Hello!

[lionel]

My friend and I reached Hefei on 16 sep and this website had been very useful for us to move around at hefei.

From Singapore, came here for internship for 6 months.

=)

[Andy72]

welcome!!
you're not going to have much troubles, let's say less than laowai with no chinese knowledge ))

have fun!

andy

[lionel]

But the Chinese here and the Chinese I learned back home is so different. But kind of understand if they speak slowly and we are able to read here and there.

Slowly getting used to the environment here.

[Aussie Mike]

Sounds like you learnt Cantonese...     

[Andy72]

or he met people speaking Hefei-Anhui-Anqing dialect ;-)

some colleagues told me that in my few attempts to speak basic chiense.. i sound like Hefei-ren :-(
..and maybe ppl from Beijing would not understand me!!!!

I think it is a nice way to say my chinese sucks ;-)

[TY]

Hi, I'm Thai Yuan and I'll be coming over to Hefei on 13th Oct with my family. We're Malaysian and would like to mingle around with both local as well as foreigners in this city (my mandarin is much better than Lionel I guess, and I also speak decent cantonese spending a lot of time in souther china  ). We'll be actively exploring the city for the next two weeks and hopefully would have chance to meet up with some of you.

[Aussie Mike]

One of my long term friends is from Malaysia and has his family here as well.
He is keen to meet other Malaysian families.
Call when you arrive and I'll introduce you to him.

[lionel]

I saw the message but no time to reply.

So where are your be staying?

Your can leave a message at 18256092571.

I working a Hotel currently. Feel free to drop by.

I believe I currently had reach a certain standard in Chinese. I am not able to communicate with the Hotel Guest too. haha

[TY]

I was busy setting up the apartment and only got the internet connection working yesterday.

I wonder if we can meet up at Charlie's bar Friday night, assuming that music is not too loud there. Or let me know if there's better place? I'm staying in Economic development zone, it's quite a distance from city center - traffic is ok though. I'll ask Blessing if her family wanna meet up else my wife will be rather bored. I'm pleasantly surprised to see quite a number of S'porean / Malaysian over here  (I stayed in a newly opened hotel run by Malaysian!)

will call you later tonight.

Thai Yuan

[Aussie Mike]

Was it the Downtown Holiday Inn on WuHu Lu and MingGuan Lu?

[TY]

I stayed at the Gloria Kolam Plaza Hotel in economic development zone, same place where the high school musical crew members are staying at  .

[lionel]

Yes, I work at Holiday Inn Hefei Downtown.

Sorry TY, you still want to meet or you might want to meet over the weekends or something?

[TY]

I'll try out 合肥廊桥酒吧 with a friend. It's around changjian zhong lu.

[Aussie Mike]

Hefei porch bridge bar
What the hell is that?

[lionel]

Mike,

See here: http://maps.google.com/maps/place?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=%E5%90%88%E8%82%A5%E5%BB%8A%E6%A1%A5%E9%85%92%E5%90%A7&fb=1&gl=us&hq=%E5%BB%8A%E6%A1%A5%E9%85%92%E5%90%A7&hnear=Hefei,+Anhui,+China&cid=16488157340359232467

It's near San Xiao Kou.

BTW, Mike, had I send you an sms with my details? Do you have my details?