http://www.rah-kun.net A Travelogue and (occasional) Sketchblog Sat, 15 May 2010 01:28:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/xuzhou-journal-1-dalian-airport/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/xuzhou-journal-1-dalian-airport/#comments Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:10:57 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=511 Xuzhou Travel Journal 1: Dalian Airport (Originally written between 6 and 7 PM, Dalian, yesterday) So I get a couple days reprieve in Xuzhou, as I’ve mentioned before. It’s about 6 PM now, a small child just waved at me, and the flight leaves at 8:40. The sound of the airport (and my fatigue) is quite distracting. [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/xuzhou-journal-1-dalian-airport/feed/ 0 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/homesickness-and-walkabout/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/homesickness-and-walkabout/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:27:15 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=498 There are two things that I miss the most about home right now, in terms of living conditions. The first being the ability to flush used toilet paper (as opposed to stashing it in the trashcan (lidless) next to the toilet) and the second being freedom of speech. Hopefully not having to explain the logistics [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/homesickness-and-walkabout/feed/ 1 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/class-illness/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/class-illness/#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:01:50 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=486 Illness I just had the hottest bowl of noodles I’ve ever eaten in my life. I mean, it was so hot it flicked my fight or fight response wherein I actually wandered away from the restaurant in a daze after paying – the other guys just sorta watched me go in confusion “Where you goin’ man?” [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/class-illness/feed/ 3 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/small-update/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/small-update/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:14:53 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=484 (from an earlier conversation) Me: There are puppy markets people show up with baskets of puppies and others come and buy them by the armload Will: AW wait what do they do with them Me: I don’t know. In other news, I have some kind of strange throat thing. It’s switched sides as of last night, but my mouth was so dry that the constant swallowing [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/small-update/feed/ 4 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/a-few-dalian-pictures/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/a-few-dalian-pictures/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:47:37 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=468 I took this one last night – a stitched together panorama… turned out a bit incomplete, but still, a neat tool. The rest are a few pictures I snapped while wandering around the old Russian Quarter, left over from when Dalian was a Russian treaty port during the Qing Dynasty. I would have taken more, but [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/a-few-dalian-pictures/feed/ 1 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/3-am-ruminations/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/3-am-ruminations/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:16:24 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=464 I went to sleep around 9 PM last night fairly jetlagged and run down. 6 hours later, its 3 AM and I’m mostly up. I’m beginning to remember how heat messes with my usual functions. It cuts down my sleep time. It severely cuts down on how much I eat. It makes me feel completely filthy. It screws up [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/3-am-ruminations/feed/ 2 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/on-bean-paste/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/on-bean-paste/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:31:54 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=462 My roommate and I went out to buy some toilet paper and bottled water. On the way, we grabbed some ice cream out of a freezer in the store we stumbled upon. I grabbed a thing that appeared to be brown, and thus maybe chocolate (hard to tell when the packaging is entirely in Chinese). It [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/on-bean-paste/feed/ 3 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/circadian-arrhythmia/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/circadian-arrhythmia/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:00:52 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=460 Jet lag be damned, I’m here to explore. My roommate turns out to be this oddball of a fellow from New Zealand, the kind of guy who travels for the sake of adventure and has a habit of getting himself in trouble. For god’s sake, he’s had to call his Embassy twice, and once after getting [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/circadian-arrhythmia/feed/ 1 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/backdated-now-entering-dalian/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/backdated-now-entering-dalian/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:30:02 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=457 (Written today @ 11:41 AM, shortly after arriving in Dalian airport while waiting for another School arrival) Getting down to business now. The waiting in Seoul was rather disorienting as some might have guessed from my last two entries. Sleeping across a row of hard, wooden seats has a way of getting under your skin, as [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/07/backdated-now-entering-dalian/feed/ 0