{"id":69,"date":"2009-03-22T10:52:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T14:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=69"},"modified":"2009-03-22T10:52:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T14:52:48","slug":"back-to-hk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/back-to-hk\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to HK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I got up to go to the airport for another visa run to Hong Kong.\u00a0 It was a little late, but I figured I&#8217;d get to the <strong>\u673a\u573a\u5feb\u8f68<\/strong> (airport express) in time.\u00a0 I got to the checkin counter to find that it was <strong>\u5173\u4e86<\/strong> (closed).\u00a0 The checkin counter person told me that I&#8217;d <strong>\u6765\u4e0d\u53ca<\/strong> (not make it).\u00a0 Rather than risk an experience like this\u00a0 (http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xbVw7entkxg), I decided to <strong>\u6539\u7b7e<\/strong> (change my reservation).\u00a0 Little did I know that a. my ticket <strong>\u6709\u9650\u5236<\/strong> (was limited) and b. the changing price would <strong>\u5bb0\u4eba<\/strong> (be highway robbery).\u00a0 Alas, I would have to pay 2 months&#8217; rent (don&#8217;t take this to heart- I live in a cheap place) and was then told that the ticket cashier was off to eat.\u00a0 After sitting for a while, I finally went back to check on how that was going and was accosted by a person who wanted me to <strong>\u62a5\u540d <\/strong>(register) in a miles program to <strong>\u7d2f\u79ef<\/strong> (collect) some <strong>\u79ef\u5206<\/strong> (points).\u00a0 Even though I would have to fly to Hong Kong 15 times to get a free ticket to Hong Kong (likely one with <strong>\u9650\u5236<\/strong> to boot), I figured knowing that my torment would at least be worth something would be better than nothing.\u00a0 All I can say is that I hope my <strong>\u8fd0\u6c14<\/strong> (luck) isn&#8217;t this bad in Macau!<\/p>\n<p>\u673a\u573a\u5feb\u8f68 ji1chang3kuai4gui3 &#8211; airport express<br \/>\n\u5173\u4e86guan1le &#8211; closed<br \/>\n\u6765\u4e0d\u53ca lai2bu4ji2 &#8211; won&#8217;t make it<br \/>\n\u6539\u7b7e gai3qian1 &#8211; get a new ticket<br \/>\n\u5bb0\u4eba zai2 ren2 &#8211; stabbing\/cutting (basically like saying highway robbery)<br \/>\n\u6709\u9650\u5236 you3xian4zhi4 &#8211; have(has) limits<br \/>\n\u62a5\u540d bao4ming2 &#8211; register<br \/>\n\u7d2f\u79ef lei3ji2 &#8211; collect, accumulate<br \/>\n\u79ef\u5206 ji1fen1 &#8211; points<br \/>\n\u8fd0\u6c14 yun4qi4 &#8211; luck<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I got up to go to the airport for another visa run to Hong Kong.\u00a0 It was a little late, but I figured I&#8217;d get to the \u673a\u573a\u5feb\u8f68 (airport express) in time.\u00a0 I got to the checkin counter to find that it was \u5173\u4e86 (closed).\u00a0 The checkin counter person told me that I&#8217;d&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/back-to-hk\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2659],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-chinese-language"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}