Friday, January 3, 2025

3:01 PM View & Photos taken on my walk.



 Accidentally double clicked.

As the title says, I went for a walk.  I perambulated to the Hui Shan Wanda Plaza where I looked around and bought one thing: a three pack of Tsingtao white beer: I’ll drink one tonight after I pick up my wife from her work. I didn’t buy anything from Hot Maxx: there was nothing that interested me.  I thought to buy some fried peanuts but then thought not to do so.

As I was walking home with that one purchase, I took a “scenic route” back to the Ivy Park apartment.  I decided that what I saw was worth taking photos of for you: rare reader!

First this long road with construction walling on both sides:

Can you see it?  It’s on the other side of the crosswalk.

At the above intersection, I turned left.  The apartments across from Ivy Park stood out,




I passed a BYD dealership.  Build Your Dreams is an E vehicle brand.  I see a lot of BYDs on the streets of Jingle Jangles and Whiskers.


The BYDer store ain’t too far from Ivy Park.


I am currently typing this entry from the top of the second building of three on the right.

9:06 AM View: I’m in Whiskers!


 Geez.  Took this view photo over two hours ago.  Forgot to post it till now.  Please forgive me!  I’m begging you!  Pretty pretty please! 

2025 is a perfect square year!  45 times 45 is 2025.

5:01 AM View: Saturday and I am up and at ‘em!


 The bed was toasty warm this morning, but I couldn’t help it, I had to get up and get to ‘et!  

This morning, I have already extended the Duolingo streak to 1805 days.  考试终于结束了!j’étudie français! Yo hablo un poco español!  Yo quiero amigos!

The plan is to make breakfast, make a greetings video and drive/move a few things to Whiskers.

Please read my entry about the books I’ve read in 2024.

Books AKIC Read in 2024

 Here are the books I read or was browsing through in 2024:


2023: Year in Review by Dave Collum

The White Pill by Michael Malice

Mother Angelica's Little Book of Life Lessons

The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson

Learing the Virtues That Lead You to God by Romano Guardini

The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson

The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

St. Francis of Assisi by G.K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton

The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire

Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil

Scholia To An Implicit Text by Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Oeuvres Traduites by Nicolás Gómez Dávila

A Chesterton Calendar

Aphorisms by Nicolás Gómez Dávila

The Way by Josemaría Escrivá

The Oxford Book of Englsh Verse 1250-1900 edited by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Poems Every Child Should Know edited by Mary E. Burt

Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce

Ulysses by James Joyce

Praying with Mother Angelica

The Lord by Romano Guardini

To Begin Where I am by Czeslaw Milosz

New and Collected Poems 1931-2001 by Czeslaw Milosz

The Odyssey translated by Robert Fagles

Poet's Choice by Edward Hirsch

Genius of Chrstianity by François-René de Chateaubriand

The Memoirs of François-René Vicomte de Chateaubriand Volume 1

The Memoirs of François-René Vicomte de Chateaubriand Volume 2

The Memoirs of François-René Vicomte de Chateaubriand Volume 3

Atala by François-René Vicomte de Chateaubriand

The Memoirs of Chateaubriand (Penguin Classics)

St. John of the Cross Poems translated by Roy Campbell

On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham

Freaky Deaky by Elmore Leonard

Why Architecture Matters by Paul Goldberger

Lost in Math by Sabine Hossenfelder

Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920: Russia Leaves the War by George F. Kennan

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

Earth Abides by George Ripley Stewart


I have been keeping track of the books I've read since 2014. Here are the links to previous lists:


2014


2015


2016


2017


2018


2019


2020


2021


2022


2023


Any comments on my reading? Send an email to andiskaulins@protonmail.com.


Thursday, January 2, 2025

14:44 PM View: No more students!!


 The finals are finished.  The students won’t be at school next week.  Teaching is great when you don’t have any students.

I’ll be driving my son Tony to the metro station so he can go to Wuxi tonight.  I’ll go to Wuxi tomorrow once I’ve done some cleaning and loading.  And I am too lazy to rush to Wuxi this evening.

This afternoon, I proctored or invigilated or monitored a First Language Chinese exam.  I used the time to read Dave Collum’s 2024 Year in Review, Part 1.

I took this photo from a fourth floor patio at the International school building.




Nice view I thought.  Do you think so or not think so?  Comment below, pretty please!

After being relieved of proctoring of the Chinese exam, I took these two selfies:

The first shows a mountain and observatory style dome.


The second has the apartment buildings of Yuan Shan Wan in the background.


I’m squinting because the sun’s in my eyes.

11:52 AM View


 Friday, I worked on excel tables, sort of!  I made the tables on my old Mac.


We’ll, that be the F family, will be going to Sichuan mid January.


For fun, I’ve been going to the fourth floor and putting goodies on my colleagues desks.  RANK!


Listening to music while sitting on my closet and sort of getting some work is alright.


It’s the tenth day of Christmas:




4:57 AM View: Friday!


 I took this photo over an hour ago.  It almost slipped my mind to make an entry with it.

Anyway, I off to school as soon as lazy boy Tony, my son, shows evidence of having arisen.

4:37 PM View: Suppertime!

 


I took the above photo almost an hour ago.

I made some bacon cheese ground beef sandwiches for dinner.  Tony appreciated them.  I baked bacon and beef patties for eighteen minutes at 200 Celsius.  I then put cheese on the patties and bacon.  All that goes on toasted slices of bread.  Delicious!

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

11:31 AM View: Lunchtime & a Review of the Morning


 The security guards gave me a cigarette. I wished them: 新年快乐我!

I invigilated a chem practical exam.  So, I stood around in a lab for an hour.

Now having lunch in the Jingle Jangles apartment:  coffee and a cheese sandwich.  Yum yum.

It’s the bi th day of Christmas:



4:54 AM View: Back to Work


 Two days of invigilation and gradation.  Subjective decisions to be made.  Also, I’ll compile and publish my annual list of books read,

4:11 PM View: Back in Jingle Jangles


 Forgot to take a photo before I left Wazoo.  But back in Jingle Jangles we are.