Panthera Sapiens Ellipsis: The Blog

My dad's birthday was yesterday. To celebrate, we got him shirts from Hong Kong, as detailed in the last post, and some cake (moist and delicious and French Cheese and decidedly unhealthy, and we bought it at a discount too!), and a Wii to distract him from the nightly Chinese classical TV adaptation; the last series ended a couple nights ago and we've apparently decided that he will not get started on another bunch of love triangles, young martial students, and wise old men who haven't had access to a good barber in the last fifteen decades. Granted, the CGI are interesting and I enjoy pointing out the tropes to my kid brother, but eventually you can only take so much of the main character becoming insanely strong (to the point where he walks past and trees crumble to dust in his wake) but still can't see through the thinnest lies the next random assassin tells him, proving that he has a pure heart of gold and is completely guileless. Or completely gullible. Oh, and he...

I got back from Hong Kong yesterday, although considering that's not quite technically correct; the correct version, I think, would be to say that I left Hong Kong the day before yesterday and arrived home yesterday: the train ride took 13 hours and doesn't count as a place in itself, unless you count "between places" as a place itself. My two kid siblings and myself were visiting an aunt and her husband, who both live there; I'm still unable to work out their citizenships short of asking them directly, and I don't want to do that. My aunt is definitely a PR of the place, or at least on a residential pass; the uncle-in-law, though, appears to be a citizen or maybe also a PR--but his mother lives in a little hut there so I suppose it's more likely that he's a citizen by birth there. Still, I have no idea. We arrived in Hong Kong one day after we left Fifth Hun: again, by train, 12 hours between places. It wasn't a particularly pleasant trip, but the...

What a lot of time has passed since the last time I typed anything here! It speaks volumes about how dreadfully I tend to neglect my own need to record things in case they disappear off into the vague recesses of my memory, and in fact I wonder whether it's at all possible for me to record everything quite as fully as it would need to be, if it is to jog my memory at all in the future--at least, whether it's possible to do so without causing this particular post to cover about half the entire page; then again, at the speed at which I read, it shouldn't be too tough to read through anyway. So, let's see. What has happened in the past 15 days that I've forgotten to record here? It's a mercy that I've got photos, though my method of separating them into various folders based on theme means that it's quite difficult to find out anything in any particular order: much like my own memory, really. I can probably list a lot of things that I know happened, but the...

Well, yes. It's been almost a week, in fact about 10 days, since I last typed in here. The explanation is simple: there is another Dell laptop, whose charger I've been using all along; but that charger was taken for the other Dell laptop when my siblings decided they needed that laptop for the end-of-semester exams that they've been having all this week. In any case I only just realised that the house has a couple of international-standard socket converters, so I'm using one of those and my own charger now. Another reason for the absence, quite simply, is that I've been fairly busy for the past bit of time and so haven't had the opportunity to do anything about it until now. Let's see, then... interesting occurences that have occurred lately and that I still remember--then again, if it was monumental I should remember it anyway, so anything I don't remember here can't be too particularly monumental. The first of these interesting experiences, then, s...