Spring, where art thou?

大家好！

Doing my thing once again giving you all the "hot" updates from Beijing. The weather still refuses to do us a favor and make everything nice, warm and flowery as good old fashioned spring tradition dictates. I still walk out of the house with the usual shirt-sweater-jacket combo, which I'm kind of sick of these days. Seems like the weekend will bring us temperatures around 20 C but I'm not going to hold my breath just yet. Hope always fades last though right?

I've got a few updates for all you faithful readers so click the jump!

High Voltage: Don't want to know how you are

Welcome to the first post of High Voltage, a column where I will be introducing all the wonderful culture shocks I come across. As you all have probably realised by now, Chinese culture is greatly different to that of western countries. The gap becomes even more apparent when you start actually studying their language, and more specifically their greetings. Think for a moment how we usually start our conversations:

"Hello, Mike! How are you?"
"I'm fine, Pete! How about you?"
"Not too bad."

Click the jump to learn an interesting fun fact.