// #adelaide.alive — 2005-12-03
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20:57:00 * Now talking in #Adelaide.Alive
20:57:00 * ChanOP ([email protected]) has joined #Adelaide.Alive
20:57:00 * ChanOP sets mode: +o ChanOP
20:57:00 * ChanOP changes topic to 'come on summer... and come on the mighty Hawks! :)'
20:57:00 * ChanOP sets mode: +nt
20:57:00 * ChanOP sets mode: -o linying
20:58:00 * linying is now known as Glenn
20:59:00 * Glenn is now known as mimi
20:59:00 * mimi is on IRC
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20:59:00 * mimi is now known as linying
21:15:00 * auntie_joan ([email protected]) has joined #adelaide.alive
21:15:00 <auntie_joan> heyy Glenn :)
21:16:00 <linying> Hey Barb! {{HUGS}} :)
21:16:00 <auntie_joan> hugggggs back, how are you today?
21:17:00 <linying> Not too bad thanks... and you?
21:17:00 <linying> We copped a lot of rain here today... :)
21:18:00 <auntie_joan> ah yes, we had it in the afternoon yesterday, was pretty heavy
21:19:00 <linying> No-one around here is complaining... the ground was starting to dry out pretty quickly, and some parts of my lawn was also turning off-colour.
21:20:00 <auntie_joan> we have had the wettest spring ever, the lawns and parks are still pretty green, usually by now they are crispy brown
21:24:00 <linying> Yeah.. has been strange weather....
21:25:00 <auntie_joan> and now its bloody freezing cold here, top of 19
21:25:00 <auntie_joan> and now down to about 13
21:26:00 * steve` ([email protected]) has joined #adelaide.alive
21:26:00 <auntie_joan> heyy steve` :)
21:26:00 <steve`> howdy all
21:26:00 <linying> Hey steve`! :)
21:26:00 <steve`> hi linying
21:26:00 <linying> :)
21:26:00 <steve`> how you both doing
21:26:00 <linying> hANGIN' IN THERE.. AND YOU?
21:26:00 <linying> eeeeek!
21:27:00 <steve`> enough of the hangin hey
21:27:00 <auntie_joan> lol you noisy bugga linying
21:27:00 <auntie_joan> and we are doing great thanks steve`
21:27:00 <auntie_joan> how about u and yours?
21:27:00 <linying> *sigh*
21:27:00 <steve`> doing good here as well
21:27:00 <linying> II received not6ice of redundancy yesterday! :)
21:27:00 <steve`> me and mine is great
21:28:00 <linying> In three weeks, I will be unemployed for the first time in my life.
21:28:00 <steve`> gee what will you do
21:29:00 <linying> Enjoy myself! Will leave with a couple of years salary cash in hand.... modest pension for life regardless of whether I findd another job or not.
21:29:00 <auntie_joan> im thinking i would just travel
21:29:00 <steve`> so you will be doing it hard
21:30:00 <linying> Yeah... be rough times ahead.. :P
21:30:00 <steve`> lol
21:30:00 <steve`> am just watching biggest looser
21:30:00 <auntie_joan> god knows what we will live on once we retire, dennis lost all his super at 9/11, and ive only been getting it since i started full time work 3 years now
21:31:00 <linying> No idea what I will do yet... been waiting almost three years to be told... and I was the last in my department to receive notice.
21:31:00 <linying> That's not much auntie_joan...
21:32:00 * cas is on IRC (dipstick!)
21:32:00 <auntie_joan> nope, and we cant afford to make employee contributions, and am on a shit wage, so we will just have to sell our bodies or something lol
21:33:00 <linying> *cough*
21:33:00 <auntie_joan> lol yeah i know, we wont get much for that either lol
21:34:00 <linying> I've put in a couple of job applications but am dubious of success. Have been offered cash-in-hand electronic maintenance work on video games etc..... my do some of that.
21:35:00 <linying> Was doing design and maintenance of that stuff 25 years ago before I started at the Uni.
21:35:00 <auntie_joan> that would be a bit of fun, altho they are a lot more complicated now
21:36:00 <linying> Not sure... I've not seen the insides of on for a long time now.
21:43:00 <auntie_joan> i guess electronics is electronics.. still the same basics
21:46:00 <linying> Sort of.. .:)
21:48:00 <auntie_joan> so would you like to do some travel at all linying?
21:50:00 <linying> Yes... I plan to return to China again... and perhaps later in the year return agin to work for a while... sort of a "working holiday". I was successful in obtaining a teaching position at one of the Universitys in NanJing last year, but had to defer the offer because my Uni would not allow me to leave early. The teaching position is in the field of Engineering... though I was looking forward to something a little more challenging like English!
21:52:00 <auntie_joan> thought you might head back there
21:52:00 <linying> :P
21:53:00 <auntie_joan> it would be a fantastic opportunity
21:53:00 <auntie_joan> hey do you do english to chinese translations?
21:53:00 <linying> The pay is crap by Australian standards, but very good in terms of the local economy. All travel expenses are paid for... and accommodation etc.
21:54:00 <steve`> sorry guys got to go visitors have turned up
21:54:00 <auntie_joan> okeys, hi to lee for us steve`
21:54:00 <steve`> bye for now
21:54:00 <linying> A little... my Chinese is still relatively poor. You wanted to tell some-one to ^&*(## off?
21:54:00 <steve`> sure will
21:54:00 <linying> See ya steve`!
21:54:00 <steve`> seeya linying
21:55:00 * steve` ([email protected]) Quit (Exit: )
21:55:00 <auntie_joan> lol nah, my work is pitching for a job actually doing some advertising in Shanghai, on Shanghai tv
21:56:00 <auntie_joan> there is a guy based here who is their rep in australia, he is wanting to increasee foreign creative content on Shanghai TV .. and we have contacts with him, and it looks like my agency might get the job
21:56:00 <linying> OOooohhh.... :)
21:56:00 <auntie_joan> its a bit wild actually, it could be a massive account, or it could all fall in a heap
21:57:00 <linying> Chinese advertising agencies are starting to become agressively competitive now....
21:58:00 <linying> So , what does he want to do... pinch Aussie advertising ideas and use them in China?
21:58:00 <auntie_joan> not sure, as far as i can work out, they want more 'western' ideas for the actual creative in ads
21:59:00 <linying> ...mmmmmm... that will not be easy.... some of our humour and culture is totally meaningless in China.
22:00:00 <auntie_joan> absolutely, it will be a very interesting and challenging account if we get it, thats for sure.. just knowing the etiquette to start off with is hard
22:01:00 <linying> Yeah... that as well! If you need help... let me know. I may be able to assist a little... :P
22:01:00 <auntie_joan> i even had to ask him how he would like to be addressed, wasnt sure if his business card was in western or eastern style
22:01:00 <linying> If in English, then most probably "western", otherwise, it's unlikely you'd be able to read it anyway... :P
22:02:00 <auntie_joan> yup, it was in the end, but then i wasnt sure if it was too informal to use his christian name like i do for every other client.. as it turns out he has lived in adelaide now for 5 years, so the informality has rubbed off, and he was fine with Xu
22:03:00 <linying> "Xu" would be his family name... :)
22:03:00 <auntie_joan> lol i just rememberd that.. its Zhou
22:03:00 <linying> ....ah... that's also a family name... means "village or town"...
22:04:00 <auntie_joan> well his name is Xu Zhou on his business card ??
22:05:00 <linying> ....mmmm.... "Xu" is also a family name.... I don't recall seeing it as a ""given" name. He didn''t have a second "given" name?
22:06:00 <auntie_joan> not on his card , no.. maybe its all too hard for us gweilos lol
22:06:00 <linying> ....mmmmm... on the other side of his card, it was most probably in Chinese. Should have been three large bold characters in the centre of the card.
22:06:00 * Striker has left IRC
22:07:00 <auntie_joan> i dont remember, i only looked at the bits i could read lol.. which was that bit
22:07:00 <auntie_joan> the ZHOU bit was in caps
22:07:00 <linying> ...ah huh.. they're not much into using the SHIFT key over there
22:08:00 <linying> Gotta go... need to start early in the morning. Takke care and regards to the other half! :)))
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