobs?
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GuestBob posted:The PSB can extend your RP under exceptional circumstances or put you on a 0 entry L Visa dated from the expiry of the RP but I'm not sure that they will do this without the support of your employer. Worth a try though. And yes, it would be the E/E PSB branch, no other police branch is capable of issuing anything immigration related. I'm going back to school for 2 years I don't have any desire to go to Hong Kong, I'd rather just hang out in Beijing for a couple days with my wife. And it turns out my last contracted day at my job is 1 day after my visa ends. hahahaha.
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My FAO managed to get my RP renewed in 9 business days, so apparently the 15 day rule is just as flexible as any other rule as long as your FAO/employer has the pull. I've been breathing the sweet air of Rocky Mountain freedom for two days, feels good to be home. 20 Mbps down downstream bandwidth is dope-as too. Korean Air economy in the A380-800 was awesome, even for my wide goon rear end.
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systran posted:Use DHL for international shipments No, they lost my passport. e: FedEx lost my passport, and it wasn't going international it was going 90 miles south. computer parts fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Jun 28, 2014 |
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Jun 28, 2014 14:12
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VideoTapir posted:I hosed up bad. I went and bought a return ticket without looking at my visa first. I was thinking it ended on August 20th, bought a ticket for August 10th, but it turns out my visa is up on august 5th. (One of my old ones was on the 20th, and I don't think I've looked at this thing in almost a year.) fearcotton got an extension once in like 2011. As I recall, it really wasn't much of a headache at all. computer parts posted:No, they lost my passport. Wow, DHL fail. That sucks.
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Jun 28, 2014 14:22
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computer parts posted:No, they lost my passport. Have you cancelled it?
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Jun 29, 2014 03:09
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So I was in Shanghai for 5 days for a conference and I am pretty disappointed that there were not any pimps or prostitutes calling on my room and at the general lack of vice compared to Singapore. Was I just unlucky or is vice not a big thing in China despite what I heard and read.
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Jun 29, 2014 10:55
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Did you use wechat or momo? Calling rooms is so 2010.
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Jun 29, 2014 11:01
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I tried but I couldn't find any suitable candidates. They just looked like normal people.
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Jun 29, 2014 11:03
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Well uhh, if it's obvious from your profile picture that you are foreign you will usually just get a bunch of friend requests asking you if you need the 妹妹服务, which is what it's called when they send hookers to your hotel room. If you're looking on your own then profile names with 'mm' in them are usually a good place to start, others will be blatantly obvious with profile pictures of half naked girls with some Chinese text over them about the service and a phone number. If you don't speak Chinese this is probably harder than I'm making it sound though, and you'll get overcharged.
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Jun 29, 2014 11:24
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I am Chinese speaking Chinese do I don't look foreign in my profile. Maybe I should change my pic to a white dude? I don't think I noticed any halfnaked profiles though or profiles with mm. Does using the international wechat version make a difference?
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Does everyone in China have an incest fetish sort of how they're linguistically incapable of distinguishing between foreign countries? Serious question.
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