<p>Lucky me. I am in China and I can eat Sichuan food everyday.</p>
<p>I can mail the food to u if you want:) :):)
—you can imagine how delicious it would be…just kidding.</p>
<p>mail the food? haha, that sounds so funny…</p>
<p>this is the longest thread i have ever seen.</p>
<p>the indian thread is longer…</p>
<p>any good game thread is longer</p>
<p>Hello guys, here comes another Chinese to CC forum. :)</p>
<p>I am from Fu Zhou (Fu Jian). I wouldn’t call myself smart compared to you guys. Just a normal Chinese kid. Unlike elites like you, I am going to attend State University next semester. It is near my house. Guess what? I am still a Mama’s boy. Just Kidding. My parents need me to work in the restaurant because it is hard to hire people in NC state. Therefore, I can’t live on campus. </p>
<p>Enough about myself.
Anybody here a fan of 任贤齐? I love listening to his music, especially when I am depressed. Here is the link. <a href=“http://www.51y.com/Musiclist/5887.htm[/url]”>http://www.51y.com/Musiclist/5887.htm</a>
Yeah!!!</p>
<p>sup, does NC have a good bball team?</p>
<p>yea i like 任贤齐, hes like new rock rite?</p>
<p>changing, I am quite normal too! so you are not the only one here, don’t be discouraged, hehe.</p>
<p>normal is good</p>
<p>Wrong! No way are you guys normal! You all are some of the super crazy smart genius Chinese students ever walk the Earth! </p>
<p>Enough about that. Can I ask you guys couple questions?
As you know, I am starting College next semester. However, I am still clueless about what I am going to make out of it. Like rest of you, I like Science and Math. Right now, I am thinking about Engineering and Life Science. However, I am afraid that I am not creative or smart enough to make something good out of it. My dad is driving me nut about this issue. So, what courses would you recommend me taking in College as a Freshmen? And what’s your major?( I am a copycat. :))</p>
<p>Thank you in advance.</p>
<p>i know a bunch of chinese kids studying in ivy leagues and top LACs in the northwestern region. so yea, compared to them we are all normal.</p>
<p>I actually had the same question when I just started college. but actually there is no need to hurry. You can just take general classes in the first year. After that you are likely to figure out what you really enjoy. then you can decide ur major. as a matter of fact, even majoring in engineering doesn’t mean you will have to be an engineer for the rest of your life. a B.S. in engineering can open a lot career path for you. anyway this is only my 2 cents. hope that helps.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/magazine/11chinese.html?pagewanted=1[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/magazine/11chinese.html?pagewanted=1</a></p>
<p>Interesting article in NY Times Online. Pretty sad, another reminder how fortunate some of us are.</p>
<p>no way ima do math or engineering</p>
<p>i wanna do law, be a tan guan (i the US tho), take all my dough somewhere with islands, but still close to big cities, get a fricken nice life, buy up alot of companies in as many different places as possible, control the world stock market, buy off all the governments, and put all the profits to humanitarian/charitable programs (all the money goes into china, under my no-trickling-out policy)</p>
<p>or chem+bio+physics triple major (definately possible in four yrs) do nuclear for grad and doc, while in china i have joined the military academy and train with the agency in both china and USA, disappear for 10 yr with 6 of my girlfriends and a brotherhood of 10000 each of northern and southern chinese, create my own mercenary pacific fleet, unify china (like, including siberia, mongolia, xinjiang, xizhang, xinjapo, hongkong, taiwan) under a new imperial dynasty, make officials elected locally (local enough the voters will have known the candidate all their life), but they take a test and qualifications review before given higher positions (of which its really efficient and there are not that many levels), move the capital to xiangtan, steal the world’s navy with my pacific fleet, force the rest of the world to their knees, develope a space fleet, and colonize space in the name of the central empire</p>
<p>seriously.</p>
<p>i wanna do sth my friends wont b/c as more ppl do the same thing u get diminishing returns (yea i can do econ too and rape the white-collar criminals of the world and be all communist too)</p>
<p>that article is like, so true… smugglers feed off lies and leaves no laws unbroken… its not like USA is the best destination</p>
<p>but that guy owns… one of those ppl u can really write about… the russian is good writer too</p>
<p>Lixuelai, I actually took the time to read all nine pages of that article. I must say, err, I don’t know what I should say. Honestly, that was a hardcore report on the Smuggle issue. I was also from FuJian. Unlike those stated in the article, I came to America as a legal immigrant. I must admit that I am lucky. However, my first couple years in US weren’t so well fed off. Like a lot of new comers, I lived in East Broadway (NY Chinatown) when I first came to US. Now in retrospect, that place was a nasty place, overcrowded and dirty. I don’t want to go into much details. :)</p>
<p>Thank you for sharing that article, Lixuelai. I need to read NY Times on daily basis. :)</p>
<p>yea i read the whole thing too… first time hearing so much about these kinda ppl (Chen and Wong mostly)… Chen needs write a book or get a book written about him… then maybe i’ll actually read sth that has binding…</p>
<p>yea when i got to chicago i lived in a indiana suburb that at the time had the highest crime rate in the nation… but a diverse elementary skool and UI was cool…</p>
<p>NY sounds like a place in the movies to me… all the stories</p>
<p>Yeah, Chen should write a book about himself and describe other aspects of the immigrant issues in the process. Personally, I have heard some stories about those kinds of issues, but none was hardcore as Chen. I just can’t imagine myself start working at age 14 for 12 hours daily. I will have a mental and physical breakdown. 
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<p>JunFX, how did you survive in that Indiana suburd? Normally, when there are crimes, foreigners are usually the biggest targets. When I was in New York, I got jumped two times. The first one was when I walked home from Hong Kong Supermarket at about 9 PM. Two blacks attacked me from behind. One person I recognized was from my own school. I can still remember staring at the two devious eyes when I tried to see who was beating me. The other time was in a park when I was playing basketball with my friends. A black guy came up to me and asked,"Can I see your ball please? " When I gave him the bal, he quickly ran away, into a van. They had this all plan out. Without a thought, I went to chase after him. I got hold of the ball, blocking the door of the van to prevent it from closing. He then proceeded to punch me several times in the face before they drove off the van. Even though I was bleeding, I hated myself for not able to get back that basketball. Of course, if that ball was mine, I wouldn’t go after it. But it belonged to my friend, so I must get that ball back no matter what. Later, I tried to pay off the lost ball, but he just wouldn’t accept it. </p>
<p>Because of these incidents plus other minor ones, I don’t like to stay in NY so much. Living in NY, to me, is a memory, not a reality anymore. However, I did have a lot of fun in that little Chinatown, playing with other Chinese kids.</p>
<p>Im very lucky since I moved into a very racially diverse community right off the bat. It is right next to Princeton, NJ and there are tons of Chinese and Indians here. People are very tolerant and most ppl dont have a real concept of race. Anyway I never really knew much about those snakeheads until pretty recently in the news where some snakeheads are being sentenced. Its pretty sad what people will do for money. Kids like Chen who came to the US this way are pyschologically wounded. I cant begin to imagine what it feels like to be living in utter loneliness.</p>
<p>changyin</p>
<p>nice to meet you~</p>
<p>how’s going?</p>
<p>what’s up~~</p>
<p>alright, you said that you were amazed by the fact that some children work 12 hours a day~~</p>
<p>that’s really a happiness comparing to those children in the chinese local school, even junior highs. i can recall that we got up at 6:30 am and slept at 12:00 pm(average), everyday, in my junior high school 3th grade.
and 6:30 am- 1:00pm in my high school 11th grade year`~</p>
<pre><code> i got sick every month, too tired
i would prefer the working you described~~
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<p>sorry, just complaining~~</p>
<p>wow i guess gary indiana was nothing like newyork, kids at skool didnt touch me and nothing happened out of skool… once i got good at english i could talk thru things… guess i just wasnt as exposed to those ppl</p>
<p>only thing ever happened there was when some ppl crashed into our car (me and my father) but didnt stop… maybe it depends on the part of town</p>
<p>collingswood new jersey… got into fights with alot ppl at skool, mostly white and black, but those kids never last long enough that someone got hurt. Even the one time i got jumped they really didnt do much… counter jumped some and they’d avoid me outside skool… maybe cuz one chinese guy i hang with is know for being brutal. One time he got jumped he socked out a nearby girl thats friends of the ppl fighting him, put them on the defensive and just threw punches… i saw it while running in from a block away. As far as i know, i was the only one ever to have to see the principle… so unfair… but its the same as sitting in class really</p>
<p>thing is, if there throwing punches and u arent, they feel confident, if u throwing punches first, and it is about as strong as their used to, they feel very discourged, but being out numbered is dangerous…</p>
<p>the thing with Chen is he felt his family wronged him… and no dont say ur family wronged u by sending u to the local skool</p>
<p>yea wounded is rite, but sounds like he’s healing</p>