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/2010/05/photo-dump/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/05/photo-dump/#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 03:38:19 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1113 I’ve got a pretty serious backlog of photos from my phone. They stretch back to the winter and end with a crop of photos of “The General,” a beautiful, white, 4 year old Samoyed I walked around the city (at times, he walked me, to be honest). Here’s a dump. ]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/05/photo-dump/feed/ 2 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/03/ah-yes-here-we-are/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/03/ah-yes-here-we-are/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:56:02 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1094 Almost a full month since my last update. There’s a good reason for that – life’s pretty relaxed and uneventful lately. My days consist of some variation on the following: Wake up. Shower (must shower). Game/Eat/Draw (in a variety of combinations, configurations, and amounts). Dinner. Game/Draw (mostly game, admittedly). Sleep. It’s utterly slothful and wasteful, I know, but in the seams I [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/03/ah-yes-here-we-are/feed/ 6 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/03/so-here-i-am/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/03/so-here-i-am/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:54:54 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1082 So here I am, finally in China. Sounds like a strange sentiment for someone who’s been living in the country for, already, the better part of a year, but it’s finally happened, along with much else since my last post. The last stretch of my employment at Aston were a bit of a rush. The last [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/03/so-here-i-am/feed/ 2 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/moments-of-zen/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/moments-of-zen/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:01:49 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1052 “You are a waste of beautiful things.” The best mixed compliment I’ve received in my life. My big eyes, long eyelashes, and long, thick hair are a constant source of annoyance to my many female coworkers. When I have to retie my hair at work, the girls make big, annoyed sighs and stamp about* because my [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/moments-of-zen/feed/ 8 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/christmas-two-wherein-i-make-an-ass-of-me/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/christmas-two-wherein-i-make-an-ass-of-me/#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:59:14 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1017 Ah.. Christmas. In China. Working for privately owned training school. If there’s one thing that didn’t fully dawn on me until it was too late, it was how severely I and the other foreigners here would be used as marketing stooges by the school. There’s really no dignity to be had, and thankfully, as foreigners, [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/christmas-two-wherein-i-make-an-ass-of-me/feed/ 8 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/11/unnatural-phenomena/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/11/unnatural-phenomena/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:44:05 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=975 A couple days ago, I read about this satellite image: According to the accompanying article: A gray-white film of haze or fog blanketed eastern China on November 6, 2009. The low-lying haze seeps into mountain valleys along the edge of the North China Plain, leaving the dark brown peaks clear. The haze also drifts east over [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/11/unnatural-phenomena/feed/ 0 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/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 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/wuhan-pictures-ive-got-no-clever-title-for-you-tonight/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/wuhan-pictures-ive-got-no-clever-title-for-you-tonight/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:38:55 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=833 Strawberry/Grape/Cherry/Tomato juice. The jury’s still out on this one. I’m a bit wiped out today, so I can’t talk in depth about the stuff I saw in Wuhan. My picture captions (memories on demand!) will have to do for now. This week? Well, it’s gonna suck until its over, and then a new set of suck [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/wuhan-pictures-ive-got-no-clever-title-for-you-tonight/feed/ 0 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/a-bit-of-the-old-endless-drifting/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/a-bit-of-the-old-endless-drifting/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:56:42 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=820 Somehow, Fried Squid-on-a-Plate is less appetizing than Fried Squid-on-a-Stick. Nevertheless: Things have been quiet out of me lately because, in the last week or two, I’ve slipped into something of a state of normalcy. I work slightly irregular hours over the week, do my two 8 hour shifts on the weekends, then hide in my apartment [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/a-bit-of-the-old-endless-drifting/feed/ 0