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/stream-of-conciousness-endgame-slowboil/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/02/stream-of-conciousness-endgame-slowboil/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:51:02 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1068 It’s been a bit difficult to fire off entries lately, or at all, really. Things happen so fast here – on a daily basis, for the most part – that stopping to ruminate upon just one thing means I’m probably simultaneously leaving out three or four other things I could be writing about, or I’m [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/02/stream-of-conciousness-endgame-slowboil/feed/ 1 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/a-bad-time/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/a-bad-time/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:22:14 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1064 Augh… something is seriously not okay with my insides. Something that started off feeling like indigestion and turned, very rapidly, into traveler’s stomach hit me hard on Sunday night after a very long, bad weekend. I slept it off through Monday and Tuesday and it was just about getting back to normal, when suddenly, this [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/a-bad-time/feed/ 1 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/money-its-a-shame-and-managementfail/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/money-its-a-shame-and-managementfail/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:35:32 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1056 Last week was a particularly trying time: stressful, tiring, annoying, expensive, and long. My brain and presence of mind being what it is, I’ll see what I can do to piece together the events of the last week for your reading pleasure… …the first thing that comes to mind is the big hassle that was my endeavors [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/money-its-a-shame-and-managementfail/feed/ 1 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/2009/12/december-teaching-and-looking-ahead/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/12/december-teaching-and-looking-ahead/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:04:27 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1003 Teaching. It’s… not me. I’ve thought about it for a bit – since I got here, really – and I’ve kind of come to the conclusion that I’ve got a lot of traits and skills that might make me like a teacher, but that’s not exactly my thing. My enthusiasm for the things here that [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/12/december-teaching-and-looking-ahead/feed/ 3 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/whirlwind-days-concerts-new-arrivals-and-bills/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/11/whirlwind-days-concerts-new-arrivals-and-bills/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:27:39 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=993 It’s been a nutty week or two here, time seems to be flooding by both quickly and slowly. I tell people, “I’m two minds, really, one part of me loves it here and wouldn’t mind staying a bit longer, the other part really misses Kelly and wants to be back with her.” Well, both halves [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/11/whirlwind-days-concerts-new-arrivals-and-bills/feed/ 4 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/11/cold-once-more-with-feeling/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/11/cold-once-more-with-feeling/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:30:52 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=986 It’s cold. It’s very very cold. It’s been hovering just above freezing since three days ago and there’s a couple inches of snow on the ground. It’s a damp cold of the likes that gets into your bones and doesn’t get out. Ever. My apartment, I’ve discovered, is little more than a hollow concrete shell [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/11/cold-once-more-with-feeling/feed/ 10 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