Gratitude:
Thank God for the word Insouciance.
I love that word.
Acknowledgment:
Due
to having a big head, I unfortunately can't wear my hat in a manner
that displays insouciance to the whole world.
Requests:
Drop dead all you creeps!
Also, I wish the best for the following people whose names I have
listed in a code:
J,T,M,R,B,K&S,Dz,Re,EC,RP,AD,HM,PR,LR,B+Xc,D&CF,&Lo,Pa,Jo,Rh,Sa,Le....
The
AKIC Mission: To
be China's leading forum of Gómez-Dávilism and reactionary
intransigence.
The
AKIC Motto: Believe in God, trust
in Christ, look with suspicion.
The
AKIC Idiom: Casual Insouciance
and Solecism-ism.
An
AKIC Glossary
Gratitude:
will always be the first word of the AKIC weekly blog entry -- it is
the key to happiness.
Acknowledgment and
Request: For me Acknowledgment means
confession; and Request means asking for stuff. GAR [Gratitude,
Acknowledgment, Request] are the simple stages of a prayer which
I came upon following the Jewish World Review site. I used the
GAR format when I delivered the eulogy at my
father's funeral last year.
Solecisms:
I try to rid my blog and writings of these things, but they never
seem to go away.
Jenny is
my wife. She is a Jiangsu woman. Why she puts up with me is a
mystery. I ain't good-looking and I don't have any money.
J: I
will sometimes refer to her that way.
Tony is
my son. If he is annoying or is acting way, way, way
out-of-line, I will spank him.
T: I
will sometimes refer to Tony this way.
TKIC: Tony
Kaulins in China. I may be referring to the TKIC blogs or to
Tony when I use TKIC. I am sure you can figure out which
way I am using it from the context.
AKIC: Andis
Kaulins in China. The same applies to AKIC as applies to TKIC.
That is, I may be referring to the AKIC blogs or to myself. AKIC
aspires to be China's leading forum of Gómez-Dávilism
and reactionary intransigence.
My
School is
HyLite English located on Zhongshan Road in Wuxi, China.
Casa
Kaulins is
what I call the apartment I (really my wife) owns.
California
Villa: The English name of the apartment complex the Kaulins
family resides. In Chinese pinyin, it is called Jia Zhou Yang
Fang. (加州洋房）
Train-spotting.
There is a high speed train track running near Casa K. Tony
& I, when we have a chance, love to go there to watch the trains
go by.
Wuxi
（无锡）:
The city where Jenny, Tony & I live. I sometimes call
it the Wux.
Hui
Shan: The district of Wuxi in which we live. Not to be
confused with the Hui Shan Mountain that is in Xihui Park.
Ba
Bai Ban: Also known as Wuxi Yao Han, Ba Bai Ban is a famous
department store at the corners of Zhongshan Road and Xueqian Road in
Downtown Wuxi. AKIC goes there to buy Tomica and Plarail toys for
his son Tony.
The
Square: The Hui Shan People's Square is nearby Casa
Kaulins.
Central
Park: Hui Shan Central Park is the park closest to Casa
Kaulins. It has a playground area and a small lake with beach.
The park is nothing special. The water in the lake is
unbelievably foul. The playground's fixtures are falling
apart. The park is big enough that its narrow paths, that I
would have thought were meant for pedestrians, have cars being driven
on them. The sight of these cars honking at pedestrians to get
out their way disgusts me as much as the park's lake water.
Hui
Shan Wanda （惠山万达）:
A fancy shopping mall and cinema that is near Casa Kaulins. As of
this typing, it is supposed to open June 21.
Century
Times Plaza (Tesco) That is the supermarket that is closest to Casa
Kaulins.
Yanqiao:
a town of Hui Shan District -- not too far from Casa Kaulins.
Qianzhou:
an area or a district or a town that borders on Yanqiao.
Jiangyin
（江阴）:
A city or district next to Wuxi.
Meicun: A
suburb of Wuxi city that is far from the downtown.
Shuo
Feng: Ditto!
Ditto! Agrees
with what has been previously said.
To
do List At work, even though I
am not that busy anymore, I print out a weekly list of things to do
everyday. It is a compulsive-obsessive habit that does give my days
some form.
LECTOR: I
got the idea for Lector, a fictional sparring partner for my blog,
from a
Hilaire Belloc book I had read recently.
DBs:
I will leave it to you to try
and figure out what D & B stand for.
School
Laptop: I like to make note of where I make my notes for my
weekly blog entry. One of the four places is my school laptop.
The other three are: my
home laptop, my
Ipad Mini, and my
Ipod Touch.
Dotdotdot:
This is my favorite social app. It is a nice way to read long form
articles on the Internet that allows you to proclaim to the world
what you are reading. I use the app to read the Catechism and the
writings of Father Schall. I get a new follower seemingly every day.
Python:
A script-writing computer program I am learning to use.
Atftb:
A thought for the blog.
Brandon,
Manitoba, Canada is where my mother Aina lives.
Winnipeg,
Manitoba is where my brother
Ron lives.
Minneapolis,
Minnesota, USA is where some of my father's relatives live.
Bao
Bao Sleepy:
What Tony calls it when he sleeps in Daddy's arms or on Daddy's
lap.
David
Warren:
I visit his
website about
five times a day. He a fervent Catholic and reactionary. If
I model myself after anyone, it would be him.
Don
Colacho:
a.k.a. Nicolás Gómez
Dávila. A
South American sage. He died in 1993. He would have been
100 in 2013. I read his aphorisms everyday. He is the
consummate reactionary.
Father
Schall: I am always reading the
site of his which has a huge collection of his writings.
English
Corner: I go to a room and try to talk to a group of
Chinese people in English. Often, they don't understand me.
25,602,
602支，610，81，79，67，118，85,
635：These
are buses I can take as I go to downtown Wuxi from my home (Casa
Kaulins) the Hui Shan New District. I usually take the 602支
in
the
morning, transferring to the 79, 81, or 85 to get to school. In the
evening, I can take the 67,79,81,85 or 118 to get to the stop where I
catch the 635. The 635 is the only bus running to my area of Wuxi
after 800 PM. The 81 bus is a double-decker – quite the novelty
for a guy who spent a lot of his life in Manitoba. The 25 bus is the
cheap 1 RMB that I used to take all the time but now rarely take.
HM:
Harry Moore is from Brisbane Australia. He had a brief
stint as an English teacher at my school. He sends me
emails occasionally. He was my partner in crime in my
notorious Wuxi
China Expatdom Blog. He suffered a stroke recently
but he still heroically plugs away.
The
AKIC Week in Brief: It was
cloudy and muggy the entire week. Andis spent the week marking the
time till his vacation starts. On Saturday night, Andis had a rare
night out. He also watched the first season of Game of Thrones. He
tried to make an clever observation that the actors in the series
should wear monkey and ape suits like the Planet of the Apes movies.
About
Me (Andis Kaulins):
I
am (domiciled) in China! 我觉得中国人是不好的司机。
我觉得中国的人口是太小了！
Politically
I am Conservative/Reactionary!
Much as I despise the Democrat
party in the U.S. I can help but think the Republicans are the
stupid party.
I
am Canadian!
I have lived in Brandon,
Manitoba; Winnipeg, Manitoba; Oromocto, New Brunswick; Valcartier,
Quebec; Val Belair, Quebec; Val St. Michelle, Quebec; Aldergrove,
British Columbia; Abbotsford, British Columbia; Chilliwack, British
Columbia; Shilo, Manitoba; Clearbrook, British Columbia; and Sardis,
British Columba.
I
am of Latvian ancestry!
My
father
was born Riga. My
mother
was born in Bauska. I
want Latvia to do well.
Getting out of the Evil Soviet Communist Empire was a great moment
for the country.
I
teach English! So far, I
have resisted the temptation
that teaching gives one to become an alcoholic.
I
am not a freak! There are in
fact other people named Andis Kaulins in the world. Another Andis
Kaulins has a site called andiskaulins.com.
I love the fact that reference to AKIC is made in the site's banner.
And as far as I know I am not related to the Andis Kaulins who is
domiciled in the USA. [LECTOR: You are a freak!]
I
like to Read! Here
is what I had been working my way through the past week:
Don
Colacho's Aphorisms. There are 2,988 of them in this book
that I compiled for myself. I read ten aphorisms at a time.
I cut and paste the better ones -- they are all profound actually --
and I put them in my weekly blog entry. (See below)
Ulysses
by James Joyce. I am following along with Frank
Delaney as he slowly guides podcast listeners through
Joyce's hard-to-read novel. Delaney figures he will have done
his last ReJoyce Podcast in about 22 years. Now that I have
caught up to Delaney's podcast (he completed episode #157 this week),
I am getting ahead him as far as reading the book. I will be
finished reading it, I figure, in a year. I read the novel despite
its many blasphemies. It is best to be aware of this stuff because
the world is full of it, and the world will always find a way of
slapping you in the face with it
The
Holy Bible King James Version. I am reading a
chapter a day of the greatest book of all-time. I am now reading
Letters to the Romans.
University
Economics: Elements of Inquiry Third Edition by Armen A.
Alchian and William R. Allen. A great Economics
textbook.
Columns
by Father Schall. I have been
able to take all
his archived writings and place them on the Dotdotdot app.
The
Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Like Father Schall's writings, I have been able to place them on the
Dotdotdot app.
Prime
Obsession by John Derbyshire. It was a page-turner of a book,
but now I have stalled out and am going to have to re-read certain
passages to wrap my head around the math and the terminology. [Here
is a
recent article by the Derb about China's demographic destiny.
Derb has knowledge of China, and like me, China is his in-law.]
In
Praise of Folly by Erasmus. Finished. I should read something
about Erasmus seeing how I have read a biography of him. Anyway,
this book had some witty bits in it.
Pickwick
Papers by Charles Dickens. I wish I could bury myself in this
book at the expense of all else.
I
like to take photos
I
publish them in the following blogs: AKIC
wordpress , TKIC
blogspot,
and TKIC
wordpress.
I
like to make videos
Here
is my
Youtube Channel and my
Youku Channel.
I
like to cut and paste quotations:
From
Don Colacho:
2375
To have good taste is above all to know what we should reject.
2376
Modern noise deafens the soul.[China,
being a noisy place, deadens my soul quite a lot.]
2377 Among the vices of democracy one must count the impossibility of someone occupying an important position there without it being his ambition. [Yes lefties! This would even apply to Barack!]
2377 Among the vices of democracy one must count the impossibility of someone occupying an important position there without it being his ambition. [Yes lefties! This would even apply to Barack!]
2379
The journalist arrogates to himself the importance of what he
reports on. [That explains why I have a hard time listening to
podcasts where they interview someone writing on China from the
Economist or the New York Times]
1738
The man who says he is respectful of all ideas is admitting that
he is ready to give up. [I am no quitter and that is why I have
no respect for many ideas of the Left.]
1753
Reducing another’s thought to its supposed motives prevents us
from understanding it.
[I have a Nancy Pelosi quote below
which is an example of what Colacho is assailing with this quote.]
1754
News stories are the substitute for truths.
[I
read Don Colacho's aphorisms on two platforms: Ibooks and
Dotdotdot.]
ARLAND
K. NICHOLS: A man who becomes a father is eternally blessed
and entrusted with the care of a precious soul. Fatherhood is a
vocation of love, one that finds in children (imperfect, as we all
are) the sort of joy that abides forever. [I
unfortunately entered the vocation far too late in life. Still,
better late than never.]
Nancy
Pelosi: I'm not going to have this conversation with you
because you obviously have an agenda. You're not interested in having
an answer. [Pelosi
said this to the The Weekly
Standard reporter who asked her a question about what Herman Gosnell
was doing, and abortion. What she said above was clearly a way of
not having to deal with hard questions which arose from the Gosnell
case. Funny thing, people with agendas like to stump their opponents
with difficult questions. Honest debate should mean an willingness
and even joy at receiving difficult questions. But Pelosi is a
politician after all who has her own agenda. The whole exchange was
more proof, as if I really needed it, that people of the
leftist-progressive bent are either evil or plain ignorant. There
was an even more galling thing she said where she mentioned her
Catholic faith, but that has been criticized in many places already.]
I
like to keep a journal of my daily activities and any
thoughts that occur to me.
Monday
[June 10]
[Home
Laptop]
I
did not work today and Tony did not have to go to school.
The
K family had one thing planned for today: buffet lunch at the Jinling
Hotel. We all somehow managed to get up and on our way to the
restaurant which was the most crowded I had ever seen it. For a
while, the scene was almost as bad as the Ikea Cafeteria at Saturday
suppertime. [Two
weeks back, I wrote about having a hell night at the Wuxi Ikea.]
There was no space to gather around the more popular food items and
we sat at a table that was far from the food area. Still, we all had
a good feed, and Tony was much better behaved than the previous time
we had taken to the Jinling.
After
lunch, we had no plans. Jenny decided to get Tony's hair cut, and I
decided to go to my school and get the toy police car I had locked
away in a drawer to give to Tony. I got to the stylist in time to
get
a photo of Tony on a barber's chair.
TKIC
& AKIC then decided to go to the Xinhua Bookstore which was near
the hair-cutting place. I bought myself a 6 RMB classic Chicom
propaganda booklet so I could practice reading Chinese, while Tony
got a picture book full of images of all his favorite kinds of
vehicles. Wandering through the aisles, I heard a lot of patrons
mutter laowei and waiguoren. Funny thing: while we
had to dodge many people reading books, there was no lineup at the
cashier counter.
It
was about 330 when the K family decided it was time to go home. The
Xinhua Bookstore is on the
corner of Renmin and Jiankang Roads. The K family had to cross
that intersection to get to the 602 支
bus
stop. They proceeded on a green pedestrian signal. Halfway through
the intersection, DBs in cars (All Chinese become DBs I have noticed
when they take control of a car.) made left turns without any
consideration for pedestrians – that is, the DBs expected
pedestrians to yield to them or figured that by driving really fast
they could dodge pedestrians. Andis makes a point of telling all the
Chinese he meets that this kind of driving would be unacceptable, and
rightly so, in Canada. Andis also tries to make the DBs doing this
maneuver to come to a stop whenever he can. So, by the Xinhua
bookstore, about four cars in a row made left turns and cut off
pedestrians and so Andis became very determined to make at least one
of them yield or slow down. The last car came within inches of
Andis, and so he yelled fuck! in a perfectly timed manner at
DB driving the car. He obviously got the DB's attention for as soon
as the DB had completed his turn, the DB slowed down his car. Andis
got sight of the DB's reflection via the driver side window, and
presented a middle finger making the DB's car then came to a halt.
Andis was almost expecting the DB to come out of his car; but a car
behind the DB honked and the DB finally went on his way. Andis got
no satisfaction at the time of the incident from being able to make
the DB stop and possibly making the DB crap himself, though he does
now that he has written about. He would sincerely like Chinese
drivers to be considerate of pedestrians – isn't this the sort of
behavior that Commie idealists are trying to stop?
Later
back at the environs of Casa Kaulins, AKIC had a frustrating time
accompanying Tony riding a bicycle. Tony was leaning on the training
wheels to keep balance. Because of this, the training wheels on the
bicycle were becoming more and more bent through time, and so the
bicycle was becoming less and less able to stay upright. Despite
being told numerous times to not lean on the training wheels, Tony
persisted and the bicycle became unrideable. It be fair to Tony
though, the bicycle was a cheap piece of crap purchased in the
countryside.
Tuesday
[June 11]
[School
Laptop]
I
work 1300 to 2100 today.
As
I was riding to work, I saw a portrait of Chairman Mao, a la
T-Square, atop a temporary living quarter building for construction
workers. Other than on the currency, one rarely encounters images of
Mao displayed in public.
Yesterday,
I saw a man with no nose. I had to avert my eyes as I felt sorry for
the person. I suppose he can look in the mirror, but it must pain
him at times.
Tony
didn't have to go to school today. I wanted to have a nice
father-son moment where the two of us sit beside each other, but Tony
immediately starting asking and then moaning for me to set up the
computer for him. Not getting his way, he was about to petulantly
wreck something until I stopped him.
The
wife is in the midst of Season Two of Game of Thrones. I set up the
computer for her so she could watch the episodes, that I had managed
to download from the Internet, on our big screen television.
Meanwhile,
on my modest Ipad Mini, I watched the sixth episode of Season One of
Game of Thrones.
Off
the bus, and making my way to school by foot, I saw a Taxi, making a
right turn, try to cut its way through a sizable crowd of pedestrians
trying to cross the street. No one tried to make the taxi come to a
full stop. I was hoping the crowd would have stopped the taxi and
kept walking around it so as to not let it proceed.
Fit
to be tied. I am going to hate this summer. I am starting to even
hate Chinese teenagers..... Actually, they aren't all bad; but some
are and that is why we get stuck with them for the summer months
because their parents don't want to deal with them.
Wednesday
[June 13]
[Home
Laptop]
I
don't work today on account of it being the Dragon Boat Festival. To
mark the occasion, the school gave each member of the staff a box of
zhongzi, glutinous rice cakes wrapped in bamboo or corn
leaves. Actually, I don't mind them and would even go as far to say
that I like 'em. [It is the practice, I have noticed through the
years, for most foreigners to act as if they are too cool for Chinese
food stuff. Food snobbery runs rampant through the Wuxi Expat
community.]
I
sent an email to myself containing one word “microphone” to
remind myself of something which was that I had seen what I had
thought were two unusual uses of microphones by Chinese workers. I
secondly noticed the cashiers at the 85 bakery did their job using
microphones; and so I observed them talking to customers and barking
out prices and the change. I suppose they had to do this to be heard
above the din of the bakery when it is crowded. I had earlier
witnessed a motorcycle cop using a microphone to get the attention of
would-be illegal parkers. The mic was built-in into the motorcycle,
and adjusted so that the cop could control the motorcycle and speak
into the mic at the same time. When it comes to traffic rules, the
Chinese flagrantly cheat.
His
hat was tipped on his head in a very insouciant manner.
Travel
narrows the mind. Chesterton advanced this proposition in an essay
once to counter the more common thought that Travel broadens the
mind. I suppose most people would unthinkingly agree with the latter
thought. What could be more commonsensical? By seeing more things,
you become more cosmopolitan, worldly-wise, and aware of different
ways of doing things. And yet because it is so commonly assumed to
be so, it paradoxically may not be the case at all. Many travel to
see tourist sights which in this day and age are ways of making money
off travelers. Having seen the Great Wall in China and the Space
Needle in Seattle myself for instance, I could say that I have seen
the Great Wall in China and the Space Needle in Seattle. How does
saying that make my mind any more broad? In fact, I am starting to
think that as one checks off places to visit on a bucket list, one is
becoming more and more narrowed on the fact that one has seen these
things. That is, one is narrowed on the idea of one's self
supposedly having a broader mind. I think in most cases, this
checking off of places visited is only useful for bringing up in an
inane conversation in a bar. Most travelers seek amusement on their
travels – again so they can report them back to people they are
drinking with. By being amused at the different ways people of the
world do things, one only sees superficialities. Superficial things
trick us all the time and so narrow the mind because they so often
distract us from what is really important about life which isn't its
superficiality....
Anyway,
I have an idea for an essay. What you have read above is very
underdeveloped thoughts about it.
I
will add a few more below.
Does
a being who has gone to Disneyland the sort of person you want to
seek out for conversation?
T&J
are still asleep as I type this. I wonder what we are going to do
today.
LATER:
This is what we did. We
took a look at Wanda! We then went to the nearby Century Times
Plaza [also known as the Tesco Plaza} where Tony
was strapped in so he could jump on a Trampoline. The K family
then split up. T&A took the ebike to Qianzhou
and Yanqiao;
Jenny went to buy some vegetables.
The
Wanda Plaza will have a Starbucks and a Bread Talk (a bakery chain
that sells some good bread – hard to find good bread in China) in
it!
Qianzhou
borders on Yanqiao. You can take the 610 bus to get to it. We, that
be Tony and I, went as far as a bridge which joins Yanqiao and
Qianzhou. The bridge to Qianzhou was quite interesting. From it, we
could see a freeway, farmland, two or three smoke-belching factories,
and a canal with the boat traffic that, rare readers of AKIC know, I
loved the from the first time I laid my very eyes on it. [LECTOR:
Boat Fetishist!]
What
offends a person more? When people tell the truth about him or when
they tell lies about him? Oscar Wilde would probably answer that a
person would be more offended if he wasn't talked about at all.
Two
ideas for essays. 1) Trying to reconcile Mother Teresa and Adam
Carolla. 2) Travel narrows the mind.
Damn!
I have to be at work at 1000 am tomorrow. The fact puts a damper on
my day off. I am going to have to cut off all the fun I am having
and go to bed early!
Tony
had fun with kids half his size at the canal deck area of the
California Villa. [LECTOR: What is the canal deck area? ANDIS:
Gee. Thanks for asking. You normally jump all over me to criticize
me. But now you're asking a simple question. LECTOR: I am only
axing, I mean asking, because you never mentioned the canal deck area
before dirt-for-brains! ANDIS: Good. You had me worried. LECTOR:
Well. ANDIS: What? LECTOR: WTF is the canal deck area? ANDIS:
Oh. In the center of the complex runs a canal. In fact the complex,
that be the Jia Zhou Yang Fang, is divided into two by the canal.
And at the center of the canal and the complex, a wooden bridge deck
has been built.]
Thursday
[June 13]
[School
Laptop]
I
work 1000-2100 today: a sort of longish day for AKIC. [LECTOR: You
will spend a lot of time at your desk doing nothing.]
Not
much to say for myself early in the day, but I do have one thought.
I don't have the gift of gab, or as I like to call it: the gabbing
gift. I suppose Jamaicans would say the gabbon gift. Now does not
having this gift mean I have the curse of reticence? It usually it
isn't a curse when there are other people around. In those
instances, I am cursed by others who gab whether they have anything
to say or not.
营ying
, 善
shan,
and 喜
xi are
three more characters I mix up.
The
cost of the McDonald’s Big Breakfast has risen from 22 rmb from
21.5 rmb. Ah oh!
Names
I would like to give the students: Marv and Drogo.
I
watched Season One, Episode Nine of Game of Thrones last night. I
will try a sneak a look at episode then today. The series is
interesting but it is formulaistic HBO with the usual shocking scenes
of sex, nudity, and over-the-top violence.
Talk
about your come-arounds! I was to submit a list of titles for some
summer courses I am to someone in the school. I made the list and
tried to submit it to the someone but she told me to submit the list
to someone else. This someone else told me that all the other
trainers are to submit the titles to me. Hmmmm!!!
Friday
[June 14]
[School
Laptop]
I
work 1100-2100. I got to school at 930.
Last
night, my 635 companion was on the bus. She told me that one of the
foreigners at her school had lent her a copy of a book she said was
called On the Way which I realized was in fact On the Road
by Jack Kerouac. I told her I had read the book twenty five years
ago, and had since taken a dim view of it. Jack Kerouac, I told her,
died a pathetic alcoholic, and Neal Cassidy, or the person based on
the character, died alone on a railway track. These two fellows, I
added, were spoiled people living off the fruits of boring square
middle-class types who had jobs, families, children, and
responsibilities. Many foreigners, and I plead guilty myself, like
to expose the Chinese to aspects of Western Culture that they just
happen to like without realizing that they are baffling the Chinese.
It is like a teacher I remember always quoting Jim Morrison in his
classes. It would be like lending a Chinese person your death metal
albums. There is nothing universal in any of that crap.
I
finished watching Season One of Game of Thrones last night. The
final scene of the last episode had a blonde nude woman, who was a
queen, with three baby dragons fluttering around her. The dragons
had been hatched from their eggs after they had been placed in a
bonfire with the woman's barbarian husband. The queen had walked
into the bonfire, with clothes, I assume, to retrieve the hatched
dragons. Her clothes were burnt off and she was covered in soot but
with no apparent burn marks.
Her
husband was Drago – really a magnificent specimen of a man. In
real life, the actor playing Drago had but two tasks: learn his
lines, and go the gym: he obviously spent more time at the gym. I
now have a name for guys who like to go to the gym to work out. I
will call them Drago-wannabes or Drogo-wannabes or Dorgo-wannabes.
“Do
you have an ex-wife?” I asked the high school student who
immediately nodded in the negative. “Ah! So! You are still
married.” I added getting the student to wince. [LECTOR: You
bastard! You shouldn't pick on the students like that. ANDIS: I am
having fun with words, is all.]
Damn!
No one at work has seen Game of Thrones! So I can't tell them my
Dorgo joke.
I
wonder if Game of Thrones would be better if the characters were
monkeys instead of humans. I think of the Planet of the Ape movies
and how some of the characters especially in the later movies in the
series so much resemble the characters in Game of Thrones. They
seemed to be played the same way.
Saturday
[June 15]
[School
Laptop]
I
work 1000 to 1800 today. In the evening, we go to the HBO Club for
beers and food.
The
more I think about the Game of Thrones, the more ghastly ridiculous
it seems to me, and how it would be better off if the characters were
all apes, baboons, and chimps. Maybe, if the characters were doing
sex scenes in monkey scenes, the general population would say enough
already, and just get on with the story.
Mind
is blank. My mind is blank. [LECTOR: Dummy!]
What
will the Chinese economy be like? I asked the students. One of them
said “I think it will be fine!” said one, who added that “But
that is because I am a member of the party!” “Oh oh! I thought
for I had been dissing the party earlier.....
All
the characters in Game of Thrones say the following while they are
having sex. “Did you know that I am such a witty and clever
fellow, and I have the following nefarious plans....” [LECTOR: I
too am a fine and witty fellow. But unlike the midget in the Game of
Thrones, who spends lots of time with prostitutes, I have to be stuck
in your brain!]
“I
don't understand,” said the student, “how they can believe in
something that doesn't exist.” He was speaking in a salon class I
had last night about superstition, and he was talking about religious
people, and believed that religious people and superstitious people
were one & the same. What is it with Leftists and progressives
and atheists who preface what they say with “I don't understand?”
They do this and just assume that they are smarter than the other
side when they admit their ignorance.
Sunday
[June 16]
[Home
Laptop]
I
don't work today.
I
believe it's Father's Day today. Tony hasn't bought me anything;
however, we have trained him to say “Happy Father's Day!” to me.
[LECTOR: Let's face it! You are terrible father. You spoil your
son and you use your blogs to show him off to the world so that no
one will know the truth: you are gay like a priest!]
Last
night the school has a soiree at HBO Club which is on Jiefeng
Road near the Green Tree Inn. All the
school
staff
attended, or rather could have attended, if they had chosen. There
was free food and drinks. Yours
truly's poison of choice for the evening was Jack Daniels with
coke. Some of you may be happy to know that he is suffering this
morning on account of his choice both physically and spiritually.
[LECTOR: No! Die! Die! Die! ANDIS: Whatever!]
Some
told me that the Chinese were a strange people. I retorted that they
were merely different.
Of
course, the Chinese are strange to us; but we foreigners are strange
to them. [LECTOR: There is no doubt you are a strange person –
something on which both the Occidental and the Oriental can agree.
ANDIS: What can I say? Lector! You
are number one! LECTOR: You know! I don't think we are going
to fool anyone with this adopt-the-insult schtick.]
I
look outside. It looks smoggy and muggy. A very
uninviting prospect, especially if you view it with a hangover.
[LECTOR: Boo Hoo!]
1600:
My hangover is gone. Thank God, I don't have them all that often.
I
smacked a kid today. Actually, I didn't. I typed that to get a
reaction.
I
have chosen aloneness. I sometimes like to say I choose solitude,
but really it is aloneness, or at least it feels like it. [LECTOR:
Can I sing? ANDIS: Oh! Okay! LECTOR: Alone again!
Naturally!!]
