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Wuxi Jenny Pregnancy Update IIIa

This is really not part of the Wuxi Jenny Pregnancy Update Series.  Jenny is not in it.  The video shows me talking about learning the baby's sex.  Jenny had gone to Taixing to find out about it.  The doctors at #4 hospital in Wuxi would not tell her.  The King of Wuxi makes a special appearance in this video as star of a mock commercial for his wife's rental agency.  He also endorses Mitt Romney for President in 2008.

Wuxi Jenny Pregnancy Update III

Here is the third video  of the Wuxi Jenny Pregnancy Update Series.  The best part of the video is right at the start where you can hear the wife complaining about being pregnant.

Wuxi Jenny Pregnancy Update II

The first sequel in the series.  It  is also titled Another Jenny Pregnancy video.  I tell a lame story to my Tony or Tina.  At the time I wasn't sure what the baby's sex was.

Why I haven't been doing much with this blog.

Blogspot  blogs can only be accessed by proxy servers here in China.  I wish that this was my one and only blog site but the issue of China blocking certain sites means that I have to maintain three blog sites.  I publish photos at http://andiskaulins.spaces.live.com.  I have been writing a lot at http://blog.myspace.com/wuxiandis.  I have been doing a few things here in Blogspot but for for now it is a minor AKIC blog.  I do try to put in original content here when I can but it is of a political nature which should not be readily available in China.

Wuxi Jenny Pregnancy Update I

I am doing a reprise of all the pregnancy update videos I have done. This was the first video, originally titled Wuxi Jenny at 4.5 months pregnancy.  It is my most viewed video ever.

Wuxi Jenny Pregnancy Update VIII

Sir Kenneth Clark's Civilisation

I honestly tried to watch some Bergman movies but they were just too silly.  So I took out the Civilisation DVD box set I have and watched episode one.  Kenneth Clark hosts the 1969 documentary series that still holds up after all these years and all my viewings of it.

A blind man asked my wife for her seat on the bus.  She told him to go to an empty seat nearby.  Everybody on the bus doubted he was blind.

At the Hospital, this man tried to jump the queue at the cashier window while my wife was trying to pay.  She asked him why he didn't want to wait his turn.  The cashier heard that and she gave the man his money back and told him to go to the back of the line.  The man was angry and thought that my wife had sworn at him.  I, at this point, just having noticed, moved in to separate the two.  The man shurgged and huffed and then left.  Onlookers supported my wife.

What I am up to today.

The wife was up early this morning to go the number four hospital for a pregnancy checkup.  600 AM, she told me something before I rolled over hoping it was all a bad dream.  She later phoned to rouse me again from a nearby restaurant where she was having breakfast.  I rushed to join her and we were at the hospital about 830.

The wife's checkup was fine.  The baby is healthy but she was alarmed to be told that the baby is big and still has some growing to do.

Only thing was that my wife had a blind man ask her for her seat on the bus, and then another man try to jump the queue on her at a hospital cashier line.  I stood in between them as they fought not really knowing what the talk was about.  The second man figured he was entitled to jump the queue because he was old thought he didn't look it.

Back at the apartment by 930 AM, we went back to bed in an air-conditioned room.  I tried to watch a couple Ingmar Bergman DVDs that I happen to have but the wife found them to be boring.  There was no action and lots of emoting in the scenes we did see.  One of the DVDs had an interview with Bergman where he didn't talk about making films but instead went on and on about his feelings about his mother.

I can hear thunder outside.  It may rain this afternoon.

The news of the bridge collapse in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA has caught my attention.  I have been to Minneapolis many times.  My grandparents on my father's side lived there.  I have memories of having been on a big bridge crossing the Mississippi River.  It may well have been the one that collapsed. 

I can remember walking one day from my grandparents' house to the shores of the river.  Something that had to be done like when I stood on the shores of the Fraser in British Columbia and the Yangtze here in China.

I will spend the afternoon, looking for updates about the disaster in Minneapolis and finishing editing on Pregnancy Update VIII