The never ending adventures of a Canadian who lives in Wuxi and Jiangyin, China with his Chinese wife Jenny and their son Anthony aka Tony
It’s Tuesday. I looked at reactions to Trudeau saying he was intending to resign and frankly, it’s boring and depressing. The name Mark Carney has come up as a possible replacement. I haven’t heard anything good about him.
When, I heard the news, I posted it on WeChat and put up dancing gifs in a group. I watched a video of his speech and wrote about five rude comments. The speech merely proved what a bad PM he was and an annoying person he is. He couldn’t deliver his speech like a man. He had this fake prissy emotive manner that makes normal people want to start cursing and vomiting. Those uses of the phrases “every bone in my body” and “everyone knows I’m a fighter” and “I care for all Canadians “ were stock and cliche and lies. And why couldn’t he resign immediately? That’s the way they do in the UK parliamentary. Why will he stay on till the party gets a new leader after a “fair” process? Is he hoping for a scenario that happened to his father? Pierre resigned twice. The first time, a snap election occurred and he stayed on as a leader. He beat the hapless Joe Clark.
You can’t hate Justin Trudeau enough.
I saw that there was a lot of tweets on X saying that Turdeau was going to announce his resignation. Although I did come across some details about him staying on as leader until a new leader was chosen. I even saw a counter sort of tweet saying that anyone who didn’t like Justin was not capable of articulating why they didn’t like him. To which I could only reply where to start? Nice as it will be to see Trudeau go, there is still a far too large proportion of Canadians who subscribe to what he believes.
Jimmy Carter died. He wasn’t as bad a president as Biden. He did have a few accomplishments you could point to as the peace deal between Egypt and Israel & some deregulation initiatives. However, I’m not sure he deserves the moniker of being a great ex-president. He liked to meddle in international affairs in a way that was not good, he was a friend of Castro, and he went along with all the woke stupidity that his party was trying to inflict on the American public. You wonder if he was like Biden in the sense that he didn’t appear to have any beliefs except in doing what would keep him in good graces with whoever was dictating Democrat party orthodoxy.
Tony’s in Wuxi
I wake up with a stiff back these daze. It goes away, worry you knot!
…to Jingle Jangles for three days of hanging at work with not much to do and no urgency to take initiative.
Wednesday or Thursday, we’ll be back in Wuxi.
Now what? Drive back to Jiangyin but buy bread first?
Today’s plan: drive back to Jingle Jangles. Also, I want to extend my Duolingo streak, to make the last of the twelve days of Christmas videos, and to buy some bread.
As the title says, I went for a walk. I perambulated to the Hui Shan Wanda Plaza where I looked around and bought one thing: a three pack of Tsingtao white beer: I’ll drink one tonight after I pick up my wife from her work. I didn’t buy anything from Hot Maxx: there was nothing that interested me. I thought to buy some fried peanuts but then thought not to do so.
As I was walking home with that one purchase, I took a “scenic route” back to the Ivy Park apartment. I decided that what I saw was worth taking photos of for you: rare reader!
First this long road with construction walling on both sides:
Can you see it? It’s on the other side of the crosswalk.
At the above intersection, I turned left. The apartments across from Ivy Park stood out,
I passed a BYD dealership. Build Your Dreams is an E vehicle brand. I see a lot of BYDs on the streets of Jingle Jangles and Whiskers.
The BYDer store ain’t too far from Ivy Park.
I am currently typing this entry from the top of the second building of three on the right.
2025 is a perfect square year! 45 times 45 is 2025.
This morning, I have already extended the Duolingo streak to 1805 days. 考试终于结束了！j’étudie français! Yo hablo un poco español! Yo quiero amigos!
The plan is to make breakfast, make a greetings video and drive/move a few things to Whiskers.
Please read my entry about the books I’ve read in 2024.
Here are the books I read or was browsing through in 2024:
2023: Year in Review by Dave Collum
The White Pill by Michael Malice
Mother Angelica's Little Book of Life Lessons
The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
Learing the Virtues That Lead You to God by Romano Guardini
The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson
The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
St. Francis of Assisi by G.K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil
Scholia To An Implicit Text by Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Oeuvres Traduites by Nicolás Gómez Dávila
A Chesterton Calendar
Aphorisms by Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The Way by Josemaría Escrivá
The Oxford Book of Englsh Verse 1250-1900 edited by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Poems Every Child Should Know edited by Mary E. Burt
Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce
Ulysses by James Joyce
Praying with Mother Angelica
The Lord by Romano Guardini
To Begin Where I am by Czeslaw Milosz
New and Collected Poems 1931-2001 by Czeslaw Milosz
The Odyssey translated by Robert Fagles
Poet's Choice by Edward Hirsch
Genius of Chrstianity by François-René de Chateaubriand
The Memoirs of François-René Vicomte de Chateaubriand Volume 1
The Memoirs of François-René Vicomte de Chateaubriand Volume 2
The Memoirs of François-René Vicomte de Chateaubriand Volume 3
Atala by François-René Vicomte de Chateaubriand
The Memoirs of Chateaubriand (Penguin Classics)
St. John of the Cross Poems translated by Roy Campbell
On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham
Freaky Deaky by Elmore Leonard
Why Architecture Matters by Paul Goldberger
Lost in Math by Sabine Hossenfelder
Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920: Russia Leaves the War by George F. Kennan
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Earth Abides by George Ripley Stewart
I have been keeping track of the books I've read since 2014. Here are the links to previous lists:
Any comments on my reading? Send an email to andiskaulins@protonmail.com.
I’ll be driving my son Tony to the metro station so he can go to Wuxi tonight. I’ll go to Wuxi tomorrow once I’ve done some cleaning and loading. And I am too lazy to rush to Wuxi this evening.
This afternoon, I proctored or invigilated or monitored a First Language Chinese exam. I used the time to read Dave Collum’s 2024 Year in Review, Part 1.
I took this photo from a fourth floor patio at the International school building.
Nice view I thought. Do you think so or not think so? Comment below, pretty please!
After being relieved of proctoring of the Chinese exam, I took these two selfies:
The first shows a mountain and observatory style dome.
The second has the apartment buildings of Yuan Shan Wan in the background.
I’m squinting because the sun’s in my eyes.
We’ll, that be the F family, will be going to Sichuan mid January.
For fun, I’ve been going to the fourth floor and putting goodies on my colleagues desks. RANK!
Listening to music while sitting on my closet and sort of getting some work is alright.
It’s the tenth day of Christmas:
Anyway, I off to school as soon as lazy boy Tony, my son, shows evidence of having arisen.
I took the above photo almost an hour ago.
I made some bacon cheese ground beef sandwiches for dinner. Tony appreciated them. I baked bacon and beef patties for eighteen minutes at 200 Celsius. I then put cheese on the patties and bacon. All that goes on toasted slices of bread. Delicious!
I invigilated a chem practical exam. So, I stood around in a lab for an hour.
Now having lunch in the Jingle Jangles apartment: coffee and a cheese sandwich. Yum yum.
It’s the bi th day of Christmas:
