江泽民 R.I.P.

I learned about from my son Tony, on WeChat.

 

Wednesday Morning Covid Test

 No rioting at this booth.

Covid Test on Wednesday!

 So excited I am.

I’ll take a picture for y’a!

Worry you not!

Monday Morning Covid Test

 

Why did I get tested on Sunday afternoon?

Start the Week with a Hat Trick

 

Orange Vests

 

Sunday Afternoon Covid Test Lineup

 

Frog by the Rice Field

 

Funky Funky Groovy!

 Groovy Groovy Funk Down!

Funky Funky Groovy!

A Chemistry teacher at my school has a signed posted in a classroom that says “Chemists have all the solutions!” I think it be cooler and more humorous if there was a sign that said “Acid is groovy!”

All I saw in Huaxi was a symptom of an amazing hubris.  I never saw tributes to Chairman Mao that were so over the top.

I have heard so many anecdotes and rumors about the Covid policies around these parts that I am reluctant to travel anywhere. For instance, I have heard that an outsider goes to Shanghai, they can’t enter public places for five days.

There is suspicion that lockdowns will come around Chinese New Year.  It has become a truism to say that lockdowns always seem to happen around holidays.

I am able to watch a World Cup match in the evening.  However, the first Canada game and the USA-England game were at 3:00 AM in the morning.

I consoled the teacher from Ghana, who was disappointed with his country’s loss to Portugal, that at least his country had scored goals…

Maybe it would be better if Canada didn’t score any goals in the 2022 World Cup and missed a few penalties while doing so.

I wonder what the size proportion of a puck to a hockey net compares to a football to a soccer net.

Huaxi Photo Gallery

 Here’s the video:

The Building with a Gold Ball on Its Top and AKIC

 

Cherry Bomb and AKIC

 I took the previous photos on a school field trip.  Here I am with a student whose English name is Cherry Bomb.

Forgive Them for They Know Not What They Do?

Is this the attitude I should take to Mainland Chinese Drivers?  I suppose I should, but it is so hard.  Their level of impatience and selfishness is astonishing to behold.

I just had a driver try to cut me off as I was driving out of the parking garage.  I was able to stop the driver from doing this and I really took my time and slowed that driver’s impatient ass down so that he honked his horn.  I don’t think that driver deserves forgiveness.

Four Guesses

 

The Chairman

 

Wax Figure, A Statue and a Tall Building

 

Parents Waiting to Pick Up Their Kids from School

 

Rice and Rice Fields

 

Wax Figure and Statue

 

In the village of Huaxi, the local Chairman, who died in 2013, has been honored with statues and a museum that has a wax figure of him.  Under his leadership, the village became the richest in all of China.

Old Guy

 

Covid Test Lineup

 

Early Morning at the School

 

Deuce!

 

Cat & Markers

 

The cat slept on the window sill just outside my class.  The students were all intrigued.

Tuesday Morning

 

Good Start to a Monday Morning

 

Bad Luck

Could have had a deuce; could have had a hat trick; ended with a four.

I Didn’t Vote for This

 The Covid Regime is still in place,

Some Canals of Jiangyin

 The first canal is in the Jiangyin city core.

I wandered there on a Saturday evening.

The canal below runs by my apartment.

I Voted for Trunp

 What do you need to eat for?  Eating is for people who need to eat.

A: Can I have some money?

B: No! It’s our money!

I get in these frames of mind where I just say screw it.   Screw it!

World Cup 2022.  Canada’s team is full of black guys. I asked my son about this.

My son say he heard about Xi dressing down Jacinda in Bali on TikTok.

Now men have to have a Day?  There already is a Day for men who have to have a day.  It’s called Women’s Day.  Refuse to be a victim. [Written in response to a Happy International Men’s Day posting.  I wasn’t having anything of it.]

I voted to reinstate Trump on Twitter.  But I wish Elon Musk had just done it.  What was the point of his buying Twitter otherwise?  Still, I can say I voted for Trump.

Bao Tong.

Streets of Jiangyin

 

I love their narrowness.

Salming

It brought tears to my eyes to see Bōrje Salming being honored by the Toronto Maple Leafs.  While he was not a player I cheered for back when I was paying attention to hockey, Salming was a familiar figure of whom I now have gone reminiscences.  

Watching hockey was one of the best parts of my childhood.  I lived with the players in my youth because sadly childhood friendships were not so good.  It cuts me to the quick when I hear of their passing.  Guy Lafleur.  Tony Esposito.  

I cried the first time I watched Pride of the Yankees.  So something about Salming’s fight with ALS cannot help but touch one.

Bao tong 

Deuce!!!

 

That’s my ninth two-guesser of the year.

Heh!

 

Happy Independence Day!

 

Another Day. Another Stop at the Covid Test Booth

 

Nuremberg 2.0

 Why?

Masks are a primitive superstition.

Cat near the Class

 

Cats everywhere in my part of Jiangyin; whether around the school or the apartment.  I saw the one in the photo above outside my window.  It was all tensed up; it seemed ready to pounce.  Then it shrugged.

Nuremberg 2.0

 Why?  Because lockdowns are a crime against humanity.

Early Morning Traffic

 

Covid Test Before Sunrise

 

Hither and Dither Parking

 These cars are presumably parked there because they are dropping off their children at the school where I teach.  The vehicle on the right had no driver in it when I walked past.  Strange sight.  

High Speed Railway Line

 

It runs near my Jiangyin apartment.  As of now, it is not in operation.