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It's my first post,im very pleased to visit this forum where is so active and seems has as many people as our country's :guitarist

SeanChen;603099 wrote: It's my first post,im very pleased to visit this forum where is so active and seems has as many people as our country's :guitarist


Not hardly and I bet none of us can write Chinese never mind speak it.

Welcome.What part of China are you from?

hi china welcome this is a very friendly and funny site :-4

Hello and welcome to FG

gmc;603101 wrote: Not hardly and I bet none of us can write Chinese never mind speak it.

Welcome.What part of China are you from?


im from MaoMing,Guangdong; what about you? you means that none can speak Chinese but you before my arrival?? :wah:

欢迎 :-6

Hope you enjoy FG.

Hello and Welcome to the Garden:-6

Hello SeanChen, welcome to ForumGarden.

I was reading about Guangdong last month in a book about the Long March. The photos show it to be a very beautiful part of China.

We had a legal practitioner called ANITA0101 here last summer. She's from China and she'd been in England once for a year on a university course.

Welcome and I hope you enjoy your stay in the garden.

Cheers

Minks

hi from England.

Hi from Scotland also.

Hi, from the æthers of the continuum.

Hi Sean!

hey hope you have a great time on this site

wow, I am so happy that Spot still remembers me! Thank you, Spot! I am touched. Here, I am back. And welcome to SeanChen.:guitarist

Why should China ban this website?

Hi Anita

Special day for you today 08/08/08 and the olypics:-6

koan;603562 wrote: Hi, from the æthers of the continuum.


Now is that really nessecary necessary ? Your from somewhere in Canada, not the aethers of the continuum. Thats just going to confuse the new Chinese person and everyone knows we dont want to make the Chinese mad.



ANITA0101 Why should China ban this website?


Hi Anita I remember you too. I think you threw jam at me but that was a long time ago. Dont worry about fuzzy butt, she lives in Australia. Need I say more ?



Let the games begin !

By the way, do all Chinese people do this ?

Is it a tradition of some sort, a passing of rites ?

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Good morning Sean and welcome to the Garden. Hope you enjoy yourself here and good luck with the Olympics:-6

Hello and welcome to FG :-6

Hi SeanChen,

It's nice to meet you and I hope you will enjoy being here. :-6

Nomad: so glad that you remember me! But I don't remember I threw jam to you:D

The Olympic opening ceremony is on! I am so proud:-6

Anita101 my Niece is on the US women's Olympic Soccer team. She has nothing but praise for how nice the Chinese people are and how welcome they have made the entire team, in fact all the teams feel. You should be proud.

Welcome Sean Chen! Nehih ho ma? I visited Guangzhou and Xinhui in Guangdong province... when I was in China last... two years ago. It's very nice there.

I don't speak much Cantonese, but I do speak rather fluent Mandarin. I know another member on here who speaks both, however. Anyway welcome to The Garden!

Carla: The US woman's soccer team is really tough! You must be very proud of your niece;) Do you like the Opening ceremony?:)

I haven't seen the opening cermony yet, someone send me an online link please! I'll have to wait until tonight..............

Hi Sean & welcome.

I have a daughter who we adopted from Guangzhou.

Welcome Sean and hi ANITA !! It's always wonderful to have people here from different countries. I don't speak any Chinese but worked for many years with a girl from Beijing. We became good friends.

Question: Can ANITA (or anyone else) explain why the hell there was a pipe band in the opening ceremony???

Hi, Cookie: the general director said he invited different music bands from five continents in the world to perform at the ceremony during the time the athletes entering. The pipe band is just one of them.

Chookie;946674 wrote: Question: Can ANITA (or anyone else) explain why the hell there was a pipe band in the opening ceremony???




Calm down !

If a billion and a half people want a pipe band by God theyre going to get a pipe band.

erm...

Sean Chen arrived here in April 2007, and made a grand total of four posts.

Unless he/she is lurking, I suspect Sean Chen must be long gone from FG.

ANITA0101;946945 wrote: Hi, Cookie: the general director said he invited different music bands from five continents in the world to perform at the ceremony during the time the athletes entering. The pipe band is just one of them.


Yeah, I noticed African drummers.

The penguin orchestra from Antarctica was superb!

Still, the pipes won, hands down, IMO.

Gotta love the pipes!

Richard Bell;947205 wrote: erm...



Sean Chen arrived here in April 2007, and made a grand total of four posts.



Unless he/she is lurking, I suspect Sean Chen must be long gone from FG.




Therein lies the beauty. No repercussions.

WOW this thread is an old one that keep getting responses to.

Chookie;946674 wrote: Question: Can ANITA (or anyone else) explain why the hell there was a pipe band in the opening ceremony???


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tay ... 549580.stm

We are very excited about the opening night and we are very proud and honoured to be here representing Scotland at the Olympics as well as being officially here to represent the European continent."




Well the celts are one of the oldest european tribes and the bagpipe an ancient musical instrument

I never saw them, pity.