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slices of tomorrow thoughts and ramblings about being a guest in a foreign culture slices of tomorrow postcards from another culture about favourite moments and places useful phrases 01 jan 13 xinnian kuaile happy new year by tomorrowslices leave a comment categories experiences and slices tags china chinese culture cultural experiences shanghai street scenes travel in china 新年快乐 thank you for reading and following here s a little glimpse of our world china time lapse like loading 18 dec 12 angry bird talking bad words shocks zoo visitor by tomorrowslices leave a comment categories slices only in china angry bird talking bad words shocks zoo visitor shanghai daily 上海日报 english window to china new like loading 08 nov 12 who dunnit by tomorrowslices leave a comment categories experiences and slices tags china chinese culture compensation cultural behaviour cultural experiences culture customs ex pat living foreigner injury after hearing about my accident last week one of our staff sent me an email saying i m so sorry to hear what happened on you and i hope you can get better soon and don t forget your rights and claim for compensation against the troublemaker compensation is a very chinese concept the alleged perpetrator must compensate the alleged victim for any alleged damages or injuries on the street a minor traffic accident can be settled within minutes without involving the police on condition that someone is willing to pay enough to make the problem go away it cuts out the need for insurers and middle men and is a very lucrative money making opportunity if you can get in somebody s way and convince them and the police that the other person is at fault and needs to cough up it has also led to an intense unwillingness for anyone to help a stranger in need in case they get accused of causing the problem in the first place so after my close encounter with the cement pathway and grass verge who is the trouble maker that i can tap for compensation the spiky plastic mats in the grass verge aside they don t look dangerous do they but take it from me these little swine are not face friendly this slideshow requires javascript the gardeners who put the spiky mats into the grass the management who told the gardeners to put the spiky mats in the grass asics it was their running shoes that didn t keep me upright the cleaner pushing his cart towards us that i might have seen out of my peripheral vision and caused me to subconsciously step out of the path to get out of his way apple because i was looking at a running app on my iphone when i wiped out the makers of runkeeper the running app that i was looking at i guess i will write it off to experience and hope that any further exercise will be less harmful to my nerves and my general well being and to our financial state we are covered by travel medical insurance and so far it seems that they will be willing to settle most of the medical bills for my endangering my own self i had my last visit with the plastic surgeon on sunday to remove the stitches much less painful experience all round except that my lip was not impressed at being attacked again most of the injured areas are healing nicely just one cut above my lip that was deeper than others will take a few more days to sort itself out m called it a star shape because the skin was flapping in more than one direction eating and talking are no longer a problem now that s a relief and the doc prof has given me some ointment to deal with potential scarring so hopefully i am on the way to recover running commences next week i will attempt to remain injury free like loading 30 oct 12 tackling the statistics head on by tomorrowslices 8 comments categories experiences tags china cultural experiences ex pat living exercise foreigner life self inflicted injury traffic accidents in one way or another i managed to survive my entire childhood and adolescence without the need for a single stitch or injection somehow managing to sidestep dodge and duck the many possible mishaps that a girl with tomboy tendencies could encounter no broken limbs no after hour trips to the emergency ward no nothing more than a twisted ankle and a regular selection of bruises in china the opportunities for injury abound if you ve read some of my other posts you will know that the statistical probability of traffic accidents is relatively high by motor vehicle or bicycle or even fellow pedestrian anything can and will happen there have been reports of falling panes of glass from high rise buildings elevators going into reverse balconies falling off buildings the list is endless up until saturday i had defied the negative statistics and complemented myself on being remarkably unscathed and immune to the chaos that surrounds us correction except for stepping into a hole in a construction site in guilin in 2008 and walking into an eye level overhead cable soon after we arrived in shanghai in early 2009 on saturday my immunity expired i had a close encounter with a chinese pathway and patch of grass not just any patch of grass as it turns out but a patch of grass inlaid with spiky plastic mats i still cannot describe the precise order of events it just happened one minute i was setting out for a run checking my running app on my phone and the next minute i was lying in a heap bleeding from multiple gashes in my face it appears that i was making up for all those times when i didn t get into trouble so i really made a good job of it this time m rushed me back upstairs using his handkerchief to mop up the blood looked at me in horror and dashed me off to the medical centre as much as one can dash in a shanghai taxi in early saturday morning traffic with 3 minute cycles on the traffic lights at every intersection from here to nanjing road we camped outside the clinic door until they opened at 9 00 encountering the first of many stares poor m i m sure he is getting his fair share of stares too glaring accusations of wife abuser and so on the clinic staff immediately placed a call to the plastic surgeon who had to travel 1 and 1 2 hours to reach us to cut a long story short my face is an interesting blend of yellow and purple and dark red seemingly random squiggles betadyne make up and stitching and chinese elastoplast i had to have my chin lip nose cheek and forehead stitched up i am ashamed to admit i whimpered like a woes during each injection there were at least 10 or 12 and it did nothing to improve my dislike of anyone in the medical profession it is a well known fact that i avidly avoid dentists ophthalmologists and doctors as far as possible they always bring pain into my life and this chinese doctor a professor trained in shanghai and germany very skilled and competent in in his chosen field well he might be good but he hurt me and even if i could have laughed at his jokes i didn t find them at all funny m says my face is looking much better he has sat through many a stitching up procedure with his children and reckons this guy is a skilled craftsman and knows his stuff my facial wounds are currently down to a grade 3 war zone instead of the trench warfare scenario they initially resembled i will give you my verdict once the stitches are out in a week s time after my black eye has mellowed to a lighter shade of purple and as soon as the intricate dried blood textured patterns caused by those spiky grass mats have dissipated my lip hurts it really doesn t appreciate being hemmed eating and drinking is problematic and it doesn t look like i will need botox for a while as if i would ever choose to let anyone inject anything into me so that s my week no photographic evidence cameras are banned from our household for at least a month i am actually fine just feeling very sorry for myself and highly irritated that something so absolutely ridiculous happened i can t wind back the clock so i guess i shall just have to grin smiling and laughing is still too painful and bear it actually grumble mutter sigh and spit are more likely responses than grinning at the moment so what started off as your average uneventful common old garden saturday morning jog around the park turned into a very expensive non running session providing a very profitable sewing opportunity for the plastic surgeon not my favourite way to spend a saturday morning like loading 21 oct 12 things can get complicated by tomorrowslices 8 comments categories experiences and slices tags china cultural experiences customs ex pat living humor humour street scenes toilets in china travel travel in china coming soon to a loo near you instructions and procedures so sorry for you if you can t read chinese characters operating panel so as you can see all toilets in china are not created equal at least some of those rumours you hear about squat toilets are not true like loading previous entries email subscription enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email 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