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A few days ago I ebayed my camera. Had it for like 5 months or so, I learned a bunch about photography and carried it everywhere. Enjoyed taking photos very much, a new model came out and thought it was a good time to sell this one before the prices went down too bad. It went for $859 with 2 lenses. http://isooz.com/ebay/ebay.html

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Busy day today, doing chores and regular stuff people just have to do cause … life throws them at you. Let’s see. D Changed some linens @ spotlight (linen store in Indooroopilly area. Had lunch in this really nice asian restaurant, the food was amazingly good, and the funny thing is that it’s a build your own noodle bar. You choose the noodle type, the sauce, and the proteins. I had thin rice noodles, black bean sauce (Hong Kong style) and seafood.

It’s been a couple of weeks since I came back from China. It was a very interesting trip. I have a little bit of difficulty reacting how I am expected to, it’s fun to watch how people rather have a cookie cutter reaction towards their questions rather than an honest, elaborated one. Guess people are too busy and don’t have time to waste (R’s line). While in China went to a lot of cities, Hong Kong (HK), Shenzhen (Guangdong), Guiling (Guangxi), Yangshuo (Guangxi), Kunming (Yunnan), Dali (Yunnan), Lijian (Yunnan), Chengdu (Sichuan), Xi’an (Shaanxi), Harbin (Heilongjiang), Beijing and Shanghai. It is interesting that on the 2nd week after being there, even though I had a cold for a month or several colds in series I felt much better healthwise than I’ve felt in a while. Bloating disappeared for a long time and my stomach was flat as a board. Although I didn’t had the energy of a 15 year old I was walking and running all over and didn’t had much problems. Being there reminded me that I can do whatever I want, as in, I have the strength, intelligence and character stability to overcome all challenges that I might be faced with and that is a good feeling. I didn’t travel to drink, fuck or tell. I traveled to prove myself that I can and to have a deeper understanding of a culture and people that are often misjudged and misundertood.

In a way I do feel disappointed though. I wasn’t able to overcome all my inhibitions and fears. I was nastied my dirt and bothered by some minor cultural diferences. I have critiziced this in the past about other people, and their fear of difference makes the critical about others. Chinese do spit, a lot, and for some reason I felt whenever I past a spitting chinese that he was doing it on purpose because of me, of course this is not true, they just do it, but I sorta felt offended in some way. I tried to counteract this by spitting back. Whenever I approached a chinese who was clearing his throat preparing his saliva missile, I would do the same thing and spit as he did, was my way to counterattack. Of course, I’m sure, they didn’t even thought about it being funny at all.

Excited and a little scared. Haven’t backpacked in a long time and sure as hell haven’t backpacked in such an different country as China. First part is going to be easy. Will meet Twiggy, a friend in Hong Kong, she seems to be very nice and friendly and hopefully we’ll get along very well.

I’ve been reading a lot about China as a whole, lots of interesting facts. Particularly interesting about the last emperor of China. When China started to reform to change from Empire to Republic the emperor who was very young abdicated. Later on China got inmersed in social and economic problems and Japan invaded and Japan use the emperor as a puppet and set up a new government. Japan was defeated and the emperor went to jail, he finally was pardoned and he spent the rest of his life as a gardner. He died anonymous and forgotten.

In 10 days I’ll catch the plane to Hong Kong, I haven’t prepared that much. I’ve been busy reading everything I can about China and the places I want to go, or rather say, the places I’m not sure if I want to go to. I’m not really sure what I want to do. I got pretty excited about doing southern China, today I commented my housemate about that, and he replied “I don’t understand why you like to pass hardship”…. It made me feel horrible, like tons of things he says lately. Pardon me for not staying in the Shanghai Hilton for the whole month. I like to go out and explore.
I’m not sure if it was because of this comment or what, but now I am dubious about what I wanna do. Do I wanna visit a lot of places in a short amount of time, or I want to spend at least a week in each place. I’m sure I would be entertained for a month just exploring Beijing. But still I don’t know what I want to do. =(

Word of the day…  inability to experience pleasure from normally pleasurable life events. Link

I’ve been feeling ill, physically and mentally. It’s like I’m blocked. Something is blocking me, and I can’t figure out what. I’ve been watching Avatar: The last airbender. Hence the Chakras.

Results from Chakra test

Root	Sacral	Navel	Heart	Throat	Third Eye	Crown

Root:	under-active	(-38%)
Sacral:	under-active	(-81%)
Navel:	under-active	(-100%)
Heart:	under-active	(-63%)
Throat:	under-active	(-69%)
Third Eye:	under-active	(-50%)
Crown:	under-active	(-25%)