- I am back at school.
- Mama plays pool.
- The first video of Tony taken in the year of the Rabbit. (Includes a house tour!)
- Mother-in-law plays pool.
- Tony wrestles his cousin.
- Cute photos of Tony and his cousin.
- Beixin Photos.
- A Chinese New Year Meal.
Day Four of the Beixin Odyssey was February 4, 2011. Boredom is setting in.
- I watched some big-budget Chinese movie about a Tall Buddha being constructed during the preparations for an Empress's coronation. I think it was called Tong Tian Dee Guo.
- Getting my Egypt news from CCTV9. Why does every government leader of every foreign country have to make statements? They are saying nothing. I would love to hear someone endorse the violence for the sake of being contrarian.
- Tony was the first to get up.
- Breakfast: black bean balls and jube-jubes.
- Touristy commercials on CCTV9 show things I would see every day in Wuxi -- high-arched bridges, and people banging on drums.
- "China will win the future with soft-power." I am watching CCTV9 again.
- Tony does a happy dance.
- How's my Chinese New Year? I can't complain. Some would say it is dull. But every one's been nice. What much of the world thinks as excitement has a price. Excitement draws us away from what is important. Excitement brings out the asshole in many. Excitement means hanging out with assholes. Better to be stuck with simple souls... (I make a note to change "assholes" to base elements).
- Heat are beating the Magic by 21 points. NBA basketball still seems like a big shooting contest. I can't see the tactics being employed.
- Magic end up with last shot that would have tied the game.
- Wuxi China Expatdom idea: Denmark criticizes WCE for tickling during interrogations and so not taking the war seriously.
- Tony and his cousin wrestle and embrace each other. They think this is the funniest thing. Why?
- I have to remind myself to see things through Tony's eyes.
- Nanxin is three stops from Beixin. I read signs on buses and ask Jenny questions.
- Kung Fu hero uses baby fart, baby piss, and his own stinky feet to to defeat a gang attacking him.
- Jenny and Tony go to Taixing. I nap and then go for a walk. I see old houses and fields and garbage and slimy water and chickens and ducks.
- King Ming Dan: flying lanterns launched into air, rising up to a thousand feet. The lanterns operate like manned balloons. A flame is lit below the lantern heating and expanding the gas in the lantern and so causing it to float upwards.
- Should have taken photo of people gutting eels at the nearby open market. But I was too shy to do so. It was such a bloody scene I missed showing you.
- I read signs to pass the time and improve my Chinese. I see the character that I know now is for tooth. I guess I am about to pass a dentist's office. I pass the sign and see a dental chair that confirms my guess.
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