This is China (T.I.C.) #1
[Like other fine diarists on alt.slack who post snippets both profound
and mundane from their everyday activities and observations, I will
now do the same from my vantage point and listening post here in
Shanghai, China)
*We were out walking the wife and I, when I saw a well dressed peddler
with a trendy bag holding up an item for some passer-by. It sparked
and crackled a blue electric flash. "It looks like a taser." I told
the wife. It was a cheaper electric shock prod the guy was hawking
and he wanted 200 RMB ($26). I mentioned to the wife that we did have
a burglary attempt. She talked the guy down to 50, and we got a
recharger for it too. I just told her not to use it on me if I come
home at 200 am, drunk
*Shanghai is catching up with the rest of the world. I'm so proud
when I see stuff like this.
http://shanghai.craigslist.com.cn/cas/1170067309.html
*As I may have mentioned before McDonalds and KFC deliver 24/7. There
is one teacher at my school who will order a large coke or two only,
just for the ice.
*My school is an International Division attached to an ancient Chinese
High School the campus of which served at the Japanese internment camp
for Allied civilians in WWII (latee 42-45). The recently deceased sci
fi writer JG Ballard was imprisoned here with his family and
immortalized the camp in the novel and film "Empire of the Sun."
Yesterday I was biking home to my dorm for lunch when I saw two
elderly White people with a guide standing by the administration
building. I introduced myself and discovered, yes, he was a former
camp resident, visiting for the first time in 60 years. he had been
born in Shanghai, the son of the British harbor master. I escorted
him up two floors to show him his old room, with him pointing out
little details on the way "The Abraham family were in this room, all
15 of them.""The American merchant seamen were held in the theatre
over there." "I found bullets from the 1938 fighting here and a
Japanese guard cracked me on the back and took them from me." I told
him we are trying to get the administration to place plaques on the
buildings but they seem to shy away from this period. As I teach
history this is as good as it gets in my profession. We exchanged
information and he promised to answer all my questions when he got
back to Doncaster.
*Shanghai is holding the World Expo 2010, the current version of the
old World's Fair, but while the world will be here in force with
exhibition halls and corporate displays, it looks like funding was
never appropriated for a USA Exhibition and as a result it looks like
the Americans are not coming.
*I realized that the best way to introduce the CoS to China would be
to set up an actual storefront shop and sell nothing but Dobbshead
goods, cup, towels and geegaws while trying convince the Chinese this
is a major brand, like Gucci or Coach. It may be pink but the money
is green (or red, with Mao's face on every bill).
*Paid 90 cents for a screener pirate DVD from Russia of Star Trek.
Uhura putting the moves on Spock seemed a bit of a stretch.
SPLR, Khan of All-Shanghai
and mundane from their everyday activities and observations, I will
now do the same from my vantage point and listening post here in
Shanghai, China)
*We were out walking the wife and I, when I saw a well dressed peddler
with a trendy bag holding up an item for some passer-by. It sparked
and crackled a blue electric flash. "It looks like a taser." I told
the wife. It was a cheaper electric shock prod the guy was hawking
and he wanted 200 RMB ($26). I mentioned to the wife that we did have
a burglary attempt. She talked the guy down to 50, and we got a
recharger for it too. I just told her not to use it on me if I come
home at 200 am, drunk
*Shanghai is catching up with the rest of the world. I'm so proud
when I see stuff like this.
http://shanghai.craigslist.com.cn/cas/1170067309.html
*As I may have mentioned before McDonalds and KFC deliver 24/7. There
is one teacher at my school who will order a large coke or two only,
just for the ice.
*My school is an International Division attached to an ancient Chinese
High School the campus of which served at the Japanese internment camp
for Allied civilians in WWII (latee 42-45). The recently deceased sci
fi writer JG Ballard was imprisoned here with his family and
immortalized the camp in the novel and film "Empire of the Sun."
Yesterday I was biking home to my dorm for lunch when I saw two
elderly White people with a guide standing by the administration
building. I introduced myself and discovered, yes, he was a former
camp resident, visiting for the first time in 60 years. he had been
born in Shanghai, the son of the British harbor master. I escorted
him up two floors to show him his old room, with him pointing out
little details on the way "The Abraham family were in this room, all
15 of them.""The American merchant seamen were held in the theatre
over there." "I found bullets from the 1938 fighting here and a
Japanese guard cracked me on the back and took them from me." I told
him we are trying to get the administration to place plaques on the
buildings but they seem to shy away from this period. As I teach
history this is as good as it gets in my profession. We exchanged
information and he promised to answer all my questions when he got
back to Doncaster.
*Shanghai is holding the World Expo 2010, the current version of the
old World's Fair, but while the world will be here in force with
exhibition halls and corporate displays, it looks like funding was
never appropriated for a USA Exhibition and as a result it looks like
the Americans are not coming.
*I realized that the best way to introduce the CoS to China would be
to set up an actual storefront shop and sell nothing but Dobbshead
goods, cup, towels and geegaws while trying convince the Chinese this
is a major brand, like Gucci or Coach. It may be pink but the money
is green (or red, with Mao's face on every bill).
*Paid 90 cents for a screener pirate DVD from Russia of Star Trek.
Uhura putting the moves on Spock seemed a bit of a stretch.
SPLR, Khan of All-Shanghai
posted by Shining Path of Least Resistance at 10:11 AM
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