Millenium Hotel Chengdu

... Justement, les deux sont revenus de la montagne des singes, ou ils ont
geles completement et n'ont vu aucun singe. Serieusement ces gens la se
battent contre le froid avec de la bravade et aucun foulard. Quand est-ce qu'ils vont comprendre qu'on s'ostine pas avec le froid. J'imagine que faudra un enterrement.



Donc hier, (votre aujourd'hui) on est aller magasiner pour des ohmy****inggod boucles d'oreilles pour Eden, le ...

... that they dont really measure things too accurately here either and they don’t have the clever devices like we do at home to make sure everything is perpendicular and off set by the nearest cm. Here they simply do some tasks by eye – using a piece of chalk to set everything out。 I just hope that later on in the construction when they begin to build the main components that they do start measuring things out more accurately ...

... I have no idea what the traffic laws are here, but no one seems to have much regard for them, as everyone (including our bus drivers) think nothing of pulling out in front of ongoing traffic to make a left turn, running red lights, and parking on the sidewalks.

That evening, we ate dinner in our first Sichuanese restaurant. The food here is also different from what we had become accustomed to in Beijing. It is much spicier, and there are local specialties ...

... in his mid twenties from Tibet. He had live the past 4 years in India as a mathematician. He was super smart and had a masters in some advance math I didn't even know existed. He missed his parents and moved back to China to be near them. Since he Tibetan he's viewed as the lower class and the only work he can find is as a waiter. I was bummed for the guy and felt guilty being served ...

... not having a clue what was happening. Our bowl was taken away and filled to the brim with dried pepp**s, Sichuan pepp**s, black pepp**s, pepp**corns, and some floaty spice stuff that looked like something that'd be labeled "toxic" in a lab. Aft** being given some raw meat and yucky looking stuff to cook ourselves in this devil's concoction ov** the burn**, Keith braved the fear and took the first mouthful... Seeing his words des**t him and tears sting his ...

... since I've come home. It will save me oodles and oodles of noodles... urm, time in the long run and was totally worth the investment if only for the fact that I can carry it with me everywhere and communicate with people! Now it is time for me to go to sleep. I am exhausted. Oh! In case you heard about that earthquake over here, it wasn't anywhere near me. I didn't feel a thing. I guess there was some aftershocks yesterday too, but I guess you have to be trained to feel them ...

... voelt het even leeg in mijn eentje na zo'n heerljike tijd!! Gelukkig lukt het me op zich prima me te vermaken: heb net mijn derde (!) kookcursus gedaan, deze keer sichuan cuisine, errrug pittig (!) maar ook erg lekker. De gerechten op het menu waren: een aubergineschotel die lijkt op vis, heel grappig en lekker, kip met pinda's en heeel veel pepers, salade, dumplings en heel grappige varkenscrostinis. De les van deze keer was niet met een hele groep, ik had prive les van ...

... trop tard pour aller au consulat francais. J'y vais donc le lendemain matin. C'etait sans compter sur mon etat de victime du symdrome du consulat ferme (tout une serie depuis l'embassade mongole a Irkutsk en passant par celle cambodienne a Vientiane, la vietnamienne a Pakse...). En effet, c'est ferie en Chine. Je dois donc revenir lundi. Lundi matin, l'empereur, sa femme et l'petit prince.... Ah, non pas la, non.... Je suis cordialement accueilli au consulat ...

... and finally the lady who sold me the fruit comes over angrily and shows us: you eat the fruit whole, enjoying the sweet peel and discarding the bittersour innards. Doh! After lunch we finally manage to escape the tourist shops and find the real old part of town with a fantastic temple that indeed I recognize from the film. A monk is leading a congaline of local elderly around the dragonpillars. It makes the visit worthwhile.