It rained all day Sunday. So much for my plans to drop in at the public table tennis tables and learn Cantonese. Instead I hit the books and I think I have finally worn out me electronic dictionary. It's confused. It can read my handwriting, but it can't find the characters in its dictionary...how can that be right? Straight from a perfectly respectable book. Grrr.
And I watched a lot of TV. I'm not sure if my listening is improving, but I can certainly read subtitles faster than I used to.
I have a new local restaurant (I bought an umbrella in the 7/11 next to my building). Curiously, I can get about 3 times as much food there for the same price as most of the other places around. Can't say it's inspiational food, but it's OK. They have a massive takeaway/delivery trade; I guess about 3 times as many orders were shipped out as there were diners while I was there. That means it would just about be possible to live exclusively in my flat, the train, and the school buildings. A paradigmatic 21st century existence. Add telecommuting (coming in May) and I could have a state of the art paradigm - never leave home. Curious in the middle of the most populated country in the world to think that it is nearly practical to live without seeing onyone at all.
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