A Chinese friend of ours at work gave us a link for a video that she said would explain China and Chinese culture to us in 10 minutes. I have to admit I was a bit skeptical at first, but after watching the video I have to agree that it is an excellent honest concise summary.
Teach Foreigners to Understand China in 10 Minutes (老外教你十分钟看懂中国)
Last weekend we went on a pub crawl sponsored by Tiger Beer. The event was cheap drunken debauchery that involved bikes and rickshaws with representatives from most of the former British colonies. Represented at the event was the usual drunken expats from America, England and Australia, with some lesser known, but equally pissed Zimbabwean and Canadians. Absent from the nights festivities was New Zealand and the surprise British colony was Singapore. Anyway, Tiger Beer gave us Santa costumes to wear and we had a lot of fun causing mischief all over Beijing.
(The full story is coming soon, but I wanted to get the pictures and videos out early)