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One of the oddities of this neighbourhood- or at least that part of it outside my window and over the wall that is open to the general public- I suspect our little (irrtatingly) walled-off for BeiGongDa folks only section wouldn’t allow such things or people- is that one of the peddlers who plies the neighbourhood wanders through the lanes calling out “Ay! Mañana!”

Alright, probably if I found the peddler in question and asked him what exactly he was calling and if he then told me in a normal voice instead of his calling out for business voice I’d probably discover he was actually saying something quite normal and sensible. Trouble is, I’ve never actually seen the guy, only heard him. There are a lot of trees in this area.

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wangbo

A Kiwi teaching English to oil workers in Beijing, studying Chinese in my spare time, married to a beautiful Beijing lass, consuming vast quantities of green tea (usually Xihu Longjing/西湖龙井, if that means anything to you), eating good food (except for when I cook), missing good Kiwi ale, breathing smog, generally living as best I can outside Godzone and having a good time of it.

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