Japanese Rain and Chinese Porn
Reading through the feed for Michael’s The Opposite End of China blog and it seemed for a moment that he had gotten into the adult entertainment industry. A big move for Korla’s biggest blogger I thought to myself with a grin. Although after actually reading the XXX Uyghyr Sex Video post it turns out just to be a devious ploy to bump up his readership. The video is really a Uighur music clip – and well worth watching.
Seeing that Michael might be feeling a bit lonely as not as many people as normal have been reading his blog I thought I might send him a present. A present of a video which you can watch below. Damn cheap of me I know, but at least he will get it soon, unlike trusting things to the vagaries of the Chinese postal system. Anyway, the video… here in Japan we have one thing in abundance that in Korla is a scarce pleasure – rain. Todays weather has brought us some of the heaviest rain I have seen in over a year – in fact since we left Akita for Xinjiang.(I saw on the news this evening that we had 102mm today).
Rain isn’t something people normally think that much about, other than the displeasure they experience when they have forgotten their umbrella and get drenched or when their picnic is disrupted by a downpouring from the heavens. But in a desert environment like Xinjiang it is a rare blessing. In fact in the nine months we were in Korla it rained only 6 times - and not for very long, or very heavily at that. Several of those times the rain was seeded.
If you have ever read T.E. Lawrence’s The Seven Pillars of Wisdom then you may remember the section where he talks about water and how special it is – how when one goes from well to well in desert one really notices the differences in taste and flavour at each of the wells. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, although not related to Xinjiang was certainly an inspiration for me to want to live in such an environment as Xinjiang, desert and camels and all. And Xinjiang is definitely a place where one appreciates something as common for most of us as rain.
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