Wish i had a camera....Friday the surf was up...some really big waves for here....kinda scary but fun body surfin for an x-moose hunter. Then after a night of that, just cross the road to the foreigner's main hangout to watch a band (philippine classic rock cover band are the house).
Today, me were joggin up za mountain behinda university, and through da bush n treez some people was callin...i figures they was callin fer me as nobody else i dun seen along da road....so in i goed....there was tree farmers...a lady and 2 men. I bin told the local minority peoples are some friggin hostile becauza their land bein taken for university by da army (same story everywhere in China maybe)...however, even though they all had machetes, i understood thru common non verbal language that they wanted me to eat and were actin downright friendly as Chinese usually does. They has 3 huge Jackfruits which be by far me favoright fruit This grows in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, North Australia, and here. In Canada u can get em dried in superstores, last time i saw was in a purplish bag in the fruit section.
I'v seen it lots up north but its too expensive and not fresh... I bought some when i first gut here in Hainan a month ago but done found out the hard way that the centre oozes a latex like glue when cut....and not knowing this or how to cut it i kinda glued my lips and sink and hands all together, so y'kno t'was hard to eat with all these tings stuck... Luckily saliva slowly dissolves it over time.
Anyways....one is suppose to eat but a little bit of this fruit...but together we ate a whole fruit...which weigh about 15 kg. They was takin a break from prunin a new orchard of 'em..i guess they was just gonna go t' waste anyways...and they sure made me take one back home with me...which on the market at 4 rmb per half kg would be about 120 rmb ($25 cdn)...second time have been given a bunch of free fruit by farmers...different farm....this to the north, the other to the east. Now waiting fer da new mangos to comes online...and da new papayas and Lychee and star fruit and on and on she goes.
Yin Yang...good comes after the bad.
Hello, around the globe. As usualy you can listen to songs on CBC radio 3 or download it from this email (better quality)
http://music.cbc.ca/#/play/artist/Skronger
New Song for free....whaddaya want for nuthin eh??? Its about first arrival at new job in Sanya, way out in the willy wags within mountin bikin range of about 10 ocean beaches. Relatively simple and mellow style compared with others. Already had the lyrics for the chorus written and decided upon before realizing the criticism it will draw.....too lazy to change all those rhymes....just let it be eh.
I feel a more metalish tone comin on next
Since i wanna have it as a sing song here....i used some Chinese words for the different fruits ...so u Englades can praktice ur Chinese pronunciation. Incidenfully, I believe the fruit called BoLuoMi (jack fruit to some....see link), is the "hidden" fruit that Wrigley's gum uses for juicy fruit gum flavoring...to me its nearly the same....but then, i eat dear porcupines off the side of the road after November, and jelly fish, and snakes and frogs and so on...so i hear.....givin me poor credibility on the tasters connoisseur's platform. I like it bloody and cold. Here is da lyriks:
ps: if you didn't get this email let me know.
SANYA UNIVERSITY
http://www.syxyhn.com/englishweb/about.html
Copyright by "skronger"
Christopher Mark Kohler July 9, 2012
http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/bands/Skronger
Pre Chorus
No stress here but
A falling coconut
Chorus
sānyà University
Big nuts looking down at me
From way up the coconut tree
But in my hand two dragon's eyes
Come on whack it to blue skies
2nd time
Big nuts looking down at she
From way up the yē zī (coconut) tree
But in my hand two lóng yǎn (longan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longan)
Sucking on liú lián (dorian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian)
sānyà University
Verse 1
Study in sānyà University
landscaped by tropical fruit trees
But something more important here
Just listen on my lovely deer
Verse 2
lìzhī (lychee) here, lóng yǎn stares
Follow deer she'll lead us there
The mountain is draped in mángguǒ (mango) trees
Early morning we'll go see
Verse 3
Through mùguā (papaya) and xiāng jiāo (banana) leaves
to the cave's back door we will creep
n watch ancient Chinese study
Zhōng guó huà 中国画 (Chinese painting), liàn xí 练习 (study)
Bridge
A tiny apple smacked Newton's head
Thus gravity was invented
If a big nut green cracks my bean
I may reach Confucian dreams
Copyright by "skronger"
Christopher Mark Kohler July 9, 2012
http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/bands/Skronger
Verse 4
Center cave of University (Luo Bi Cave http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luobi_Cave)
hang brush pens for civility
birth of Chinese society
since year 12,000 BC
