"HIGH GRADE PUKE"

i found this in my hotel room and just HAD to take a picture of this. now mind you, this is a pretty nice 4-5 star hotel in hangzhou. you would think they would spell check things before they leave things out for the guests to you. i saw this and wondered, "what in the world is 'HIGH GRADE PUKE'. was there different grades for puke that i didn't know about??" i had to ask my language exchange teacher and he told me that this was pinying (sound) translation for "poker"...in chinese, it's PU-KE. so there ya go, high grade puke. =)

lines anyone????

so, here's another frustration.....there's little ol' me waiting for the bathroom; for one of the stalls to open up. what we usually do in the normal world is wait to the side and when one opens up, then you walk to the stall....correct? well, that's NOT the case here in china! a couple of stalls opens up and out of nowhere, this girl and lady walks in FRONT of me and goes into the just-emptied stalls. SERIOUSLY???

so you wanna know why i named this log, "that's china!"?? because there are SOOOOOO many things that happens in china that makes absolutely NO sense whatsoever but you just have to cough it up to "that's china!". so, i'm back in china now....after going back to LA for 2 weeks. man do i miss the US! incident 1....i go to the bank to try to exchange US dollars that i have in my account into RMB (chinese money AKA Ren Men Bi) but i am actually not in the city that i received and signed for the $$. i get to the front of the line and the teller looks at the account and tries to do the exchange. she sees the money in the account and she works on it for about 5 mins....even calls her supervisor over....and after the 5 mins, turns to me and say "sorry, can't be done." i ask why? and the answer?...... "don't know why, it just can't be done." there you go....the profound answer from the teller. kill me....