Thursday, May 27, 2021

A Trip to Shanghai

I went to Shanghai, on a Tuesday, to transact some personal business at the Canadian Consulate.


I went to Shanghai via train. The trip took less than an hour.



I was initially overwhelmed by the big city bustle. I wondered how Shanghai people could focus.


While in Shanghai, the Winnipeg Jets were playing the Edmonton Oilers in Game Four of their first round playoff series. The game went into triple overtime. I followed the game, wearing my Jets cap, on the NHL app on my smartphone.




To get into the consulate, I had to sign a form saying I didn't have Covid or that I didn't know anyone who did.


I then sat in a waiting room where I saw lots of relaxed employees walked back to their work after lunch. The waiting room was deader than than the employees. The room showed the true relationship of the government to its people. The workers were hidden behind walls and doors and windows. Human relations weren't not allowed.


I was annoyed that the consulate wouldn't take cash for their services.



A great proportion of people seemed to be wearing muzzles in Shanghai than in Wuxi.


There were lots of nice looking girls in Shanghai.


I went to the foreign language bookstore. I bought a book for Tony about Kobe Bryant. I hope he reads it.


I went to a Tim Horton's. I bought an ice cap for myself and five bagels for my wife Jenny. My wife does love Tim Horton's bagels. Drinking the ice cap, I was in agony for a moment as I got a ice buzz from drinking it too quickly.

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Do Americans Love Hockey While Canadians Hate It?

Watching the 2021 NHL playoffs, leads one to think that Canadians don't much care for their national game anymore. The playoff games played in Canada are being played in empty arenas. Meanwhile in America, the games are being played in arenas full of fans.


One can only draw one conclusion: Americans like hockey more than Canadians who don't seem to like it at all.


(I say this in jest. I shouldn't have to say this. I would like to think that rare readers would figure out I was joking, but there may be coviidiots and Biden-supporters reading this who would take it literally.


To the latter type of reader: I say the empty arenas in Canada are evidence of what pussies many Canadians and many Canadian politicians have been in the last year!)


Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Random Thoughts and Experiences

I was lying on my bed at home, reading my volume of the collected writings of Flannery O'Connor, minding my own business as it were, when I heard a loud crash. I looked out my window and saw that cars on the road had slowed down. I then looked down the road to see that a SUV smashed in on the passenger side. The accident happened by the entrance gate to the California Villa complex.


That entrance can be dangerous because of the strange stopping habits and the impatience of drivers.



I went to an open (to parents) morning of classes at my son Tony's international school. I sat through Chinese, Science, English and Geography classes. Tony performed best in the Chinese class. The other classes, he was quiet.



My son Tony & I are excited by the Montreal Toronto match-up in this year's NHL playoffs. I'd like to see the Leafs win; Tony is cheering for the Habs.



Some like to say that everyone has their own truth. I like to say that sharing your truths with others is like sharing your urine.



I get really angry when people say I have a bad temper.



One contact I have in Canada says his wife is under pressure at her work (she is a teacher) to get jabbed. He wants her to resist. So do I!



So many podcasts. I listen to podcasts where the hosts express their dislike for people who I have listened to on other podcasts like E. Michael Jones and Milo and Jonah Goldberg and Marc Levine and Greg Johnston and Millennial Woes and the Z-man and John Derbyshire and so on.







Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Updated List of Ways of Referring to Joe Biden

I keep thinking that they have run out of ways to refer to the mediocrity that is Joe Biden, but I have added yet more entries to my list! They have been marked with an asterisk (*) except the 46* where the asterisk is permanent.


A real nowhere man

Alleged Catholic Biden

Alleged President Biden

Amtrak Joe

Apparation Joe

Bank Robber Joe

Bedpan Biden

Biden as President

Blinken Biden

Blundering Biden

Boring-snoring Joe

Bubble Biden

Bullshit Biden*

Bumbling Joe

Cadaver Joe

Chairman Xiden

China Joe

Cho Bai-Din

Cigar Store Biden

Cognitive Delinquet*

Crazy Joe

Creepy Uncle Joe

Dear Leader

Dementia Joe

Dementia-in-Chief

Diaper Joe

Disaster in Chief

Doddery Joe

EO Joe

Feeble Joe Biden

Forgetful Joe

Fraudulent Joe

Green Screen Joe

Grifter Joe*

Gropey Dopey

Gropin' Joe

Grumps Joe

Idiot Joe

Idiot Joe Biden

Joe B, the revenant in the White House

Joe Biden, America's first idiocracy President

Joe Blow, Father of Hunter

Joe Buy Dung

Joeloco

Joe Chi Minh™

Joe Braindead

Joe "sanctuary city" Biden

Joe Stolin

Joebama

Joementia

Joey Cabbage

Joey Cringworthy

Joey No-Pulse

Joltin' Joe

Joseph Robinette Biden

Landslide Joe

Mumbly Joe

New Dear Leader Buyden

non compos mentis

OBiden

Oddball Hair Sniffer

Ol' Joe

Ol' White Joe

Old Bedpan Bidet

Old Joe

Old Mashed Potato Brain

Old Senile Joe

Our Totally Legitimate (P)resident Biden

Our Totally Legitimate, not in anyway fraudulent "president."

Pedophile Muppet Biden

Pevertacus

PINO: President in Name Only

Potato Joe

POTATUS: President of the After Trump U.S.

Premier Bai-Din

President Alzheimer

President Bonehead

President Potatohead

President Puddingbrain

(P)resident Deepfake

Racist Joe

Resident Joe

Rutabaga Joe

SCROTUS: So Called Ruler of the United States

Senility Joe

Sleepy Creepy Biden

Sloppy Joe

Slo Groppy Joe

Slo Joe

Slow Joe

Sniffing Joe

Sniffer Joe

Sniffy Joe

Snoozey Joe Biden*

Spendthrift Biden

Stairmaster Joe

Stumbling Joe

Stupid Gasbag

Temporary President Biden

The asterisk president

The China-sponsored hologram known as Joe Biden

The Classic American grifter who somehow made it all the way to the Whitehouse but it took so long that he's barely aware of what's happening anymore.

The corpse that is Joe Biden

The great pretender

The invalid in the White House

The mummy

The puppet

The puppet usuper*

The senile man in the White House

The totally-legitimate, not-at-all-fraudulent Uncle Joe Stolin

Traitor Joe

Trippy Joe

Vegetable Joe

Wheelchair Joe

Zhou Bai Den

Zombie Joe

Zombie Obama

46*

Monday, May 17, 2021

Harry Moore from Brisbane, Australia where art thou?; Who I Know Who Has Gotten the Jab; Civil War?

Harry Moore spent some time in Wuxi working at my school. He returned to Australia and we kept in contact. However, the last I heard from him was he wasn't feeling very well. I tried then to make a point of sending him a message every day. But I wasn't getting any response. And then his Messenger account seemed to have been closed. I sent an email to his daughter but haven't got any reply. So, I worry about what has happened to Harry.


If you know what has happened to Harry, you can email me at andiskaulins@hotmail.com.



I don't want to get the Covid vaccine. I first don't see the need for them. There wasn't a vaccine that put an end to the Spanish Flu epidemic for instance. I also hear stories of people who took the vaccine having adverse effects. So, I will wait and see. Since I have no plans to leave China for a year or so, I will hold off until a gun is put to my head. I also hope that somehow the people who insist on everyone taking the vaccine somehow come to their senses.


I know some people, in my family and among acquaintances, who have taken my jab. A few of my friends in Canada have taken it. My mother has gotten the first jab. My brother is waiting and seeing like I am.



What happened to the civil war that everyone was talking about during the 2020 US presidential election campaign? Am I in the calm before the storm and maybe it will happen? Or was it all armchair internet war monger hype talk? Are the reactionaries and conservatives just sitting and hoping that the obvious stupidity of progressive will come to an end? Did January 6th put the people taling of Civil War on the defensive.


It does seem that the civil war talk has amounted to nothing. This is not to say I would want a civil war. But I wish the rightists would find back against Progressive stupidity and tyranny. Right now, they seem to do nothing but talk.






Tuesday, May 11, 2021

The Example of Pastor Artur Pawlowski Shames Canada; Booking Parent Teacher Meeting Blues;

I thought China was the communist country. Not anymore, with the horrible arrest of Artur Pawlowski by police in Alberta, it would seem that Canada is the world's premier communist country. Like my parents Pastor Pawlowski came to Canada to escape communist persecution. In Canada, he has been stellar in his efforts to preach the gospel and to help the poor. But in Canada now, the needs of bureaucracy trumps goodness. The arrest of Pawlowski by Calgary police was NKVD-like.


What a shame it is to be Canadian!



It must have been easier to deal with schools before they became computerized. I don't think my parents went through the trouble I did trying to book parent teacher meetings at Tony's international school. At 16:00 on a Monday, booking for the meeting opened on Tony's school internet portal. At 23:00 after numerous bad gateway messages from the portal, I was able to book Tony's PTCs. The process must have been deliberately designed to discourage parents from getting interested in these PTCs. After hours after being virtually imprisoned next to the computer because of the booking system, I was ready to give up...


Sunday, May 9, 2021

A Sad Commentary

It is a sad commentary on the age in which we live in that the question of whether to buy salted or unsalted butter is now a political question.

Comments?  Email me at andiskaulins@hotmail.com

Friday, May 7, 2021

Updated List of Ways of Referring to Joe Biden

I keep thinking that they have run out of ways to refer to the mediocrity that is Joe Biden, but I have added yet more entries to my list. They have been marked with an asterisk (*) except the 46* where the asterisk is permanent.


A real nowhere man*

Alleged Catholic Biden

Alleged President Biden

Amtrak Joe*

Apparation Joe

Bank Robber Joe

Bedpan Biden

Biden as President

Blinken Biden

Blundering Biden

Boring-snoring Joe

Bubble Biden

Bumbling Joe

Cadaver Joe

Chairman Xiden

China Joe

Cho Bai-Din*

Cigar Store Biden

Crazy Joe

Creepy Uncle Joe

Dear Leader*

Dementia Joe

Dementia-in-Chief

Diaper Joe

Disaster in Chief

Doddery Joe

EO Joe

Feeble Joe Biden*

Forgetful Joe

Fraudulent Joe

Green Screen Joe

Gropey Dopey

Gropin' Joe

Grumps Joe

Idiot Joe

Idiot Joe Biden

Joe B, the revenant in the White House

Joe Biden, America's first idiocracy President

Joe Blow, Father of Hunter

Joe Buy Dung

Joeloco

Joe Chi Minh™

Joe Braindead

Joe "sanctuary city" Biden

Joe Stolin

Joementia

Joey Cabbage

Joey Cringworthy

Joey No-Pulse

Joltin' Joe

Joseph Robinette Biden*

Landslide Joe*

Mumbly Joe

New Dear Leader Buyden*

non compos mentis

OBiden

Ol' Joe*

Ol' White Joe

Old Bedpan Bidet

Old Joe

Old Mashed Potato Brain*

Old Senile Joe

Our Totally Legitimate (P)resident Biden

Our Totally Legitimate, not in anyway fraudulent "president."

Pedophile Muppet Biden

Pevertacus

PINO: President in Name Only

Potato Joe

POTATUS: President of the After Trump U.S.

Premier Bai-Din*

President Alzheimer

President Bonehead

President Potatohead

President Puddingbrain*

(P)resident Deepfake

Racist Joe

Resident Joe

Rutabaga Joe

SCROTUS: So Called Ruler of the United States*

Senility Joe

Sleepy Creepy Biden

Sloppy Joe

Slo Groppy Joe

Slo Joe

Slow Joe

Sniffing Joe

Sniffer Joe

Sniffy Joe

Spendthrift Biden*

Stairmaster Joe

Stumbling Joe

Stupid Gasbag*

Temporary President Biden

The asterisk president

The China-sponsored hologram known as Joe Biden*

The corpse that is Joe Biden

The great pretender

The invalid in the White House

The mummy*

The puppet*

The senile man in the White House*

The totally-legitimate, not-at-all-fraudulent Uncle Joe Stolin*

Traitor Joe

Trippy Joe

Vegetable Joe

Wheelchair Joe

Zhou Bai Den

Zombie Joe

Zombie Obama*

46*


























Thursday, May 6, 2021

My May Day Holiday Had Two Highlights

I had a four day May Day holiday.


The first highlight was going to Shanghai to see Tony participate in a baseball tournament. His Wuxi NKCS team played against three teams full of Japanese, Korean and American players.


Tony's team struggled, to be generous. It was their first time to play against such experienced opposition. They were no-hit in one game. Tony said his team scored one run but I didn't recall them scoring. The other teams must have stolen fifty bases on Tony's team in the three games, including home on one play. Thinking about the tournament beforehand, I wasn't expecting Team Tony to win any games. I wasn't expecting the other teams to be so good though.


Tony played first base for the three games. He had some good moments though he didn't catch every ball thrown at him. Some of the throws were errant; a few he could have caught. He told me after that he would rather have played center field. As for hitting. Tony went down twice on called strikes, once on a ball hit to the pitcher.


This day trip to Shanghai was my first time to leave the confines of Wuxi since Spring Festival 2020.


I had a tiring journey to get to Shanghai. I was at the Yanqiao Metro Station before its doors opened in the morning for the 6:00 AM train to get to the Wuxi Train Station (the main one, not the two other new ones). There I took the G7029 High Speed Train to the main Shanghai train station, and then Shanghai Metro Lines 3 and 11 to get to the Shanghai Circuit subway station near where Tony was playing.


Watching Tony, I got sunburned on the back, arms and legs. It never occurred to me to bring along some suntan lotion. The locals, I learned during the next day's speakers corner, rarely get sunburned. All the students could recall it happening to them once.




The other highlight of the Holiday was getting my question to a favorite blog of mine, Rotten Chestnuts. published in a mailbag entry.


Here is how I answered the question I posed to the Rotten Chestnuts blogger:


McQueen

Pinochet

Trump

Jonah Goldberg

Bush

Biden

Obama

Hitler

Stalin