Hangzhou Lovin’

Kinda pissy today cause I’m sick. I gotta sore throart, which everbody says is cause I don’t wear enough cloths, but I know it’s cause I talk to much and it’s f’ing poluttind outside. The one thing that is really pissing me off is that is that chinese people around here don’t understand insulation, even though it gets pretty cold here (I’m sure where it gets really cold, like manchuria they understand this stuff) I go into a classromm and the window is open! what the fuck? Yeah I want some of that fresh, cold, pul;loted dusty air from outside in my classroom. And they don’t know how to close doors. When they walk into the room from the outside, all they do is give the door a weak little shove. that leaves the door hanging ajar. When I was a kid and I did that, my dad wouldbreak out the swears and tell me how stupid I was for waisting electricity. The chinese are good about saving elecricity thay always turn off all the appliances. They are just clueless when it comes to keeping a house warm.

The only thing that is making me happy, is this poetic descrition on the back of my “golden throat” cough drops,

Indication

Coursing wind and clea-

ring away

Resolving tosieity and

detumescence

Benefiting throat and

eliminating halitosis

Aroma and keep pure.

(all spellings are in the original).

good little article in the NYtimes about unemployment

Besides the obvious implications of an increased unemployment rate on Bush’s political futre, I found this to be the most interesting part.

The biggest benefit from rapid growth coupled with low unemployment rates may well have been the first significant increases in wages and family incomes since the 1960’s. Over all, family incomes, for example, rose far more rapidly from 1996 to 2000 than they did from 1991 to 1996 or even from 1984 to 1989 � the last five years of the fairly rapid expansion under Ronald Reagan. In particular, incomes for lower-income families rose as rapidly as for other income groups for the first time since the 1970’s. In other words, income inequality stopped widening at last.

By contrast, in the early 1990’s, when the unemployment rate averaged around 6.5 percent and economic growth was sluggish, family incomes grew much more slowly at all levels � about half as fast. But incomes for lower-end families grew the most slowly.

I was thinking about changing my no spelling policy, but then I realised that was just the evil pussy side of my brain talking and that I have to stay true to my punk rock life style, so fuck that spelling shite.

Speaking of keeping it real, the other weak I was just thinking that the onion is weak now compared to the onion I knew in my youth. When I was but a wee 14 year old on the cold streets of milwaukee, each week I was delighted to find a new copy the onion near the door of our local subshop. Besides all the “massage parlor” and “escort service” adds in the back, the Onion had hardcore content back then. Every week they published, “the drunk of the week” with a picture of a very drunk person, and some entertaining facts on them. They also pulled no punches with their stories, I remember one that had a title of “New Georgia O’Keeffe painting found” under an unedited picture of a pussy. At my tender age it took me a couple of minutes to figure out what was going on, but when I did I was blown away by the combination of the snobbishly obscure O’keefe reference and the ubsurdity of publishing a “wide open beaver” in a newspaper that was availble on virtually every corner.

So I was glad to see that the Onion was back on it’s game

for those of you to pussy to click the link

“In the end, Leslie said, only one scenario proved both orgasm-inducing and feasible to record: the direct ejaculation of the male member onto a corresponding female partner’s face, with the woman’s head positioned only inches away.

“For some reason,” Leslie said, “no other set of circumstances produced the desired effect. Oh, and the woman has to have high-heeled shoes on, too, even though she’s otherwise undressed. We don’t know why that is, either.”

The scientists acknowledged that such riddles may never be fully solved.

“The male orgasm, like the song of the nightingale or the simple beauty of a rainbow, remains a glorious and beautiful mystery, one whose timeless wonderment cannot be fully explained by something so cold and clinical as scientific analysis,” Roehnert said. “There are many factors at work here that science will likely never understand.”"

Are people really this stupid? Nytimes asrtivle about China wanting to have more power on ICANN, the non-profit group that is in charge of domain names. The leader of this group makes this idiotic statement.

China’s enthusiasm for Icann is rooted in a desire to raise its profile, rather than exert control, believes Mr Tindal: “It’s about being seen to be part of the international internet community.”

Hmmm, maybe Chana wants to raise it’s profile and it’s control. We aren’t suposed to worry because the Chinese representivives on the board will be from Chinese corporations. Wow, I sure trust Chinese corporations to respect free speech and dissent. In the end I think it all comes down to profiteering.

Devon Sean McCullough, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, complains: “Icann delays and stops creation of new names. Artificial scarcity of names is very profitable to Icann insiders and cronies.”

Controversially, Icann’s board voted in Shanghai last month to remove the representatives voted in by internet users in favour of appointees from industry. Internet users rail that their voice is ignored while that of a government known for internet censorship is being heard; Icann says the reforms are necessary to bring in a less unwieldy management structure, which will speed up decision-making.

the horror of private education

*edit, it is worse than I thought. It turns out that this fucking school is a public school. Hmmm, ever hear about seperation of church and state

“Each one of us should remember
to do as the Pilgrims did
and thank God
for all our blessings in America”

here is a nice historically inaccurate jingoistic statement

“Although the Pilgrim mothers and fathers
were very happy in Holland,
they did not want their children
to grow up to be Dutch people.”

from a post at dave’s esl cafe

“it most certainly is true that employers use pictures to weed out the less attractive people. it is certainly true here in korea, where the employers are very blunt and up front about it. whats more, the students take attractiveness into account during the evaluations; just like they judge fashion sense, sociability and a myriad of other things that have nothing to do with teaching competence. for example, i once worked with a handsome, amiable, talkative and very social person who was also an unreliable drunk who blew off classes, showed up for work straight from the clubs in hongdae and taught his students next to nothing. the result? the highest approval ratings and retention rates in the school. is it fair? of course not. but it is reality and most people learn to deal with it. ”

hehe, teaching is asia is the bomb

here are some good links

I don’t want to hate corporations but it is just so hard

Hey, war costs money?

That second link is based off an article in the newyork review of books that I read about half of but then lost the links. It does a good summary anyway.

here are some good links

I don’t want to hate corporations but it is just so hard

Hey, war costs money?

That second link is based off an article in the newyork review of books that I read about half of but then lost the links. It does a good summary anyway.

Interesting day today… So I am out with one of my students who is one of my better friends, and he tells me that he is dating the girl that had a crush on me earlier this year and who I think got in trouble for coming to see me alone. I introduced them to each other, so I guess i am morphing into some kind of Chinese match maker over here. I should try to get them to have sex now, Chinese college students need to have more sex, espiacially the girls. I’m not just saying that because I want to have sex with them, I truely believe that they are repressed and it probably causees all kinds of trouble when they get married. The divorce rate and affair rate is rather high in China at least compared to in the past. One of my chinese frinds told me that when he greats his married friends it is common to joke “have you got divorced eat” as substitute for the chinese greeting have you eaten yet.

Anyway, I thouhgt that it was amusing that these two are going out because the way this guy told me was all cautious, “oh I have something to tell you….” all mystrerious like. Then he tells me he is going out with this girl. And I say that it’s cool, but he is surprised that i think that. But I do think it’s cool and wasn’t disapointed or jealous (well beyond the fact that I’m a jealous fuck and get pissed whenever I see a moderatly cute girl with another guy, but thats a different post). It explains why this girl has been acting so strangely around me for the past couple weeks. I thought she was very busy or depressed or something, since she had told me about her family troubles in the past. It’s funny that she felt she had to hide it from me, I wonder if it just cause she is embarresed because she has a boyfriend, or if she thinks it will hurt me to know she dosn’t like me any more.

Speaking of chinese girls thay still seem to be falling out of the closet. I went over to the house of the girls I met at the disco for luch and it was an interesting experiance. they live in a village maybe 15 minutes bike ride away from the edge of town, so I got to see what a real chinese village was like, boring and dirty. So I go to their house and of course it’s freezing in there cause they never close the damn door, but its cool cause I’m flirting with the girls and making jokes. So then we have the meal and it’s good, classic henan noodles and potato and carrots meal, with fresh roasted peanuts that were damn good. But the mother want’s to drink Beijou(or beijiao?), chinese white “wine,” with me. This stuff isn’t wine at all but nasty sourgam vodka. (Well i am actually starting to like some of it but this shot was the worst), I just wawsn’t in the mood, but I couldn’t refuse. I’m thinking that these girls are probably pretty wild if their mom drinks beijao.

then tonight, this dude starts to talk to me, blah blah blah, I want to be your friend, where are you from, blah blah blah, tell me something about american culture, blah b;ah blah, One of my friends would like to meet you, blah blah, She (my years perk up) is an english teaher at a highschool, she is very beutiful all the boys try to be her friend. Oh yeah, I say, of course you can be my friend, come on over, oh give me her number, I’ll call her we will go out to eat…. So I’m a bastard and I’m using this dude, but there are to many girls in china to waiste time on the guys…

Oh yeah I also went to this english competion at our school tongight where I had to judge. It was ok and kind of amusing at times with all the bullshit propaganda that the students were spouting about working hard to help the country grow strong. Then I had to give a little speech at the end and everybody was impressed by my bullshit ability, about how great all the speeches were. i guess that leberal arts education paid off after all.

Interesting day today… So I am out with one of my students who is one of my better friends, and he tells me that he is dating the girl that had a crush on me earlier this year and who I think got in trouble for coming to see me alone. I introduced them to each other, so I guess i am morphing into some kind of Chinese match maker over here. I should try to get them to have sex now, Chinese college students need to have more sex, espiacially the girls. I’m not just saying that because I want to have sex with them, I truely believe that they are repressed and it probably causees all kinds of trouble when they get married. The divorce rate and affair rate is rather high in China at least compared to in the past. One of my chinese frinds told me that when he greats his married friends it is common to joke “have you got divorced eat” as substitute for the chinese greeting have you eaten yet.

Anyway, I thouhgt that it was amusing that these two are going out because the way this guy told me was all cautious, “oh I have something to tell you….” all mystrerious like. Then he tells me he is going out with this girl. And I say that it’s cool, but he is surprised that i think that. But I do think it’s cool and wasn’t disapointed or jealous (well beyond the fact that I’m a jealous fuck and get pissed whenever I see a moderatly cute girl with another guy, but thats a different post). It explains why this girl has been acting so strangely around me for the past couple weeks. I thought she was very busy or depressed or something, since she had told me about her family troubles in the past. It’s funny that she felt she had to hide it from me, I wonder if it just cause she is embarresed because she has a boyfriend, or if she thinks it will hurt me to know she dosn’t like me any more.

Speaking of chinese girls thay still seem to be falling out of the closet. I went over to the house of the girls I met at the disco for luch and it was an interesting experiance. they live in a village maybe 15 minutes bike ride away from the edge of town, so I got to see what a real chinese village was like, boring and dirty. So I go to their house and of course it’s freezing in there cause they never close the damn door, but its cool cause I’m flirting with the girls and making jokes. So then we have the meal and it’s good, classic henan noodles and potato and carrots meal, with fresh roasted peanuts that were damn good. But the mother want’s to drink Beijou(or beijiao?), chinese white “wine,” with me. This stuff isn’t wine at all but nasty sourgam vodka. (Well i am actually starting to like some of it but this shot was the worst), I just wawsn’t in the mood, but I couldn’t refuse. I’m thinking that these girls are probably pretty wild if their mom drinks beijao.

then tonight, this dude starts to talk to me, blah blah blah, I want to be your friend, where are you from, blah blah blah, tell me something about american culture, blah b;ah blah, One of my friends would like to meet you, blah blah, She (my years perk up) is an english teaher at a highschool, she is very beutiful all the boys try to be her friend. Oh yeah, I say, of course you can be my friend, come on over, oh give me her number, I’ll call her we will go out to eat…. So I’m a bastard and I’m using this dude, but there are to many girls in china to waiste time on the guys…

Oh yeah I also went to this english competion at our school tongight where I had to judge. It was ok and kind of amusing at times with all the bullshit propaganda that the students were spouting about working hard to help the country grow strong. Then I had to give a little speech at the end and everybody was impressed by my bullshit ability, about how great all the speeches were. i guess that leberal arts education paid off after all.