Robert Lee regretted his trip to California. Although the young Chinese developer was accustomed to the vagaries of doing business in China, he had found his brushes with American capitalism even more frustrating: his meetings had been constantly interrupted, postponed or cancelled, while his counterparts had shown an astonishing lack of knowledge about technology developments in non-American markets.

The experience had spurred his hasty return to Beijing, where the entrepreneur now found himself surveying the high-tech district from the towering windows of Zhongguan Securities. The crowds far below surged through the streets like nothing so much as electricity pulsing through a computer circuit. It was not such a bad place for a tech company to start out, he mused. And with that thought the conference doors opened and Robert turned to meet the team....
 said on
July 9, 2011
@Trevelyan,

Gao (高) is too good for words! His performance in Good Cop, Good Cop was so classic, so hilarious that I couldn't stop laughing for hours. Everytime I listen to that podcast it makes me bust up.

"乖乖地回答老子的问题,要不然。。。妈的!"

This line will doubtlessly win the award for 泡泡中文 hilarity!

高,你是我的偶像!

BTW: Is 玩意儿 considered part of standard Mandarin or is it 方言? I thought it was only in the 东北 dialects.
 said on
July 10, 2011
@Xiao Hu,

玩意儿是普通话 :)

--Echo

echo@popupchinese.com
 said on
July 11, 2011
@Echo,

是吗?我以为只有北方人才说,“玩意儿”。我这里有一个来自美国的朋友,他很帅,中文说得很好,每个女娃都觉得他就是她们的心目中的好男人。他的普通话是在一所中国大学学的。我和他发信息总是用中文发。我不忽悠你,看他发的信息,根本就看不出来任何外国味儿。有一次我发给他的信息里面有,“玩意儿” 这个词,但是对方误会是,“好玩” 的意思。呵呵。
 said on
July 11, 2011
@Xiao Hu,

确实北方人说,但是还是普通话,呵呵 :)

哈哈,中文好,人又帅就是大众情人啦?看来你比他更厉害呀!

--Echo

echo@popupchinese.com
 said on
July 12, 2011
@Echo,

但是只有他人帅哦!但愿我像他那么帅我什么都可以得到了么。在这个现实的世界上五官好看的人可以引人瞩目,谁不喜欢帅哥和美女呢?在我们学校大多数的学生说喜欢有帅哥和美女的电视剧。再说谁喜欢一个里面有谈恋爱的丑八怪和恐龙嘞?

所以说满足别人的审美观总比厉害重要。;)

你觉得呢?
 said on
June 11, 2012
这是我最喜欢的泡泡中文博客之一。我的工作是市场顾问。现在微软是我的客户哈哈。
 said on
June 11, 2012
@craigrut,

哈哈,那你一定别告诉他们你用苹果的电脑或者手机 :)

--Echo

echo@popupchinese.com
 said on
June 11, 2012
@Echo,

哈哈,一年已经过去了,还是等待你的回复哦。
 said on
June 11, 2012
@Echo

我不用苹果的产品。它们他跪了。我用谷歌的哈哈!

谷歌的产品跟苹果的功能没有那么大的差距。我也很习惯用谷歌的。

Craig
 said on
June 11, 2012
@Craigrut,

谷歌会生产电脑之类的产品吗?据我所知除了智能手机之外的,目前谷歌公司不会生产,台式电脑,笔记本,平板电脑等之类的电子产品,你指着的具体是什么样的产品?

方便提苹果公司啊,我有个朋友特别崇拜乔布斯,但我觉得除了很敏感很尖锐的审美观和坚持执行十分严格的质量管理政策之外乔布斯这个人没什么太大的优势。

你觉得呢?乔布斯这人有什么可崇拜的呢?
 said on
June 12, 2012
@Xiao Hu,

哈哈哈,我错了~ 我以为你并不是真的问我呢。

我觉得还是厉害最重要,内在比外在重要。外在美可以吸引人一时,但内在美才可以吸引人一世。

--Echo

echo@popupchinese.com
 said on
June 12, 2012
@Echo,

逗你玩儿了!当我注意到2011年我控制不住自己把留言写给你。其实我也有罪,我也偶尔一次会不及时回复人家。OK...我承认了,我尝尝会不及时回复别人的信。

我觉得你说得没错,人啊,如果外在美虽然可以轻易的得到很多物质,可是生活中有丰富物质并不代表这个人的生活是幸福的。实际上,物质过度的人的生活经常不快乐,不幸福。所以说,知足者常乐。我一直觉得这个成语是很有道理的。
 said on
June 13, 2012
@Xiao Hu,

你的想法竟然跟道家的那些老子、庄子很像~

--Amber

amber@popupchinese.com