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In beijing, everyday it takes me more than 2 hours on the way between home and workplace. If I could change to a new company I need spend 4 hours!! on bus and subway..... Beijing tops the list of longest hours spend on the jouney to workplace. If you want to drive to workplace,ok, but there is also a limitation that your car cant be on the road one day per week according to what is the last number of your car's license plate.

When I was in Finland, the most often question I had been asked is that how chinese people type those "complicated" chinese characters into computer,since they are very different from western alphabet?

We uses Pinyin ( which is constituted by different combinations of alphabet) and tone marks (there are 4 tones in mandarine, and I have heard that Cantonese have even 9 tones....lukily, I dont need to learn it :p) to help recognize the prounanciation and type Chinese characters. For example: 水 （water), Pinyin: Shui tone:3 . So when I type 水，I only need to type shui, then it gives me many options including the same prounciations with different tones, all I need to do is to choose the right character