Date: November 9, 2014
Mood: Annoyed
Weather: Warm and Overcast
Listening to: Air Balloon by Lily Allen
Reading: Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
Today was an out and about day. The school we work for is wanting to update their web options and highlight our fairly new English program by making a website for the school in English as well as the traditional Chinese one they already have. Because the school's goal is to hopefully eventually bring in more foreigners to help with their rankings, making our area look as appealing as possible is key. So today we ventured out to get some good pics around the area to showcase a few of the internationally recognized shops that we have around here (e.g. Starbucks, McDonalds, KFC, Walmart, etc) in addition to some of the more foreign friendly local spots. Hubby was in charge of taking the pics, and will later, possibly, be the one putting the new site together. He'll do a great job, and it will be a fun way for him to cross promote his vlog that he started since we moved here also. (Shameless plug... If you want to see more of what we see here in China and Hong Kong you should totally check out and subscribe to his YouTube channel “Snarky White Guy”. He makes and uploads weekly videos about the food, culture, etc. And he's pretty good, if I do say so myself.)
While we were out traveling around we got to see some wild water buffalo grazing in the storm drain/river overflow a few blocks down from where we live. There must have been 15-20 of them making their way along. I'm sure they must live near there, but in all the months we lived here I've never seen them before. I gotta say, it was kind of neat. It's not like you can just drive down the street in the middle of the city back home in the States and see a wild water buffalo, let alone a whole herd of them, walking past. Of course, we also have wild chickens that scamper around everywhere here. Driving down the road you'll see them pecking about in the bushes between the sidewalk and road. I wouldn't ever eat one for fear of what diseases it might have from eating out of the trash and lord knows what else, but I bet some people do. Don't quote me on that though cause I'm really not certain. (Eventually I will start trying to include pics from time to time of some of these things, but right now I'm still figuring out how to get them to upload. Seeing as I can't actually get online to blog from my laptop without a vpn, I have to go a round about way to get on and that makes the photo part a bit more difficult. I'll get it though one of these days. For now though, you'll just have to use your imagination. lol)
I'm not feeling overly wordy tonight, so I'm gonna close with one final thought. Family...
Is it just us or does anyone else out there have family members that just love to overstep their boundaries and try to parent your child(ren) even when you are right there and could handle anything should an attitude or issue arise? This right here has got to be one of my biggest pet peeves. No joke, when this happens I just wanna scream! Even more so when said person not only is trying to make an issue where there wasn't one to begin with, but do so quite publicly so everyone around can see just how involved they are. Still, better yet, is when said person doesn't actually play the designated family role consistently, but instead only when it is convenient or they think it makes them look good to others outside the family. !#@$%^&! And if you didn't gather, we had several of those instances today, hence current mood. Oi!
Okay, big breath.... inhale... exhale...
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