Tuesday, May 30, 2023

The Gaokaos Are Coming


 There’s a new security device being installed at the main gate.

Monday, May 29, 2023

A Building in the Tianyi part of Wuxi, China


 I saw this as I was going for a wander to pass the time as I waited for son to have his facial done.

Saturday, May 27, 2023

AUNTEA JENNY


 My wife Jenny says she never noticed the English on the sign.

Thursday, May 25, 2023

Latvia in the SFs!



Latvia beats Sweden in the QF!


They will play Canada in the semifinal.



Exam Time

 Kids saying they have Covid, go to a different room to write their exam.

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Xu Xiake at the Jiangyin Museum

 


A road is named after him that takes me from Jiangyin to Casa Kaulins.  There is also a park named after him that is a ten minute drive from Casa Kaulins.

Locals have told me that he travelled a lot around China 

Sun Yat Sen st the Jiangyin Museum


 

He was a radical.  He died prematurely.  I prefer Yuan Skikuai.

Monday, May 22, 2023

Sunday, May 21, 2023

Naked Musicians Statues


 I was wandering this plaza in Jiangyin when I saw this:




Make of it, what you will.


Saturday, May 20, 2023

Traffic Jam on the Hump

 The Hump is what I call a road that goes over a ridge near my Jiangyin apartment complex.  I hate the Hump because it is friendly for cars but not for cyclists and pedestrians.

But I’ve never seen a traffic jam on it till tonight: Saturday night.




F You Mother!

 It’s my Jiangyin weekend.  Every second week, I go back to Wuxi.  So next weekend, Wuxi!

Back to this weekend.  Friday night, I stayed in the apartment.  Finished watching episode one of this series Silo which I will further watch till its wokeness annoys me.  Saturday, I have farted around the apartment, doing laundry, reading, surfing the internet, and trying to motivate myself to do my 2023-24 schemes of work.  

I also have gone out to do some grocery shopping.  I went to the Heng Long Mall which is a 10 RMB Didi ride from the apartment.  I took a public bicycle to the Mall to save the 10 RMB.  I did my shopping and took a Didi back.

Waiting for the Didi, some would-be ruffians on bicycles , rode by.  They said some would-be greeting in a patronizing tone, so I didn’t really look up from my phone to even glance at them.  I heard laughing and as they got further away, one of them said “f*** your mother!” I could only bemusingly smile. 

Boys will be boys, I suppose.

Someone on WeChat wanted to be a contact, saying they liked my blog.  I wonder if they are Wordle fans.

Make the world safe…

 for people of all classes, genders, sexes, hair styles, degrees of baldness, heights, weights, widths, interests , hobbies, personalities, abilities, egos, health conditions, talents, skills, propensities to work, cognitions, ages, tastes and belief systems, et cetera, et cetera.

Latvia Slovenia

 


I’m hoping Latvia can make it to the quarterfinals of the IIHF tournament.  The victory over Slovenia puts them in a good position to do so.

Thursday, May 18, 2023