tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88452456309565217112024-02-19T08:13:55.873-08:00Chachin Ain't EasyWisdom poured forth from the lips of fools, collected by this humble scribe, reverently presentedsascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.comBlogger407125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-79943138553710852732010-09-16T01:42:00.002-07:002010-10-14T00:49:48.423-07:00New SpotI really love this little blog. But I had to move to a different format, so if you stumble upon this and dig what you read, please head over to <br /><br /><a href="http://www.saschamatuszak.com/">www.saschamatuszak.com<br /></a><br />that site might not look as dark and COOL as htis one, but the potential is greater with Wordpress I believe. And i got Pages, so thats awesome.<br /><br />Love any who read this ;)<br /><br />Sascha<br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-56266560372730889672010-06-18T22:21:00.002-07:002010-06-18T22:23:25.731-07:00Oh Lord lets figure it out ....The love I made this afternoon is thanks to the following:<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yF2Y4boaV8A&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yF2Y4boaV8A&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ga7VOGYWWEM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ga7VOGYWWEM&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jAv_P2Z-5LU&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jAv_P2Z-5LU&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-82299664805205939052010-04-25T23:38:00.004-07:002010-04-25T23:46:58.372-07:00Ain't got no GameSascha ain't got no game. <br /><br />Today is a beautiful day. the tree in my backyard is drooping leaves down into my face and the sun pours threw them because they're young yet and let the light through like its natural. when the sun is out like this, the fish kick it near the surface of my pond and just huddle there, bathing, treading light.<br /><br />the bullfrog tadpoles are getting sluggish and the transformation is nearing completion so they just lie half-lidded near the muddy banks of the pond dully aware of their legs protruding where yesterday skin was smooth.<br /><br />Little Man is hitting up the milk fiercely because I guess a growth spurt happens at least once a month. its hard to tell really, because each week is different. This week he has been taking cat naps and sucking down milk, using his hands to try and grab stuff but missing and kicking the blankets off and laughing at anything i say or do. <br /><br />Lao Ba is back in the crib and dropping fist sized dollops of pig fat into the spinach and tofu soup. He loves that pig fat. Just finished lunch and the birds are hovering around my back door, peeping in to see whats happening.<br /><br />DofuPi the Puppy is comfortable with his surroundings finally and is off in the chicken coop messing with the hens. They pretend to be angry and flustered but i know those hussies love it.<br /><br />I'm here rooting for the Sabres and the Celtics, reading Robert Jordan's last Wheel of Time book (fuck you, Robert) and trying to see through the illusion.<br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-29344846073428979272010-04-12T23:01:00.001-07:002010-04-12T23:02:54.328-07:00They're catching on ...<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/science/12psychedelics.html?src=me&ref=general">In this NYT story</a>, the benfit of mushrooms is being researched by scientists and medical practitioners, one of which called it, "existential medicine."<br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <br /><!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-42288191785533694882010-04-10T19:46:00.004-07:002010-04-10T20:00:50.042-07:00Whatcha LearnYou know my family always used to make fun of my dad cuz he had like one or two homies. and even those guys he saw once or twice every 1-2 years. He was basically dad and thats pretty much it. All my life I had shitloads of friends. A million people knew my name and I knew probably the names of say 1/10 of em but they were still my friends. I would defend my deep friendship for them despite my pops saying things like: those guys aint yer friends.<br /><br />You know, how much of that was just to spite pops? Now here I am, a pops, pretending like I am all mature all of a sudden and the weird thing is pretending is starting to imitate life and as the two threads converge from the distant points they started at i find a woven knot of bullshit and real shit makes up my life. <br /><br />I was telling a cat the other day that his essays would be clean and smooth and nice to read if he just cut out the fat. <br /><br />Lotsa fat people in my life. Lotsa toned steel-armed people too. I find myself shutting up a lot more. Unless of course I be doing a podcast for Chengdu Living and my colleagues ain't got shit to say. I have to pick up the slack so we don't sound like teenagers messing with their first microphone. That one goes out to Charles and Eli. <br /><br />Feel me? I turn on my little hose in the morning so the water drips like a floating waterfall into my growing-less-stagnant pond. Thats a big deal for me. All morning I have been trying to figure out the best way to smash up corn for the chickens -- I don't have a proper mill. only concrete floors and a brick. so the corn goes flying, I have to sweep it up and give it to the chickens. Sloppy.<br /><br />Advantage is, the sparrows swoop in and dive bomb my courtyard for kernels that i missed.<br /><br />I played the sit-up game with dorian and we laughed our asses off. Lotsa fat in my life but he ain't it.<br /><br />I still greet "friends" i aint seen in a while with hearty slaps on the back because I still believe in friendship as the source of all goodness. But back when my dad was trying to tell me about who it was I was hanging out with, I would run out the house and seek out the fat in the world and chew on it and wonder why it made my tummy hurt. Thats whats changed.<br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <br /><!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-77958380910285054132010-04-09T18:18:00.004-07:002010-04-10T00:03:59.455-07:00Dream within a dreamLast night for the first time that I can remember, someone asked me what I was dreaming about in my dream. I was so taken aback that I answered Battlestar Galactica at first ... for some reason i felt it was more appropriate to lie to the two men and two women at the baordroom table asking innocently about my dream. but then i did tell them, eventually, about dreaming of being a high school teacher in a Chinese school and coming late to school and not being able to find my classroom. <br /><br />That part, not being able to find anything and being late for school and missing homework and failing is actually pretty standard for my dreams. I have an anxiety ridden dream every so often.<br /><br />so thats not the important part. the important part is someone asked me a question in my dream that felt out of my consciousness. No matter how i answered, the deal is it felt like someone else entering my dream and talking to me. I have had a few of these and each time i remember it clearly, but the dream itself and the dreamscape is so slippery that any thought whatsoever derails any cool conversation I might have had.<br /><br />As in the one last night, instead of talking with the dudes, I banished them both and took both women in a sexually taut threesome. Sigh. If i could get my mind offa sex for a second or three, I might learn something.<br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <br /><!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-50808130010903557232010-04-04T10:33:00.003-07:002010-04-04T10:41:06.497-07:00Today's SmilesThis is becoming a baby only blog now ... i don't really want that ... but for now its all i have to show ya'll ... <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi43RSaXwEvbnMdRzojssMDZ28ImLI9raFJN8t2bKIW8Vzylhun6poca4DxokWqYvcgroxbTnYzKXQS3ozd__dhSEruJJhGA58mDVFk0HYEjD9g6K8A7U6uwZrVRIsCoRhtoxpkc__W_JZC/s1600/d7.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ5VpFaGQzKNoTIMlTFWKWTjECwrmUVUOyfhh9Kqdt6a1tDnrsEELcPHxMhT3qTxl2-PsWSFrDyofoG7aJbTYlsm3VJQ-hVnZPXBVrWnpK_-fNUQ-E-o8WzrTtCa-LeegdwvIhJ_VOHqci/s320/d1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456337607918538130" /></a><br /><br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <br /><!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-77281559891506557172010-03-29T06:26:00.001-07:002010-03-29T06:30:25.406-07:00Little Man<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAe6ZdHJzDUTaMr3FlUb8-uoIIYTaIpsYXB26Ayz9DMREXaI1WMVxnAnGE_iSI58jmJA2qH3_icrQ8Dyq8c1kwZ4Bftc5xlZh_DdNreyAhRQ_Ld3FM5YnZ8KGEZrzm-QLu-TWf432Qd9MJ/s1600/lilman.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAe6ZdHJzDUTaMr3FlUb8-uoIIYTaIpsYXB26Ayz9DMREXaI1WMVxnAnGE_iSI58jmJA2qH3_icrQ8Dyq8c1kwZ4Bftc5xlZh_DdNreyAhRQ_Ld3FM5YnZ8KGEZrzm-QLu-TWf432Qd9MJ/s320/lilman.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454046979824697634" /></a><br /><br />Today has been a good day. above is a pic of lil man and his brother -- the other boy was born in the same room, Yushi and the mom knew each other and she gave birth a few hours before Yushi did.<br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <br /><!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-44485833340508385502010-03-08T06:19:00.004-08:002010-03-08T07:36:57.015-08:00A Full Month: Smooches and PooI have absolutely no time to write anything. <br /><br />Little Man turned one month today and here is what's been happenin:<br /><br />He empties breasts like they was ATM machines and he is growing. He already outgrew clothes that were too big for him in week 2. He can kick pretty strong and his arms are strong too. I am not sure what "normal" is for strength, but if I lightly hold the back of his head to keep from tipping over, he can stand for about 2-3 seconds. That seems strong to me, but hey, I also think he is the cutest lil punk I have ever seen. <br /><br />He laughs a bit now and smiles a lot. He looks around at stuff and there are moments, which I described earlier I believe, when he really intently looks around him in quiet appreciation. Sometimes some thing that he saw that I didn't will make him pump both arms and both legs and yelp-laugh (yes, yelp-laugh) in excitement.<br /><br />My feelings for him are solidifying, but basically, I do what needs to be done. That's what it feels like and there is no complex way to describe it. I work so I can have the cheddar to buy him diapers; I scrub the walls and paint them in my new crib so he can live phat; and i take care of him and my lady with hugs and squeezes so they are emotionally chilled out. That's pretty much the deal.<br /><br />My lady is doing ok, considering that her nipples are sore, she had a recent breast infection which caused her to have a fever and her body is still a full size (or more) bigger than her normal svelte self. She is handling shit like a soldier and I knew that she would from day 1, when I didn't know anything about what would happen between us. I had a vision then of us together, but I ignored it cuz there are just too many ladies out there that I need to love. Whatever. When it comes to Mommy-hood, she's handlin it.<br /><br />So on to the issue of the week:<br /><br />Poo.<br /><br />Little Man is having poo issues. This is supposedly normal, but it is stressful, as he learns how to poo, as his movements get regular and as the gas gets slowly emitted ... <br /><br />basically, he has stopped pooing for 2 days and the buildup is hurting. I guess 1-2 months this happens ... of course, me and Yushi are tripping, but then again, we trip on everything every week.<br /><br />And here are some pics from a lil cutie smoochin my boy up: <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYt6n06lPvQSdI8pDLCaVyU6P0-oZsNzP9-W37D8oqKmI8IxAEGjCUiXiqt_ML4F6QjZSREhoK4Llz_N9W_wDqbo0hTs-j5FOmI-4cgy7YdX90J4aPoHC1eJwp75nrFPA0g-kwehuW9HAy/s1600-h/aixikiss5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYt6n06lPvQSdI8pDLCaVyU6P0-oZsNzP9-W37D8oqKmI8IxAEGjCUiXiqt_ML4F6QjZSREhoK4Llz_N9W_wDqbo0hTs-j5FOmI-4cgy7YdX90J4aPoHC1eJwp75nrFPA0g-kwehuW9HAy/s320/aixikiss5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446281776373291202" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjizsdo6fXkeUbfOGVN2svbqPTvWEtkIKPSReekUSpBT3bHLbNQGMXCKUxZ2W0rRB0RoEG9qT8XJSZqDgIRzrZ-Z-_jMqLuBJ_CqzYSL_k-NLbTZDZ8yqEC5SwGACS75GNHqpJ8tohgxsEU/s1600-h/aixikiss4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjizsdo6fXkeUbfOGVN2svbqPTvWEtkIKPSReekUSpBT3bHLbNQGMXCKUxZ2W0rRB0RoEG9qT8XJSZqDgIRzrZ-Z-_jMqLuBJ_CqzYSL_k-NLbTZDZ8yqEC5SwGACS75GNHqpJ8tohgxsEU/s320/aixikiss4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446281765726885282" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdmBE_zsq-bP4fByrx2m79WPUOAorUAHg_GRjTonFOlDsiLAWxWprSUWk-zXm9NrMtOxyJ_8AvbTebSJdIjpABpaJLTrwo_uhMhDWRP2GTDYq-o-8LOUy6Jc9HAxDbA1VoVk2T8mBkjBvH/s1600-h/aixikiss3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdmBE_zsq-bP4fByrx2m79WPUOAorUAHg_GRjTonFOlDsiLAWxWprSUWk-zXm9NrMtOxyJ_8AvbTebSJdIjpABpaJLTrwo_uhMhDWRP2GTDYq-o-8LOUy6Jc9HAxDbA1VoVk2T8mBkjBvH/s320/aixikiss3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446281763801581906" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEira9355u85Qov7QLsaXCMailqIFRYfuXKmuuPLk55wDpIUTCq5X2tdcnKa2Ip6LHzQomdWfYPhOq4aC-NmnOwa54hk-jicKu62vW_tHyBu8DavnWpqluQ25p7WcfGeelQzE1CmM2sVjO4L/s1600-h/aixikiss2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEira9355u85Qov7QLsaXCMailqIFRYfuXKmuuPLk55wDpIUTCq5X2tdcnKa2Ip6LHzQomdWfYPhOq4aC-NmnOwa54hk-jicKu62vW_tHyBu8DavnWpqluQ25p7WcfGeelQzE1CmM2sVjO4L/s320/aixikiss2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446281760952889090" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikIKjZa7vThQJn21qPBrmxDZziRgJa92RmU8Glpx5bXST46IB-cRg2evuDPK7_VlXkIB87ZUWsUDyKIbvr5JkaFmGQ5Xp-BczQCPbrMBocuZOZrbp0jvbUdLsr_v6j8_s9uhXU02p7io2b/s1600-h/Aixikiss.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikIKjZa7vThQJn21qPBrmxDZziRgJa92RmU8Glpx5bXST46IB-cRg2evuDPK7_VlXkIB87ZUWsUDyKIbvr5JkaFmGQ5Xp-BczQCPbrMBocuZOZrbp0jvbUdLsr_v6j8_s9uhXU02p7io2b/s320/Aixikiss.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446281756666716050" /></a><br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <br /><!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-61169900368868485782010-02-21T06:35:00.001-08:002010-02-21T21:46:26.396-08:00From Now OnDorian turns two weeks in a little less than an hour. The following is an altered message I wrote to a friend and is the post I was trying to write all week but never really had the time or the energy to put it all down. So thanks, Melissa, for getting me to spit it out ...<br /><br />there is so much to tell. first off, he is doing good. he eats regularly and A LOT and he poos yellowish green. so that's supposedly good. he sleeps pretty decently, maybe 2 hours or so between suckles and at night he gets in a good 3-5 hours. He has these little pimples, little white heads, on his forehead right between his eyes that drive me berserk. i use this salve on them and it works, they are much less than in the beginning, but they aren't gone. i know today is his second week and things go slowly, but it bothers me.<br /><br />he chokes on the breastmilk sometimes and i have to burp the hell out of him, takes a while, but it usually works well and he ends up passing out on my shoulder.<br /><br />he has about periods every day, just at dusk or after his bath or maybe when the noonday sun reaches in, when he is super curious and he stares about 2 inches above my head as if there were sprites teasing him there. he looks at everything and has a whole series of expressions.<br /><br />his arms and legs are (abnormally?) strong, he can bust through most swaddling and i have to hold him down when he gets angry, when he wants out, when he wants to eat and when he otherwise want to kick and squirm his way into/out of something that I haven't really figured out yet.<br /><br />every time he sneezes I think he has a cold. he sneezes a lot. stresses me out.<br /><br />Yesterday he tried to kiss me. he leaned in real close and we looked at each other and i could feel his recognition, his appreciation his love and his inability to express it all and i felt his animalness and also the chaos beneath as all of these emotions were washed away suddenly by the flickering of lights on the wall.<br /><br />my feelings for him are very simple, but hard for me to express or fathom. He is a part of it all, from now on, and that's basically it. It doesn't feel like the lightning flash some people talked about, or the One Consciousness Hippy Love that others gushed over. He just is and therefore I am ... a Father and Guardian.<br /><br />There were two lil poems I wrote in the past couple of weeks and both of them were mystic and lofty. I wonder if they were the watershed moments of emotion that surround the daily burping, pooing, suckling, half-smiling, blurry-eyed reality of a two week old whose existence depends utterly on my ability to take care of him.<br /><br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <br /><!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-35012364298551297902010-02-13T04:22:00.006-08:002010-02-13T05:22:14.397-08:00Beginning to feel the 安安 means peace and is represented by a woman under a roof. I always figured this character was a bit patriarchal ... but now that i have a mama and a lil one under my roof ... i know what them old sages were talking about.<br /><br />Its the 30th according to the Chinese Lunar calender, so its a new year, out with the OX in with the Tiger. All is good. here are some pics from the last few days ... from contractions to today's chill session ... Holla:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhroxN35LtCvI-iJlJyPaBjcz-ahVAdXDnfchWOqKqXUww1bOva7KigCzor1qKJPa6bkLQfJEgi-gtcCygCJk32EuwsallrIBz_YT21O1uRyO9XdHFpQTLCGaVyIZ8VTL79t5ybDFvm-AQZ/s1600-h/DSC_0781b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhroxN35LtCvI-iJlJyPaBjcz-ahVAdXDnfchWOqKqXUww1bOva7KigCzor1qKJPa6bkLQfJEgi-gtcCygCJk32EuwsallrIBz_YT21O1uRyO9XdHFpQTLCGaVyIZ8VTL79t5ybDFvm-AQZ/s320/DSC_0781b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437714338273237650" /></a><br />It all started with a game of Risk ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjShIbF_vtxKLE5RgRZaiepoK_lm3Am-mj5yDWoJzIA_QLSLv9PcHmGl8IYNoiWiF_F2IQ9H4MnuK2KHrIN4hiHtm0qZ3L_4TVqILl-BGnturaRPa5bhMugozi6aSN1gscg1KUt4VG4dPQg/s1600-h/DSC_0809b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjShIbF_vtxKLE5RgRZaiepoK_lm3Am-mj5yDWoJzIA_QLSLv9PcHmGl8IYNoiWiF_F2IQ9H4MnuK2KHrIN4hiHtm0qZ3L_4TVqILl-BGnturaRPa5bhMugozi6aSN1gscg1KUt4VG4dPQg/s320/DSC_0809b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437714342277849010" /></a><br />... then the contractions started.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWmY6SXA1fB-CsPZQUBsb2JsP8u_qF9GGxNuoACwtNeC-kNaJfweV3JmI5NodSR0PUTcSKrEm7eqg9sfZfYSm1HYWw-egnAAZAZx1C36i2R9g856ouRBKrNDSUfRK17eUljY3Zum_uqmF1/s1600-h/DSC_0821b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWmY6SXA1fB-CsPZQUBsb2JsP8u_qF9GGxNuoACwtNeC-kNaJfweV3JmI5NodSR0PUTcSKrEm7eqg9sfZfYSm1HYWw-egnAAZAZx1C36i2R9g856ouRBKrNDSUfRK17eUljY3Zum_uqmF1/s320/DSC_0821b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437714346903303202" /></a><br />Got worse.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj82KYyA76FzWnewFOl2r3NmYedhMRGMl5AAIJ0zhKvrU0D-0LYaG0CsxZILu1oxDnJB1eOD3U2xttqMdyucBtCnSY16S6nDnR6nUTEwavvQKiZBdi0j7MV-hshhcxMErDC6VVKyzzrbHwx/s1600-h/DSC_0852b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj82KYyA76FzWnewFOl2r3NmYedhMRGMl5AAIJ0zhKvrU0D-0LYaG0CsxZILu1oxDnJB1eOD3U2xttqMdyucBtCnSY16S6nDnR6nUTEwavvQKiZBdi0j7MV-hshhcxMErDC6VVKyzzrbHwx/s320/DSC_0852b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437714356992823858" /></a><br />Next thing I know, me and Pops are peeping through windows.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPYyMFUqIIkPM7IcBCgpFUy2xvK0LEk0st6inEc8FCj9Z6wXuDwvycIUI-OjD7qMiPfFOaA-3f8ZLfPIf0xHTs5qY44O9EWvQVq00P5NoJpwVnq-6pAQyYagB0e39r1ZynURyvZQ5Ym1sG/s1600-h/DSC_0907b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPYyMFUqIIkPM7IcBCgpFUy2xvK0LEk0st6inEc8FCj9Z6wXuDwvycIUI-OjD7qMiPfFOaA-3f8ZLfPIf0xHTs5qY44O9EWvQVq00P5NoJpwVnq-6pAQyYagB0e39r1ZynURyvZQ5Ym1sG/s320/DSC_0907b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437714361225542322" /></a><br />Josh and Heather showed up with Aixi and we checked up on mama ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4P31WFrPznnvLaVDprcXy7mKHeuYGtKtwdfZvvtF64kLGQWNxwO4k546Cwr6YlpcXBv17A4MCW5NbpG59thkwXpIqix0L6ELQtGV_hNgvtACDc4QO4QiFgpMxTUcCr_lNdlzWl9dViZOr/s1600-h/DSC_0964b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4P31WFrPznnvLaVDprcXy7mKHeuYGtKtwdfZvvtF64kLGQWNxwO4k546Cwr6YlpcXBv17A4MCW5NbpG59thkwXpIqix0L6ELQtGV_hNgvtACDc4QO4QiFgpMxTUcCr_lNdlzWl9dViZOr/s320/DSC_0964b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437716192202565986" /></a><br />Then Lil Bean aka Lil Man aka Ninja aka the Boy aka Dorian aka aka aka was in our arms<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDKIMZNF-Cfk2CY2Hn7IwE2FfIEdlD9cxiS7XLZt4xY5-tcE5mKTsdp2NCoYPwMh_wJ2OzWn1F8vB0zHVcrYdIhhsiX0SFd78u6jXqYwv73X7bUUWW_mHL5b-8GsPMer1Sn3yCTu9ctO8-/s1600-h/DSC_1030b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDKIMZNF-Cfk2CY2Hn7IwE2FfIEdlD9cxiS7XLZt4xY5-tcE5mKTsdp2NCoYPwMh_wJ2OzWn1F8vB0zHVcrYdIhhsiX0SFd78u6jXqYwv73X7bUUWW_mHL5b-8GsPMer1Sn3yCTu9ctO8-/s320/DSC_1030b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437716187749987026" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIhRyJT09gfrlw39gfmtHhp1MqP1YlUVVQwraL_TPVrSiuQfNbFdn1IxWB2JLhRuZtLwDlMCDt723kqbiAi2eMK3FNJTgnjNb_AtkeDQKKFcrTYCCrw8K5hcpVCzqO4zGalYLPLquXSzjP/s1600-h/IMG_8477b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIhRyJT09gfrlw39gfmtHhp1MqP1YlUVVQwraL_TPVrSiuQfNbFdn1IxWB2JLhRuZtLwDlMCDt723kqbiAi2eMK3FNJTgnjNb_AtkeDQKKFcrTYCCrw8K5hcpVCzqO4zGalYLPLquXSzjP/s320/IMG_8477b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437716183685851106" /></a><br />and now he's a part of everything we do ... what a trip ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyndullQvj7kWsZl1LRONMPWO042ZRNLr_MeLnYGf97gdexrRZ0rLG7wSMw0t-fGZMg3VqsQnbeTwZLPanwg5g2vaVayqkNElLvyyHZJRVBVk-KBxy__NXdISJGBLpb8JPvLjbZcIv5l0c/s1600-h/IMG_8794b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyndullQvj7kWsZl1LRONMPWO042ZRNLr_MeLnYGf97gdexrRZ0rLG7wSMw0t-fGZMg3VqsQnbeTwZLPanwg5g2vaVayqkNElLvyyHZJRVBVk-KBxy__NXdISJGBLpb8JPvLjbZcIv5l0c/s320/IMG_8794b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437716908347564514" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHNtqX592ep9sLUNPTBUsAhyp6g_x9Qec6ungWyTe2LVe6fYGsWSWXLAL4GZIWPqJhQlbh8c-QSjhMMmkwiQOctEJ8nOQc2wEW7tuEdEBqBqUJ8bpwmeoBx3xT-i2aAn0bUHynbkZiSZXu/s1600-h/IMG_8749b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHNtqX592ep9sLUNPTBUsAhyp6g_x9Qec6ungWyTe2LVe6fYGsWSWXLAL4GZIWPqJhQlbh8c-QSjhMMmkwiQOctEJ8nOQc2wEW7tuEdEBqBqUJ8bpwmeoBx3xT-i2aAn0bUHynbkZiSZXu/s320/IMG_8749b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437716901308293794" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaAR0-3-4W6BPgp9hmCUkSzWfrQPq_McSRBFZJgOKc1tJ5CORzPtowqF8ID73gNeud1yVyS7lpQyKyDtuD20j31WyC7iPoip_BzmGztp4iIIuSU0Rt0dFCVS8aC5L-6EDgyzDFbQHaBHCT/s1600-h/IMG_8740b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaAR0-3-4W6BPgp9hmCUkSzWfrQPq_McSRBFZJgOKc1tJ5CORzPtowqF8ID73gNeud1yVyS7lpQyKyDtuD20j31WyC7iPoip_BzmGztp4iIIuSU0Rt0dFCVS8aC5L-6EDgyzDFbQHaBHCT/s320/IMG_8740b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437716893939146626" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXJBD9c6xuE3cdRXWkxgW9qyYSfmy_4WLqP_JPdLwg7L8a7C-g1DrLgE9cbsw5V5idba-4FlWgZMNfvsbddOl1Iio9PxOGAxn7_-pcCB7G1kLaoytYzpFDzQPbOcM70EKaYriXXElsRugI/s1600-h/IMG_8732b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXJBD9c6xuE3cdRXWkxgW9qyYSfmy_4WLqP_JPdLwg7L8a7C-g1DrLgE9cbsw5V5idba-4FlWgZMNfvsbddOl1Iio9PxOGAxn7_-pcCB7G1kLaoytYzpFDzQPbOcM70EKaYriXXElsRugI/s320/IMG_8732b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437716883959552626" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5yLKLkOYtWhS2RSu7EmgRC-s3cLAxHlsHqlnF3qFt_hqo_k_66fCxfaXEq4D9Ym8Nx6YnaIFo8YfAvQVeGtA2Pzj7rK9tnFsaItRn0BjNYsA8-UR2Wf6EjNsaA52zSb6AKJfXBPR6P3Sb/s1600-h/IMG_8692b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5yLKLkOYtWhS2RSu7EmgRC-s3cLAxHlsHqlnF3qFt_hqo_k_66fCxfaXEq4D9Ym8Nx6YnaIFo8YfAvQVeGtA2Pzj7rK9tnFsaItRn0BjNYsA8-UR2Wf6EjNsaA52zSb6AKJfXBPR6P3Sb/s320/IMG_8692b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437716878341910786" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <br /><!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-67982049018942067592010-01-30T10:02:00.005-08:002010-01-30T10:40:16.549-08:00Bean's BellySome pics from this evening:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDtjHyE5ysNLzwVG2rMKtRcrWBuDivDvNj2hDzx1hhibmqBWnhPMp25bxzp9e011VDOaUYRNR95w155ur-5ipGLYKSPJvFc0602vS5jqRPBnPxvPpaiKKXDIoytWRtdfD9RbR_zWFCmnMP/s1600-h/IMG_8423.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDtjHyE5ysNLzwVG2rMKtRcrWBuDivDvNj2hDzx1hhibmqBWnhPMp25bxzp9e011VDOaUYRNR95w155ur-5ipGLYKSPJvFc0602vS5jqRPBnPxvPpaiKKXDIoytWRtdfD9RbR_zWFCmnMP/s320/IMG_8423.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432603031589126626" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8uyTSeWPdhlyyV8ann8NpVRKE8YgoVrtjW2V82SP7jEFIpwlvJzrIZ6BjLNqNvvztlHhlnX0nQE8Oveb_0oHJ-tv58fXpr8Qw2biSn6o5Y882FWc3G_wJPq8QNK-V5e-vmmX9EJ3DTUqn/s1600-h/IMG_8385.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8uyTSeWPdhlyyV8ann8NpVRKE8YgoVrtjW2V82SP7jEFIpwlvJzrIZ6BjLNqNvvztlHhlnX0nQE8Oveb_0oHJ-tv58fXpr8Qw2biSn6o5Y882FWc3G_wJPq8QNK-V5e-vmmX9EJ3DTUqn/s320/IMG_8385.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432603026604496338" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiISeXZ1qCwUxFAdMZn4j_PD-ko4cgeY9vFd9WHUKbUcbb6Ag8bCyW_UPA5Isb-9DKzMPgl-EpOSz3ERq7oIpP4eTud1pBjxsYpdt6sU9LrUgWcENaj3XhA7gn4laQpQ96M-fIKs7U_FP8O/s1600-h/bb-4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 203px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiISeXZ1qCwUxFAdMZn4j_PD-ko4cgeY9vFd9WHUKbUcbb6Ag8bCyW_UPA5Isb-9DKzMPgl-EpOSz3ERq7oIpP4eTud1pBjxsYpdt6sU9LrUgWcENaj3XhA7gn4laQpQ96M-fIKs7U_FP8O/s320/bb-4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432603014844368818" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf-Midp_NTWwd-54cYUDjS6KePVUpJb01freNxPLGnRUPA17MLtZW0y_-zS3O1In41SM69M_mlADCNavLWLO8bvNnld2ADerbs3AIl4ZpxNQAV6NOOwCB9kz6t0MqC6S_Bg3c5BbNGc79R/s1600-h/bb-3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf-Midp_NTWwd-54cYUDjS6KePVUpJb01freNxPLGnRUPA17MLtZW0y_-zS3O1In41SM69M_mlADCNavLWLO8bvNnld2ADerbs3AIl4ZpxNQAV6NOOwCB9kz6t0MqC6S_Bg3c5BbNGc79R/s320/bb-3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432603011292592610" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzWT6e76WWiNx5SOSX-1YPf1hbLjNY9QcvepzzLeiIII-5PQf-GbF4rUVaikl6NQqRwNiuhOkgaUPoMHvXEYwIJRDmOwVbmdCATAIkLguMAdok8C2F1dNLqQNxRyBCVpc13SQ_0sSDrLlp/s1600-h/bb-1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 251px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzWT6e76WWiNx5SOSX-1YPf1hbLjNY9QcvepzzLeiIII-5PQf-GbF4rUVaikl6NQqRwNiuhOkgaUPoMHvXEYwIJRDmOwVbmdCATAIkLguMAdok8C2F1dNLqQNxRyBCVpc13SQ_0sSDrLlp/s320/bb-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432602997748512050" /></a><br /><br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <br /><!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-67867790711971198052010-01-28T03:07:00.003-08:002010-01-28T03:33:03.473-08:00My man Fu QiangHas just opened up a shop selling his CDs (compilations of music he digs) and art. He takes pictures and uses software to make his own impressions. pretty interesting stuff. You can check his site out <a href="http://www.myspace.cn/1308523199">right here</a>.<br /><br />Here is a picture of Fu that he manipulated into an oil painting-type image:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwuXoRCuj3oT4Ygmy5bYdKUcYCdZ0a5uS5e1yXi3ra-A90vmhcKQ-uZpZdT66ourCvn7auQADm7ox5b4svT-L806tzEq93Igyj6y2OLXlM4qvCHWjA3y0XAXCGFj4c1syWvL_fW4GxyDgs/s1600-h/IMG_8253_Dup1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwuXoRCuj3oT4Ygmy5bYdKUcYCdZ0a5uS5e1yXi3ra-A90vmhcKQ-uZpZdT66ourCvn7auQADm7ox5b4svT-L806tzEq93Igyj6y2OLXlM4qvCHWjA3y0XAXCGFj4c1syWvL_fW4GxyDgs/s320/IMG_8253_Dup1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431751371064613570" /></a><br /><br />Here is a picture that he put together of his shop:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLOxMjvygZyYqxW6UH_-ejXEC4Hzxu7aeUT7xxHhiuVDaYHhyTiNTt3UFBveHPDnhyphenhyphenrngZd2o3JHveDOYNGgY6wKZPnAJNCqmniSxuzj4y2d2ZsOOE3IK6pQpLPdh_dFJCQpSgyHQttkNi/s1600-h/%E6%96%B0%E5%BB%BA%E6%96%87%E4%BB%B6%E5%A4%B9+(5)1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLOxMjvygZyYqxW6UH_-ejXEC4Hzxu7aeUT7xxHhiuVDaYHhyTiNTt3UFBveHPDnhyphenhyphenrngZd2o3JHveDOYNGgY6wKZPnAJNCqmniSxuzj4y2d2ZsOOE3IK6pQpLPdh_dFJCQpSgyHQttkNi/s320/%E6%96%B0%E5%BB%BA%E6%96%87%E4%BB%B6%E5%A4%B9+(5)1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431751378446355970" /></a><br /><br />And here is my lady and Chen Lin, chillin in the tea foyer of Fu's shop:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOxz9VGam1ycVx9P1q05bER1DUIeTXuHga2Yv14oFnTXnrD6i_qBP8hF0uhK-HoNDUgpvTbe8S9K5wfB_7Xj1on_Uruw3XdQzLFo6wDPjCaZGC5uKXHonjfRBPNQ_HPw47lFv2YN50aZir/s1600-h/IMG_8195.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOxz9VGam1ycVx9P1q05bER1DUIeTXuHga2Yv14oFnTXnrD6i_qBP8hF0uhK-HoNDUgpvTbe8S9K5wfB_7Xj1on_Uruw3XdQzLFo6wDPjCaZGC5uKXHonjfRBPNQ_HPw47lFv2YN50aZir/s320/IMG_8195.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431751362280361298" /></a><br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <br /><!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-38683250241770417802010-01-26T11:06:00.003-08:002010-01-26T11:14:29.322-08:00Hafiz is my man<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOEhrPfEb0m64KUzQiuTFKd-AhcfZ74rfv5ImJ_v8lcDU2_k5vCP80blyeoLZ5PCHhx331MdGnjQGJvXnVNTcMVJ1OadxuVOPU6R471EHFW0VqUJGChuVgCVtS60nRjFCXRdMOXe6fdZ1p/s1600-h/2738613059_ef0a185644_b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOEhrPfEb0m64KUzQiuTFKd-AhcfZ74rfv5ImJ_v8lcDU2_k5vCP80blyeoLZ5PCHhx331MdGnjQGJvXnVNTcMVJ1OadxuVOPU6R471EHFW0VqUJGChuVgCVtS60nRjFCXRdMOXe6fdZ1p/s320/2738613059_ef0a185644_b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431127484422654098" /></a><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <br /><!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-2748236878007961542010-01-26T01:41:00.009-08:002010-01-26T10:28:56.489-08:00Yunnan TripSo i finally got my camera battery from the Bad Monkey. I left it there on the last day of me and Bean's trip to Yunnan, so I haven't been able to access my pics since then. So here are some pics and descriptions of the trip we took 12/27 to 1/2 ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_sQBrSS2fDwwduCTukGPRFc2ZoU7GE70ITh_c2KZM4zPYyvvMRtYC1WstsYx7uGM2FGASFgkV9lRmqQH9SfOhhXzV0hGrn1ddsrHiretDZdr6KCn3XPP-vFoZywM5GwtGAtXnElFrztwn/s1600-h/IMG_7532.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_sQBrSS2fDwwduCTukGPRFc2ZoU7GE70ITh_c2KZM4zPYyvvMRtYC1WstsYx7uGM2FGASFgkV9lRmqQH9SfOhhXzV0hGrn1ddsrHiretDZdr6KCn3XPP-vFoZywM5GwtGAtXnElFrztwn/s320/IMG_7532.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431103781473782722" /></a><br />This is my friend Huang Jun, a Kunming native, and his lady Thearanee, from Thailand. They came up from Thailand to celebrate his father's 60th birthday and before the festivities we had some local 挂桥面 Cross the Bridge Noodles.<br /> <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs02pozQVe_P73qQXN22nrRPWZ_6kAzr6ROIpT1Vgw8gcW7BG9F7kx_E8gqv8wVSMEdkVQ7AOoGCGwtKiKcdvyihWrac8_hbfLCqHxCVNtO7wEtdLykvFpDpd1nesl4r5x7X_MCPVLwhea/s1600-h/IMG_7538.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs02pozQVe_P73qQXN22nrRPWZ_6kAzr6ROIpT1Vgw8gcW7BG9F7kx_E8gqv8wVSMEdkVQ7AOoGCGwtKiKcdvyihWrac8_hbfLCqHxCVNtO7wEtdLykvFpDpd1nesl4r5x7X_MCPVLwhea/s320/IMG_7538.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431103792719838258" /></a><br />Story goes, a loving wife brought her man noodles on the daily. He worked a little bit away from home, and she had to cross a bridge to get there. When she showed up, the noodles were always cold. This angered them both. He didn't say anything, being a good man and all, but she wasn't about to have her man eating cold noodles. So she thought about it and came up with a plan: she would cut up all the ingredients and put them in the bowl and bring a pot of boiling hot water along with her. So when she got to his place of work, she placed the bowl in front of him, poured in the hot water and mixed it up. Worked just fine. <br /><br />That night, they made passionate love.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinC8MACl6ZJQLOaA976n8BvRqZd8tSG1bJLCteDCT50BrS0IK1pRA-LoqAsK0YZt842MzE_vbkTqhdwEd7qPggCtDuNA9uGCkGkH5I09mhI52vmL1RuKZ3nm2V6hbFpPcGI2RUAA5ebAqp/s1600-h/IMG_7900.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinC8MACl6ZJQLOaA976n8BvRqZd8tSG1bJLCteDCT50BrS0IK1pRA-LoqAsK0YZt842MzE_vbkTqhdwEd7qPggCtDuNA9uGCkGkH5I09mhI52vmL1RuKZ3nm2V6hbFpPcGI2RUAA5ebAqp/s320/IMG_7900.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431111979820447938" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnFwHE05K4zz2W_fu7_CbF-XRyJG2yr_px2g4U0lbf2bZnC4hZbjRidm5ktR7AZzlGkS2K_9EV8Gczcqnoh0fLKCUMIOAsNb0uuyLilx4C5dTJ1xRapeszRPTouxPQw7lUG-GeP0CMJ3-2/s1600-h/IMG_7898.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnFwHE05K4zz2W_fu7_CbF-XRyJG2yr_px2g4U0lbf2bZnC4hZbjRidm5ktR7AZzlGkS2K_9EV8Gczcqnoh0fLKCUMIOAsNb0uuyLilx4C5dTJ1xRapeszRPTouxPQw7lUG-GeP0CMJ3-2/s320/IMG_7898.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431111964669179010" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixaktj_GVywamWzfifJ2MPN-s_HjiEwN7Y31Ntri6RDPqB-dl4wUtF3kNxYDNAa6XPxj_v7rf1Ml5D55ORd3Dc19zSCLbJcglhWlYfEaKWSjjKfJeTpkJCeZt1qYQMIi_oulhXizSSvsw4/s1600-h/IMG_7899.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixaktj_GVywamWzfifJ2MPN-s_HjiEwN7Y31Ntri6RDPqB-dl4wUtF3kNxYDNAa6XPxj_v7rf1Ml5D55ORd3Dc19zSCLbJcglhWlYfEaKWSjjKfJeTpkJCeZt1qYQMIi_oulhXizSSvsw4/s320/IMG_7899.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431116017377599730" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKnHLLau5C8kMBPE-spI8gOQ8ZX1IIihludpaw5e4430e81aJpUAIVfVkHqMn0LPydnQ444-fBvEE919peXx9CXJflysWSvQjA4bBB6K3uAIQsgFQGS4y7fMeYBJD-LsyanxzBcrVQonpV/s1600-h/IMG_7893.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKnHLLau5C8kMBPE-spI8gOQ8ZX1IIihludpaw5e4430e81aJpUAIVfVkHqMn0LPydnQ444-fBvEE919peXx9CXJflysWSvQjA4bBB6K3uAIQsgFQGS4y7fMeYBJD-LsyanxzBcrVQonpV/s320/IMG_7893.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431111956053077602" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSmih6Mlc22qHSdcxwsgISUpdNvrxSc4eXuQn93VbMmEFvU9XKH8UH1ZtgTB9mr6ZIcFuLLYOKD86s8cPpUvscgF11_N10MtmwDaV_asHW9T2orb2TOsJx2qTDqPRb1Yzi23GDk_F6WcR5/s1600-h/IMG_7864.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSmih6Mlc22qHSdcxwsgISUpdNvrxSc4eXuQn93VbMmEFvU9XKH8UH1ZtgTB9mr6ZIcFuLLYOKD86s8cPpUvscgF11_N10MtmwDaV_asHW9T2orb2TOsJx2qTDqPRb1Yzi23GDk_F6WcR5/s320/IMG_7864.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431111946998158434" /></a><br />Me and Bean went to the 翠湖 Cuihu Lake in the middle of Kunming and walked around it three times. Siberian black-headed gulls migrate through here every winter and everybody loves it. The gulls eat good, the kids squeal in the winter sun and i get to take pics with my lady.<br /><br />I got a bit more, put them up in a day or two.<br /><br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <br /><!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-69612475586887670082010-01-24T23:09:00.003-08:002010-01-24T23:27:30.569-08:00I can't stop laughing at Western businessmenI don't even know where to start laughing and where to end. It doesn't matter. For years and years people like me (but with better jobs) have been saying that China has some issues and we need to help them along, but the money-men always trumped everything by drooling all over each other in attempts to get into the China market. <br /><br />"Can't push the gov, nononono they might not let us cash in ..." <br /><br />Now, only now, at the end, do they realize. And so I have to laugh at them.<br /><br />The mainstream has caught on to the glaring reality: China's bureaucrats and businessmen always hated and despised you. They stole your stuff, smiled in your face and sold you shit and now they don't need you anymore. So <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1955426,00.html">Time Magazine whines</a>. Big time China Hand and Businessman supreme, AllRoads, jumps on the band wagon: "<a href="http://www.allroadsleadtochina.com/2010/01/24/is-the-china-dream-real-or-did-we-western-businesses-get-suckered/">Did we get suckered?</a>"<br /><br />Of course you did fool. Then again, I know a lot of people who made it rich here (me excluded, hence all of the Schadenfreude) and they basically took a good look at the China business scene, saw it for what it is and jumped in and swam in the feces with all of the other sharks, diving for doubloons. <br /><br />And this guy here, <a href="http://www.paulmidler.com/getting-china-right-and-getting-it-right-early/">Paul "I told ya so" Midler</a>. I feel ya Paul. I told a lot of people too. You ain't the only one who saw the signs and such, that feeling. I know it. Hope yer book sells dawg. <br /><br />I gotta laugh. Even though, now that the drooling suits are hating on this modern China and the Chinese netizens are hating on this modern China, the big bad bureaucrats and their brainless, soulless New Rich cronies might have to bring in their bigger, badder even more brainless PLA bully to keep this country from Gorbacheving. Or not.<br /><br />I am headed out to take a walk in the sunshine (THAT'S RIGHT SUNSHINE IN THE DU!!).<br /><br />Holla atchu.<br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <br /><!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-75184718984506440152010-01-21T23:24:00.004-08:002010-01-22T09:00:16.652-08:00redemption is just one way of sayingmy job is <br />to pull you back from the brink of darkness<br />protect you from the prince of shadows<br />show you the flower in all seasons<br />keep you fed, fat and giggling<br />give you a blanket when its cold<br />build a home for you to waltz in<br />shore up the foundation when it crumbles<br />so that i might be <br />the man i've always wanted to be<br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <br /><!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-84269496939074304752010-01-21T08:14:00.003-08:002010-01-21T08:57:57.658-08:00So, what now?I find myself asking this question after reading <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/kreca/kreca6.1.1.html">stories like this one by the late Michael Kreca</a>. This information is not new to me -- the fact that FDR, Churchill and Stalin steered America into a war that did not need to be fought. The consequences reverberate today in the Empire that emerged from the rubble of WWII. So.<br /><br />I know. I agree, disgusting piece of work. In fact, I see the parallels with today's wars. I catch myself (and ninjas are forced to listen to me) yapping about the WWI roots of the current War on Terrorism. <br /><br />Its hard to stay <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6916082/Rage-singer-Zach-de-la-Rocha-named-Beard-of-the-Year-2009.html">De La Rocha</a>, when <a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/tgl/tgl008.htm">Wu-Wei</a> beckons smiling from the riverbank.<br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <br /><!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-17880264882259672472010-01-20T22:02:00.001-08:002010-01-20T22:03:36.834-08:00The Du<a href="http://www.chengduliving.com/top-10-free-places-in-chengdu/comment-page-1/#comment-162">Here is a little list of cool spots in Chengdu</a>. This is actually a VERY incomplete list, but its a good start. holla.<br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <br /><!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-40475163967210127712010-01-18T04:05:00.005-08:002010-01-18T04:15:09.657-08:00Pig FatI've been using a lot of pig fat in my cooking recently. Yushi's dad dropped by and left two big bowls of lard, a pile of Chinese herbs and a comment on my latest essay on China. The pig fat is for daily use, the herbs are for the month of rest Yushi will need (according to the entire China Granny Nation) after the birth and the comment ... well it was to let me know that he's got his eye on me.<br /><br />I got this funk from Big Scott when I was in California. Just in case you don't know, I urge you to check out the following:<br /><br />William DeVaughan<br />Betty Davis<br />The Brothers Johnson<br />Eddie Bo<br />Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings and just for good measure<br />The Decemberists<br /><br />If you don't know Bill Withers, disregard the above and listen to him first, then you are allowed to proceed.<br /><br />Man i love this music so much it makes me feel so good every day it makes my fingers move and my voice just lets go and i walk around in my snuggies singing and when i see Yushi round the corner in my old chupa i let out a laugh cuz she looks like a funky monk with that big belly and the faux fur sleeves rolled up so she can chop jiu cai up for jiaozi ...<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">"Can we pretend, that from now on, there is no yesterday ... <br />Paint a portrait of tomorrow, with no colors from today<br />There is a love that shines in your face sometimes<br />that takes my feelings and wraps them around your knees<br />but there is a shadow that is hanging in your heart sometimes<br />that makes my feelings turn back in on me ... "</span><br /><br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <br /><!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-3534924010520393552010-01-15T22:52:00.005-08:002010-01-17T20:22:47.301-08:00Haiti<a href="http://www.chengduliving.com/china-feels-haitis-pain/">here is a short essay </a>on Haiti and Chengdu and some of the similarities and differences in the disasters that struck here and there. <br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <br /><!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-67641308878607722232010-01-15T01:39:00.004-08:002010-01-15T01:56:39.619-08:00Lu Guang's Photography: Pollution in ChinaMakes me real nervous to see pics like this. I know that pollution is everywhere, but seeing it up close and personal like <a href="http://image.fengniao.com/vision/vision.php?id=122">these pictures by Lu Guang</a> is still disturbing. <br /><br />For an English translation, go to <a href="http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china/">ChinaHush's post here</a>.<br /><br />In related news, <a href="http://www.chinahush.com/2009/12/18/chinese-farmers-are-growing-houses-instead-of-growing-food/">here is a small story about "grow houses,"</a> which are houses built quickly by farmers who believe their land might be taken soon. If they manage to register a building, the compensation they receive can be higher. Ignore most of the text and the comments, except this one here:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">“The non-existence of truly legal private land in this great socialist motherland probably also complicates matters further.”<br /><br />You hit the nail on the head. That’s not the complication, that’s the reason for the phenomenon reported above.<br /><br />The fact that people don’t actually own their unincorporated (non-urban) land and can be dispossessed quite easily is the major reason to engage in such tactics as these. If the government is going to dispossess one anyway, that person is given incentive to maximize whatever payout the government is going to make. I suppose in a system with transparency in government development plans, as well as clear and private land title, private developers would buy up well placed land, the government would lay clear claim (and pay fair prices) on the land it actually needs for the infrastructure itself. The farmers would make money, the developers would make money (building concessions, etc.), the farmers might even make enough money to start businesses in private developed companies… on the flip side, the government’s costs would not be artificially low, and it wouldn’t make any money renting out concession properties it developed itself.<br /><br />Its fair to say that the government can see a clear advantage for itself in the current system: Its only expense to maintain the status quo is money for chengguan and demolition equipment to knock down these “grown houses” every day."</span><br /><br /><a href="http://baihaifeng.blogspot.com/">by Dr. Jones, Jr.</a><br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <br /><!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-39489802875698263872010-01-14T20:54:00.003-08:002010-01-14T20:57:22.133-08:00The Ancients said:"And I wish that I were not any part<br />of the fifth generation<br />of men, but had died before it came<br />or had been born afterward.<br />For here now is the age of iron ...<br />when guest is no longer one with host<br />nor companion to companion<br />when your brother is no longer your friend<br />as he was in the old days."<br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <br /><!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-57096079041625881672010-01-14T20:20:00.002-08:002010-01-14T20:27:18.559-08:00"Don't be Evil" -- Tell that to Wall StreetAfter Google announced that it might leave China, Wall Street and other stock exchanges around the world reacted in typical fashion, by <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100113-709041.html">buying Baidu stock and selling Google stock</a>. Baidu's stock jumped by at least 12%, while Google's slid by about 1%.<br /><br />For the money-men -- the same people, let us not forget, who caused the real estate bubble, the ensuing collapse and rise in unemployment, who received billions from the government and are now giving each other BJs and bonuses -- these men (and women) are the core of what allows China to censor with impunity and keeps companies here way passed the point of violating their own principles.<br /><br />In the world of capital, evil is rewarded and Wall Street's "golf clap" for Baidu's unexpected "good fortune" is a perfect example of evil at work -- or perhaps better said, a perfect example of the unwillingness to do good.<br /><br />Sock it to 'em Google!<br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <br /><!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845245630956521711.post-89837981023535261042010-01-14T01:16:00.002-08:002010-01-14T02:06:18.068-08:00Thinking about my brothers<span style="font-style:italic;">The army drums cut off human travel,<br />A lone goose sounds on the borderland in autumn.<br />Tonight we start the season of White Dew,<br />The moon is just as bright as in my homeland.<br />My brothers are spread all throughout the land,<br />No home to ask if they are living or dead.<br />The letters we send always go astray,<br />And still the fighting does not cease ...</span><br /><br />Maybe one day I'll write something like this, when Facebook and Gmail and cell phones are dead and gone and only the moon knows what my people are doing.<br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'chachi';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> <br /><!-- AddThis Button END -->sascha matuszakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944888875276302775noreply@blogger.com5