John Fitzpatrick. About New China, the Koreas, Myanmar, Thailand, and also about Japanese and Chinese writers and poets. The main emphasis is on North Asia and the political tectonics of this very important, powerful, and many-peopled area.
Tuesday, 22 November 2016
Advice for the Traveller in the USA: I think it was Anarcharsis, 2000 years ago, the inventor of both Anarchy and the modern Ship's Anchor, who noted: "The First Drink is For Happiness, the Second Drink is for Relaxation, the Third Drink is for Love and Laughter..the Fourth Drink is for Madness..." If I were you, whilst in America, I would forgo the Fourth drink... and Take the Fifth...
It seems the most successful fighters right now against ISIS in Mosul are the Iranian Militia, who actually know how to fight...they are gaining ground within the city from their angle of entry...and they will never ever give their gains back...(this was all, before the separations, all Persia...their country)whilst Iraqi-American army trained folk are regrouping with their state of the art weapons after getting a bit of a thump in the face from ISIS. ISIS knows how to fight too...and ISIS will fight because Mosul is an Iraqi city and ISIS are... Iraqis....Iraqis who we don't like, mind you...but Iraqis...and people do get a bit pernickety and recalcitrant about surrendering their homeland for some strange reason.
Melbourne: the great thing is, for Mrs Fitz and daughter DJ, is that we can live together for some time with DJ going to Uni there, so there is all that good and hard time together that Mums and young adult Daughters can need and that can drive them crazy...DJ can excel at her cool sound engineering and movie making studies and Mrs Fitz can use her skills as the best teacher of Mandarin in the country. Her students will be, as always, Chinese, Korean and Japanese kids whose parents realise the importance of Mandarin for the present and the enduring long term future in the world. She may also get some Indian kids, and even Australian ones...so it is very good for Mrs Fitz, we believe, this move to Melbourne, in establishing her Teaching Empire of Excellence....a discrete school and education tour business, called: "China Passport". I will be happy to have some rote job in Health, no longer needing a career, per se, for a few years...and I think I will find that kind of work...mind you, I have to. To distract me from this work-burden, and being a profoundly spiritual being... I will now choose which Chinese Lucky Waving Cat to sit upon the dashboard of the Nissan Navara on our Journey South...it's kind of like a St Christopher Lucky Cat in a way. Onwards!
Monday, 21 November 2016
My brother Jim, a military tactical expert, now retired, although not, to my knowledge, retired from being my brother, did great things, as he saw them, for Australia. He can also still relate the entire comic book of 'Donald Duck Versus The Terris & Fermis'...from about 1960...and he WILL do so without even being asked to. So, be careful should your paths cross.
Sunday, 20 November 2016
With the end of work here in sight, I must admit the glamour of neurosis mental health nursing of the mostly worried well is wearing a bit thin. Apparently where we will be living in Melbournopolis is quite close to Monash Hospital which is apparently very big and does good palliative care as well...so I might rock up there and see what's happenin' in da hood...tinker around with a syringe driver or two...and just basically chillin' with ma homies on the stoop there, bust a cap or two in some skinny white cop's ass on the way to work...as honky nurses do...Righteous. Represent. Southside.
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