Saturday, August 27, 2005

Quick Update

Guess I was wrong. The police thought that it was perhaps a nice bag of crystal meth. Yeah, imagine a small company fun by a Chinese family that includes a fourteen-year old... Well, that is their job, after all. The labels on the bag was completely in Chinese, but they could have read the specification... It has the name of the chemical on it.

And, of course, we lost the COA. Dunno what happened to it. Hopefully, it didn't land in a puddle somewhere, or worse, in a competitor's hands...

Friday, August 26, 2005

Random Snippet of Life

OK, I should really get going with this blog. Anyways, funny thing happened today. I was working when we got a call from the police. It seems that one of our packages got sent to the worong place, and whoever got the package decided to be a brick-head and opened up the package. He or she (probably she) saw the bag of white powder (some sort of chemical used in cleaning products), and got her panties all tied up in a knot, or if said person was a man, did the most un-macho thing that he has ever done (besides trying on his wife's underwear): he freaked like a total girl and called the police. I believe he believed that it was something long the lines of anthrax. OHHHH! I remember this fell word from all the way back in 2001, when everyone was some sort of schizophrenic paranoid (except for George Bush, who only has one personality: an idiot), and was scared of the words "plane", "powder", and "Osama bin Laden (what happened to him anyway?).

Thank God that era was finished. Or not.

Anyways, the only reason I'm complaining is because it's funny. And, we got a free delivery from the civil servants in uniform (who are WAY better, in my opinion than the UPStart UPS peoples who take forever to send their packages. How late was that package? Oh, yeah, THREE DAYS)!

Yippee! Anyways, more from me later.

Friday, August 19, 2005

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I don't know who wrote this, but I think it describes China's social problems perfectly. This person's a genius.

Summer Ruminations

This summer's uneventful. But it does leave wondering why I've wasted another summer. Of course, I do brainstorm a lot when I can't sleep. Stuff like "The parallels between Eragon (if I can find the book again) and Star Wars (ANH)"; more story ideas that I will never seriously put to paper; and why my grandfather is already ill, and I have so few memories of him, even though I'm sure that he had good memories of me when old age hasn't taken that away. He recognized me when I went back home to China to visit him, but even then, the sickness has made him rather... different from the photos I have of him.

I suppose I've gotten a bit more angry over these few days. I've thrown insults at all two people - no four in one day, and right in front of my mother, too. She was mighty proud, I have to say. And I swear, I felt pretty proud too.

But these days, you know what really angers me? The Chinese Communist Party. My grandparents were well-off then, before the Communist Party took over (obviously, my opinion of them isn't very high). Then, they god ripped-off by the regime, and now, my grandmother has trouble taking care of grandfather, and my whole family is trying to deal with financial and other miscellaneous issues, and it just doesn't seem fair at all. Meanwhile, the rich of the Chinese just get richer and more corrupt, and poor of the country simply get poorer and more deprivated. Perhaps this is one of the reasons the Chinese Communists took power: cause the ordinary people were sick of it, but now it is even worse. And all in the name of the government.

Maybe they'll be over-thrown one day. But I'm sure that when that day comes, it will make a bloody mess of China.