Wednesday, April 30, 2025

12:36 PM May Day View: Shanghai, Wrong? Good!

 


If you can see the view photo, you will see Shanghai.  (Not working unless it’s working)

Jets won!  I was wrong!  Good!

9:15 AM View: Jets Blues

 


Can’t upload a photo at the moment.  The view is from WJ,

Winnipeg Jets will play St. Louis Blues in game five of their Stanley Cup Playoff Series.  Winnipeg is the home team.  The series is tied at two games a piece.

My spidy senses tell me that the Blues will win this game,  The Blues have been the superior team.  The Jets were fortunate to win the two games they did. But I hope I’m wrong.

7:01 AM May Day View


 Uploaded this quote video.


It’s about renouncing the world.

Extended my Duolingo streak to 1922 days by studying Spanish.

Showered.

Will make tea unless I make coffee.

Will study French on Dion unless I study Chinese.

6:35 AM May Day Virw


 Workers Day.  I’ve gotten up late.

9:09 PM Wednesday View: Hot Maxx


 I’ll post some photos from the evening.

The first is of a poster in a restaurant.


It wants you to get rich.

We then went to Hot Maxx to buy drinks and snacks for our trip to Shanghai.

Walking home, we went along a lane in the car part park near our WJ apartment.


Finally, a view from our 27th floor lobby.



6:50 PM Wednesday: Eats again! Geez!


 Unbelievable!

The first restaurant we had to leave.  We ordered our food and waited for 25 minutes.  We got impatient and were told we would have to wait longer yet.  So, we left.  Hope the place we are in now will serve us quicker.

Apparently, some big group ordered 40 dishes and were bogging down the whole operation.

6:13 PM Wednesday: Eats



 Thinking about the Canadian election.  I’m annoyed.

5:05 PM Wednesday: Carwash!


 At the Carwash yeah!

At the Carwash yeah!

3:39 PM Wednesday View: WJ

 

Drove to WJ from JJ.  It was fun to see a Chinese driver rear end another Chinese driver at a red light.  The funny thing was that both had missed the red light and then came to sudden stops in the intersection.  I mock honked them as I drove past.

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

1:29 PM Wednesday View


 Jenny’s here.

Soon, we drive to WJ.

11:42 AM Wednesday


 Sow beans the Long May Holly Daze.

9:51 & 9:53 AM Wednesday Views: Five flights of stairs



 

8:37 AM Wednesday View


 I had a — now rare for me — 7:20 class.  Half the “learners” fell asleep.

I showed them Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.  A good movie which probably most of them didn’t understand, even with subtitles.

At least, my son Tony thought it was funny.

5:40 AM Wednesday View


 I did what I said I was doing and was going to do.

5:02 AM Wednesday View


 Just extended my Duolingo streak to 1921.

Will make tea.

Will pray the rosary: glorious mysteries.

Reflecting that it was good that Pierre Poilievre, aka French Mitt Romney, lost his seat.

7:56 PM Tuesday View: Reading Time


 Took an evening walk.  I was going to say “Took my evening walk” but I don’t think I have taken enough evening walks to call it a habit of mine.

I am going to do my reading though. A good habit.  However, I had my normal dispiriting day. A habit as well 


5:19 PM Tuesday View: Waiting


 I waiting for my son Tony to come home for supper.  I had mine.  Blogging of which, sometimes a sandwich is all I need for supper.  I don’t need to eat so much because iI ain’t do much eating and working and pooping then.

What about you rare reader?

4:15 PM Tuesday View: Election interest in China?


 One student knew about the Canadian election.  He told he wanted the Conservatives to win because he didn’t like the LBGQT stuff.  The other students had no idea.

Among the teachers, I suspect they weren’t aware of it: I being the only teacher from Canada. The only foreigner to ask me about the election was from Georgia, USA.  He was hoping Poilievre would win.

Monday, April 28, 2025

11:23 AM View: The Election Results


 This morning at school, I was looking at this:




The last I saw it was Liberals 156, Conservatives 144 and other parties with seats.  Not a majority,

6:41 AM Tuesday View: Prediction?


 What’s my prediction for the Canadian election?  I really don’t know.  I’m far away in China.  And even if I was in Canada, I’d be far away from everywhere else.  Listening to the live feed from Shawn Newman, I’ve heard predictions that are all over the map like the Canadian election will be a Conservative victory with the voters refusing to be Kamalaed as the Americans recently weren’t to predictions of a Liberal victory 

5:12 AM Tuesday View


 I’m listening to a Shawn Newman live stream for my Canadian election results.

4:39 AM Tuesday View


 Extended my Duolingo streak to 1920 days.  The roaring twenties have begun.

I uploaded this video:


I will check the Canadian Election Results.

3:47 PM Monday View: Bread shopping bonanza


 An afternoon where I had not a thing to do, I made into an afternoon of things getting done!

I took a Didi to downtown JJ to buy some bread at 85 degree bakery.


From the 85 bakery, I walked to Zhongshan Park 








There must have been a 100,000 old people in the park.

There’s a metro station near the park 



Paying for it using my Wuxi metro card, I took the S1 to one stop beyond the Jiangyin Train Station.




Nanzi was not busy.  I walked around the station and one of the staff wondered what I was doing.  I didn’t know the  Chinese word for explore.  He was curious to know I was from Canada.

I took the next S1 train going to the Jiangyin Train Station.


.i took a selfie with the Xiu Xia Ke statue.


It really wasn’t worth my while to explore the station. I did come across a bus station and using my Apple Maps app, I was able to take the bus back to the JJ apartment.




The bus ride only cost me one yuan!

Sunday, April 27, 2025

12:44 AM Monday View


 After the walk, I did some proctoring.


The exam hall is near here.

This aft, I’m going to downtown JJ to a 85 degree bakery.