hello snowshoe, i just got done w/ workation and back from the mangrove and sands of langkawi malaysia.
i usually work during mornings of holidays else cannot relaxed knowing that to-do's are piling up. i also shy away from being a bottle-neck to what others must mill at.
loving being back in hong kong, the buzz, vibe and get-up&go-go-go, and the interlude between solar and lunar new years is especially fun, as work is comprised of much get-togethers and planning and such w/ folks either helpful in the past and/or would-be collaborating in the future.
am looking forward to the sands and food of koh samui thailand that should start in three weeks, and then year 4715 seriously gets underway
re <<It was in 1939 at Shaanxi, after the Red Army's Long March. See my reply to Mq ...>>
i guess you did not get the inter-office memo, something about history is out because it does not matter or whatever.
but hey, at the water cooler we are still allowed your good 2017 follow-up to the supposed conspiracy clip posted by mq Message 27493926 in 2011 about some view taken back in 1964 w/r to some happenings allegedly starting in the 1920s per legacy going quite awhile before even that time, eventually perhaps arising out of anything happening in year zero some 4715 years ago by china lunar calendar
re the china conspiracy, should it actually be such, i observe that the circumference of encirclement either of china or by china depending on point of view has been stretching, and in some sense, the darkening map featured in the video of the periphery towards the centre is happening in earnest, if one believes such
w/r to circa 1939 and yenan, my dada at age 30 (1938) then a reporter ventured to yenan where an 8,000 folks rebellion was based books.google.com.hk
for whatever reasons some folks are drawn to minor rebellions perhaps by unfathomable mechanism of history
anyways he had his map (perhaps the map also featured the nine dashed lines in the area of the south china sea ;0) to help him navigate across the anti-communist encirclement front line designed by the helpful nazi germans and armed by the anti-commuinsit americans all against an essentially rag tag band of some 8,000 domestic terrorist dead-enders
dad had his leica camera, coincidentally also made in germany, to record the rebellion that he believed would win the day after the long night
the pictures are fun. noice the homeland defence regiment in yenan did not seem to be armed by conventional manufacturers, and as mao noted, women shouldered half of the sky
anyways, the night turned out to be quite long, but as dad lived to 1995, he happily saw some of the glimmer of dawn - long journey, but then life is all about the journey and continuing the journey.
he, besides taking pics, doodled much as erita the coconut these days doodles, or perhaps the other way around.
who can know how history actually works; am neither smart enough to know, nor adequately stupid to think i know :0)
as film was scarce and crayon plentiful, doodling allowed staying on battle station longer than otherwise would be.
dad went out and about, but based in his yenan traditional cave abode. the coconut erita generally prefers tropical beach bungalows and favours inner city boutique abodes.
as noted, dada believed he was witnessing a rebellion that was material and would win. he turned out to be correct. he saw the future but misjudged the timing, +/- awhile, but he saw the future.
his work was published at the time all around, as were issues re to the spanish episode of ~same timing, a watch & brief coverage item that interested people
Life Magazine 1938 01 17 huangyao.org
... and i have the original :0)
these days his work is available for view at the british museum, hoover institute of stanford, and on permanent exhibit in the only cartoon museum of china situated in his ancestor's home city and one time village zhongshan. odd how coincidences work by mechanism of history.
history is fun even if not useful as alleged by some, and life the journey is wonderful especially when change even if imperceptible is actually trending should observer allow for distance and time and try to discern the fractal patterns.
fun is important, for bitterness does not enable systemically successful journeys. happy-go-lucky tendency makes for better travel whatever the route entails.
and yes, while roping a willing dope is very naughty but therapeutically essential and especially amusing over long travels, terribly, when time allowing, and only if the dopey sincerely believe they are the smartest. love them.
the next 18 years should be much fun on this thread should si last that long. and 2018 - 2026 perhaps shall see journey towards teotwawki, followed by d.k. and then tagged by whatever mr martin armstrong alerts us to, circa 2032, +/-.
am unsure how mr amrstrong does what he apparently been good at doing, but gad, he is fun.
cheers, tj
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