My Toys
Yes, I know it's an e-machine. Don't laugh...
We all take different paths... This is mine.
Lying here in bed. No sleep is going to happen anytime soon. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't 1:30 in the morning. Also, only getting three or four hours each night this week is a bad thing. So tired...
I guess this breakup with Selene and I is affecting me more than I realize. It wasn't exactly pretty and I'm dealing with it the best I can. So please, no sympathy. (And no, I'm not going to tell you what happened. I'm not about to post something like that on the Internet.)So, once again I am alone. I miss her, but I think that I'm gonna be ok. Such is the way of things, isn't it. You go through this life and touch those people around you that you come in contact with. Then you move on. I learned that a long time ago.
I'm gonna be ok. That's what I keep telling myself. At least I won't abandon something important like I did last time a relationship hurt me like this.
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold...
P.S. Enough with the self-pity. Goodnight.
On a very normal night, a reporter saw a lot of people waiting outside the Xiangya Hospital. They had been waiting all night long, just for a “passport” to the doctors. The following contains her observations and opinions, plus some of her photos.
From NetEase:
Everyday, there are always a lot of people waiting outside the Xiangya Hospital. The waiting is just for the "passport" to the doctors.
I am aware of why people wanted to get close to the gate, why they waited on the ice-cold floor, why they carried their bleary-eyed babies in the cold wind. For all the scalpers, getting a treatment number is just a business, but for the patients and the weak, it is stubborn self-preservation. I observed the hospital for 5 nights, countless faces passed by in front of my camera, from the guarded, to the anxious, to relaxed and finally to numb because they did not have any more time to focus on me. They were concerned only with the result of a night of waiting.
There was a baby asleep on her mom's back.
There was a light rain outside. People were queued in the freezing cold, waiting for the hospital open.
Outside the hospital, Mr Huang was covering his 18-year-old son with a blanket. His son was caught up in a pyramid scheme in Guangdong province. In order to escape, he jumped off a building.
At 5:30 am, the door was opened. As if it was the 100 meter sprint, people rushed to the outpatient hall after the starting gun rang.
31-year-old Yang Yan looked at her husband aggrievedly. She had been waiting since 2 am, but she fell down in the crowd, and was stepped on by a lot of people. She was waiting to register her mother and husband. But she went to the emergency room because she broke her shoulder.
Every night, there are countless waiting outside the Xiangya Hospital. It is only for one purpose: meeting a doctor.
Two tired people were squatting on the ground, helplessly.
In the Xiangya Hospital, there was a fight between two guys because one of them jumped the queue. This kind thing happens every day in the hospital.
Comments from NetEase:
网易浙江杭州网友：
Everybody knows that Xiangya is a very good hospital, and people want to go to good hospitals. This hospital charges reasonable prices, and my brother goes to this hospital every time when he is sick. In order to make more money, some hospitals ask people to do a lot of unnecessary tests. A lot of people are from small villages, so they don’t know the dark secret. Thousands of RMB is just wasted on the tests.
网易江苏盐城网友：
This phenomena exists not only in Changshao, but also in Shanghai and other places. Why is it so hard to see a doctor in China?!
网易火星网友［可悲］：
Once again, a test of the Chinese conscience and humanity. How sad, indeed! What I see in the current society: money comes first and then life. What will happen next?
网易中国网友：
My poor compatriots!
网易天津网友：
Those stupid guys that all went to the same hospital! You deserve it!
网易广东湛江网友：
We need more private hospitals. Improvement comes with competition. Get more university students trained to be doctors and send them to hospitals. Otherwise, nothing will change.
网易中国网友：
As a doctor, I am very sad when I see this scene. Primary hospitals are breaking down, meanwhile, big hospitals have way too many people. I don’t understand. What’s wrong with Chinese people?
网易广东深圳网友：
There are a lot of scalpers in the queues. Hunan Television has reported this a million times. The tickets are in the hands of scalpers. They charge 200 kuai for each ticket. People who are really sick can’t beat those strong scalpers in a queue.
网易湖南株洲网友［呵呵］：
Doctors can do nothing about this, because they are not administrating the hospitals.
网易湖南长沙网友：
There are so many hospitals, but everybody wants to go to this hospital. Maybe it’s because people don’t trust the other hospitals.
网易广西柳州网友：
Fuck this. There are hospitals everywhere. Is this hospital really so good? Does Huatuo (a very famous doctor in ancient China) work for the hospital?
网易广东佛山网友：
Seeing a doctor is really difficult, expensive, and also annoying.
网易辽宁鞍山网友：
This is the great China.
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Decided to walk around a little after the wonderful afternoon I had at KTV. Yes, some of the streets are this narrow. Changsha is very old... Kinda cool.
And no, according to the government, there is not an air pollution problem. Please ignore the grey skies. It's perfectly normal not to see the sun for several months at a time. Nothing to see here. Move along... Hehe...Sent from my iPhone
KTV, or as it's known elsewhere as Karaoke, is very popular in China. Probably surpassed in popularity only by Internet bars. Even then it's probably a toss-up.
I had to go to visit my girlfriend today. It was her friend's birthday. As I'm writing this, we are all sitting in the KTV while people are taking turns butchering Chinese songs. Oh, I'm sorry. Maybe the use of the word 'butchering' isn't quite appropriate here. Maybe the words 'mutilating' or 'rapeing' would be much more acurate. It's not that Chinese people can't sing. I've heard plenty of Chinese people sing well. The problem is that these people can't sing. Furthermore, when you're in a small room and the seats are vibrating worse than a cheap motel's bed, the volume is probably too loud! Ah, the things we do for love. Pity me...
Who am I? I was reading my brother's blog yesterday and I noticed that he had written a brief bio. I always love reading things my younger brother writes because he's a brilliant writer. Ever since we started writing together as the Clark Brothers, my writing has improved dramatically. And I have him to thank for that. But, I digress...
Like I said, I was reading my brother's bio and I started thinking about who I am. I have experienced many things in my life. I couldn't even begin to tell you all of the things I have done and seen. However, I don't keep a journal and my memory is not that good. But, I do know this... I have lived and I am happy. And that is what is important to me. However, I still come back to this one question; who am I? The truth is that it's not easy for me to answer that question. I know there are probably some people who would dearly love to tell me something religious right now and that would kill the point I am trying to make. Sometimes religious individuals worry me with the inflexable nature of devotion to one's faith. So, I'll keep religion out of this. I was thinking about this question today and looking at some of the pictures that people had posted on Facebook. Thinking back to things that happened to me in high school, I'm quite surprised that I actually can live such a normal life. Oh wait, I don't have a normal life. I live in China. Sweet... How on earth did I get to this point? I don't really quite know. I went to college to study music, but now I teach English in China. How did that happen? Look, I know how it actually happened, I'm just trying to be philosophical here. I'm also one-half of a writing team who has one book completed, a second book in re-writes and the third in its first draft. And yes, I am very proud of that. Is my life perfect? No... Nothing ever is. However, I truly am happy with my life. Happiness and sadness; that is what makes us human. And that is all I can ask for. Now I can have happiness and I like that.So, who am I? I'm Jason Wright Clark. Nice to meet you. I hope you're having as wonderful a time as I am...
GUANGZHOU: A 19-year-old man who was suspected of being infected with A(H1N1) influenza was seriously ill in a hospital in Foshan, south China's Guangdong Province, a hospital spokesperson said Saturday.
More than 10 workers of a local factory, where Chen worked as an intern, had fever a week after a group visit on September 23 to Conghua, another city in Guangdong, and were told by factory management to go home, Chen's father told Xinhua.
Soon after Chen was sent to the People's Hospital in Gaoming District Thursday, his father was informed that the young man had problems with his lung, heart and liver.
Experts from the Ministry of Health and the Guangdong provincial and Foshan municipal health institutions were having group consultations on Chen's case Saturday evening.
Emergency!!! Chinese Mainlanders are no longer immune to A(H1N1)! Everyone must panic now...
For more information, look at http://changshanotes.posterous.com/swine-flue-deaths-in-china-are-there-any
