Can the King of Wuxi pinch hit for me for two days?

I am going to Nanjing tomorrow morning to see my wife.  I may not be able to blog for two days.  Hopefully, the King of Wuxi can pinch hit for me.

I got a soft seat of the super fast D-train.

I bought my train ticket to Nanjing.  I am leaving at 847.  I got a soft seat on a new bullet train. 

I am looking forward to seeing the wife.

What the students are talking about.

The students at our school were talking, no shouting, about the fall in the stock market.  I taught them the meaning of the word bubble.

Bad news.

I have been told that those who know something about the Wuxi Water crisis are very upset these days.  They say that all the government has done is use chemicals to remove the bad smell of the water, and that the odor-reducing chemicals are just as toxic as ones that could be smelled.  This person in the know has a two year old daughter and is planning to get her out of Wuxi.   She advises to not use the water for anything but flushing the toilet.  

My wife won't be in Wuxi for the rest of the summer.  I just don't have any confidence in anything the government here says. 

My blogs have been linked in a Wuxilife posting.

But the King of Wuxi says this could all be hysteria.

Patterson has a cold. Hobo fight.

I saw Patterson wear a leather jacket last night.  Why?  He has a summer cold.

I was conducting an Speaker's Corner Sunday afternoon that was briefly interrupted by a fight just outside the main floor window of the classroom I was in.   The building, our school is in, is beside a little park and also has a courtyard of sorts with benches on the other side.  Both these areas attract loiterers.  One particular person who is  homeless and mentally deranged has been lurking in both places for a month.  He may have one time tried to enter the school but he is harmless.  He was involved in a fight just beside where I was doing Speakers' Corner.  Another man, possibly another street person, had grabbed and twisted his arm so that he was screaming in pain for two or three minutes.  I had to look through the shades of the class room I was in to see the fight.  The students on seeing this laughed.  Theirs laughs were a little embarrassed and uneasy but they seemed mostly to be the laughs of people directed at others' misfortunes.  That is what torture is like I told the students.  I continued on with my SPC and a few minutes later looked out the window to see the victim of the arm-twisting throwing bricks, left over from last year's construction of the park, at his tormentor.

The sudden ubiquity of China

An interesting piece on Chinese Diplomacy.

Evil prevails in Game 3.

The Ottawa Senators won game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final.  They beat the Anaheim Ducks 5 to 3 in Ottawa.  The game was played Sunday morning in Wuxi.  The Ducks had a three-two lead before I went to teach a class.  When I came back from class, it was to see the game was over and the Ducks had lost.

The Blue Bar showed the game in the evening.  Les Dingle had managed to download the game of the Internet and show it on the Bar's big screen which is attached to a lap top.  I went but I kept my mouth shut.

My prediction for game 4.  I hate to say it but Ottawa 5, Anaheim 1.  I would be happy if I am very wrong with this prediction but Ottawa came on strong in the last half of the game.  Also, Chris Pronger gave a stupid elbow to one of the Ottawa players that was not caught by the refs but will probably result in a suspension later.  Pronger's dirty elbow is a sort of thing that  transfers all momentum to the opponents by inspiring them with a thirst for revenge and with  moral righteousness.

My Number 1 Youtube Video.

It is official, the pregnancy update video I did on April 13 is now my most watched video.  I have 139 videos on youtube.  This blows all the other videos, I have made, away.  Why?  I don't know.  Pregnancy videos are popular must be why it is.

 

Who has a bigger nose?

Yesterday, I asked a student to describe Jacky Chan. He told me that Jackie Chan has a big nose. I have to admit I had never thought about it before. But now that I think of it, he does. No other students have said that about Jackie Chan so I have to salute yesterday's student for his originality.

It also got me to thinking. Whose nose is bigger?

Jackie Chan's



The King of Wuxi's