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Amythornbird · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:19 pm Post subject: Hanghzhou - a romantic city

Hangzhou is known as one of the most romantic cities in China for its west Lake. It is located 200 kilometers southwest of Shanghai and is the capital of Hangzhou Province, one of the seven ancient capitals of China. Here I’ll recommend some good sights to see in Hangzhou(to see the full introduction, please go to echinacities.com).

Lingering Snow on the Broken Bridge (Duan Qiao Can Xue): This stone-arched bridge is known as “Lover’s bridge”, and is said to be the place where the legendary White Snake and Xu Xian first met

Lotus in the Breeze at Crooked Country yard (Qu Yuan Feng He): This is the site of a wine shop of the Southern Song Dynasty, named after the lotuses in the country yard. Here you can find various kind of lotuses and in the grove are tall fir trees, making it quiet and cool.

beijinger1 · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:42 pm Post subject:

The one of the best place in the china is hangzou known as romantic city located nearby lake.But you should be aware of scams problem.
Hey everyone, since my publication of ads for work I have been requested for several shady deals here in thebeijinger. SO i want to post this out for =eople to beware scammers out there.

Anyways, from the start this guy sounded a bit strange, but I just assumed his =nglish wasn't very good so he couldn't communicate well. Here's the =tory:

I just recently posted an ad on here looking for work and got a call from = "professor" of ligong da xue telling me they have some sort =eeting and they want foreigners there, and because I was looking for part-time =ork as an actor this would be good. (which means to me they are looking for =ctors?)

First he said he worked for the university, then he said that the meeting is =or the Olympics and put up by the Olympics. And I would have to be on for 5 =inutes talking about the olympics and beijing. Now i'm a bit confused in how the olympics has anything to do with =igong daxue, or acting, but I continue listening and asking for more =etails.

And he said there will be many companies and businesses there. So i ask =quot;is this setup by the Inernational Olympic Committee, or the China Olympic Committee? Of which he says that the meeting is put up by many =ompanies.

So i ask, who is putting this meeting up exactly? Of which he now replies =enovo. (hmm... confusion level rising)

Now i'm thinking How does Lenovo, the olympics, acting, their school and I =ave anything in common?

He's obviously beating around the bush on something. Most calls that are for =egit work call and tell me right away where they work, what they are doing, =hat they need and the pay. This guy was just not being clear about anything. =ut anyways, i passed it on to a chinese speaker so he could speak to them =n Chinese.

Then he tried explaining, in Chinese, while my friend got all the details and =hen the guy somehow just got either a)upset or b) really nervous as to =iguring out his scam. So he cut the conversation off while insulting =s.

When I called him back to tell him to speak to foreigners more directly so we =an understand and not say things that aren't, he started yelling and =nsulting me in Chinese with very advanced language such as: F*#$ your Mother... etc =tc.

Now, i've never heard any professor here in China using such language =o that immediately told me something was up.

Anwyays, now I keep getting harrassing calls from him, telling me he has my phone =umber and that i should be scared. (scared of what? I don't know. I can get a =ew phone number just as easy as i got this one lol)

But seriously. Guys, beware of anyone calling saying they're from ligong =axue.

compevo · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 4:01 am Post subject:

beijinger1 thanks for the warning.
I've heard in 2006 Hangzhou was voted the best tourism city in China actually.

This was shown on CCTV

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