Hey you, keep moving. Don’t block the people behind you!
Allez vite vite vite!!!

I dunno if yin and yan were equally represented since I did not check the washroom of the opposite sex.

Je n’ai pas vérifié si yin et yan sont représentés egalement dans les toilettes des deux sexes.

In the wild wild East where established brand names are benchmarks for competitions, there is no shortage of challengers, with confusing identities as seen in these pics.

Name recognition, read at your risk ;-).

No, the pics were not photoshoped.

加薪 jiaxin - augmentation du salaire / salary increase

Dehors du Canada et des États-Unis, plusieurs pays ont observé la fête du travail le 1^er mai. Dans un mauvais temps avec la crise financière, les droits des ouvriers qui ont bâti les économies du monde sont plus importants que jamais.

Unlike Canada and the USA, many countries observed Labour Day on May 1st. Given the bad times with the financial crisis, rights of working class who built the world economies matter more than ever before.

牛B (adjective) - niu b

niu (noun): ox / boeuf

Il veut dire féroce, puissant, fort, super, etc. - sauf que c’est une expression vulgaire car “b” est un euphémisme d’organe sexuel. Alors, N.B. que vous n’utilisez pas N.B. au travail!

It means awesome, fierce, powerful, etc. - but it’s a vulgar expression since “b” is an euphemism for sex organ. In other words, N.B. that you don’t use N.B. at work!

全家福 (quan jia fu)

Si les trois caractères signifient: portrait de famille, une famille heureuse, etc., ne me demandez pourquoi la vulgarité s’est installé.

Don’t ask me why the profanity came along for the joyride if the three chinese characters translated loosely as happy family or a family portrait.

nü ren (女人): femme / woman

as seen in Beijing.

as seen in Instituto Cervantes de Pékin’s Fiesta de Arte Urbano: Graffiti y música hip-hop in December 2008. It was a rendition by artist from suso33.com.

Santa from Finland? Joy City mall, Xi Dan, Beijing, 20 dec 2008

Where does Santa live? A mall in Beijing seems to imply he is parachuting in from 芬兰 (Finland). In a country with no official religion, what do you think is the driving force behind these signs of Christmas? Happy Holidays anyways.

Et vous, les montréalais, avez-vous envoyé des lettres au père Noël (圣诞老人)? Vous devez être fiers qu”il vit dans votre quartier, témoigné par le code postal - H0H 0H0, même si un affiche à Pékin suggère autrement. Bonne fête!

Fill in the blanks / complétez les champs:

_    l _ v _     C h _ n _ .

as seen in Beijing, one of the residues from the ‘encouraged’ frenzy leading up to the Olympics.

graffiti as seen on 13 Dec 2008 in Beijing