There’s no such thing as a free lunch Today is Sunday and I worked. We had a day off on Wednesday for Mid- Autumn Festival and are on holidays again on Friday for 5 working days, i.e returning to work on Friday. That holiday is to celebrate the founding of “New” China. To make up […]
Taking the wrong bus can be a liberating experience I’ve never actually taken the wrong bus, but on two occasions the right bus going in the wrong direction. The first time occurred in Spain and the second here last year when road works meant an adjustment to the bus route of which I was unaware. […]
Mid Autumn Festival Wednesday was the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar calendar and thus Mid-Autumn Festival, an important Chinese cultural festival. The week before felt like midsummer, but Mother Nature adjusted herself to provide the correct environmental ambience. It was a beautiful brilliant blue sky day at a perfect temperature. It’s said to be […]
Bits and Pieces Shopping About ten days ago I took the bus into the main city area to hunt for a cable. After several bus rides and shops/shopping centers I was still without my cable. However, I did get to view Chinese commerce from an angle I hadn’t explored before. One place looked like a […]
Last Weekend Soon after my return to China my TV stopped working. We had never actually turned it on but the channel indicator on a connected machine disappeared and couldn’t be made to return. No visible results occurred after weeks of discussions with management. On Friday evening I returned from class to find a note […]