Day 8, Operation China, Flying Dragon Continues
the starbucks here is nasty, everything has more something in it, typically sugar, the coke has more sugar, the redbull, found one, its got way more sugar and the taste was rather flat, but the starbucks was yucky, ahh well
today was our last proceedure, an older patient in his late 50's getting an esophagtmy, cant even spell it, but basically cancer of the esophogaus area, the plan was to go in and remove the tumor, once inside however the docs kept looking inside the body cavity, and then at the xrays, something was a miss, in the 2d xray views they couldnt see just how intense this cancer was, it was big, twisted around and infected many other organs, they couldnt do anything, the stiched him up
our interpurter today was alice, shes much more timid than chen, i made the comment to alice that i felt bad for the patient, its that typical american type gesture, the unknowningly dont wish anyone bad blues kinda thing, alice replied to me "i dont feel like you do, i see this all the time", i always like that bitter truth that doesnt translate well, theres what u can say and how u can say it, the way she said it came across strangely harsh or unemotional, yet it was anything but that in reality, she's a doctor as well, and i figure she probably has seen it, and deals with it differently, she did say "i used to feel like that.. when i was younger in my profession"
after the proceedure we went to lunch with alice, dont know the name of the place, and if i did, odds are i couldnt spell it, most of the dishes were crab, with my chipped tooth i begged for some chicken, what arrived was expected for a second, all the little plates of food,
the chicken dish was supposedly spicey, it was the hottest thing ive had in a long while, and it should of been called chicken in a blender soup, the client afterwards made a hilarious statement "it was chicken but i didnt recognize a single part of it", that was so true, i, not used to seeing bones like that, rib cage, a foot.. "its a hand actually" alice corrects me.. ahh a hand.. yummy! the crab was like fend for what you can and discover the meat within!, the veggies were good
we're gonna try and get another esophgaghtmehtehtmy or what not before we leave on thursday.
what have i learned about china? what do i take back really? columbus is a paradise compared to beijing, i hope i never grow weary of a bluesky, my home town is a beatnick ville compared to this place, this vast endless apartment complex, building after building after building manifestation
oh and about apartments, typically, and this is per our chen, people buy apartments in beijing, and they come clean, concrete, no furnishings, no bathrooms, no anything, from there you build out the space, hire someone,
what else have i learned, the dollar goes far here, aside from company biz related expenses, goods wise, just pure fun spending, it goes damn far, tomorrow we may venture back to the silk market one last time, for one last deal, i may opt to get the 1 gig duo pro card, or maybe another watch, or anything really.., hmmmm actually checking froogle, those 1 gig duos are fallin like rock,
ok so back to what i take back, we have it so well in the states, course we pay thru the nose, i dunno theres a ton of people here and they will be heard one way or another, the city is gearing up for the games, meanwhile in the news i read about them attacking tiawan or something, ya know i just dont see that, course i dont really get a feel for the comunisim here as well, actually the presence of force or police is hardly noticable unless u look for it,
i dont know to think just yet, let me sit on that,
camera statistics, im averaging 300 pictures a day on the dsc-m1, its an interesting camera, getting used to its ergonomics has been of learning experience but overall im pleased with its result, ive been playing alot with the camera settings lately, if u look on flickr u may see some of my blackandwhite experiements, i like that effect, i need to get it on a tripod and try out some of its twlight modes, i've a ton of video on it, mostly at the 320x200 30fps mode, mainly cause well space, and cause those are small and web ready i hope, still mpeg4 though,
well dinner time, gotta run all, one more evening with chen