Comments on: Let’s play I-Spy in China! http://www.lostlaowai.com/blog/2007/07/15/lets-play-i-spy-in-china/ The no-nonsense China expat and traveller community. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:10:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Lori http://www.lostlaowai.com/blog/2007/07/15/lets-play-i-spy-in-china/#comment-7839 Lori Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:02:27 +0000 http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/07/15/lets-play-i-spy-in-china/#comment-7839 Also for Nanjing - Trying to bargain with a stall and having about 10 other vendors gather around and "help" your vendor - 10 pts. Trying to buy something mundane at FuZiMiao and the starting price not being about 200% more than you just bought it from the same vendor a week ago - 85pts! Also for Nanjing -
Trying to bargain with a stall and having about 10 other vendors gather around and “help” your vendor - 10 pts.

Trying to buy something mundane at FuZiMiao and the starting price not being about 200% more than you just bought it from the same vendor a week ago - 85pts!

]]> By: Lauren http://www.lostlaowai.com/blog/2007/07/15/lets-play-i-spy-in-china/#comment-6542 Lauren Sun, 29 Jul 2007 03:43:10 +0000 http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/07/15/lets-play-i-spy-in-china/#comment-6542 Here are some for Nanjing... Getting on the air-conditioned version of a bus...5 points Getting on a bus in which there are no holes in the floor...20 points Getting on a bus and having it break down half-way through the route...50 points Getting on a bus and not being the only foreigner on it...70 points Here are some for Nanjing…

Getting on the air-conditioned version of a bus…5 points
Getting on a bus in which there are no holes in the floor…20 points
Getting on a bus and having it break down half-way through the route…50 points
Getting on a bus and not being the only foreigner on it…70 points

]]> By: Pat http://www.lostlaowai.com/blog/2007/07/15/lets-play-i-spy-in-china/#comment-6533 Pat Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:21:20 +0000 http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/07/15/lets-play-i-spy-in-china/#comment-6533 Then sun in Chengdu? Have you been to your northern neighbor Xi'an? The sun here must be worth atleast 80 points. Here's some more: A crowd of people gathered around a traffic accident, 15 points A crowd of people gathered around a fight and attempting to break it up, 80 points A crowd of people gathered around a fight just watching, 40 points A crowd of people gathered around someone signing karaoke for money, 10 points Someone littering, 0 points Someone using the rubbish bin, 5 points Someone littering right next to the rubbish bin, 10 points Someone's phone rings in class, 5 points Someone answers their phone in class, 30 points Someone answers their phone in a movie theatre, 5 points Someone answers their phone at an intimate live performance, 20 points Chinese college aged couple kissing in public, 5 points Chinese midddle/old aged couple kissing in public, 90 points Chinese college aged couple arguing, 10 points And for some even-handedness Laowai in a DVD shop, 5 points Laowai gets unreasonably angry over something rather commonplace, 25 points Laowai with spikey hair at a disco, 10 points Laowai makes eye-contact with you and nods/smiles, 15 points Laowai makes eye-contact with you then pretends he didn't see you, 5 points Then sun in Chengdu? Have you been to your northern neighbor Xi’an? The sun here must be worth atleast 80 points.

Here’s some more:
A crowd of people gathered around a traffic accident, 15 points
A crowd of people gathered around a fight and attempting to break it up, 80 points
A crowd of people gathered around a fight just watching, 40 points
A crowd of people gathered around someone signing karaoke for money, 10 points

Someone littering, 0 points
Someone using the rubbish bin, 5 points
Someone littering right next to the rubbish bin, 10 points

Someone’s phone rings in class, 5 points
Someone answers their phone in class, 30 points
Someone answers their phone in a movie theatre, 5 points
Someone answers their phone at an intimate live performance, 20 points

Chinese college aged couple kissing in public, 5 points
Chinese midddle/old aged couple kissing in public, 90 points
Chinese college aged couple arguing, 10 points

And for some even-handedness
Laowai in a DVD shop, 5 points
Laowai gets unreasonably angry over something rather commonplace, 25 points
Laowai with spikey hair at a disco, 10 points
Laowai makes eye-contact with you and nods/smiles, 15 points
Laowai makes eye-contact with you then pretends he didn’t see you, 5 points

]]> By: Ryan http://www.lostlaowai.com/blog/2007/07/15/lets-play-i-spy-in-china/#comment-6513 Ryan Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:07:56 +0000 http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/07/15/lets-play-i-spy-in-china/#comment-6513 Only if your boyfriend is in the room with you - otherwise you might begin to doubt you saw it yourself. ;-) Only if your boyfriend is in the room with you - otherwise you might begin to doubt you saw it yourself. ;-)

]]> By: English LaoWai http://www.lostlaowai.com/blog/2007/07/15/lets-play-i-spy-in-china/#comment-6502 English LaoWai Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:02:32 +0000 http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/07/15/lets-play-i-spy-in-china/#comment-6502 I had a Chinese boyfriend while I was living in a small sunny city in China.. As I'm a foreign girl does that mean I get 70 points just for looking in the mirror? I had a Chinese boyfriend while I was living in a small sunny city in China.. As I’m a foreign girl does that mean I get 70 points just for looking in the mirror?

]]> By: Mr Bamboo http://www.lostlaowai.com/blog/2007/07/15/lets-play-i-spy-in-china/#comment-6482 Mr Bamboo Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:34:19 +0000 http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/07/15/lets-play-i-spy-in-china/#comment-6482 Seeing the sun and a blue sky in Chengdu, 75 points (Seriously, this place makes Beijing look like sunshine city.) Seeing a motorist voluntarily give way to anything of equal size, 25 points Seeing a motorist voluntarily give way to anything smaller than their vehicle, 50 points (But for the second one, mobs of pedestrians and cyclists don't count. For the first, black Audis with tinted windows and lacking reg plates trump everything else.) <blockquote>A foreign man partnered with a Chinese girl or woman of similar age, 10 points A foreign man partnered with a much younger Chinese girl, 25 points</blockquote> Wrong way round. You'd see far more fat, ugly 55-year-olds with their 25-year-old Chinese girlfriends up Wangfujing than you'd see foreign, twentysomething boys with Chinese girlfriends of similar age. Perhaps around Chinese universities. I can think of a bunch of others, but they end up being of rather dubious propriety. Seeing the sun and a blue sky in Chengdu, 75 points

(Seriously, this place makes Beijing look like sunshine city.)

Seeing a motorist voluntarily give way to anything of equal size, 25 points
Seeing a motorist voluntarily give way to anything smaller than their vehicle, 50 points

(But for the second one, mobs of pedestrians and cyclists don’t count. For the first, black Audis with tinted windows and lacking reg plates trump everything else.)

A foreign man partnered with a Chinese girl or woman of similar age, 10 points
A foreign man partnered with a much younger Chinese girl, 25 points

Wrong way round. You’d see far more fat, ugly 55-year-olds with their 25-year-old Chinese girlfriends up Wangfujing than you’d see foreign, twentysomething boys with Chinese girlfriends of similar age. Perhaps around Chinese universities.

I can think of a bunch of others, but they end up being of rather dubious propriety.

]]> By: Steven http://www.lostlaowai.com/blog/2007/07/15/lets-play-i-spy-in-china/#comment-6481 Steven Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:07:55 +0000 http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/07/15/lets-play-i-spy-in-china/#comment-6481 that was indeed a rare one, ambling sheep. well done! i'd pitch that as a sight worth 75 points, same as the "A taxi driver who obeys most road regulations" sighting ;) that was indeed a rare one, ambling sheep. well done!

i’d pitch that as a sight worth 75 points, same as the “A taxi driver who obeys most road regulations” sighting ;)

]]> By: Ambling Sheep http://www.lostlaowai.com/blog/2007/07/15/lets-play-i-spy-in-china/#comment-6480 Ambling Sheep Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:40:48 +0000 http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/07/15/lets-play-i-spy-in-china/#comment-6480 You can judge the number of points for this but it should be pretty high - possibly a never to be repeated event... 'A taxi driver who asks you to move your bag because it's obscuring her view of the mirror' You can judge the number of points for this but it should be pretty high - possibly a never to be repeated event…

‘A taxi driver who asks you to move your bag because it’s obscuring her view of the mirror’

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