Guangzhouer is an English language blog about China. You might ask, “Why do we need another English language blog about China? There are so many good ones already. It takes me 20 minutes to get through my blogroll as it is. And, those big shots are based out of Beijing and Shanghai. You’re in Guangzhou! The rest of the world only knows you by your French colonial name! And, look at you two. You look Chinese. You speak the language! How can you offer any insight? How can you feel my non-Chinese pain?” To which we drolly respond, “Peking.”
First, a bit of nostalgia …
Junde 
joined GuangzhouStuff, a Guangzhou-based social networking site featuring local events & nightlife (i.e. eligible ladies and not-so-gentle-men) last year and was starting to exert his social media influence on this niche network. He was beloved by all.
Near the end of 2008, this purported pied piper 
by the humble name of Jay™ joined the site and after a hibernatory reconnaissance period, launched his assault on the public activity feed. He proceeded to blitzkrieg the hearts of ladies and even some not-so-gentle-men. We all settled into a groove of using GZStuff as our gathering place to 吹水 (shoot the breeze). All was well.
One fine day, Tina 
(hot, but angry, but still hot, GZ model) posed an intelligent question:
Excerpts of that discussion:
We followed up with a conversation at Starbucks in the background of this photo.
* **
Which brings us to here and now. Our only aim is to present things modestly through the prism of our Ameri-Singa-Sino-Southern perspective, and in the process share informative and entertaining nougats of Guangzhou life. We are lazy people, if someone else had already done it, we wouldn’t be sitting here typing this in the plural personal pronoun. As for how we plan to evolve … laissez-faire! How else would a Southerner do it?
*This site was not developed for RMB368. Junde made it with Wordpress.
** Those are not Starbucks employees on strike.
haha…that’s interesting…
so junde can really help ppl develop a website for RMB368?
haha no Carol, it’s too little money and too much work!
But I will bbq 368 lamb sticks for you if you want
Wow, you guys really love yourselves…huh?
Actually, this just furthers my suspicions that Junde and Jay(TM) are the same person.
Lindsay, come for the GZStuff Awards Night. You’ll find answers.
= )
Nice one boys, will hopefully add something in the not too distant future!
Btw, nice use of the Wong Lo Gat can in the background!!
Did people leave comments very early in the morning or is our clock in the wrong time zone? Junde!! Fix it!!!
foobar
Is 368 Junde’s hourly fee???
Why set up this name to the website? guangzhouer sounds like a foreigner saying the word guangzhou with a thick tongue!!it is funny name!~
Dear Clare,
In English, adding the er/or suffix to a verb changes it into a noun that performs that action.
Sail = Sailor
Kick = Kicker
Grasshop = Grasshopper
And so forth. Go ahead, point out that Guangzhou isn’t a verb. Do it.
hey,what can we do the next on this site? can’t wait to see it!!!hahaha…
the first thing i want see is to show ur face with the comment we leave……i am not so fat and pale in fact.
@Carol, i’m working on that
Hey everyone,
Facebook-Connect has been enabled.
All facebook users can Click the blue “Facebook Connect” button on the top right, and then you will be able to submit comments and your Facebook name and Facebook photo will be automatically loaded.
I think it’s quite cool. haha..
The extended version :
Wang Lao Ji 王老吉 ! Subtle nice touch
hahaha
it’s really cool!!!!!!!!!
so pity i can’t been to the event tonigh!!!!!!!
T.T
hey, that facebook-connect thing worked beautifully! you are indeed quite cool, junde …… yeah, after 3 excruciating days of ambivalence i finally decided to become a guangzhouer (sorry, jay, i checked all the chinese-english dictionaries and none of them had gz as a verb. you are hereby illiterate) cuz, well, i felt your community could use another pretty face in it, although i’m positive many more will join in very soon cuz your blogs are extremely entertaining as well as highly informative (yeah, i know, run-on sentences make me illiterate too)… still, why do i get this slightly apprehensive feeling that i may regret joining … ???
Dear Helen,
Less talk. More ______.
Sincerely,
Jay
Dear David,
Does it look like a 王老吉 can? Pure coincidence!!
Innocently,
Jay
J/J:
First, a belated congratulations on the blog debut. The Guangzhou perspective was much needed amongst the crowd of Beijing- and Shanghai- based blogs.
Second, I have things to contribute. When I think of them, I will do so.
Third, you should link to Mike, based in Guangzhou’s slutty stepchild city:
http://shenzhenundercover.blogspot.com/
Good luck!
-Rich
Dear Rich,
(1) Thanks
(2) Looking forward to it
(3) JD was a little unsure about my using Dirty South to refer to Guangzhou.
(4) Slutty stepchild will probably make JD feel better.
(5) Nice innovation with the J/J thing. Hope it doesn’t catch on.
Peace!
Jay
Dear Richard,
(i) Thank you.
(ii) As you can see, I’m more formal with things.
(iii) Mike needs to shift to another blog engine/domain. Blogspot is under GFW and is a little user-unfriendly hence.
(iv) Niiicee..I like….how much?
(v) Next time you’re here, click the Facebook Connect thingy
Gong Hei Lei,
Junde
guangzhougal
Just get out of China and go home. Why you stay here for so long and say things bad about Chinese? BC you love it here more than the country you are from but they didnt accept you cause you are Asian and they make racist comments about your ’small eyes’. So why do you not just go back if they are so accepting of you there and you are so negative here about China? Are you Taiwanese who jealous of China and pretend to be Chinese? Bring it on.! Hope the censors in China enjoy reading your posts and articles about how you are Chinese and continue to kiss ass to foreingrs who hate China. Chinese loyalists such as I will breakdown all your points one by one. How about the crimes in western countries, ? The school killings and nasty things worst than in China ? Stop trying to be ‘popular’ to foriengers , butt lickr.
but you are not chinese are you singapore?
Seriously, whats with the 王老吉 background?
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I am really enjoying the theme/design of your web site. Do you ever run into any web browser compatibility problems? A handful of my blog audience have complained about my website not working correctly in Explorer but looks great in Safari. Do you have any advice to help fix this problem?