OK. It’s been a while. I know. So I recently went to China. Just me and my parents. Bin, a friend of mine from college, is now living and working in Tokyo, and his parents have wanted my parents to go over to China for a visit for a while. Now that the parents are properly retiring and no longer productive members of society, the time was right. We started in Tokyo, stayed there for a few days and then toured 4 cities in China over 7 days. Shanghai, Wuhan, Xi’an and Beijing. Tokyo was very expensive and quite frankly, I couldnt have afforded to stay there much more than 2 or 3 days. Whatta town though. Very clean. The Japanese people confused me a bit though. On the streets, and from what Bin has told me about his job, they are a very uptight people. But their TV shows paint a very different story. Wacky, crazy, zany, lots of sound effects. It’s almost as if making crazy TV shows is a release for them. Very interesting.
It was a hell of a trip and we all had a blast. Dad managed to find beef in every restaurant we went to and Mom tried a little bit of everything. Noodles, pasta, same principle. More than once I heard from people in China that I would fit in and should consider moving there and getting a job. But you know me, better dead than Red. Ive got a lot of photos and I hope to find a good working wordpress gallery plugin to put some of the pics up. I dont trust flickr, facebook, or anything like that really. GET OFF MY YARD!! Yeah, I guess I am something of an Old Man on The Internet in this regard.



