Jun 14 2010
Notes on the Road
HK: human congee, the bookstore guy, meeting GQ, BD story, evening on the beach, football and dinner
GD: place names, Jin (泾), Cao (漕), Bang (浜) in Wu, Cantonese dialect (氹 Dang4)
Macau: Da San Ba Pai Fang, the island name, bastardization
SH: road signs, Pete, expat life, bars, the Expo, “I shit in a hole”
Milton Friedman money mischief, examples of inflation and politics, questions about fiscal policy and high-power money, fed regulating m supply vs int. rate
HZ: resort during a major holiday. Rained in in Tao Guang Si. Restoration of the temples, lack of stories. Staying in a hotel, worried about being spied on
SH: family tension, failed 15 year project, global financial center building, open hostility toward Japanese, dusty view of shanghai
Hai Yan – peasant’s apartment
Hai Ning/Yan Guan/Xia Shi – pi pa, Qing history, fight against flooding, hero worship, hai wang temple, wang guowei old house, his view of acquiring knowledge
Xu Zhimo: a pampered life
Qian Tang wave: spectacular
misc: how difficult it is to plan anything in China today. road sign, map, asking for direction on the road
Google research
Where I started this blog
Two weeks passed and I still remember everything I meant to say behind those hints. Do I still need to write anything down after all? Somethings are worth writing down. For others? Maybe those short handed keywords suffice.