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/2010/02/drunk/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/02/drunk/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:16:15 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/02/drunk/ Ain’t never been so drunk that I’ve neededt ohug a toilet, but rigt now, I’m higging a toilet. rock on sprong festival is nutty. Editor’s Comments (For ye who can’t speak drunk, that’s “Ain’t never been so drunk that I’ve needed to hug a toilet, but right now, I’m hugging a toilet. Rock on. Spring Festival is nutty.) And right [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/02/drunk/feed/ 12 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/my-english-has-degraded-so-far-as-to-disavail-me-of-decent-title-puns/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/my-english-has-degraded-so-far-as-to-disavail-me-of-decent-title-puns/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:01:28 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1066 But it’s okay, I only have a short update. Today, for dinner (a second dinner, mind you), I managed to accidentally eat an eyeball, and I tried both frog legs (they were good) and turtle (there are some lines that shouldn’t be crossed). I maintain, though, I don’t like to eat things that look like themselves. Frog [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/my-english-has-degraded-so-far-as-to-disavail-me-of-decent-title-puns/feed/ 2 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/frankendinner/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/frankendinner/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:33:45 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1014 Today, I discovered two potatoes and an onion that have been sitting in my fridge since sometime in mid-November. To my surprise, both were still valid food items, the onion merely having shriveled on its outermost two layers and the potatoes seemingly untouched by the ravages of time. So, me being me, which is both [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/frankendinner/feed/ 7 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/holiday-rush/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/holiday-rush/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:54:36 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1012 Happy New Year from 13 hours in the future (by the EST reckoning, which I now tend to refer to as the “Shire reckoning” for ha has). Today has stacked up to be one of the more ironic New Year’s I’ve experienced on record. As some of you may remember, I have made many posts, especially [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/holiday-rush/feed/ 1 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/11/bonechilled-remedy/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/11/bonechilled-remedy/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:35:04 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1000 Note to self – my Chinese gets exponentially better once I’ve got a little bit of booze in me. I had a small class of Jianjiu, or Yaojiu (medicine wine), which is basically the local baijiu with roots and herbs in it. It’s still pretty nasty, but I can pretend that it’s got some kind [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/11/bonechilled-remedy/feed/ 2 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/11/reality-check/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/11/reality-check/#comments Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:43:47 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=949 Being low on… everything, I did a semi-major grocery run tonight. I bought: Two large bottles of juice (each will last me a week) Three large potatoes Two large onions A bag of mushrooms A hand of bananas A roll of Oreos (I’m ashamed) A bottle of Sesame Oil Six servings of milk Total cost: 47.30 RMB, or roughly, 6.90 USD. Awesome. The mushrooms, whose English [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/11/reality-check/feed/ 2 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/more-on-that-pesky-mid-trip-crisis/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/more-on-that-pesky-mid-trip-crisis/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:31:26 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=947 I’m getting itchy. Like… under my skin. I’m getting tired of a bunch of things here – mainly my inability to form connections due to the language barrier, that damnable wall I hit every time I try to forge some new communication with someone, or when I have a question I want to ask but [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/more-on-that-pesky-mid-trip-crisis/feed/ 1 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/good-prizes-bad-prizes-and-a-bus/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/good-prizes-bad-prizes-and-a-bus/#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:01:15 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=936 If there’s any one thing that’s happened to me in China so far that has made the entire experience worth it, it’s been the connection I’ve managed to forge with this family: This is Niuhe (the patriarch in the middle), Xiaowu (younger guy to the side, my age), Aisha (little kid upon the knee, grandson), Chuanlu [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/good-prizes-bad-prizes-and-a-bus/feed/ 1 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/wo-juede-wo-keneng-hai-mei-xiguan-zhu-zai-zhongguo-yi-diandian-keneng/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/wo-juede-wo-keneng-hai-mei-xiguan-zhu-zai-zhongguo-yi-diandian-keneng/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:14:20 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=927 Despite my rather dismal outlook on my social situation, I find that I can always count on my la mian people to perk me up. I went and sat down for a bit of the ol’ xihongsi chao dan (shang mifan, of course) expecting little but some dinner and then a short walk home to [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/wo-juede-wo-keneng-hai-mei-xiguan-zhu-zai-zhongguo-yi-diandian-keneng/feed/ 2 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/yesterday/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/yesterday/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:17:12 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=878 …begins with today’s stupid cooking bullshit: This is what happens when you try to cook an omelet under the following conditions: 1) With water instead of milk (it comes in little bags which are hard to reseal if you don’t want to use all of the milk, which I didn’t). 2) On a stove that uses numerical temperate [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/yesterday/feed/ 0