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Andis Kaulins in ChinaThe adventures of a Canadian Expat Andis, his Chinese Wife Jenny and their son Tony who live in Wuxi, China. July 05 Today: 745 AMToday, the Tony boy has gotten up a lot later than yesterday: 745 AM. I didn't think yesterday's activities on his part were sustainable.
In other news, I will take the bus to work. A forty minute ride I know, but it eliminates wear and tear on the scooter. Palin resigns and I don't know what to make of it other than it shows the vileness of the Left.
July 04 The Little Bugger was up at five a.m.!Tony annoyed his parents this morning by deciding to get up and make demands of his parents at an ungodly hour. Now, my recollection of the events of this morning will seem a little confused and disjointed because I dozed off a few times. But I definitely recall Tony getting up at five a.m. and going to the living room. He may well have pulled me by the hand, at the time, to get me out of bed. It may also have been later, but drag me out of bed he did. He took me to the kitchen to make formula. At about six a.m., he turned on the TV and DVD player. He demanded that I change the DVD for him. In the bathroom, he watched as I shaved and washed my face. He then got on a stool so he could reach the tap of the basin. He turned on the basin and soaked his hands. It is nice that he likes to wash his hands. However, he likes to let the water run a long time. Telling him to desist results in him having a tantrum - not something I have the patience to deal with when woken early. He also insisted that I get him something from the fridge and from a kitchen cupboard. Not having any idea what he wanted, he really earned my goat by refusing rather forcefully with his hand what I thought he wanted.
The little bugger! Hopefully, he goes to bed early tonight as compensation.
Early to bed; early to rise. Hopefully, Tony will end up wealthy and wise with these habits.
Happy Fourth of July America!If the critics of America were even half as good as the country they love to verbally assault, there might be some credence in what is otherwise nothing but vile-hatefulness akin to anti-semitism, another disease of the mind.
Americans are great people because of their optimism, their independent spirit, their willingness to face problems, and work.
America! Don't lost your mojo! More than ever, it is needed!
Dominion Day Video #3Here is the third of a series of five WTU's taken on July 1, 2009, the former Dominion Day in Canada.
July 03 Hu Jintao in Italy: More on “China’s Catholic Moment”President Hu is visiting Italy, and Spengler has an interesting blog posting at First Things about it. Spengler, using his mystical intuition, is hoping the visit portends a breakthrough in relations between China and the Vatican. Why would this be significant? China’s decision-making process is developing fast and learning from the West, and China is looking around for inspiration. The Vatican is part of this western tradition of the balancing of powers in the decision-making process.
Commenting on the often strong opposition to this idea, Spengler says this:
My own view is that such outbursts betray a sort of cultural illiteracy that is sadly typical of Americans, who assume that if the rest of the world simply acted as they do, all would be well. They forget that America called out from among the nations a tiny percentage of individuals who wished to make a new start at the price of abandoning their own ethnicity.
Many of my conservative friends seem to think that if we jump up and down on the table and scream about China’s lack of democracy, we would improve the situation. I can’t decide if ignorance or petulance dominates in this attitude. China always has been a empire, never a nation state. It holds together a welter of difference ethnicities speaking different languages through a common system of ideograms and a common culture, and always has opposed a centralizing power to centifugal tendencies. It is an inherently unstable system. Communism erased China’s traditional culture, the Confucian system that linked the “little emperor” at the head of an extended family to the “big emperor” in Beijing through a set of analogous filial obligations. In the midst of the greatest social upheaval in modern history, the largest popular migration in all of history, Chinese leaders are painfully aware that a great empire cannot survive merely on the impetus of consumerism. That is why China’s leaders are looking to the West for more than methods of business administration. It is impossible to predict, of course, how this will proceed, but potentially it could be one of the most momentous developments of our time. Those in the United States who want China to fail should be careful what they wish for. Iraq, Iran, or Belarus could sink into the ground without a trace and the world would carry on regardless; an unstable China would make the world security situation unmanageable, not to mention the world economy. As the history of Chinese Central administrators goes, the current bunch are doing alright. That is in a Chinese historical context. By the context of where I have grown up, in a Canada heavily influenced by America, the current bunch would be voted out. I hope another great reformer, a Deng Xiaopeng of consensual government, will appear, making China the near heaven on earth that, I know because I have seen, it has the potential to be. English names of Chinese People can throw you for a loop.Apropos this article, here is a list of some English names I have seen students give themselves: Eleven, Angel, Polo, Range (as in Range Rover), Windy, Apple, Hannah, Queenie, Gemma, Kwin, Walker, Alien, Carry, and Ruin.
What I had for breakfast.I went to McDonalds for breakfast. I had the 11 rmb Egg Sausage Sandwich with coffee.
Dominion Day Video #2Dominion Day is July 1. It is what Canada's national patriotic holiday was called before the bureaucrats from the Liberal Party of Canada changed it. That party has changed other things too: in every case, something was quietly deleted from Canada's actual heritage, which occluded the vanity of the Liberal Party. After reading the latest David Warren Column, I feel suitably admonished for having said Canada Day in these videos.
Here is the second video taken of Tony on Dominion Day 2009.
July 02 AKIC randoms.
Canada Day Video #1What is a Canadian to do in China on Canada Day? Take his son for a bike ride in the Chinese countryside.
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