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  2. Bring iPhones gifts to China?

    in Communications, Planes, Shipping & Money

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    The two of us just got iPhone 4s. Haven't had an antenna issue with them. It drops just as many calls as the 3Gs did. :lol: I was planning to send over my old 3Gs to Ying's brother in China but until recently I think whatever version of the baseband I was running couldn't be unlocked. Ended up giving that to my mom and unlocked my father's old 3G (he also bought an iPhone 4) for Ying's brother. Unfortunately he had updated to 4.0 and it runs slow as hell now. In retrospect, probably should have worked on downgrading to 3.1.3 before mailing it off. We also unlocked the original Edge iPhone for use when visiting China. Probably a moot point now since the new iPhone 4s sound pretty easy to unlock.

     

    http://gizmodo.com/5604031/unlock-tool-ultrasn0w-now-available-for-iphone-4

     

    The new iPhone based unlock hit just a few days after I unlocked the two older phones.

     

    http://gizmodo.com/5601874/jailbreakme-20-jailbreaks-all-apple-ios-40-401-and-321-devices

     

    Here's an article from today on some nifty jailbreak apps.

     

    http://gizmodo.com/5605827/16-reasons-to-jailbreak-your-iphone-or-ipod-touch-now/gallery/

  5. Tomorrows the Day

    in AOS & Immigration Challenges

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    Really wish there were more couples in the Seattle Area. Can't seem to find any now. I will hope that she can find some soon.

     

     

     

    You will. Out of all the couples we have met, one guy was just vaguely familiar with CFL. The girls, however, all use www.fromchinatousa.net AKA 003 and meet each other. We have made some good friends already.

  6. Tomorrows the Day

    in AOS & Immigration Challenges

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    My wife's name is Ying.

    Always has been and always will.

    I never quite got the need to change to an English name.

    Chinese names are meaningful, i.e. Steve = Steve, while

    Ying = hero, lucky one, to win.

    Let people learn her name and respect her for being Asian,

    not who they might think she oughta be.

     

     

    We sure do have a lot of wives with name of Ying on CFL! I agree with this totally. My Ying kept asking if people will have a hard time pronouncing her name. I said no of course not. And that's been generally the case. I do guess we Americans put a harder Y sound in front than the Chinese. I hear "ing" a lot.

     

    Now, Ying did have a collection of English names from her trading company. Alice, Chloe, Donna . . . We had been together in person 2 weeks when her brother took us out for a hot pot lunch. He speaks limited English, but got very serious, looked me in the eye raised his voice and said "Michael! DO YOU LOVE ALICE!" Scared the crap out of me. I'm calling after Ying who went to the bathroom. "Who the hell is this Alice person, baby?" :)

     

    I still find Ying introducing herself as Chloe. Sometimes it's just the person she meets. If she doesn't feel like she will be good friends (like college classmates, study partners), she'll use Chloe.

  7. Alien Body Found

    in The Middle Kingdom - 中国

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    From my wife - It's in Thailand. Found by people in the country. Doesn't look like human or animal. They think it looks like an alien and they are worshipping it. They put it in a temple and treat it like a holy spirit.

     

    Weird. Looks like concrete to me. Or maybe mummified? Probably a deformed child or little person.

  8. ipad clone

    in The Middle Kingdom - 中国

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    I saw this video yesterday too. Liked the little bit of video of Hua Zhuang Bei in Shenzhen. Browsing that area was 2 subway stops away and always a fun time killer when I was bored. You could go look at the latest SONY, APPLE or NIKON products or browse the fakes.

     

    Also some of the oddest looking phones I've ever seen. One style I saw was a retro looking mobile that looked like an early 90s brick style phone with an antenna. But it also had a camera in it with interchangeable lenses! I sort of wanted to bring one back.

  9. Not all Chinese welcome Americans/foreigners

    in The Middle Kingdom - 中国

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    Our experiences have been 99% ok. Probably the worst was this foolish police woman on a bike who yelled at me for being in my wife's hometown (after we had lunch with the police chief :rolleyes:) Later it turned out Ying needed to get some visa paperwork, and of course she needed to see that woman. She tried to talk Ying out of marriage to me by listing off a number of reasons that Chinese women should stay in China.

     

    But on a more violent turn . . .

     

    We actually are actually friends with a couple (not on CFL) who were attacked by two well-connected city officials while at KTV last year.

     

    These two thugs were drunk, broke a bottle and cut the girl's face. The whole time they were screaming at her she must be a prostitute for being with the American. The husband landed a few good punches before security came over and threw out the drunks. The police did little since they were well-connected.

     

    Joke was on them. The young lady had some high up military connections from her time in the PLA. She got back home and the ball started rolling. A week later she was back in the city where it all happened and there was a significant payout from the thugs' families.

  12. Chairman Mao's Underground City

    in The Middle Kingdom - 中国

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    http://nmvsite.com/underground-city

     

    In 1969, Chairman Mao commanded the construction of a second Beijing beneath the surface of the original city, designed to accommodate all six million of its then inhabitants so that if nuclear war did kick off, folk would still have somewhere to hang out and play Mah Jong while the rest of us burnt to death in a shower of atomic rain. War never came, but the city is still there.

     

    So who wants to go wade through some of this slop next time you are in Beijing? ewwwww :lol: :huh: :ph34r:

  13. Last week

    in Stateside

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    Congrats on the new house. We just did the same thing. Received a NOA for the I-865 but not the AR-11. I guess that's normal. Same story the first time we moved last summer.

  17. Two welcome letters

    in AOS & Immigration Challenges

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    @ Michael and Sam

     

    Sure, I'm up for it if you guys will provide the anxiety medication.

     

     

    Anxiety medicine eh?

    Relax Kyle, we will send you CFL's anxiety expert from Arizona to help you keep calm. :lol:

     

    Robert And Kyle's Chinese Driving School

     

    I'm visualizing it as a 90 minute bromantic comedy now. It practically writes itself!

  19. Two welcome letters

    in AOS & Immigration Challenges

    Posted

    Well it sounds like JingJing is on her way with drivng. Ying will get there. We need to devote some time to it, but she spends so much time studying! It's insane! But the grades are impressive.

     

    I actually looked at a few used cars on a whim yesterday. Found an 84 Mercedes turbo diesel. I have this biodiesel conversion fantasy. It was in Remarkable shape for 2200 bucks, but Ying nixed it. She liked the 2000 clk 430. Riiiiiight, like I am turning the keys to a v8 over to a new driver.

     

    We will see how long we can go wth one car. The bus route directly to her school is right near our new house. That helps.

  23. I-Touch

    in Communications, Planes, Shipping & Money

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    My wife has her iPhone and Dictionary apps, translation apps yet she still insists her little pocket b/w LCD translator is better! LOL it looks like one of those handheld video games circa 1987.

     

    Almost ordered an iPad for her birthday but I know that would result in a mop slap and a response like "I know you just bought this for yourself!"

     

    she loves her MacBook though and takes it to school everyday and uses the translation widgets I installed.

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