Am delighted by week of seeming Career
Ups including two new job offers that are definitely not straight ESL teaching: not that I mind that, it is just that are
too many of that type -
I want some specialties.
Still, nothing has gelled yet, and
had a rare hell-raising spat with my Chinese Mate. I definitely am not the type of person who receives energy from getting
it All Out, and usually feel drained and weak after open confrontations.
I am a firm believer in the old idiom,
The devil makes work for idle hands. With so many pre-school children in my life, I don't have the time
for a lot of challenges in my other relationships, as well as the devastatingly long distances I travel in HK - right to the
border of China sometimes, just for one child.
I will dwell on the earlier part of
the day, which went well.
My intriguing house guest, a karate
student from England, found a new beach for us all to swim at, pure white sands.
We walked there about onein the afternoon,
and I found a road
of shops I had not discovered before,
in our little island
of Chamma Tau.
I missed the width of the rocky and
unpopular beach I favour,
as I am often quite alone there,
staring at the sea,
thinking of eternity.
I see many Chinese boats,
homely and gawky with bits
of metal and wood squares tacked onto
their sides,
promising adventures
up the action-packed rivers of Beautiful
China.
I also am joined there by
fisherwomen with gumboots and straw
hats, and monitor my swims so I do not scare off the fish in their territory.
However I enjoyed seeing the shark
netting, and the lifeguard, and children playing with water wings on, daringly far out
from shore.
There was not the breadth of swimming
area, which I love,
as I do not like to go out over my
head, just swim parallel
to the shore line.
I would like to be
a rich businesswoman so I could swim
all day, or at least,
in the morning and the night too.
We saw a small miracle walking to
the beach, a spider larger
than the palm of your hand,
and multi-coloured in oranges and
black, dressed prematurely for Halloween.
It was spinning a large web
near the pathway, and
some German tourists stopped too,
taking digital photographs
of it.
Nature is so wonderful,
said my houseguest, and I agreed.
We talked about the ads for
coffee pots and printers, and how
I wanted these household items.
I exercise steadily for more than
one hour, and considering
how shaken I am after
male/female rows, it's a wonder to me to think what I would have been like, had I just let
myself go.
I consider In Law Visits to be
a harbinger of changes here,
though
also the stress of moving to HK
is up there, too.
I try not be a Blamer,
though I have problems in other directions,
such as those that begin with the Letter E:
Escape, Evade, and Elude.
It's real time here in this paradise,
and I cannot help but think of uglier
places, where there is more internal peacefulness,
and hope that soon the internal will
be just a little more serene.
There are no screens
on this windows, so we have to shut
them when the mosquitoes are the worst, around five in the afternoon.
The insects both the others
more than me, as I have been
to Asia ten years now, and my skin
is tougher, if not my heart.
The argument cut in to my working
time, as I am forced to work late at night, rather than early in the morning.
Thinking about other male and female
issues:
I had to laugh when I was reading
about cross-linking that
women bloggers fret that
men will not link to them and prefer
to link to male bloggers.
Well, to encourage those women readers,
as well as men,
for help on the Internet
is actually asexual,
I have been raising
all my traffic steadily on
a large group of sites
before I even asked this week
to cross-link.
There are so many ways to help your
sites on your own.
knowing how to search
keywords crucial
register every page of the site
at the search engine, not just the
first/index page
Google is tops,
if you are in good with them,
you can forget about the others
Yahoo is getting better though
The eyes of Internet addicts
get
tired from blaring or boring sites:
think pictures
Where there's a will,
there's a way!
