I had a small gathering the other night and we cooked.  This time I cooked the blackened pork and they did the rest.  3 types of green beans were sautéed with garlic and of course was delicious. Xipiao (it’s a rice chip that you deep fry) was the appetizer and it’s very airy, It tastes […]

It’s about Christmas time and I need more gifts.  I went online and bought some American stuff and had it shipped to the parentals domicile. But I figured I should find some kind of Chinese gifts too. Problem is, stuff here is not only about as expensive but can be more.  And to boot the

I just wanted to post a few videos that i took.  Text will come later on.  2 videos are sideways, sorry… But They Are all Short in Length I was interviewed about the festival, a patient said they saw me on TV, but we could not find that clip.  

Turf wars are in every country apparently.  Mr Doe and Ling were chatting the other day. Afterwards I was like HEY what was all that about.  She hesitated because she didn’t want to hurt my feelings.   I think I mentioned this before, that sometimes she didn’t tell me about some of the drama or

Had a two day regular weekend, but Ling was like hey you want to go to Jianshui?  Sure why not. Her sister works in a small town and lives here on the weekend, but my weekend is Wed and Thur.  Needless to say we didn’t see her sister.  The first leg is close to 3

Fourteen years have passed and the day of my brother’s death is always painful.  Not really all day of course, but moments throughout. This isn’t the first time I’ve thought of Dale while in China though.  I have not yet wrote about my trip to Jianshui (or some of my other trips SORRY and it’s

At the corner of the hospital is a lady with a cart and she makes round pancakes.  She uses coal for fire and oil for the baking.  She was there everyday selling these little pancakes for one RMB each. For the last several weeks she really has not been there. I asked someone and they

Did you like the super sad cliff hanger of a ending.  Yeah, that was on purpose.  Can’t always be humorous, got to mix up the human emotions from time to time, this occasion anger and melancholy and the infinite sadness (smashing pumpkins 90’s reference for you old folks reading). Next day we take the bus

I had a few days a few weeks back and Ling and I decided it would be fun to go to Jiangchang (the place I was supposed to work but it closed down before I came by 3 weeks) and then to Fuxian Lake (the lake the blog is named after) and then to Dajie

A couple weeks ago I was supposed to go to HohnHu with LeLing but we decided not to go at eight am so apparently next bus is at noon.  Well it’s 1.5hours there and last bus is at 430 to get back so we opted not to go. As luck would have it, my gigantic