Blogs from Qufu, China, Asia

18/5/14 Woke up feel not so amazing.Getting myself down by thinkinf about shit I have no control over.I came here 2 4get about all that and im thinking of it more.Not really the rite ppl here 2 talk 2 about that shit. Every1 here has their own problems that they trying 2 deal with.I wish I never found out how 2 express emotions properly coz ppl dont wanna hear it if they have their own problems. Ohh well i guess I just man up and sort my shit out myself like every1 else duz. Im gunna go 4 a run a asmall training session. Nothing 2 much as we have a whole week ahead of us. Well I have eatablished thata staying in the school at the weekends in boring.There is only so much training and ... read more

Bye bye Peking! Kummisetäni Make kertoi kakskytä vuotta sitten Pekingin olleen ekologisesti ajateltuna ihannekaupunki leveine pyöräkaistoineen. Pyöräkaistat on kaventunu puolentoista metrin levyisiksi ja kaikilla pyöräilijöillä tuntuu satulan alla olevan akku eli ne on sähköpyöriä, jotka jotenkin etäisesti ovat tuttuja. Nää hiljaiset kiiturit ovat vaarallisia kävelijän kannalta, koska niitä pyörii jalkakäytävilläkin. Hiljaisuus tosin loppuu järjettömään torven käytön määrään. Autoja Pekingissä tuntuu riittävän. Volkkareiden ja chevrolettien lisäksi suosittuja on aasialaisten omat kopiot muiden automalleista. Merkit ei siis herätä mitään mielikuvia, että niihin olisi aikaisemmin törmännyt. Ne on varmaan pari vuotta myöhemmin tulleita huyndaita ja kiaoja. Liikenteessä mennäään ihan rohkeimman ehdoilla, vaikka liikennevalot yrittää jonkinlaista nokkimisjärjestystä osottaa. Jalankulki... read more

To achieve perfection, one has to be one with mind and body. There has to be a perfect balance between what is natural, and what appears to be supranatural...a whole level beyond super-natural. ...that, or a good start toward that would be to take a trip to China and start learning Kung Fu from a group of 34th Generation Shaolin Monks in Qufu! In the morning, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, you'll welcome the sunrise with some Tai Chi, aimed to increase and maintain flexibilty, bring balance, and generaly is a good way to wake those muscles up from a hard nights sleeping. And i mean hard. Those beds are something else. After an hour of that, you'd have some healthy breakfast and off to clean the rooms for inspection (twice a week). Then the students will line ... read more

Hong Kong to Shanghai: Sunday 11th January 2009. CS: Our day in Hong Kong was a delight. We travelled on the pilot boat to Central at about 8.30am and waited awhile to get immigration clearance. Daniel and Maria accepted our advice that a trip to the Peak would appeal to them, so we walked to the terminus and left them there. I had found a reference to our Tea House on the map so we proceeded to Flagstaff Gardens to confirm it is indeed the same little spot we enjoyed so much on our last visit 4 years earlier. Booked for 6 o’clock tea then proceeded to Kowloon. Had a very pleasant lunch at Pokka café and free internet access. We left Craig at Fortress on a quest for a BeBook and walked Nathan Road to ... read more

Stimmt schon irgentwie. Klein, zierlich gebaut, schwarze, glatte Haare, kleine dunkelbraune Augen. Drum schau ich gleich 2 x hin. Und tatsächlich hab ich auch mal einen attraktiven, jungen Chinesen entdeckt. Dann macht der Schelm, das was hier so viele machen. Grüße Andrea... read more