the bell is tolling but god only knows who for

This is not what you want to hear from your immediate superior when you find out an impromptu meeting with The Faceless Bigwig has been called for sometime on Sunday: "This is going to be a unique episode in our lives." Even better when you hear that the topic of said meeting is about "big changes" that are coming.

Ooh! I hope it'll be change for the better! That's the only kind of change there is, right? For the better?

Two out of three Chinese grannies agree:
Confucian Nepotism makes for a strange
bedfellow with open-minded foreign staff.