tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842308776616107900.post3963401501490753661..comments2023-06-29T23:58:03.749+10:00Comments on church of nobody: quick notes on Chinanobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13067422372087431256noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842308776616107900.post-69354186794649815212008-04-06T13:07:00.000+10:002008-04-06T13:07:00.000+10:00Wow, kikz. I grooved on all of that. And yeah, act...Wow, kikz. I grooved on all of that. And yeah, actually I do make generalisations all the time. It stands to reason that a foreign culture will produce people who differ from us in broad brushstrokes. And there's nothing to say we shouldn't pick aspects of a culture and discuss them - critically even. But I've found that for everything that's wrong with a culture, there's something that's right. And viewed against our own culture will leave us coming up short.<BR/><BR/>As for mothered sons, you should see Italians, ha! But I lived in Italy and loved every minute of it. They're maybe my favourite people ever. Ciao regazzi! If they're reading...<BR/><BR/>Often, it's just having something to talk about. Take Koreans. In combination with what I'd heard from mates who lived in, or visited Seoul and the Koreans I met, I was not a fan. But then I saw that flick The Host (seen it yet? It's an absolute cracker) and now whenever I meet Koreans I bring it up and we all get on like a house on fire. Oh! Yesterday I saw another Korean flick called Unknown Scandal that was just spellbinding.<BR/><BR/>But that's enough of that. Have to post a new piece of vitriol. I wonder if Mike Rivero will groove on this one?nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13067422372087431256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842308776616107900.post-26223997375492251392008-04-06T06:45:00.000+10:002008-04-06T06:45:00.000+10:00oh and... about the wrist... i surprizingly found ...oh and... about the wrist... i surprizingly found it very sexy >:) if your wrist is that well proportioned.. i imagine your hands are gorgeous too >:)<BR/><BR/>i have a thing for hands....<BR/>(blush)! <BR/><BR/>i know how it goes,, i maybe have 6 or so pix made over the course of my life, that i like too... :)kikzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647064395400783134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842308776616107900.post-37401556038704393272008-04-06T04:30:00.000+10:002008-04-06T04:30:00.000+10:00ya ya... hard call to make in generalizations of a...ya ya... hard call to make in generalizations of an entire people.<BR/>really can't be done and shouldn't, although certain cultural characteristics can be quite observably constant.....<BR/><BR/>my negative nose krinkle on the pak......it was probably more circumstances.. of the age grouping (mostly young single males) doing 6mo telecom/engineering contract labor rotations here in us, the chin girls seemed very immature for their age. all a giggle, flitting thru the bldg in coveys.. like birds. chin/pak and mumbai indian......... ALL walk to the left side of hallways, and staircases which was cause for some major collisions... cripez.. we heel to the right here.... and elevators.. OMG... they have no concept as to...empty the confined space b4 you try to fill it w/others...eyeroll. <BR/>none seem too terribly eager to share thoughts on intl <BR/>politics though.<BR/><BR/>japanese are very polite generally, but enmasse as camera-toting tourists let off of buses.. will run over you....literally. very, very rude.<BR/><BR/>i've been lucky, moreso than other americans over my lifetime to've had exposure to many diff foreign natls. many americans go thru the entirety of life w/o such. coastal peepz well have it, over those from the interior .. at least until the last decade or so.<BR/><BR/>also having worked in/round a few large multinatl corps... has helped.. everybody from fr. canadian, russian, nigerian, korean, brits of all types, indian, persian, jamaican, egyptian reared greek, kenyan reared hindu...and everything in between. <BR/><BR/>i'm sure my views have more to do w/ class/caste and religious bent that ethnic bias. i hope, anyway:)<BR/><BR/>spent my early years in company of two families, mothers.. both frm mex city, american (northern/yankee) fathers.. nice peepz, but their sons were reared to believe they were god's gift.... yuk. <BR/><BR/>i've noted over the years that w/muslim, asian and latin/hispanic mothers, they more often than not.....let their sons run completely riot over them in general. >:/ w/muslims boys .. this seems to extend to any females w/in their vicinity. i am king.. you are servant. have seen it many times.. even w/teachers.. one interaction, the boy stuck out his foot, and pointing at it, demanded... his teacher tie his shoe. reminded me of... yul brenner in "anna & the king" . male 'tude indeed.<BR/><BR/>the first paki i ever knew as a kid, Vishnu, worked w/my mum... he's done univ in the us....engineer in shipbuilding.. he was a wonderful human, but married to a crazed yankee frm chicago. no, i don't think all yankees are crazy.. but.. that'z a debate for another day...<BR/><BR/>my hubby grew up round large pak population in toronto, and been round them in biz for decades....he's no fan in general. must've been a class thing.. ? he has many hindu friends who share his general distaste.. again, i assume it's a class/caste thing... although, the hindu/pak snarl... goes long into the historical past.<BR/><BR/>i knew a wahabi saud at univ, whom i bugged to the point of exasperation, quizzing him on cultural mores, etc.. nice guy, but somewhat a party animal. once, told me, never known an american woman so inqusitive as to saud customs...<BR/><BR/>20+yrs ago, i was neighbor to a family of Han Chinese in NC, they were wonderful peepz too. would've died b4 they'd of driven/owned a jap car :) they were both PHD's he in math, she in linguistics...<BR/>their small boys loved Far Side toonz, the elder (8) used to bug me to tell him what some of them meant :) which are hard to convey into words.. ya either get em or ya don't.. when gramma visited frm Taiwan she would jokingly call me "Deamon" as i am green eyed/blonde. <BR/><BR/>here in the burbz, n of dallas, due to a tech corridor, we hav quite the intl community.<BR/><BR/>i hav pak friends, but they are sikh. some of the kindest, most wonderful peepz you'd wanna know. <BR/><BR/>neighbors up the block, the hubz is chin(no idea as to extraction), and the wife jap... which, after knowing the Han family earlier, i was surprized to hear of such intermarriage. i guess it's not so quite unheard of as most "round-eye" would think.<BR/><BR/>we well know a family of the ismaili sect/shia, who in day to day dealings are congenial... we even attended their grandmother's funeral, as our kids were friends, the gramma had kissed my hand the first time i met her.. she was apparently grateful that my girls wanted to befriend her granddaughter :) but, their religious views of that old testament vengeful god who brings wrath of natural disaster on humanity (long discussion on that tsunami, xmas day few yrs back) for sin... just kind of turned me off. although reading up on their aga khan was interesting and enlightening..... he's into racehorses.... and has been married multiple times...<BR/><BR/>a family of parisian fr, on the cul-du-sac... she's been my best friend for a decade..kids grew up together... we have quite animated yaps about culture/politics.. and the fr's probs in dealing w/their influx of n. african's.. their colonialization mistakes have truly come home to haunt them. huge slums of unemployed youth.. crime.. yada.. neither of us are fans of sarkozy........ :/<BR/><BR/>recently , young family of guatemalan extraction has moved in... very nice, sweet kids.. looking fwd to getting to know her:) <BR/><BR/>hubz friend, who dates alot and travels the world.. we secretly joke.... imagining he's undercover CIA or somesuch.... >:).. once brought by a beautiful blond brazilian cotton geneticist.. she was a fan of lula.. this was a few yrs ago.. <BR/><BR/>she was wonderful :) i wish... he'd of kept her :) she was a treasure:) but he's too busy & young... to marry... yet..<BR/><BR/><BR/>oh well, i've prattled long enuff... :) hope this rant makes some sense.. just got up.. w/a hari/kari sinus headache.. <BR/><BR/>yap ya soon :)kikzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647064395400783134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842308776616107900.post-79075039345255440972008-04-05T12:45:00.000+11:002008-04-05T12:45:00.000+11:00Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!The world's coming to an en...Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!<BR/>The world's coming to an end, that's a laugh<BR/>Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!<BR/>Gulp!<BR/>TonyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842308776616107900.post-63447256742210983372008-04-05T12:34:00.000+11:002008-04-05T12:34:00.000+11:00And hey kikz,Ha! Don't be confused mate. I put tha...And hey kikz,<BR/><BR/>Ha! Don't be confused mate. I put that phote in because it's the only one ever taken of me that I like, ha ha.<BR/><BR/>It all comes back, now. I was in a bar in Kuala Lumpur and had just given money to a Buddhist nun in return for one of those devotionals on my wrist. God knows what that red drink is.<BR/><BR/>Otherwise I wouldn't lump Chinese all in together. Taiwanese, Honkies, Mainlanders, and diaspora Chinese are as different from each other as English, German, Spanish etc. Not only that but my view of the Chinese is constantly evolving. The same thing happened to me in Japan. My experience is that the more time I spend somewhere (and breaks in between are good because they lend a perspective) the calmer I get and the more I like the people and groove on the whole caper. I imagine you could end up grooving on Pakistanis. Me, I get on with pretty much everyone I meet from the sub-continent. But that ain't too difficult because I'm a cricket fan, ha ha.<BR/><BR/>They only people I have a problem with are self-obsessed racists. But like anyone could miss that.nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13067422372087431256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842308776616107900.post-26193121695399028082008-04-05T12:13:00.000+11:002008-04-05T12:13:00.000+11:00Middle finger? You might be on your Pat Malone wit...Middle finger? You might be on your Pat Malone with that one mate, ha ha. But yeah, I thought it was probably the least important story of the week. But it was all worthwhile just to have Nelson make an even bigger arse of himself. His days are so numbered aren't they?<BR/><BR/>And humour? Jesus Christ! Has anyone figured that out? I have a sideways view that might be interesting and probably too long for here so, er... why not whack it on the front page? The world's coming to an end but we may as well have a laugh.nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13067422372087431256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842308776616107900.post-61671486207703823262008-04-05T04:15:00.000+11:002008-04-05T04:15:00.000+11:00i know this is off topic...but riddle me this? how...i know this is off topic...<BR/><BR/>but riddle me this? <BR/><BR/>how can someone be physically attracted to a pic of an elegantly turned wrist >:)? blinkblink?<BR/><BR/>back on topic..<BR/><BR/>i've been fortunate enough to work w/and around many chinese... i much prefer them on many levels to paki. for whatever it's worth...kikzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647064395400783134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842308776616107900.post-12691866257582426572008-04-04T19:48:00.000+11:002008-04-04T19:48:00.000+11:00Kafuffle material.Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson...<A HREF="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/04/2208473.htm" REL="nofollow">Kafuffle material.</A><BR/>Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson sees 'conduct unbecoming of an Australian prime minister' – wrong! if only because it's coming from Nelson.<BR/>I see a PM, mindful of 'folks back home' taking the mickey. <BR/>Georgie Porgie wouldn't 'get it' so he's pretty safe in giving W the middle finger (gently, of course).<BR/>A different view I know but that's how I choose to see it.<BR/>nobody; give us your thoughts on Aussie humour.<BR/>Thank you in anticipation<BR/>TonyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842308776616107900.post-51925456658438763482008-04-04T16:15:00.000+11:002008-04-04T16:15:00.000+11:00New flick over at the cinema.New flick over at the cinema.nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13067422372087431256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842308776616107900.post-51283747903755481892008-04-04T16:04:00.000+11:002008-04-04T16:04:00.000+11:00Hmmm, maybe. I have a feeling we'll stiff China if...Hmmm, maybe. I have a feeling we'll stiff China if our masters tell us.<BR/><BR/>And boy, I keep watching Fox and I see the anti-China campaign is high-pitch and relentless. I can barely recognise the place I know. I should add that all of my trips there are to work for Chinese companies. I spend most of my time hanging with Chinese people. What the news here seems to think is important, concerns the Chinese not at all. I have never had a single Chinese person complain to me about lack of freedom, repression, or any other goddamn thing. And if they thought that way, they'd tell me! No one there is backwards in coming forwards in expressing opinions. They ain't shy!nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13067422372087431256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842308776616107900.post-86347569003221183842008-04-03T12:56:00.000+11:002008-04-03T12:56:00.000+11:00Australia is very fortunate in the (long term) rel...Australia is very fortunate in the (long term) relationship we have with China.<BR/>(I think George W knows this and tries to use/abuse us accordingly)<BR/>TonyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com