Monday
[November 18]
[Home
Laptop]
Not
working today. Just staying at home playing on the computer.
[Ipod]
I spend afternoon on couch. I watch Red Dawn – a remake of a movie made in the 1980's. I watch the start of the Keys to the Kingdom: a movie so far set in Scotland and China.
I spend afternoon on couch. I watch Red Dawn – a remake of a movie made in the 1980's. I watch the start of the Keys to the Kingdom: a movie so far set in Scotland and China.
It
was a mistake to watch Red Dawn 2012. Like the original made in the
1980's, it was silly. The people who say it is a Conservative movie
should be ashamed of themselves.
I wait for Tony. He will do homework when he gets home.
I wait for Tony. He will do homework when he gets home.
I
want to hug the little fellow. I can't help but overindulge
him; for I have lead a lonely life. He is my buddy.
Completed a series in Real Racing 3: an app I play on my Ipad.
Completed a series in Real Racing 3: an app I play on my Ipad.
Tuesday
[November 19]
[Home
Laptop]
I
work 13:00 to 21:00. It is my Monday.
Last
night, I set up Plarail (toy train) track for Tony. I took a video
of him proudly showing up a train crash he had set up.
This
morning, I am trying to take things one at a time.
I
drank some tea which seemed to collide with some phlegm that was
coming up from my chest. I choked and was gasping for breath for
about ten seconds. It happened last week at school when I had drank
some water. After I was breathing normally again, I blew my nose
and a big load of snot came out.
I
can't shake this cold. It seems that its harsh symptoms are coming
back.
Tony
has this cold too.
[School
Laptop]
I
took the 25 bus to school. I like the walk I take, down a bustling
side street, from the bus stop, near Nanchang Market, to the school.
It makes me feel like I am really in China.
Peach
Maoists are winning 87-84 with six minutes left in the Monday Night
Game. Can they hold on for their second victory?
.
.
.
.
No! They lose 92-89! Their record falls to 1-9-1.
It
is cold in the office because the heater isn't on and there also
isn't any central heating. I am tempted to put on my toque (or wool
cap for those who don't speak Canadian.)
Something
has happened to David Warren's website. All his blog entries have
disappeared and the site has a message saying “coming soon.”
I
won't have dinner till I get home, which will be after 10:00 PM.
A
student told me that he and his roommates had caught a thief in their
dorm room at their High School. The student and his friends had
decided to go out for lunch in the evening instead of staying at
school and studying. The thief, who knew the students schedule and
so was expecting the dorm to be deserted, was surprised when they
walked into their room. The student and his roommates keep the thief
in their room, asked him questions, and took photos of him. He was a
boy of school age who could speak Mandarin. The thief told the
students that he was part of a gang of ten thieves who were robbing
school dormitories. He even boasted to having the keys to all the
rooms in their dormitory building.
Unfortunately,
he was able to escape before the police arrived. The foreigners all
said they would have rough-housed the thief. The students did
nothing.
Wednesday
[November 20]
[Home
Laptop]
I
work 13:00 to 21:00.
My
struggle with my cold continues.
I
hope the David Warren site comes back. All its content was
pulled about two days ago.
I
phoned my Mom (she lives in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada) last night.
It is cold in Brandon (minus five) and they had a little snow.
My sister will be coming from British Columbia next week to pay
Mom a visit. I may get a chance to talk to my sister who I
haven't really talked to since the time of Dad's death. (We have
exchanged a few emails but we haven't talked)
There
will be a by-election next week in Brandon. The seat in the
federal parliament is up for grabs.
[School
Laptop]
I
took the 602支 bus to the
downtown, and transferred to the 79 to get to school. On the 602支，an
old man got sick into bucket, left for that purpose I would suppose,
near the back exit door of the bus.
Thursday
[November 21]
[School
Laptop]
You'd
think nothing was happening in my life; what with the paucity of
words in my journal entries.
Well!
Let me tell you. Stuff is happening and I am thinking things in my
head that I just can't put into my blog. These thoughts are all
unformed and amorphous.
I
work 10:00 to 21:00 today. It is my long day, as I like to say.
Tuesday
night, I did a salon about history. I asked the students if they
could tell me what historical event they would change if they could.
One student told me he would have changed the results of the Chinese
Civil War. “We would be more free now!” he added. This is not
the first time I have heard this sentiment expressed by students.
Unfortunately, the Nationalists were the stupid side in the war, kind
of like modern establishment Republicans.
Last
night, I came home, hoping to see Tony fast asleep. Instead, Jenny
was still having him do his Chinese homework. I could only sigh in
frustration.
I
got an email from HM's daughter.
HM
is a friend of mine from Australia who worked at my school for a
short time, after which we maintained a correspondence. He had a
stroke recently but he was able to carry on with his life best he
could – I receiving emails from him and he was attending courses at
university and fighting Leftists To his credit, he was a Christian
and a conservative.
After
his stroke, I told him to just ensure that his daughters would keep
updated about him if he wasn't able to. Well, I just got an email
from his daughter. Not many details were provided. She said that HM
was thinking of me. All I can do is pray for him and hope he gets
better. He deserves many more years of life.
Friday
[November 22]
[School
Laptop]
I
work 11:00 to 21:00 today.
Tony
took his Tomica Plarail Catalog to school. I hope he doesn't lose
it.
It
is the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination
today.
I
have to admit that I am or can say I was a Kennedy Assassination
buff. I read books about the JFK assassination, and I have been to
Dealey Plaza and been on the sixth floor of the Texas School
Depository Building. I started out thinking it was a conspiracy
until I unknowingly bought a book that said Oswald did it. Reading
the book forever changed my mind about what happened. People who
think Oswald didn't do are brain dead. When I hear that people found
Oliver Stone's film about the assassination to be influential, I am
totally aghast.
Consider
the following:
- The magic bullet wasn't a magic bullet. If you take into account where and how the Governor and the President were sitting when the second shot was fired, the angles lined up. And if you watch the Zapruder film, you can see that Kennedy and the Texas Governor were hit at the same time by the second shot.
- The Head shot physics were not as simple as a cue ball hitting another cue ball. The physics of a fast moving projectile puncturing a body with a hard shell isn't a simple transfer of force form one body to another. These forces generated by the shattering of the shell surrounding JFK's brain caused it to move toward where the shots were fired.
- Oswald's fingerprints were on the gun that was found on the sixth floor of the TSBD. A photo of Oswald was taken before the assassination showing him holding the gun that he used to shot Kennedy.
- Photos taken of the Grassy Knoll as the shots were being fired showed no shooter.
- Oswald could have been rounded up by the FBI before the assassination but fell through the cracks of the security precautions that were made for JFK's visit to Dallas.
- Oswald's brother thinks that LHO did the deed.
- In fact, the assassination was a very open and shut case.
It
is also my friend Heather's birthday today. She was born the day of
the JFK assassination. I sent her a birthday greeting email and have
just received a lovely email in response.
Tony
wants me to set up the toy train track for him. I had set it up for
him earlier this week but Jenny asked me to put it away. And so Tony
complained last night.
Saturday
[November 23]
[School
Laptop]
I
work 10:00 to 18:00 today.
Saturdays
at school can be annoying if you have some of the annoying middle
school students in your classes. Understandably, they are tired
after a weekly regimen that I probably could never put up with; and
so they just don't want to be in class – attempts to entertain them
end up flat.
Tony
& Jenny went to the Big Buddha this morning. They left the
apartment before I did. Tony said good bye to me as he left.
Last
evening, Tony was asking me to go to bed. “Why are you going to
bed? Daddy?” he said.
I
took the 602支 bus to the
downtown.
I
have this fear that someone is going to try to break into the
apartment today. None of the Kaulins family is in the house today.
The fear was sparked by workers near our home (they were painting
white on tree trunk bottoms) staring at me. Let's break
into the laowei's apartment! Yeah!
[Home Laptop]
No one broke into the apartment.
So much for irrational premonitions!
After work, I quickly caught the
bus and made my way to the Wuxi Hui Shan Wanda where I meet Jenny &
Tony for dinner.
After eating, we went home.
Exciting life! I know.
Sunday
[November 24]
[Home Laptop]
I don't work today.
It is raining outside. Because
of this, I wasn't planning on going anywhere, but then Tony said he
wanted to go to the Wuxi Hui Shan Wanda Plaza arcade to play the
“Truck Game.”
And so we went since Sunday is
the one day of the week I can indulge him.
I took Tony to the stores selling
toys, the arcade so he could play the truck game, the Apple store so
he could play on the Ipad, and to McDonalds so I could buy him a
Happy Meal and get him a transformer toy.
We stayed at Wanda from lunch
time to 4:00 PM. When I decided it was time to leave, I got a lot of
resistance from Tony. His tactic was to stand in my way with his
arms spread wide and not let me pass. I walked half the length of
the Mall doing a stupid game of trying to get around him. I finally
lost my temper and screamed at him, using language that I will admit
was a trite vulgar.
Tony wanted to stay and look at
toys. I think he has enough toys and I would rather he stay at home
and play with the ones he has. In fact, he has more toys than I ever
had. [Not that I begrudge this. In fact, I am glad that it is so.]
David
Warren's site is back up. He has a pay button. If I had more money,
I would make a contribution. I would also have to try to explain
why I was doing it for Jenny.
I
am thinking of ending the AKIC Weekly. From now on, I will publish
an AKIC newsletter. It will have the same contents as the AKIC
Weekly. However, I won't publish it on a weekly basis. I will
publish it when I feel like it.
I
will name this newsletter
Dispatches from Akicistan.
I won't date them I will number them. Dispatches
from Akicistan #1
will be published in December. I will publish one more issue of the
AKIC Weekly.
Tony
& Jenny went to some charity event for Tibet. [Would the Chinese
ever do one for North Korea? I suppose they have no plans to annex
it.]
I
still have the cough and the stuck-up feeling in my chest.
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