Pieces of Me,,The Random happenings of everyday life.

So I have been at home for about a month now. My father is cancer free, which is great. Now I am just preparing to move to Xinjiang. I've started packing and it is going to be to hard to pack for a year or two with only 100 lbs of stuff. Oh well. I am also waiting for Anukul to arrive! It has been nearly two months since I have seen him and I cannot wait! Here is the most recent picture from this summer. An old friend named Amy and myself at the local bar. Enjoy.

 

This is me today.

Sorry I haven't been writing much lately..i've been super busy.  But here are some pictures from last Monday night when I cooked with some friends and then again Friday night when I hung out with some other friends...

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她的眼睛如秋水般地明亮！！！

-Her eyes are clear like the autumn waters.

 

 

What makes one person's life so important that others would want to read their story?  Well in the case of my class "Chinese Women's Autobiography," we are reading them to draw an image of the modern Chinese woman.  Part of the class is to write an autobiography.  It has to be 10 pages.  I have been thinking a lot about what I would like to write.  I think I’m going to write about my summer in China 中国.  Not the whole summer only from when the students from Gettysburg left until my fall semester started.  Today while I was sitting in a really boring lecture for a Chinese language professor candidate I wrote a little....

 

"My music was my escape, my world, my way to separate myself from the masses. One song by Simple Kid often found its way to the top of my play list, not because it had some profound message that would change my life, it simply at that moment in time rang true.  While I was walking along the crowed streets I would often sing along, ‘stroll'n along with nowhere to go, I've got a little pot belly and it's starting to show. nobody phones when you're alone-there's not a goddamn thing to do.'  What was my point? Where was I going? Who even cared?  Everyday no plans, only an enormous unforgiving city and me, a foreigner, trying to create a nitch so that all my efforts of integration wouldn't be in vain. "

 

 

 

"I feel like i'm staring at the sun."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So suddenly it is Thursday night 2:36a.m...where does all of my time go?  It seems as though the only thing that keeps me going these days in coffee or pure adrenaline.  Seem to be full of that these days.  I am still having some insomnia.  But now the time that I do sleep is punctuated by dreams that I must say I am not unhappy about having.  I'm not willing to go into to much detail about them; however, a friend and I think we have figured out this phenomenon.  I have currently stopped taking the Pill.  Sometimes the pill makes a girl's sex drive plummet.  However now that I am off it perhaps my boosted drive is manifesting itself in my dreams.  What do dreams exactly mean? Why do we have them? You would think that someone had figured it all out by now. 

 

Random sayings that tickle my fancy:

Nadia:  Wearing sweatpants over jeans is like wearing leathertrousers in the jungle.

Amy:    I need to work on my mating call

it needs to be perfect

Matea:  It’s not that kind of Ugly-you know that could go either way.  Like-so maybe you should have a new haircut. Its like-so maybe you should have a plastic surgery.

 

Finally saw a wanted advertisement on That’s Beijing.com that said:

“Need Chopstick for my Hotpot!”

----nice pickup line, perhaps I will use it myself. Well on second though-how about NO.

---------Check it out for yourself though; there is a picture of her too…

http://www.thatsbj.com/index.php?a=2&b=51925

I also found an interesting article today online entitled:

“Sex, Please, We’re Young and Chinese.”

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-01/19/content_513764.htm

Enjoy….

Goodnight-晚安

 

Random messages on my Blog!

Yo Kinsey, Michael just told me that you're coming to his party at Neverland. I am so excited girl.. I just got a new nose and boob job.. You have got to see them. I mean my nose, it looks just like Michael's now... And my boobs look even faker then before.. So, like,, oh my god.... I need to go shopping.....

发布者 Tori Spelling   Kinsey, I love reading your blog so much.. Thanks for supporting me in my legal battle.. WE WON!! When you get back we're going to have a huge party at Neverland. Bubbles will even be there, along with Bette Midler and Tori Spelling.. Oh what a blast. Gives me shivers thinking about it!!! beat it girl, MJ 发布者 Michael Jackson   Yo K-girl, What up? So anyways I spoke with Tori and MJ and they mentioned that they had already checked out your page, so I thought I'd give it whirl. I figure now's a good time to spring this on you.. I have a business proposal.. Me You Tremors 24 (I can't remember what exact number we're up to now, but I figure hell it cant be over two dozen!!!) Anyways somehow in this one the worms convert me into a worm.. so it's like this huge ass tremor worm with my head on it.. it can think, talk, juggle, cook 5 star dinners, ballet dance, tap dance (jazz fingers included), it will also be a taurus, love long walks on the beach, sappy movies and cuddly dogs (it has a weakness and cannot kill puppies!! this eventually leads to its downfall)..!! What a great plot... I mean seriously. this is the big hit .. we can get Earl back in the running. He'll sign for this one.. Plus Tori and MJ have shown a little interest.. Wow.. I'm getting footloose just thinking about it.. Give me a ring on my cell.. Baby you've got my number!! 发布者 Kevin Bacon

 

 

 

Superlatives are often used when describing Xinjiang: It is the most arid province; also contains the hottest and the coldest places; the longest inland river, the Tarim; the lowest marsh, the Aydingkol Lake (Moonlight Lake) in the Turpan Basin; the largest inland lake and the largest desert. In Xinjiang tourists can visit the world-famous Yadan Spectacle in Korla, stone forests, enjoy the mystery of the desert with its spectacular sand mountains. The ancient Silk Road brought Xinjiang a mix of eastern and western cultures which left behind stunning relics. Today, those ancient cities, caves, temples and tombs attract countless tourists from home and abroad.While you are visiting Xinjiang, it is important to be aware of the time zone being used. Although officially run on Beijing time, Xinjiang people also use there own system. If Beijing time is used it means that the sun doesn't raise until 9am and it is still light at midnight in the summer months. When making travel arrangements, be sure which time zone or system is being used or you could get caught out.

 

Also found interesting Article online about American Human rights-Published in China...

Who is violating religious freedom?

A report about the US troops desecrating the Quran at the Quantanamo Bay naval station has become the focus of the press lately. According to the report of the US Newsweek of the May 9th issue the US troops placed the Quran on toilets in order to "rattle Moslem prisoners". They even flushed the holy book down the toilet after tearing it page by page. The news, once broke out, aroused outrage among Muslims in different countries. The desecration of the Quran by the US troops is, without doubt, the US troops' another crowning achievement after the prisoner abuse scandal. Their strategy has grown from physical torture and psychological persecution to desecration of faith. The further intensified practice on the part of the United States again revealed its hypocrisy and double standard on human rights question. At the inauguration ceremony on January 20 the American President George Bush put his left hand on a Bible and raised his right hand when he gave his oath. From this detail can be seen the significance of the Bible for the Christians. As the holy book of the Islamism the Quran has the same sovereign place in the mind of Muslims. According to the Islamic creed any desecrations of the Quran must be severely punished. Though fully aware of this the US troops nevertheless went on to desecrate the Quran in front of the Moslem prisoners. For a long time the United States has posed itself as the "guardian of human rights". Disregarding political, economic, historical, cultural and social development differences among different countries it looks down on other countries' cultural and religious customs. It often makes arbitrary condemnations on human rights conditions in other countries according to its own values and ideology, and accuses others of violating religious freedom. The desecration of the Quran again revealed its "extremely conceived" arrogance. The facts proved that the one violating religious freedom is none other than the United States itself. This is an article carried on the third page of People's Daily on May 15 and translated by People's Daily Online

 

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http://english.people.com.cn/other/book/guestbook.php?book_id=175406