Pudding and Chopsticks

Afternoon nap

admin — Sun, 06 May 2012 09:12:04 +0000

Move along people. Just a guy sleeping at the side of an intersection on his three wheeled cart.

New Bus Stop

admin — Sun, 06 May 2012 09:10:14 +0000

They just put in new bus stops near me. Have yet to put the advertising up.

Local Corner Store

admin — Fri, 04 May 2012 01:11:19 +0000

A local corner store in my area.

Apartment Hallway

admin — Thu, 03 May 2012 05:57:16 +0000

Today’s Lunch.

admin — Wed, 02 May 2012 05:14:12 +0000

Beef Noodle

Morning Boater

admin — Wed, 02 May 2012 00:31:19 +0000

Just a good ol morning canoe jaunt.

Construction Crane

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:04:44 +0000

Construction crane hanging over the bus stop.

Not much going on

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:22:41 +0000

Not much going on today. I’m just at my usual day off place. Starbucks. I don’t need to explain why if you have been reading my posts up until this point.

Anyway I would go out and take some photographs but I am feverishly working on some personal projects and what not that don’t necessarily involve the taking of photos. As much as I would love to get the camera out and go wonder around I can’t.

However, I will try to take some snapshots of random things. With the point and shoot. Easy enough right. So I might have something to post in the next few days. I’ll try not to take too boring of photographs.

Today is well, tomorrow is a holiday. I got a few days off which normally I would plan to go somewhere. But again, working on the personal things. I would love to go to Shanghai and check out the photography market and art galleries. Maybe someday soon. We’ll see.

But for now I’m going to try to bust out these things so that I have more time to post about random nonsensical items that I’m sure you all want to read about.

It’s no wonder

admin — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:28:53 +0000

This is a photo I took the other morning behind a market. It looks like a house. Pretty sure it is. There is even a chicken in front picking through the muddy trash for food.

Anyway, it’s no wonder that most people here don’t have the same expectations to what a proper house should be, or rather be built like. Outside my apartment the paint is falling off the concrete walls, cracking, etc, but it’s a million times better than living in this place. Which, I would imagine was the place to be 10-20yrs ago.

Give it another 10-20yrs and demands about construction, materials, and quality with increase. Just not right now.

What’s expected of a foreigner.

admin — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:42:11 +0000

I wasn’t there, nor do I know the context. And I realize that I may be taking this a different way then the way it was intended. Also the women that said it, well, I don’t know her. All I know is that she is in China’s middle class, has a expensive house, married with a child.

She was talking to my friends wife. They were talking about salary and the women stated to my friends wife, and I am paraphrasing here, “So your husband must be making over 500K RMB a year right?”

To put that in context you can understand, that’s 79,248USD a year.

So, this may not be what all Chinese think but she can’t be the only one that thinks we make 80K USD a year.

And it’s quite funny that, to be honest, now days it’s pretty hard to make 80K in the States.. So..

Anyway, that made me feel good inside. To think that I make way less then that but I am expected to make somewhere near that figure. This sucks.