Posted in China, Medicine, Translation, Travel on Oct 27th, 2006 No Comments »
I’d been lamenting the anesthesia grey sky, wondering if they ever, anywhere in China, see blue sky these days.
It does exist.
At 33,000 feet on the way from Chengdu to Nanjing.
“中國通!”
It’s the phrase they use here to say “your Chinese is good, you know how to communicate”. I hear, and ignore it all the time. [...]
Posted in China, Travel on Oct 22nd, 2006 2 Comments »
他媽的中國小偷。
每次呆了中國我的腳踏車會被偷走。
兩把鎖也不過效。最煩躁的事就是那輛車不是我的， 就是朋友接給我的。
好丟臉你知道嗎？
中國的小偷真的很厲害。 氣死我了。 他媽的小偷。 幹！
Posted in China, Curiosity, Travel on Oct 20th, 2006 No Comments »
The Chinese post office is rather like a game of Russian Rolette, but instead of getting a bullet in the brain, you get agonizing bureau-babble.
It’s never the same. It’s a particularly Chinese kind of torture.
Sometimes it’s the return address.
“You wrote an American return address, you need a Chinese address.”
“I don’t live here, I live in [...]
Posted in Acupuncture, China, Health, Herbs, Medicine, Prostate, Travel on Oct 12th, 2006 No Comments »
We use the phrase “turn a corner”, but more often than not, it is more like following a road with a long wide curve. Gradually, gradually, without any particular notice, it dawns like a Fall morning of slanting yellow light..
…..it’s different now.
I remember being amazed that acupuncture works.
Now, I’m surprised when it doesn’t.
Is it the [...]
Posted in China, Curiosity, Travel on Oct 9th, 2006 No Comments »
It’s a 2.5 RMB ride to 福利, and it’s faster to hail any north bound transport from the intersection at West Street, than sitting in the monoxide steeped bus station.
Anything with four wheels, or two for that matter, will be happy to pull you up the road.
.
The tinfoil on wheels microvan drifts out of traffic [...]
Posted in Acupuncture, China, Travel on Oct 6th, 2006 3 Comments »
江香上來
葉轉下去
大覺到處
秋門進入
There is a curve along the shoreline, just beyond the wharf where morning tourists pilgrimage for photographs, and not quite to the stone slab the river boats slumber the night. There is a small marble table, with stone stools, where you can scoop below the river’s water and gather the mountains on either side. It’s [...]
Posted in China, Tea, Travel on Oct 4th, 2006 1 Comment »
Da Jue Temple is an excellent place to drink tea. North of the Summer Palace and resting in the foothills outside the 5th of Beijing’s 6 ring roads, it offers a quiet enough to hear the wind rustle leaves moment to recall that forgotten sense of peace that comes with stillness.
Da Jue,大覺, literally translated [...]
Posted in China, Travel on Oct 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
The bird market, with it’s alleyways full of song birds and bamboo whisper cages is gone. And with it the cricket and kite markets. Even the potholed dirt road that ran it’s northern boundary has changed and become a 4 lane divided highway.
秀水街, The Silk Market, has been moved out of it’s riotous clothing and [...]