Ranting, Sweet and Sour pork, and slow boats on small lakes
Date: Oct 21st, 2007 3:49:23 pm - Subscribe
Mood: cozy
I've a million things to rant about. Traffic, parking, MSG headaches, my cat jumping on my desk where he knows he isn't allowed. I just don't feel like ranting. Ranting makes for good blogging, though. A blog is a place where average Zhou can vent his spleen with minimal negative consequences. But, really, what positive influence, consequence, well....anything can come out of it??
Bloggers spew forth the unexpurgated version of what they see is truth, often in an angry way. Some of it is truly funny. Some of it is merely poison laid out for world consumption.
I don"t want that. This started out as a rant about a variety of things and my heart just isn't in it.
I had a wonderful day. I am a member of the International Fellowship in my city, and I attended today. I heard a really good message. then I went out for lunch with some friends of mine at this small, dingy restaurant that has some AMAZING Sweet and Sour Pork. Then we headed over to the Water Park. Which is HUGE and lovely. It is not a water park in the American sense of the word. It is a park on the water where you can rent small boats and just go for a boat ride. There is an amusement park there, and a zoo, and a whole bunch of flowers. So we rented a boat and went around on the lake for a bit, and then walked around for a bit, and saw some really cool dioramas about Chinese life during the emperors. It was just really pleasant. My roommate was with me and her niece is visiting. My Chinese, as poor as it is, is still better than Roomie's, so having me along was helpful when it came to ordering food and getting around town. And they seemed to enjoy my company as much as I enjoyed theirs. Starbuck's for dessert. Then shoe shopping for Roomie. The woman had no sneakers!!! I simply cannot imagine going through life without sneakers! More to the point, she is going walking around Beijing later in the week and had no shoes appropriate for the amount of walking she is about to do.
By the time we got home we had walked off the enormous lunch we had. We fixed ourselves some food, and watched "The Two Towers". Then I got to see pictures of her family and the Christmas she spent with her brother in India. the went on a Christmas Day Elephant Ride. No, Really, I saw the pictures of her brother with a Santa hat on, sitting on an elephant.
They were there during the tsunami that tore across the Indian Ocean a couple of years ago. On the beach. Twenty miles to either side of where the villages and beaches were wiped out. Where she was, the waves were just a bit higher than usual. The biggest natural disaster to hit south Asia in recent memory, and she had to move her beach chair. Wild, huh?
Destructo-kitty has been sweet today. He gets really sweet when it is cold and he wants help to stay warm. We are still about three weeks away from the heat being turned on. I had to get out my heavy blanket. Tonight I could hear water rattling in the radiator pipes as the building is getting ready for the winter heating season. There are men on the street selling fresh, roasted chestnuts. My city is famous for them. Winter is coming. I cannot wait.
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