Month: Jun 2015
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Spike is living in Manila and all is not well: A Scam A Day Keeps The Philippines A Third World Country. I’ve been coming here since 1997. On my first trip, I remember seeing people in the street selling single cigarettes and single sticks of gum. I said to myself, “This is a poor country.”…
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If you live in Greater China you will know that stuff (phones, tablets, etc.) often comes with Chinese as the default setting. And the (pitifully) few Chinese characters I might recognize are nowhere near enough to navigate through the menus to find the option to change to English. Yes it’s my own fault for buying…
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Why does Amazon keep encouraging me to switch to their China store? There’s one tiny, tiny problem: It’s all in Chinese. That button that says “in English”? Sounds promising, but does nothing.
Ordinary Gweilo 