Comments on: Pondering about housing.......

By: TalkTrain Staff

TalkTrain Staff — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:02:17 +0000

Many changes has happened in the past 30 years. Hopefully one day we can all unite and speak on language.

By: lisa

lisa — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:49:03 +0000

Welcome to our country again! You can see more about our beautiful land and kind people in China.

China is still a developing country now and so, we Chinese people still need to struggle for her prosperity.

By: Lee Ching

Lee Ching — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:43:45 +0000

Talking about old housing in China reminds me of the days when the country was still struggling to modernize. When our government relaxed travel restrictions to China, many Malaysian Chinese took the opportunity to re-visit the villages from which they or their parents came from and to re-connect with siblings, relatives and friends. As many of these Malaysians were quite elderly then, many had their children accompany them and I remembered horror tales recounted by the younger ones upon their return of the bad toilet facilities existing in China then. It seems one has to bring an umbrella when visiting China so you could use it to protect your modesty when using the open plan toilets. Malaysians were not quite used to this.

Well, I made my first visit to China this year and not only was I surprised by the modernity of the city of Hangzhou where I spend my 9 days' vacation (having been entranced by the serenity of the West lake), there were clean public toilets in most part of the city for the conveniences of visitors and tourists. You are now even better than Kuala Lumpur in this respect!

I did not bring any umbrella to China but bought a couple of the famed Hangzhou umbrellas instead. I intend to make regular visits to this wonderful country for as long as my health permits.

By: lisa

lisa — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:00:55 +0000

Wow! Thank you very much for your correction which I agree!

That is why I keep practicing as much as I can with this foreign language.

By: OC

OC — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:21:03 +0000

Time went fast and things changed a lot especially in the last 30 years from 1978 to 2008. I can see the progresses of our country, the reformed China, when I recall my housing and compared the old one with the new one now!

1. progress is very seldom used in the plural.
2. 'a reformed China' might be better.
3. 'housing' refers to many buildings? It cannot be compared with 'one'.
I home this helps a little.

By: Jacky

Jacky — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:17:17 +0000

I don't quite like your suggestion, I prefer Chinesepod

By: loli

loli — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:54:01 +0000

well,actually, I think maybe you could refer to some website, which provide free Chinese learning resources .
of course a good dictionary is of great help when you learn a foreign language.

By: lisa

lisa — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:37:55 +0000

Wow! That is really a good place for tourist. I have been there.

I went to Huang He Lou(Yellow Crane Tower) in May,1997 and enjoyed the great scenery thereI I also like the famous poem on it, made by the ancient poet Wang zhihuan....

However, I think the most missing thing is the young life you had, I bet! And me too, really missing the happy and free life I have had in my childhood, even though the life then was very simple....

By: Aw Guo

Aw Guo — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:21:55 +0000

I really miss my first house. Sigh.. it was in the old city of Wuchang, by the river of ChangJiang, near the Yellow Crane Tower. A very beautiful place to live.

I still remember there's a small hill of "night-blooming cereus"(Aka 昙花,Tanhua)