Happy Chinese New Year ( Read more... )

Travelers in Mongolia frequently happen upon prayer mounds (ovoo), little heaps of stone and flags and other objects, left by travelers to placate the spirits. The travelers are supposed to walk around it, and add stones or coins or other objects to the heap to ensure safe passage. These kind of mounds are supposed to be the oldest form of worship ( Read more... )

I showed Piglet some Yue Opera over the weekend. He loved it! There is hope for brainwashing him yet! He sat and watched an entire show with me, but he was not fooled by any of the actresses in male roles. He pointed at them and kept on saying, ayi, ayi, which is Chinese for auntie ( Read more... )

I used to periodically whine to flemmings that the great Chinese collective unconscious is a bureaucracy. After all, other countries' quest stories are about great kings and knights. China's great quest story, the Journey to the West, is essentially about trying to get around the bureaucracy of Western Paradise. And even hell has all the accoutrement of a ( Read more... )

rasetsunyo associates me with

1. Chinese BL
2. Aestheticism
3. Piglet
4. Delicious recipes
5. Uncle Ming

( natter natter natter )

Finished the first vol of yoru to hoshi no mukou. It's an easy read for Ima Ichiko, and the layout is much more clear and straight forward, meaning I didn't have to reread every speech bubble three times before understanding, and I guess plot wise it will be somewhat simpler than her other stories as well. But I still find everyone in this series ( Read more... )

I'm not dead. Though as far as virus goes this one was pretty nasty. Poor S is still hacking his lungs out, and the doctor put him on Levaquin, which has all sort of nasty side effects, but at last seems to be clearing it up. And the most insulting part of it all is that it's not a tropical virus/bacteria as the doctor thought, but something he ( Read more... )

Took piglet to the Met today. Didn't know that it was sub-zero today with wind-chill, but he seems to have survived well enough, and slept through the entire trip, and most of the lovely and light filled Roman and Greek galleries as well. Though the Met's Greek collection may not be much to speak of, it does look smashing in the new gallery. Then ( Read more... )

( Random piglet natter, which I haven't done for a while )