<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205689267002167402</id><updated>2011-04-21T14:21:58.278-07:00</updated><category term='Team'/><category term='one dream'/><category term='Nuvem'/><category term='grande muralha'/><category term='Tibete'/><category term='10 don&apos;t do'/><category term='prenda'/><category term='visão contacto'/><category term='tons'/><category term='Bilhetes'/><category term='genesis'/><category term='argumentos'/><category term='curiosidades'/><category term='blog'/><category term='futebol'/><category term='ano novo chinês'/><category term='Comida'/><category term='Mutianyu'/><category term='piquena'/><category term='7 maravilhas'/><category term='natal'/><category term='macaco'/><category term='Fading Away'/><category term='teatro'/><category term='fraldas'/><category term='dummies'/><category term='Vikings'/><category term='china daily'/><category term='One world'/><category term='viver'/><category term='Pan kun'/><category term='beijing'/><category term='adriana calcanhoto'/><category term='conflitos'/><category term='china'/><category term='Mc Donalds'/><category term='firewall'/><category term='love'/><category term='treino'/><category term='mandarim'/><category term='aula'/><category term='Football'/><category term='fogo de artifício'/><category term='google'/><title type='text'>China for Dummies</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Hugo Triunfante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13890124472457731332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XxL_lSjWI/AAAAAAAAAGc/XfyKvm_oPdE/S220/PC290428.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>22</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205689267002167402.post-638659446992268188</id><published>2008-07-03T23:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-04T00:25:10.740-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Team'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vikings'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Football'/><title type='text'>Vikings survival ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;... and now I can finally finish the story! The Vikings achieved the maintenance in the first division of the 11-a-side (ok ok, it was in the last round, extremely hot day and the other team had only 1 sub against 7, details) and we got promoted to the first division in the 5-a-side.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/SG3JQQAjA2I/AAAAAAAAA1o/hTS4ioRuF_A/s1600-h/DSC_0385_edited.JPG"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219048824204624738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/SG3JQQAjA2I/AAAAAAAAA1o/hTS4ioRuF_A/s400/DSC_0385_edited.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Vikings 2007/2008 - Top: Peter V, Johannes, Yi Fan, Hugo, Aaron, Stian, Pete the Swede, Mads, Andreas, Sebastian, Liu Jiabao, Mikael. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Down: Ole, Kim, Kasper, HC, Eddie, Velux, Natan, Teemu and Eskil.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I've made a lot of new Scandinavian friends that I will miss. I would like to thank you all guys for the team spirit and the way you received me. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Now, as a reward for the good performance, I have the two promised nordic girls to take with me to Portugal. Anybody interested? No one? Have to throw them away?! :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I 've learned that:&lt;br /&gt;- The Vikings spirit still exists;&lt;br /&gt;- If you are 30, from denmark, and you are not married in your birthday, u'll get pepper in the eyes;&lt;br /&gt;- There are diferences between danes, finish, swedish and norwegian;&lt;br /&gt;- You always need to look up;&lt;br /&gt;- Not all of them have blue eyes and blonde hair;&lt;br /&gt;- There are people still trying to find out if they are norwegian or swedish;&lt;br /&gt;- The most important danish word is: "Skål" (cheers);&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;"Winning isn't everything"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7205689267002167402-638659446992268188?l=china4dummies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/feeds/638659446992268188/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7205689267002167402&amp;postID=638659446992268188&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/638659446992268188'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/638659446992268188'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/2008/07/vikings-survival.html' title='Vikings survival ...'/><author><name>Hugo Triunfante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13890124472457731332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XxL_lSjWI/AAAAAAAAAGc/XfyKvm_oPdE/S220/PC290428.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/SG3JQQAjA2I/AAAAAAAAA1o/hTS4ioRuF_A/s72-c/DSC_0385_edited.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205689267002167402.post-94596707702873021</id><published>2008-07-02T02:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-02T18:08:59.520-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nuvem'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Comida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mc Donalds'/><title type='text'>Nuvem e Hamburguer de ... patanisca!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Imaginem que vão ao Mc Donalds e querem pedir um simples hamburguer ... uma tarefa que aparentemente pode ser simples torna-se num autêntico pesadelo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Primeiro, porque as ementas estão todas em chinês ... e a única coisa mais ou menos familiar é o mítico Big Mac.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Segundo, porque os empregados não falam bolha de inglês. Mal te aproximas do balcão a empregada estica-te imediatamente o braço empunhando um papel com todas as opções e só tens de apontar o que queres ... para escolher depois as opções é que é um filme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Terceiro, porque os gostos dos chineses são tão esquisitos que, até hamburgueres de bacalhau há ... leram bem ... BACALHAU.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/SGtG8_eB_AI/AAAAAAAAA0w/409DYUfkds4/s1600-h/P7010208.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/SGtG8_eB_AI/AAAAAAAAA0w/409DYUfkds4/s320/P7010208.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218342606882339842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Hamburguer de Bacalhau ... um clássico!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;E já que estamos a falar de comida, aproveitar para dizer que finalmente tirei a barriga de misérias :) A inauguração do primeiro restaurante português em Pequim foi um sucesso. Parabéns ao cozinheiro (Ricardo) e à malta que soube disfrutar de tão fabuloso banquete com um brilho nos olhos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;O restaurante chama-se &lt;a href="http://www.nuvem.net.cn"&gt;Nuvem&lt;/a&gt; e fica nos lagos de Hou Hai.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/SGtJrcZyZdI/AAAAAAAAA1A/WdeOdVj-6b0/s1600-h/Nuvem0.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/SGtJrcZyZdI/AAAAAAAAA1A/WdeOdVj-6b0/s320/Nuvem0.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218345603946407378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Chegada VIP de barco :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/SGtJZzWnQLI/AAAAAAAAA04/yIx2Rt4uvA4/s1600-h/Nuvem3.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/SGtJZzWnQLI/AAAAAAAAA04/yIx2Rt4uvA4/s320/Nuvem3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218345300869464242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Enchidos ... bah!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/SGtJ_SFzQNI/AAAAAAAAA1I/XL2999Ow8F4/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/SGtJ_SFzQNI/AAAAAAAAA1I/XL2999Ow8F4/s320/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218345944775606482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;O retrato para a posteridade com o mestre&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"If all else fails, try the obvious."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7205689267002167402-94596707702873021?l=china4dummies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/feeds/94596707702873021/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7205689267002167402&amp;postID=94596707702873021&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/94596707702873021'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/94596707702873021'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/2008/07/hamburguer-de.html' title='Nuvem e Hamburguer de ... patanisca!'/><author><name>Hugo Triunfante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13890124472457731332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XxL_lSjWI/AAAAAAAAAGc/XfyKvm_oPdE/S220/PC290428.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/SGtG8_eB_AI/AAAAAAAAA0w/409DYUfkds4/s72-c/P7010208.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205689267002167402.post-6728892050673947763</id><published>2008-04-23T19:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-24T08:57:05.226-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='One world'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='one dream'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='china'/><title type='text'>One world one dream</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/SBCtwyuu4cI/AAAAAAAAAJA/5OuXi11vzNI/s1600-h/PC250269.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/SBCtwyuu4cI/AAAAAAAAAJA/5OuXi11vzNI/s400/PC250269.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192841424121291202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Curso acabado, e agora? Para muitos licenciados existem apenas duas opções: trabalhar em Portugal ou acabar no desemprego. Eu optei pela terceira: trabalhar no estrangeiro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Setembro de 2007. Depois de 6 anos na Universidade Minho a estudar LESI, embarquei numa aventura sem destino marcado. O programa INOV Contacto é isso mesmo. Um programa de estágios internacionais, que completa este ano a sua 12ª Edição, e que possibilita aos participantes efectuar um estágio internacional por um período máximo de 9 meses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Candidatamo-nos, completamos um conjunto de provas e só quando somos finalmente aceites é que nos comunicam o nosso destino: país e empresa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pequim, China. Confesso que não estava minimamente preparado para uma mudança tão radical. Gostaria de ter ficado pela Europa, por razões de proximidade afectiva e de comodidade pessoal, mas a sorte enviou-me para longe, para viver e trabalhar no gigante asiático.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O choque cultural é algo que nunca poderia ter encontrado em qualquer outro país da europa. Em todos os cantos e esquinas encontramos algo novo: os cheiros, a língua, a cultura, os sabores, a história…a novidade nunca se esgota. Sobretudo no ano dos Jogos Olímpicos, Pequim quer ser o centro do mundo. Viver na capital chinesa é como estar numa panela em ebulição. A cidade move-se a uma velocidade alucinante. Há sempre algo novo para conhecer, alguma coisa para aprender, algo a experimentar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os chineses são pessoas verdadeiramente fantásticas. Acolhedoras, simpáticas, introvertidas, ingénuas, submissas, filhas de um regime que não escolheram mas que respeitam acima de tudo. A língua, é por vezes uma barreira enorme, e uma tarefa aparentemente simples como uma viagem de táxi ou uma ida ao hospital, pode tornar-se quase impossível. A poluição e o trânsito caóticos são outros dos problemas de Pequim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por aqui, apesar de inflacionados pelos Olímpicos, os bens ainda são mais baratos, o que me permite gozar uma qualidade de vida que, tão depressa, não poderia atingir em Portugal.&lt;br /&gt;A aventura que me apanhou desprevenido está a revelar-se uma experiência pessoal fascinante e um desafio profissional interessante, que todos os dias me permitem conhecer-me melhor. Desconheço o que o futuro me reserva, mas sei que sou um privilegiado por estar a viver esta experiência.&lt;br /&gt;O conselho que vos deixo é simples: aproveitem ao máximo o tempo que ainda vos resta na universidade. Vão sentir imensas saudades dos últimos anos entre os livros. Mas assim que terminarem a vossa época universitária, não olhem para trás e não hesitem perante os desafios. Há muitas oportunidades por esse mundo fora e, se não encontrarem o vosso cantinho em Portugal, alarguem horizontes, arrisquem e realizem os vossos sonhos. Quem sabe não encontram uma agradável surpresa...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: right;"&gt;( &lt;a href="http://academico.rum.pt/node/362"&gt;Artigo - semanário académico UMinho&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Hugo Triunfante&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:Hugo.martins@networkcontacto.com"&gt;Hugo.martins@networkcontacto.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="www.networkcontacto.com" href="http://www.networkcontacto.com/"&gt;www.networkcontacto.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7205689267002167402-6728892050673947763?l=china4dummies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/feeds/6728892050673947763/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7205689267002167402&amp;postID=6728892050673947763&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/6728892050673947763'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/6728892050673947763'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/2008/04/one-world-one-dream.html' title='One world one dream'/><author><name>Hugo Triunfante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13890124472457731332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XxL_lSjWI/AAAAAAAAAGc/XfyKvm_oPdE/S220/PC290428.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/SBCtwyuu4cI/AAAAAAAAAJA/5OuXi11vzNI/s72-c/PC250269.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205689267002167402.post-4567644173331871271</id><published>2008-04-21T00:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-21T00:31:08.044-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fading Away'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love'/><title type='text'>Fading Away</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Even if it takes forever to see&lt;br /&gt;What happiness really means to me&lt;br /&gt;I understand love will always be&lt;br /&gt;in perfect harmony&lt;br /&gt;between you and me&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One day you will come to know&lt;br /&gt;that no matter how far you may go&lt;br /&gt;the joys and sorrows that we share&lt;br /&gt;are just like the touch of your hair&lt;br /&gt;which is full of tender care&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet I can only say&lt;br /&gt;this love for you will never decay&lt;br /&gt;I love you every single day&lt;br /&gt;and in every sinle way&lt;br /&gt;And it pains me to see you fading away&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7205689267002167402-4567644173331871271?l=china4dummies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/feeds/4567644173331871271/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7205689267002167402&amp;postID=4567644173331871271&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/4567644173331871271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/4567644173331871271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/2008/04/fading-away.html' title='Fading Away'/><author><name>Hugo Triunfante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13890124472457731332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XxL_lSjWI/AAAAAAAAAGc/XfyKvm_oPdE/S220/PC290428.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205689267002167402.post-8462052004494841490</id><published>2008-03-25T07:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-25T07:35:36.580-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='adriana calcanhoto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='teatro'/><title type='text'>Simplesmente Fabuloso!</title><content type='html'>&lt;object height="323" width="410"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/m_UVh9qAgeY&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/m_UVh9qAgeY&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="323" width="410"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Actions speak louder than words.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7205689267002167402-8462052004494841490?l=china4dummies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/feeds/8462052004494841490/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7205689267002167402&amp;postID=8462052004494841490&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/8462052004494841490'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/8462052004494841490'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/2008/03/simplesmente-fabuloso.html' title='Simplesmente Fabuloso!'/><author><name>Hugo Triunfante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13890124472457731332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XxL_lSjWI/AAAAAAAAAGc/XfyKvm_oPdE/S220/PC290428.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205689267002167402.post-3560095275029829279</id><published>2008-03-25T03:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-25T03:39:28.960-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='china daily'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='argumentos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tibete'/><title type='text'>Bold hypocrisy of the Western world</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Bem, para quem tem acesso apenas às notícias via imprensa ocidental, aqui vai um artigo de opinião publicado no China Daily. Vale sempre a pena ler as duas partes da história. Confesso que não tenho argumentos para algumas das coisas aqui publicadas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;By Sava Hassan (China Daily)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;"As long as I can remember, the Western universe has been using double  standards to evaluate historical or day-to-day events. One could argue that I am  being harsh and may be biased against the West. For certain, that would be a wrong assumption. To prove my point of view, one  has to refer to the recording of historical events of the last few decades.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;If a struggle occurred in any country to gain its freedom, such as the events  that are taking place in the West Bank, the West calls it terrorism while it  becomes heroism if it happens in the Western world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;If a country uses force to protect its people, the West would categorize it  as oppression and a violation of human rights yet such actions become rational  and an essential measure if it is done by any Western nation. "World urged to defend Tibet" is a headline from a Western media. Observing  the coverage and reaction of the West to the events that are taking place in  Tibet, one can clearly see the West in general is magnifying the negative  aspects of those events.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;However, looking back a few decades ago, one might discover that  interventions by federal governments to deal with riots in parts of the Western  world were common practices. Waco, the US and Montreal, Canada are perfect  examples to illustrate my point of view. American forces intervened to end an incident in Waco, Texas while Canadian  forces ended an attempt to separate Quebec from Canada.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Invading Iraq by the Allied forces that led to the destruction of its society  and the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives will never be  perceived by the Western world as an oppression and infringement of human  rights.The West is forgetting a fundamental fact that Tibet is perceived by the  world in general, and the Chinese in particular, as an integral part of  China. Consequently, intervention by the Chinese government to protect the lives of  Tibetans is an internal matter and should be left to the Chinese government to  take the necessary measures to achieve a peaceful end to the riots in Tibet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;The devious hidden motives of the Western media became apparent when they  were eager to link the events in Tibet to the 2008 Olympics. "Chinese may prevent broadcasting the Olympic events" - that was a headline  in one of the Western media. How did they come to the conclusion that the Chinese government may prevent  broadcasting the Olympic events? What do the events in Tibet have to do with the 2008 Olympics?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;The Western media jumped on the announcement of Steven Spielberg to link the  Olympics to the Darfur events. However, when they failed, they grabbed the  latest events in Tibet to put a shadow of doubt over the 2008 Olympics."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;The author is a Canadian Egyptian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Fonte: chinadaily&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;A lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7205689267002167402-3560095275029829279?l=china4dummies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/feeds/3560095275029829279/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7205689267002167402&amp;postID=3560095275029829279&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/3560095275029829279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/3560095275029829279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/2008/03/bold-hypocrisy-of-western-world.html' title='Bold hypocrisy of the Western world'/><author><name>Hugo Triunfante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13890124472457731332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XxL_lSjWI/AAAAAAAAAGc/XfyKvm_oPdE/S220/PC290428.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205689267002167402.post-4365415567543227678</id><published>2008-03-18T05:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-18T06:40:16.505-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='conflitos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='google'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tibete'/><title type='text'>Conflitos</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Por estes dias as coisas andam estranhas ... youtube bloqueado, principais sites das agências noticiosas não funcionam, ninguém fala do assunto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R9_D_BLcxwI/AAAAAAAAAH0/-S7uIxmX9kY/s1600-h/1_243376_1_5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R9_D_BLcxwI/AAAAAAAAAH0/-S7uIxmX9kY/s400/1_243376_1_5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179073583914993410" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Aqui não chega nada. Parece que o Dalai Lama está fortemente armado (quiça com tesouras e corta-unhas) e anda a incitar os seus seguidores a começarem uma revolução. Vai daí, toca a mandar uma porrada de tropas para Lhasa e abafar tudo e todos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Segundo números do governo chinês, 10 pessoas morreram resultado dos fogos atiçados pelos próprios seguidores do Dalai Lama. Segundo o resto do mundo, pelo menos uma centena de pessoas foram mortas pelo governo chinês.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Vá-se lá saber quem fala verdade ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Giro é tentar procurar alguma coisa no google acerca do "tibete" e receber como resultado:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R9_B-hLcxvI/AAAAAAAAAHs/7-yAfIEMnh0/s1600-h/google_tibet.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R9_B-hLcxvI/AAAAAAAAAHs/7-yAfIEMnh0/s400/google_tibet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179071376301803250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;... hipócritas, bah!&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;div  style="text-align: center;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7205689267002167402-4365415567543227678?l=china4dummies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/feeds/4365415567543227678/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7205689267002167402&amp;postID=4365415567543227678&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/4365415567543227678'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/4365415567543227678'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/2008/03/conflitos.html' title='Conflitos'/><author><name>Hugo Triunfante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13890124472457731332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XxL_lSjWI/AAAAAAAAAGc/XfyKvm_oPdE/S220/PC290428.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R9_D_BLcxwI/AAAAAAAAAH0/-S7uIxmX9kY/s72-c/1_243376_1_5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205689267002167402.post-2230626609230960502</id><published>2008-03-12T19:02:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-13T08:42:32.843-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Lado lunar</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="PT" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;O Peng é um dos meus colegas de trabalho chinês com quem costumo trocar algumas impressões. Aproveito para praticar o mandarim e ele aprimora o inglês. No outro dia saíu-se com esta pérola ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R9iLWBLcxtI/AAAAAAAAAHc/srvj0fbBL3o/s1600-h/moon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R9iLWBLcxtI/AAAAAAAAAHc/srvj0fbBL3o/s320/moon.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177040982052226770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="PT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="PT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="PT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Eu:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Peng, sabes quem disse a frase: “um pequeno passo para o homem, um grande passo para a humanidade”?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Peng:&lt;/span&gt; Não faço idéia ...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Eu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; Foi o &lt;span style=""&gt;Neil Armstrong&lt;b&gt;, &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;o primeiro homem a pisar a lua.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Peng:&lt;/span&gt; Primeiro homem a pisar o lua?! Mas Hugo, o homem nunca foi à lua ... ha ha ha!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="PT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Education is a progressive discovering of our own ignorance.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7205689267002167402-2230626609230960502?l=china4dummies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/feeds/2230626609230960502/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7205689267002167402&amp;postID=2230626609230960502&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/2230626609230960502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/2230626609230960502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/2008/03/lado-lunar.html' title='Lado lunar'/><author><name>Hugo Triunfante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13890124472457731332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XxL_lSjWI/AAAAAAAAAGc/XfyKvm_oPdE/S220/PC290428.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R9iLWBLcxtI/AAAAAAAAAHc/srvj0fbBL3o/s72-c/moon.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205689267002167402.post-4823899577023129097</id><published>2008-03-04T08:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-27T01:09:10.653-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dummies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='10 don&apos;t do'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='china'/><title type='text'>Ten things never to do in China</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never accept a compliment graciously&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;You may find yourself at a loss for words when you compliment a Chinese host on a wonderful meal, and you get in response, "No, no, the food was really horrible." You hear the same thing when you tell a Chinese parent how smart or handsome his son is — he meets the compliment with a rebuff of "No, he's really stupid" or "He's not good looking at all." These people aren't being nasty . . . just humble and polite. Moral of the story here: Feign humility, even if it kills you! A little less boasting and fewer self-congratulatory remarks go a long way towards scoring cultural sensitivity points with the Chinese.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Never make someone lose face&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The worst thing you can possibly do to Chinese acquaintances is publicly humiliate or otherwise embarrass them. Doing so makes them lose face. Don't point out a mistake in front of others or yell at someone.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The good news is that you can actually help someone gain face by complimenting them and giving credit where credit is due. Do this whenever the opportunity arises. Your graciousness is much appreciated.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Never get angry in public&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Public displays of anger are frowned upon by the Chinese and are most uncomfortable for them to deal with — especially if the people getting angry are foreign tourists, for example. This goes right along with making someone (usually the Chinese host) lose face, which you should avoid at all costs. The Chinese place a premium on group harmony, so foreigners should try to swallow hard, be polite, and cope privately.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Never address people by their first names first&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Chinese people have first and last names like everyone else. However, in China, the last name always comes first. The family (and the collective in general) always takes precedence over the individual. Joe Smith in Minnesota is known as Smith Joe (or the equivalent) in Shanghai. If a man is introduced to you as Lî Míng, you can safely refer to him as Mr. Lî (not Mr. Míng).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Unlike people in the West, the Chinese don't feel very comfortable calling each other by their first names. Only family members and a few close friends ever refer to the man above, for example, as simply "Míng." They may, however, add the prefix lâo (laow; old) or xiâo (shyaow; young) before the family name to show familiarity and closeness. Lâo Lî (Old Lî) may refer to his younger friend as Xiâo Chén (Young Chén).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Never take food with the wrong end of your chopsticks&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The next time you gather around a dinner table with a Chinese host, you may discover that serving spoons for the many communal dishes are non-existent. This is because everyone serves themselves (or others) by turning their chopsticks upside down to take food from the main dishes before putting the food on the individual plates.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Never drink alcohol without first offering a toast&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Chinese banquets include eight to ten courses of food and plenty of alcohol. Sometimes you drink rice wine, and sometimes you drink industrial strength Máo Tái, known to put a foreigner or two under the table in no time. One way to slow the drinking is to observe Chinese etiquette by always offering a toast to the host or someone else at the table before taking a sip yourself. This not only prevents you from drinking too much too quickly, but also shows your gratitude toward the host and your regard for the other guests. If someone toasts you with a "&lt;b&gt;gân bei&lt;/b&gt;," (gahn bay) however, watch out.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gân bei&lt;/b&gt; means "bottoms up," and you may be expected to drink the whole drink rather quickly. Don't worry. You can always say "&lt;b&gt;shuí yì&lt;/b&gt;" (shway ee; as you wish) in return and take just a little sip instead.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Never let someone else pay the bill without fighting for it&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Most Westerners are stunned the first time they witness the many fairly chaotic, noisy scenes at the end of a Chinese restaurant meal. The time to pay the bill has come and everyone is simply doing what they're expected to do — fight to be the one to pay it. The Chinese consider it good manners to vociferously and strenuously attempt to wrest the bill out of the very hands of whoever happens to have it. This may go on, back and forth, for a good few minutes, until someone "wins" and pays the bill. The gesture of being eager and willing to pay is always appreciated.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Never show up empty handed&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Gifts are exchanged frequently between the Chinese, and not just on special occasions. If you have dinner in someone's house to meet a prospective business partner or for any other pre-arranged meeting, both parties commonly exchange gifts as small tokens of friendship and good will. Westerners are often surprised at the number of gifts the Chinese hosts give. The general rule of thumb is to bring many little (gender non-specific) gifts when you travel to China. You never know when you'll meet someone who wants to present you with a special memento, so you should arrive with your own as well.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Never accept food, drinks, or gifts without first refusing a few times&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;No self-respecting guests immediately accept whatever may be offered to them in someone's home. No matter how much they may be eager to accept the food, drink, or gift, proper Chinese etiquette prevents them from doing anything that makes them appear greedy or eager to receive it, so be sure to politely refuse a couple of times.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Never take the first "No, thank you" literally&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Chinese people automatically refuse food or drinks several times — even if they really feel hungry or thirsty. Never take the first "No, thank you" literally. Even if they say it once or twice, offer it again. A good guest is supposed to refuse at least once, but a good host is also supposed to make the offer at least twice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Adapted From:&lt;/i&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesTitle/Chinese-For-Dummies-Revised-Edition.productCd-047178897X.html"&gt;Chinese For Dummies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Learn to walk before you run.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7205689267002167402-4823899577023129097?l=china4dummies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/feeds/4823899577023129097/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7205689267002167402&amp;postID=4823899577023129097&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/4823899577023129097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/4823899577023129097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/2008/03/ten-things-never-to-do-in-china.html' title='Ten things never to do in China'/><author><name>Hugo Triunfante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13890124472457731332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XxL_lSjWI/AAAAAAAAAGc/XfyKvm_oPdE/S220/PC290428.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205689267002167402.post-4950967375505290189</id><published>2008-03-01T19:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-01T19:30:09.324-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Mandarim - Lição 4</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Uma das primeiras coisas que se aprende assim que se chega a um novo país é a "linguagem de transportes". A lição 4 é sobre isso.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,22,0" height="80" width="330"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://chinesepod.com/flash/embeddable_player.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="best"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="url=http://chinesepod.com/share/xml/taxi-conversations-finding-a-taxi"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://chinesepod.com/flash/embeddable_player.swf" wmode="transparent" quality="best" flashvars="url=http://chinesepod.com/share/xml/taxi-conversations-finding-a-taxi" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="80" width="330"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The teacher has not taught, until the student has learned.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7205689267002167402-4950967375505290189?l=china4dummies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/feeds/4950967375505290189/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7205689267002167402&amp;postID=4950967375505290189&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/4950967375505290189'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/4950967375505290189'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/2008/03/mandarim-lio-4.html' title='Mandarim - Lição 4'/><author><name>Hugo Triunfante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13890124472457731332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XxL_lSjWI/AAAAAAAAAGc/XfyKvm_oPdE/S220/PC290428.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205689267002167402.post-5519192378150930648</id><published>2008-03-01T19:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-01T19:38:26.395-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='treino'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pan kun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='macaco'/><title type='text'>Pan - kun</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Depois da recente polémica em portugal com o Inem, descobri que a china já está muito mais avançada em matéria de treino de efectivos :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SLLKyYJUojc"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SLLKyYJUojc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Se não conseguirem visualizar o vídeo, &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/SLLKyYJUojc"&gt;está aqui&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7205689267002167402-5519192378150930648?l=china4dummies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/feeds/5519192378150930648/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7205689267002167402&amp;postID=5519192378150930648&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/5519192378150930648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/5519192378150930648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/2008/03/pan-kun.html' title='Pan - kun'/><author><name>Hugo Triunfante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13890124472457731332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XxL_lSjWI/AAAAAAAAAGc/XfyKvm_oPdE/S220/PC290428.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205689267002167402.post-372641160497853078</id><published>2008-02-25T06:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T07:23:51.899-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mandarim'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aula'/><title type='text'>Mandarim - Lição 3</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; Chinese New Year Song&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,22,0" width="330" height="80"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://chinesepod.com/flash/embeddable_player.swf"/&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="best"/&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"/&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="url=http://chinesepod.com/share/xml/new-years-song"/&gt;&lt;embed src="http://chinesepod.com/flash/embeddable_player.swf" wmode="transparent" quality="best" flashvars="url=http://chinesepod.com/share/xml/new-years-song" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="330" height="80"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;There are no endings only new beginnings&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7205689267002167402-372641160497853078?l=china4dummies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/feeds/372641160497853078/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7205689267002167402&amp;postID=372641160497853078&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/372641160497853078'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/372641160497853078'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/2008/02/mandarim-lio-3.html' title='Mandarim - Lição 3'/><author><name>Hugo Triunfante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13890124472457731332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XxL_lSjWI/AAAAAAAAAGc/XfyKvm_oPdE/S220/PC290428.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205689267002167402.post-4180640647847640322</id><published>2008-02-25T05:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T06:28:46.255-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beijing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='futebol'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vikings'/><title type='text'>Beijing Vikings</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"&gt;Desde que me conheço que gosto de bola ... e como não podia deixar de ser, assim que cheguei a Beijing tratei de arranjar onde &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;matar o vício&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O futebol para além de me dar um gozo enorme ainda permite manter a forma e fazer novos amigos. Foi com esse espírito que, aproveitando o facto de ter uma relação com os escandinavos (graças à Calitah que trabalha na dinamarca) me ofereci para jogar pelos Vikings. Uma equipa formada por dinamarqueses, finlandeses, suecos, chineses e .... um tuga! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R8LKojA70eI/AAAAAAAAAHE/29f_b4mYYMU/s1600-h/IMG_0037+%28Medium%29.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R8LKojA70eI/AAAAAAAAAHE/29f_b4mYYMU/s400/IMG_0037+%28Medium%29.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170918120117490146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Jantar de recomeço de época @ The Den&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"&gt;Neste momento (pausa de inverno) a equipa está no penúltimo lugar do campeonato ... e, das duas uma: ou o tuga ajuda a afundar mais o barco (vikings, barco ... got it?) ... ou então vou sair daqui como herói e com duas nórdicas na bagagem ... para oferecer aos amigos, como é óbvio ... :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R8LOSzA70gI/AAAAAAAAAHU/q5lbcTwzmJY/s1600-h/IMG_0046+%28Medium%29.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R8LOSzA70gI/AAAAAAAAAHU/q5lbcTwzmJY/s320/IMG_0046+%28Medium%29.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170922144501846530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;O peso da camisola ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Vikings - Rape &amp;amp; Pillage.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7205689267002167402-4180640647847640322?l=china4dummies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/feeds/4180640647847640322/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7205689267002167402&amp;postID=4180640647847640322&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/4180640647847640322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/4180640647847640322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/2008/02/beijing-vikings.html' title='Beijing Vikings'/><author><name>Hugo Triunfante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13890124472457731332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XxL_lSjWI/AAAAAAAAAGc/XfyKvm_oPdE/S220/PC290428.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R8LKojA70eI/AAAAAAAAAHE/29f_b4mYYMU/s72-c/IMG_0037+%28Medium%29.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205689267002167402.post-8166583279274631569</id><published>2008-02-21T03:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T06:28:31.297-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beijing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ano novo chinês'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fogo de artifício'/><title type='text'>Eu até gosto ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R71lHzA70dI/AAAAAAAAAG8/OvhpDC96tdQ/s1600-h/international_fireworks_3_b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169399131918815698" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R71lHzA70dI/AAAAAAAAAG8/OvhpDC96tdQ/s320/international_fireworks_3_b.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"&gt;... de fogo de artifício, mas se calhar, duas semanas inteiras de foguetes, de manhã à tarde e à noite, em todos os cantos e esquinas, não será demais?! Se calhar sou eu que tenho mau feitio :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O Iraque perto disto é para meninos ... o que vale é que acaba hoje às 0h e já vou poder dormir descansado!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;E pensava eu, que o arraial da minha terra era compostinho :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;You ain't seen nothing yet.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7205689267002167402-8166583279274631569?l=china4dummies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/feeds/8166583279274631569/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7205689267002167402&amp;postID=8166583279274631569&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/8166583279274631569'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/8166583279274631569'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/2008/02/eu-at-gosto-de.html' title='Eu até gosto ...'/><author><name>Hugo Triunfante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13890124472457731332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XxL_lSjWI/AAAAAAAAAGc/XfyKvm_oPdE/S220/PC290428.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R71lHzA70dI/AAAAAAAAAG8/OvhpDC96tdQ/s72-c/international_fireworks_3_b.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205689267002167402.post-8025790780855826072</id><published>2008-02-19T07:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T06:28:16.365-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ano novo chinês'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bilhetes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fraldas'/><title type='text'>A corrida aos bilhetes</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: arial;" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R7r4pDA70bI/AAAAAAAAAGs/Gd2_GwREGTM/s1600-h/StrandedPeopleGuangzhouStation.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168716906428617138" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R7r4pDA70bI/AAAAAAAAAGs/Gd2_GwREGTM/s320/StrandedPeopleGuangzhouStation.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;"Pequena" confusão na estação de Guangzhou&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial;" align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial;" align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ano novo chinês. Festa da família para os chineses. Milhões de pessoas procuram um bilhete para visitarem a sua terra natal. Para terem uma idéia, so as pessoas que viajam de comboio correspondem à população inteira do Brasil - 179 milhões de pessoas! A loucura total!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial;" align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial;" align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial;" align="left"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Agora a parte que realmente me levou a escrever este &lt;em&gt;post&lt;/em&gt;: vocês sabiam que o consumo de fraldas nesta altura do ano, por estes lados, dispara por completo? E isto porquê? Simplesmente porque as pessoas vão para as filas para comprar um bilhete e para não perderem o lugar ... ok, o resto já devem imaginar ... mas o pior ainda está para vir ... como é tão difícil de conseguir um bilhete, o comboio normalmente vai completamente cheio e em viagens que não são nada curtas ... pessoas de pé, pessoas debaixo dos bancos, pessoas nos lugares das bagagens, pessoas nas casas de banho ... hum ... agora pensem comigo: mas então se as pessoas estão nas casas de banho ... exacto ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... as restantes usam fraldas!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial;" align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial;" align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The longest mile is the last mile home.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7205689267002167402-8025790780855826072?l=china4dummies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/feeds/8025790780855826072/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7205689267002167402&amp;postID=8025790780855826072&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/8025790780855826072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/8025790780855826072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/2008/02/corrida-aos-bilhetes.html' title='A corrida aos bilhetes'/><author><name>Hugo Triunfante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13890124472457731332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XxL_lSjWI/AAAAAAAAAGc/XfyKvm_oPdE/S220/PC290428.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R7r4pDA70bI/AAAAAAAAAGs/Gd2_GwREGTM/s72-c/StrandedPeopleGuangzhouStation.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205689267002167402.post-5975649100409680383</id><published>2008-02-17T05:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T06:27:57.948-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beijing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='curiosidades'/><title type='text'>Viver em Beijing é ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R7g8djA70aI/AAAAAAAAAGk/mHCGxGv_Aj8/s1600-h/noSpitShine.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R7g8djA70aI/AAAAAAAAAGk/mHCGxGv_Aj8/s320/noSpitShine.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167947050720678306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cuspir para o chão como se não houvesse amanhã;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cortar as unhas no local de trabalho, de preferência na hora do expediente;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ter de parar na passadeira para os carros passarem;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ir a um restaurante chinês e não fazer a mínima idéia do que se está a comer;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Encontrar buracos no chão em vez de sanitas;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ter de regatear para conseguir comprar qualquer coisa;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Olhar para um mapa, pensar que é já ali e nunca mais chegar;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Regatear firmemente por 10 RMB (1€);&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Entrar num táxi e ninguém falar inglês;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Andar de metro mais apertado que sardinha em lata;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Perguntarem se somos russos quando falamos português;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pedir peixe num restaurante, trazerem o bicho ainda vivo e este cair no meio do chão;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ir à casa de banho de um restaurante chinês e perder a vontade de comer;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ter monumentos enormes e que nunca mais acabam;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ter em todas as paragens empregados com uma bandeira para mandar parar o bus;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Encontrar empregadas de limpeza a limpar portas giratórias em movimento;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Andar à noite na rua e não sentir insegurança nenhuma;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Receber massagens na casa de banho dos bares nocturnos;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Encontrar senhoras fardadas a limpar no meio da pista da discoteca às 4h da manhã;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ir a um restaurante chinês, pedir um montão de comida e pagar 3€;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Demorar 30 minutos no trânsito, numa sexta à tarde, para percorrer 300 metros;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Não encontrar o número 4 no elevador porque dá azar, nem o 13 por cortesia ou o 14, 24...;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;What you see is what you get.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7205689267002167402-5975649100409680383?l=china4dummies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/feeds/5975649100409680383/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7205689267002167402&amp;postID=5975649100409680383&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/5975649100409680383'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/5975649100409680383'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/2008/02/viver-em-beijing.html' title='Viver em Beijing é ...'/><author><name>Hugo Triunfante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13890124472457731332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XxL_lSjWI/AAAAAAAAAGc/XfyKvm_oPdE/S220/PC290428.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R7g8djA70aI/AAAAAAAAAGk/mHCGxGv_Aj8/s72-c/noSpitShine.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205689267002167402.post-8634149933275349678</id><published>2008-02-03T07:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T06:27:04.245-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prenda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='natal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='piquena'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love'/><title type='text'>Prenda de Natal</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"&gt;Durante as férias de natal recebi a melhor de todas as prendas :) Ficam alguns sítios que fizeram parte da nossa visita. Obrigado por teres vindo Piquena ... contigo a China tem mais encanto!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XkRPlSjPI/AAAAAAAAAFo/6aPYkuHyJy4/s1600-h/PC210023.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XkRPlSjPI/AAAAAAAAAFo/6aPYkuHyJy4/s320/PC210023.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162783532741987570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;The place&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XlK_lSjQI/AAAAAAAAAFw/QbEoStbU0kk/s1600-h/PC230080.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XlK_lSjQI/AAAAAAAAAFw/QbEoStbU0kk/s320/PC230080.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162784524879432962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Wanfujing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6Xlm_lSjRI/AAAAAAAAAF4/SE-5B6ITNZI/s1600-h/PC240217.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6Xlm_lSjRI/AAAAAAAAAF4/SE-5B6ITNZI/s320/PC240217.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162785005915770130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Tianamen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6Xl7vlSjSI/AAAAAAAAAGA/8nhix99M9uc/s1600-h/PC240228.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6Xl7vlSjSI/AAAAAAAAAGA/8nhix99M9uc/s320/PC240228.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162785362398055714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;National Grand Theatre&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XmS_lSjTI/AAAAAAAAAGI/aMfABGc1ZtA/s1600-h/PC240204.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XmS_lSjTI/AAAAAAAAAGI/aMfABGc1ZtA/s320/PC240204.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162785761830014258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Forbidden City&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XmnflSjUI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/JJf2j2GEuMI/s1600-h/PC300513.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XmnflSjUI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/JJf2j2GEuMI/s320/PC300513.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162786114017332546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;CCTV Tower&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Love is not finding someone to live with ;&lt;br /&gt;it's finding someone whom you can't live without.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7205689267002167402-8634149933275349678?l=china4dummies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/feeds/8634149933275349678/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7205689267002167402&amp;postID=8634149933275349678&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/8634149933275349678'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/8634149933275349678'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/2008/02/prenda-de-natal.html' title='Prenda de Natal'/><author><name>Hugo Triunfante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13890124472457731332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XxL_lSjWI/AAAAAAAAAGc/XfyKvm_oPdE/S220/PC290428.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XkRPlSjPI/AAAAAAAAAFo/6aPYkuHyJy4/s72-c/PC210023.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205689267002167402.post-2102294506431472317</id><published>2008-02-03T07:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T06:26:34.322-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mandarim'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aula'/><title type='text'>Mandarim - Lição 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Depois de ter falado dos tons na aula anterior, nada como ouvir exemplos de como funcionam. Boa sorte :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;O primeiro tom ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="font-family: arial;" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,22,0" height="80" width="330"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://chinesepod.com/flash/embeddable_player.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="best"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="url=http://chinesepod.com/share/xml/the-first-tone"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://chinesepod.com/flash/embeddable_player.swf" wmode="transparent" quality="best" flashvars="url=http://chinesepod.com/share/xml/the-first-tone" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="80" width="330"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;O segundo tom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="font-family: arial;" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,22,0" height="80" width="330"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://chinesepod.com/flash/embeddable_player.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="best"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="url=http://chinesepod.com/share/xml/the-second-tone"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://chinesepod.com/flash/embeddable_player.swf" wmode="transparent" quality="best" flashvars="url=http://chinesepod.com/share/xml/the-second-tone" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="80" width="330"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;O terceiro tom ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="font-family: arial;" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,22,0" height="80" width="330"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://chinesepod.com/flash/embeddable_player.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="best"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="url=http://chinesepod.com/share/xml/the-third-tone"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://chinesepod.com/flash/embeddable_player.swf" wmode="transparent" quality="best" flashvars="url=http://chinesepod.com/share/xml/the-third-tone" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="80" width="330"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Enjoy what you don't know&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7205689267002167402-2102294506431472317?l=china4dummies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/feeds/2102294506431472317/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7205689267002167402&amp;postID=2102294506431472317&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/2102294506431472317'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/2102294506431472317'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/2008/02/mandarim-lio-2.html' title='Mandarim - Lição 2'/><author><name>Hugo Triunfante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13890124472457731332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XxL_lSjWI/AAAAAAAAAGc/XfyKvm_oPdE/S220/PC290428.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205689267002167402.post-1017374820189002398</id><published>2008-01-29T08:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-03T08:46:42.583-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mutianyu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='7 maravilhas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grande muralha'/><title type='text'>A Grande Muralha</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Estar na China e não visitar a muralha é o mesmo que ir a Roma e não ver o Pápa!&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;A sensação de visitar uma das sete maravilhas do mundo é fantástica ...&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A muralha começou a ser construída em 700 a.c., e é a estrutura mais longa alguma vez feita pelo homem, com aproximadamente 6,500 km.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ficam as imagens de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutianyu" title="Mutianyu"&gt;Mutianyu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; para mais tarde recordar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R59RwflSjII/AAAAAAAAAEw/jek33pN1CAQ/s1600-h/PC290412.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R59RwflSjII/AAAAAAAAAEw/jek33pN1CAQ/s320/PC290412.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160933591543352450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R59SQflSjJI/AAAAAAAAAE4/6y6owdbV_lI/s1600-h/PC290413.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R59SQflSjJI/AAAAAAAAAE4/6y6owdbV_lI/s320/PC290413.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160934141299166354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"  &gt;Subida de teleférico (PC, Hugo,  Calitah e Vera)&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R59SkPlSjKI/AAAAAAAAAFA/oQAcN_GMKJg/s1600-h/IMAGE.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R59SkPlSjKI/AAAAAAAAAFA/oQAcN_GMKJg/s320/IMAGE.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160934480601582754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;A casinha é já ali :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R59S1vlSjLI/AAAAAAAAAFI/2ZHgG377f-0/s1600-h/DSC_0586.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R59S1vlSjLI/AAAAAAAAAFI/2ZHgG377f-0/s320/DSC_0586.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160934781249293490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R59TjflSjMI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/NoDR_cPim70/s1600-h/PC290462.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R59TjflSjMI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/NoDR_cPim70/s320/PC290462.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160935567228308674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R59T9PlSjNI/AAAAAAAAAFY/o7v9NAKIvTQ/s1600-h/DSC_0661.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R59T9PlSjNI/AAAAAAAAAFY/o7v9NAKIvTQ/s320/DSC_0661.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160936009609940178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R59UdPlSjOI/AAAAAAAAAFg/68-ERPL2t18/s1600-h/DSC_0727.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R59UdPlSjOI/AAAAAAAAAFg/68-ERPL2t18/s320/DSC_0727.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160936559365754082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;O típico mercado chinês&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Give people a common enemy and hopefully they will work together&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7205689267002167402-1017374820189002398?l=china4dummies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/feeds/1017374820189002398/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7205689267002167402&amp;postID=1017374820189002398&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/1017374820189002398'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/1017374820189002398'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/2008/01/grande-muralha.html' title='A Grande Muralha'/><author><name>Hugo Triunfante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13890124472457731332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XxL_lSjWI/AAAAAAAAAGc/XfyKvm_oPdE/S220/PC290428.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R59RwflSjII/AAAAAAAAAEw/jek33pN1CAQ/s72-c/PC290412.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205689267002167402.post-3073800144931774123</id><published>2008-01-29T07:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-03T08:44:50.120-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='firewall'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='visão contacto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='google'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='china'/><title type='text'>A grande Firewall da China – O problema da Google</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(Contributo para a newsletter Visão Contacto)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R59QovlSjHI/AAAAAAAAAEo/Bdnx9-c08G4/s1600-h/Google-is-evil.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R59QovlSjHI/AAAAAAAAAEo/Bdnx9-c08G4/s200/Google-is-evil.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160932358887738482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="PT"&gt;Num país onde 84% da população não utiliza a internet, a China é desde dezembro de 2007, a par dos EUA o país com maior número de internautas: 210 milhões.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="PT"&gt;Controlar algo como a internet com conteúdos tão diversificados e espalhado por tantos pontos do globo parece impossível. Mas na china, não é. Cerca de 35 mil net-polícias trabalham diariamente para garantir que conteúdos indesejáveis para o governo chinês sejam acedidos.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="PT"&gt;O governo utiliza um mecanismo extremamente eficaz de controle que dá pelo nome de “A grande Firewall da China”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="PT"&gt;Existem dois métodos principais para controlar o acesso à rede: um filtro que verifica se a página a que o utilizador está a tentar aceder se encontra na &lt;i style=""&gt;“lista negra”&lt;/i&gt; do governo e um outro que verifica os termos que estão a ser pesquisados. Uma pesquisa por &lt;i style=""&gt;Tianamen&lt;/i&gt; num servidor situado na China não retorna qualquer resultado. Se o servidor se situar fora de território chinês, os resultados aparecem mas não podem ser consultados!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="PT"&gt;Até o gigante norte-americano Google teve de ceder a pressões do governo chinês. Em 2001, a &lt;i style=""&gt;Google&lt;/i&gt; lançou-se no mercado chinês. Com uma versão integral com suporte para mandarim e beneficiando do seu prestígio a nível mundial, a empresa começou por alcançar bons resultados. Até que, nos inícios de 2002 os seus sites tinham desaparecido.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="PT"&gt;Na China é normal que empresas nacionais apresentem queixas contra competidores directos com conteúdos ilícitos. O mercado dos motores de busca é completamente dominado pela &lt;i style=""&gt;Baidu&lt;/i&gt;, uma empresa fundada em 2001, originária de Pequim e com cerca de 50% de quota de mercado. A empresa capitalizou o interesse nacional por chats e inventou uma ferramenta que permitia aos utilizadores criarem grupos de discussão baseados nos termos mais pesquisados. Para além disso, os fundadores da empresa descobriram bastante cedo que os jovens utilizadores procuram maioritariamente por &lt;i style=""&gt;mp3&lt;/i&gt; pirateados, tendo desenvolvido um interface específico para esse propósito.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="PT"&gt;Até hoje, a &lt;i style=""&gt;Google&lt;/i&gt; ainda não conseguiu descobrir quais as razões que levaram ao corte. Certo é, que passadas duas semanas, o bloqueio foi levantado, tão misteriosamente quanto tinha começado. Mas os problemas continuavam. A firewall diminuia a velocidade de tráfego em cerca de 15% e passava agora a retaliar sempre que um termo proibído era acedido, enviando uma mensagem que dava a entender que o site tinha desaparecido. Para a Google estes atrasos e encerramentos eram um problema real, já que um motor de busca tem de apresentar resultados em milisegundos.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="PT"&gt;A única solução possível era atacar o mercado dentro da China. Com a criação do Google.cn e os servidores em solo chinês, a &lt;i style=""&gt;Google&lt;/i&gt; evitava a Firewall, os resultados continuavam censurados mas chegavam mais rapidamente. A Google estava agora sujeita às leis chinesas. Uma pesquisa por um termo proibido indicava que,&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;de acordo com as leis chinesas, a informação tinha sido removida. Isto valeu à &lt;i style=""&gt;Google&lt;/i&gt; um conjunto de manifestações e acusações. Os executivos da empresa foram inclusivamente chamados ao congresso americano e comparados a colaboradores nazis. As acções da empresa cairam e protestantes organizaram manifestações.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="PT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Aquando da criação da empresa, os fundadores descreveram a empresa como &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: arial;"&gt;fiável e interessada no serviço público&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;. Mas como pode uma empresa aclamá-lo, colaborando com um regime repressivo. A resposta é só uma: num mercado tão apetecível e lucrativo, era impensável para uma das maiores empresas mundias não marcar presença.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="PT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Money makes the world go around.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7205689267002167402-3073800144931774123?l=china4dummies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/feeds/3073800144931774123/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7205689267002167402&amp;postID=3073800144931774123&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/3073800144931774123'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/3073800144931774123'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/2008/01/grande-firewall-da-china-o-problema-da.html' title='A grande Firewall da China – O problema da Google'/><author><name>Hugo Triunfante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13890124472457731332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XxL_lSjWI/AAAAAAAAAGc/XfyKvm_oPdE/S220/PC290428.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R59QovlSjHI/AAAAAAAAAEo/Bdnx9-c08G4/s72-c/Google-is-evil.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205689267002167402.post-3145163685497900270</id><published>2008-01-18T19:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-04T12:26:22.253-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mandarim'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aula'/><title type='text'>Mandarim - Lição 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Quando estamos prestes a embarcar para um país diferente e longínquo, uma das coisas em que pensamos é na forma de comunicação. Algumas pessoas já me tinham dito que os chineses falavam inglês e que isso não seria problema!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Na verdade, salvo algumas excepções, os chineses têm dificuldade em falar inglês. Esforçam-se imenso, são cheios de boa vontade (parece que são eles os estrangeiros no seu próprio país) mas muitas das vezes, não se conseguem fazer entender! Assim sendo, resta a única solução possível: aprender &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;mandarim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;O mandarim é o dialecto mais falado no mundo. É baseado no dialecto que era falado em Pequim (Beijing), o pequinês.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Possui &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;80.000 caracteres&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;, chamados de hanzis, dos quais 7.000 são mais usados. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Actualmente tem cerca de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;885 milhões de falantes nativos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;É &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;falado &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;na &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;China, Taiwan, Malásia, Singapura&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; e outras comunidades chinesas espalhadas pelo mundo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;A aprendizagem do mandarim começa pelo &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;pinyin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;. O pinyin é a maneira mais usual de representar os caracteres chineses no alfabeto latino. O &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;pin &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;é o &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;"significado"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;e o &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;yin &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;é o &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;"som"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Depois do &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;pinyin&lt;/span&gt;, seguem-se os &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;tons&lt;/span&gt;! Os tons representam a entoação que se dá às palavras e é o que torna o mandarim um pouco mais complicado do que seria de prever! São 5 no total, sendo um deles neutro e os restantes ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R5G4JoITjnI/AAAAAAAAAEc/b4evM72sTJs/s1600-h/tones.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R5G4JoITjnI/AAAAAAAAAEc/b4evM72sTJs/s200/tones.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157105523846516338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;O &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;primeiro &lt;/span&gt;tom diz-se prolongando o som da palavra, o &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;segundo &lt;/span&gt;sobe ligeiramente, o &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;terceiro &lt;/span&gt;é uma inflecção e o &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;quarto &lt;/span&gt;e último consiste em deixar "cair" o som. Não é fácil, nada mesmo ... mas com tempo e muita prática vai lá :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uma mesma palavra com tons diferentes tem significados diferentes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Learn to walk before you run&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7205689267002167402-3145163685497900270?l=china4dummies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/feeds/3145163685497900270/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7205689267002167402&amp;postID=3145163685497900270&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/3145163685497900270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/3145163685497900270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/2008/01/mandarim-lio-1.html' title='Mandarim - Lição 1'/><author><name>Hugo Triunfante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13890124472457731332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XxL_lSjWI/AAAAAAAAAGc/XfyKvm_oPdE/S220/PC290428.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R5G4JoITjnI/AAAAAAAAAEc/b4evM72sTJs/s72-c/tones.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205689267002167402.post-4193773140118814404</id><published>2008-01-18T18:51:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-03T08:45:24.215-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='genesis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='china'/><title type='text'>Génesis</title><content type='html'>&lt;div  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Confesso ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;escolher o nome para um blog não é fácil!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Foi um parto difícil, mas ao fim de 2 meses e 2 dias, nasceu finalmente! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China for dummies (ou china para tótós) será um espaço para dar a conhecer um pouco dos costumes chineses e para relatar algumas das minhas aventuras por terras de oriente ...&lt;br /&gt;oriente para nós portugueses ... porque para os chineses, a China é conhecida como Zhong Guo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R5FuKoITjlI/AAAAAAAAAEM/XnHXU0suYKY/s1600-h/Zhong_Guo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R5FuKoITjlI/AAAAAAAAAEM/XnHXU0suYKY/s400/Zhong_Guo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157024177165930066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Zhong significa meio e é o primeiro símbolo (uma peça dividida em duas partes iguais) e Guo significa Império ... portanto ... Império do Meio!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actualmente não podia estar mais de acordo. Com a realização dos jogos olímpicos e o crescimento da economia chinesa, Beijing parece definitivamente o centro do mundo. Uma cidade que nunca se esgota, onde há sempre coisas novas a acontecer!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;You never know what you have till it's gone&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7205689267002167402-4193773140118814404?l=china4dummies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/feeds/4193773140118814404/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7205689267002167402&amp;postID=4193773140118814404&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/4193773140118814404'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7205689267002167402/posts/default/4193773140118814404'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://china4dummies.blogspot.com/2008/01/gnesis.html' title='Génesis'/><author><name>Hugo Triunfante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13890124472457731332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R6XxL_lSjWI/AAAAAAAAAGc/XfyKvm_oPdE/S220/PC290428.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OqgYK6-xS2g/R5FuKoITjlI/AAAAAAAAAEM/XnHXU0suYKY/s72-c/Zhong_Guo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry></feed>
