Our new apartment (as well as the King of Wuxi's) is located the Huai Shan development area of Wuxi.  I had an opportunity to walk about our new neighborhood on Saturday and here is what I saw:

New roads but little traffic.

This is the backside of a park near our new apartment.  On the left, you can see the edge of a condo development.

Here is a better view of the condo development area that the King of Wuxi can't afford to live in.

And I saw more nice roads with no traffic.

I saw a canal-side park with no visitors but me.

I found the amount of building done to be staggering.

There is no way that those above buildings are fully occupied.

Quit playing with your egg!!!

The Wuxi Tony Update series is almost becoming the Wuxi Tony Daily Update.

For my rare readers, I offer Wuxi Tony Update #106.  It was taken Friday morning in our 21st floor apartment.

Has the King of Wuxi, China Expatdom raised the bar for honesty in electioneering?  The staff who are working on the 0Drummond for President 2008 campaign would have you believe so.  Said Deloris Morris, head of the 0Drummond 0Ate Campaign:  The King of Wuxi is currently tattooing all the promises he has made in this campaign so far on his gorgeous body.  So when he is elected King, the voters can hold him accountable for the promises he made during this campaign.  Other campaigns have published policy books that they say you can refer to and check off.  But you can burn books and the politicians know that the average voter has too short an attention span and lacks the administrative ability to have a book at his side to check off when a legislator does this and does that.  No, those sort of things are gimmicks that get votes while at the same time counting on the voter to forget.  Now, the King of Wuxi does not want you to forget the promises he has made.  That is why he is willing to uglify his otherwise beautiful body he has with tattoos.  Just think if you want to know what he said about infrastructure, you can look at his buttocks.  What did he say about healthcare?  You can consult his groin area.  What will he do about Iraq?  You can read his knuckles.  What will he do about education?  You can read the crown of his head.  Now I can already hear the critics saying:  He can grow hair to cover up his broken promises.  Well, I can say this:  The King will shave his body everyday on national TV when at the same time he fulfills his promise to change his underwear.  So I say now, we can look forward to a third sub-section of the population wearing tattoos.  Until now, sailors and bikers wore tattoos.  Along with these esteemed groups, we can now add politicians.  Yes!  This marks the dawning of the Age of Political Integrity!

It is Friday both in the world and in the wonderful, mystic, misty realms of AKIC.  I wonder what fresh horrors await me this weekend. 

Here are some horrors that the Toner is making us have to deal with.  The little bugger has found new things to be curious about.

Stay away from the Ironing board!

He has already had it fall on him a few times.

Stop playing with the rubbish bin!

And speaking of horrors, here is the latest photo of the construction site across the street from our apartment building.

I took these videos Thursday morning.

My wife took this video Thursday Afternoon.

This was taken at the home of the King of Wuxi.

The wife had three of our old umbrellas repaired yesterday.  The repairman charged us six rmb altogether to fix them.  So the umbrella I have that was warped by the typhoon of '05 or '06 looks brand spanking new.

Tony had a smile on his face this morning when he woke us up.  His rash has gone away and he is his normal handsome self.

I have just taken him for a walk.

We went to this canal side park near our apartment.

The wife tells me we are moving to our new apartment on June 16th, not June 22nd as she told me previously.  The King of Wuxi and his court will be moving into their apartment this weekend or roundabouts. 

I don't know how the King does it.  Not only is he moving; he is also conducting a serious campaign for the presidency of the United States and working full-time at his job here in Wuxi.  What a remarkable man he is. 

Coco beat Lisa in a playoff yesterday to win the first ever HyLite golf competition.

Uh Oh!.  The Toner, the wife tells me, can open the tap on the water machine.  Now his curiosity is becoming a danger to others.

The King of Wuxi, one of the three remaining major candidates in the 2008 U.S. presidential election made another major policy announcement today from his election headquarters here in Wuxi, China:  he has promised to bring free markets to America which he says have never existed before.   Said the King:  Think about it!  America always brags about having free markets but the last time I was in America I had to pay for a bag of chocolate chip cookies and so I was almost thrown in jail when I didn't.  If the market in America is free, then why to I have to pay for things?  Why aren't things free? Huh?  So I promise that if you elect me your next president, I will make the market free.  That is, you can go to the market and not have to pay money for stuff.  Now, I know this would be a radical change so I promise to bring in a real free market gradually.  So in the first hundred days of the 0Drummond administration, I promise you that chocolate cookies, ice cream, cigarettes and beer will be free.  As the 0Drummond administration continues, more and more things will become free including the essentials like underwear, toilet paper and lard.

By the way, Tommy Drummond, like Anthony Kaulins, has a bit of a heat rash these days.

There is apparently a great Sichuan restaurant overlooking the pond near Chongan Temple.

Tony's fever has broken but he doesn't look so good.  Yesterday, Tony's skin became red all over, and so the wife had to take him to hospital

The doctors assured Jenny that Tony's skin will clear up in a few days or so.  My first thought on hearing of Tony's going to the hospital was to think the wife was over-reacting to her baby being sick, as mothers will do until they learn babies get sick every once in a while.  But looking at Tony this morning, I don't blame her.

The heat and humidity of the last few days here in Wuxi has also made Tony a miserable little guy.  He is not the happy fellow he once was when he wakes up.  He screams and demands his parents, still groggy with sleep, immediately alleviate his discomfort.

I took the little man for a walk this morning.  The busy-body types were all over me about Tony's red skin.

Here is the Toner in a happier moment.

The King of Wuxi, one of the three major candidates left in the 2008 U.S. presidential election made another controversial policy announcement from his campaign headquarters here in Wuxi, China:  He promised to ban heterosexual marriage.  Said candidate 0Drummond:  "When I cruise the back alleys and the hidden underground areas of the great country of the America, I see that heterosexual marriage is not flourishing.  Instead, I witness the popularity of recreational drug use, massage parlors, cock-fighting, sex with animals and spanking.  I asked myself why this should be so.  Why are these particular activities flourishing?  And then one day it dawned on me that they flourished because the powers that be have declared those activities taboo and illegal.  Now, I have been told by many that heterosexual marriage is in decline.  What can we do as a society to make it popular again?  Make it illegal and taboo. Give it an aura of mysteriousness and unconventionality, and soon when you walk into a cock-fighting arena or a massage parlor or an opium den, you will see more married couples enjoying themselves.  Now, I do admit that the legislation I have proposed does have tough penalties for heterosexual couples getting married like public-stonings and beheadings.  But it is necessary for this law to have any real effect.  And I trust in the independent and rebellious character of the American people to evade this law.  I also look forward to seeing the unforeseen circumstances of passing this law.  Unlike laws intended to do nice things that have drastic effects that their creators did not intend, I see my bad legislation actually having good unforeseen effects that I can't imagine."

Having long been an important part of the Democratic party in the U.S., the brothers of the funk and soul music industry were granted super delegate status along with senior Democrats who have been elected as senators or state governors.  It comes as no surprise, that all these "Super-Fly" delegates have pledged their support for Obama for the upcoming convention in Denver. 

No golf for me today.  I will go to Timken company here in Wuxi, China to do some oral testing of our new company students.

This is a special hello to a student Connie who reads my blog.  Thank you for the advice about Tony.

It is late in the afternoon on Tuesday, and a big storm has come to Wuxi, China where this Canadian Expat happens to be living at this point on history.  For those of you who are stuck indoors because of the heavy rain, you enjoy the latest Wuxi Tony Update:

For those of you who are enjoying good weather, you may well quit liking sunny days after watching my latest Youtube classic.

This rain may cancel tomorrow's mini golf classic that is be be held at our school.

The heavy rain may mean there will be many no-shows at the school. 

Check what is going on at AKIC WUXIGUIDE.

I didn't go to the Blue Bar last night.  Rare readers may know I planned to, but my wife didn't go along with the idea.  "Honey!", I says, "I'm going to the pub with Andy tonight!"  Her saying "F*** Off!" in response scuttled the plan.  The King of Wuxi didn't either because his wife was at their new apartment late with the car.

Tony is in a whiny mood these days.  The heat (It is time to put the A/C on now in Wuxi) and a fever have put him in the foulest of moods.

One thing I can do to pacify Tony is take him for a walk like I just did this morning.  Wu Ai Jia Yuan has a park that we can walk through.  Going for a walk, I have noticed, shuts Tony right up.  He is too full of curiosity to say much.  One thing he seems to find particularly interesting is seeing the oldsters doing tai chi.

But as soon as Tony arrives home from one of these walks, he becomes miserable again.

Tony is not so miserable when he has new experiences like sitting in a shopping cart.

The gas lineups I saw on the weekend were on account of the Sichuan earthquake?  That is what the students told me.  Meanwhile, the damage in Sichuan gets worse as more aftershocks occur.  I have also heard that many flights have been canceled so planes can help in the Earthquake relief effort.

I got my haircut yesterday.  According to the students, I now have jet head.  I suppose they mean my hair, which was cut very short at a barbershop that uses an electric clipper, now looks aerodynamic.

A boat goes under a bridge.

Mini golf tomorrow and a short day at school because of a scheduled power outage.  Yipee!

This video of mine has been seen over 20,000 times now.

Here is one last video taken on my last trip to Beixing which is in the countryside of Jiangsu province about 100 km from Wuxi, China.  I even edited this video and put titles and credits in it.  So please give it a look.

His majesty: the liberator of Hans Island from Danish Tyranny; the most majestic of the majestic; the discoverer of China; the inventor of viagara and sliced bread; the most sensual of the sensual; runner of election campaigns; winner of Nobel, Pulitzer, Academy, Employee of the Month, and Most Valuable Player of the Year awards, to name a few; The fastest man in the world in 1997; Candidate for the U.S. Presidency 2008; the world's biggest backer of Mitt and Obama; former Winnipeger; The King of Wuxi is the star of two brand spanking new videos on Youtube.  Here they are:

King of Wuxi Apartment Update #5

 Wuxi Tony Update #100

I was almost finished Brideshead Revisited.  I was going to finish off the novel tonight but I have just realized that I left the copy I have (it is the King's copy actually) at the new apartment. I won't be going back there till next Saturday.  So instead I will read this book about Richard Nixon.

Incidentally, the King of Wuxi will be moving into his apartment at the end of May.  Here are the latest video updates I have done of his majesty's apartment: you will that see I don't live too far from him and that the colours of the wall in his bedroom are green.

A photo of Dennis and I trying to wrap zongzi can be seen in the May 24th edition of the Wuxi Business Daily. 

Spending Saturday night in a very long gas lineup is not something I would want to do but I saw many Wuxi drivers do just this yesterday night.  Some Americans I talked to told me that the lineups reminded them of the 1970s and the Carter presidency.

These American expats were of differing opinions of how the U.S. presidential election will turn out.  One predicted an Obama landslide (agreeing with the King of Wuxi); another predicted a McCain landslide.

Here are the latest Wuxi Jenny Apartment Updates taken yesterday.

In WJAU 18, you will see the bed we have bought for the Toner.

In WJAU 19/ KOWAU4, you will see how close I will live to the King of Wuxi.

Wuxi Tony 100 has been filmed but needs to be edited this time.

The Toner has a fever these days.  The wife got no sleep last night.  I worry the wife is overreacting to the Toner's illness.