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
I read some poetry:
WHEN Jessie comes with her soft breast, And yields the golden keys, Then is it as if God caress'd Twin babes upon His knees--
Twin babes that, each to other press'd, Just feel the Father's arms, wherewith they both are bless'd.
I can’t copy text but I can take a screen shot.
This morning’s posted video:
I needed an alarm to wake me. I would happily have stayed in bed.
Back in the day, the Laowai I knew would be talking of having China Days which basically meant bad days because of their being in China. I would scoff at this because these people did chose to come to China and really shouldn’t have complained.
But China can annoy a visitor because many of the locals are uncouth and don’t follow rules. Today, I learned that the payroll accountant didn’t do our pay right and all the teachers now owe a big chunk of change in taxes.
Aaaggghhh!
Anyway, because of that meeting where I got the bad news, I didn’t come home for lunch and take a view photo. Sorry for the inconvenience that may have caused!
Here are some photos I took during the day.
Did I say photos? I should have said photo of the view from the fifth floor exam hall. Sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused someone.
To make up for this, here’s a video I took and made today.
Meanwhile, this video has over 1300 views:
Sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused
All this doesn’t stop me from noticing that it is light out already this morning.
I unpacked, showered, took the standard view photo, and made the previous blog entry
So endeth the long weekend which left me with a cornucopia of things to be annoyed about. What was most annoying was Jenny & Tony saying I should have gotten visibly mad. I pointed out to them that when I do exhibit anger, they would say I shouldn’t have gotten mad. Now, they tell me I should have gotten mad. You can’t win. And with life offering a cornucopia of things to get mad about on a daily basis, you have to resign yourself to anger not stopping the cornucopia of fresh annoyances of the next day.
I drove into the basement of the Hui Shan Wands Plaza. One Chinese driver parked his vehicle in the strangest location. He left his car along a wall just by a corner. Making a turn, I suddenly had a narrow lane to get through. I wished I had ripped off the passenger side rear view mirror. Another driver was going the wrong way and I had to get through another narrow gap to get through. I gave this Chinese driver the evil eye.
Earlier —this had my wife fuming -/- we were at the gas station filling up the tank. Everything was going fine and my wife was using her phone to pay when we heard the driver behind us honk his horn. Impatient prick! I looked into the mirror to see the demographic of the driver and it was some old Chinese driver with grey hair. He almost look civilized. My wife was, several hours later, still wishing she had throttled him.
Any who. The trip to JJ was a waste of time. Although, I did get laundry done. White! Waste! Walleration!
I drove back across the JJ WJ border and didn’t see a train
I joined my family at a Hot Pot Restaurant.
I’ve driven here. You can’t hate Chinese drivers enough.
Now what are my priorities? Take a view photo, pee, make this blog entry, laundry, choose my clothes for the English testing
