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As the United States and China battle over the finer points of currency manipulation at the G-20 summit, American negotiators may want to take note of this startling testimonial to the productivity of Chinese workers: A construction crew in the south-central Chinese city of Changsha has completed a 15-story hotel in just six days. If nothing else, this remarkable achievement will stoke further complaints from American economic pundits that China's economy is far more accomplished than ours in tending to such basics as construction.
The work crew erected the hotel -- a soundproofed, thermal-insulated structure reportedly built to withstand a magnitude 9 earthquake -- with all prefabricated materials. In other words, a crew of off-site factory workers built the sections, and their on-site counterparts arranged them on the foundation for the Ark project.
h/t Clavin
It's important to recognise that people who feel alone and depressed may have very low pain thresholds, whereas the reverse can be true for people who feel secure and cared for.
Initial promotion fares
from HND to KUL: 5,000 JPY ++ /OW
from KUL to HND : 34 USD ++/ OW
Book from 23 Sep - 31 Oct 2010
Travel from 9 Dec 2010 - 31 Jul 2011
Year-round fare from HND 10,000 to 25,000 JPY ++ /OWAbout the "++", Air Asia doesn't charge fuel, IIRC.
Not bad. Much cheaper than Okinawa fares of NH and JL.Schedule: -T-T--S
HND 23:45 - KUL 06:30(+1)
KUL 14:40 - HND 22:30
It's cheap... but I wonder what will be the majority fare.
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We need an organization for defending us from the evil that is ‘marital sex’. Pre marital sex is amazing! It’s like a war survival manual because it teaches you ‘going in with protection’. If you don’t go in protected it teaches you ‘not leaving your traces in enemy territory’ via ‘timely retreating a.k.a. pulling out’. After all those years of practice to get the timing perfected, you get married. Once that happens you stop being vigilant which is why marital sex mostly ends up with pregnancy. Strangely, no one has a problem with it.
In fact your parents want your wife to be pregnant. They are always hounding you with, “when are you giving us the good news?” Leave me alone already! My woman being pregnant can’t be considered as good news! You must be wondering, ‘Hey Leo, why do my parents want my wife to get pregnant?’ Vengence! Pure sweet vengeance that was plotted secretly behind for back for years. You were a trauma inducing child who troubled your parents, stayed out late, back answered and wore your jeans too low since it was a trend. Their plan was waiting patiently for you to get married and have a kid. The good news they are waiting for is, you having to deal with the same shit that you gave them. Congratulations, you are fucked!
Contrary to popular belief, having a child is the worst mistake ever. You’ve to be with deal a woman who has grown twice her size and yet expects you to answer the question, ‘Am I fat?’ in the negative. There’s morning sickness. Also, she’s constantly on the edge, you say something wrong and she’ll probably bite your testicles off in rage. Obviously you don’t want your precious testicles bitten off, because of rage or any other feeling, so you shut up and wear a jockstrap to be on the safer side. It’s too late but you still wonder if you could have prevented this gestation with masturbation.She turns into a total attention whore. Look at me, get me nourishing food, take me to the hospital I’ve got labor pains, etc. Jesus, she won’t do anything on her own! She won’t lift a finger. If she won't do any work because she's pregnant it's double standards to demand work from your pot-bellied ass.
If dealing with that shit is not enough, you’ve this constant fear at the back of your head – will this child be born normal? Will he have like 7 hands and 3 eyes? Will be able to comprehend the fact that ‘light can be both a particle as well as a wave’? Will he like or hate something depending on popular opinion? Will he suck up to others from fear of being ostracized for having his own opinions? You wait and pray and all this while the tiny minion of Satan hasn’t come out yet. Your parents are laughing with sadistic delight at the fact that you’re now a nervous wreck and you’re losing hair. Yes, 99% of married men get bald by the beginning of the third trimester.
Then, comes child-birth. Remember when you put your thing in there? Remember how she screamed? Well, now there’s an infant who’s going to come out of it. Oh boy! She’s going to yell. And you’ve to be there. There is nothing worse than being in a room with a crying female and you HAVE to be there. You HAVE to hold her hand. Chuck the hand, grab her tits instead. If she’s going to be screaming and crying and bring babies into the world, you better have some entertainment of your own. It’s her fault that you are not at home being comfortable and relaxed. Finally, the baby pops out. By pops out I mean, slowly crawls his way out from the uterus via the birth canal and the first thing that he does is cry. You wonder why the fuck is he crying for? The last time you came out of that hole you were satisfied, smiling and were trying to avoid conversation. You take the baby home.
Now you have this human like thing which is about one sixth of your size. You need to keep it in a proper place so that you don’t step on it or accidentally break it. The stupid thing won’t eat normal human food and can’t use a knife or a fork. You’ve to feed it and it doesn’t want to eat. You think fuck it, it doesn’t want to eat, it’s not my fault but then it cries because it’s hungry and you’re mind-fucked and stalemated. You’ve something that’s hungry but doesn’t want to eat. You’re stumped. You try to bang your head against the wall so that you can bleed to death but the wailing won’t stop. You try to feed it again, the tiny thing finally relents and eats. You don’t know why there’s a change of heart but frankly you don’t care.
The misery doesn’t end there. It sleeps during the day and it stays awake at night when it decides to cry. You think it is going to work for an international BPO. You think crying is it’s favorite pastime. You stay awake day and night because of it. You think you’re wife has given birth to a vampire. You check your wife’s neck for teeth marks. You proceed to lose your other body hair as well, you’re just a mass of flesh, bones and internal organs with no sleep and very little hair.
Years pass and it grows up. Now you’ve a tiny thing that runs around the house naked, leaves body fluids all over the place and demands your attention. It has started talking and it just doesn’t stop. Then comes the school age when you realize that you’ve this tiny human that can’t remember 26 alphabets and 10 digits correctly. 36 symbols! How hard is that? You lose faith and burn those George Orwell novels and other books that you had saved for your child.
Further into school you realize that the dumbass doesn’t know that the Titanic sank in 1912, that the world is round, the largest internal organ is the liver, and other general known fact. You want to take the dumbass out of school and employ him in bidi making factory. At least he’ll earn something. Years, later after you’ve spend money and effort in getting the stupid prick educated, he thinks that he’s smarter than you. You realize that he’s right; if you were smart you wouldn’t have him. You wait for him to have a child. The cycle continues.
Nick
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Follow up from The Muji column.
2010年5月19日に掲載しましたこのコラムについて、みなさんから投稿されたご意見をご紹介します。
人間は「個」を楽しめなければ、2人でも楽しめないといいます。
昔は淋しいのがいやで人と一緒にいたりしていたわたしですが、最近は「個」を楽しみたい、ムリして人と一緒にするようにしない自分を見つける時間をもつことで、人生がもっと豊かに、そして楽になったような気がしています。
今回の「くらしの良品研究所」のコラムで取り上げられた「ひとり旅」、独身時代に4回やりました。会社勤めをしていた頃、ある休日に参加した写真のワークショップで講師の作品に魅かれて、個展のスケジュールを調べては年に1回、まる1週間休みをとって、イギリスに3回、デンマークに1回行きました。
現地では晴れたり雨が降ったりコロコロと変わる天気に戸惑いつつ、現地の画材やさんや街中のお菓子屋さんで買い物をしたり、ホテルの部屋でお茶（イギリスだと多くのホテルの部屋に紅茶のセットが用意されていて、いつでもいただけます）を味わったり、国内線の飛行機や電車に乗り合わせた人に荷物の上げ下ろしを手伝ってもらったりお菓子のやり取りをしているうちに、作家の暮らす世界が見えてきて、それが作品の世界とつながってきて、無事個展会場で作品を拝めたときには、たとえ作家本人はいなくとも、本当に作品の世界の中で濃密な時間を過ごすことが出来ました。
そんななかでわたしにとっての「ひとり旅」は、おそらくひとりの人間とじっくりと向き合い、その中で自分の中で「目に見えない宝物」をいただく時間をつくることではないかと思っております。
コラム「ひとり旅」を読みました。たしかにひとり旅は「孤独になるための装置」なのかもしれません。
これまで「ひとり旅」は国内外ともしましたが、「発見」だと私は感じています。自分を見つめることの発見、新たな文化の発見、新たな仲間との出会い、そこから学ぶ発見もあります。このコラムはある程度の地位があったり、著名な方が書いたから、ひとり旅が新鮮で「ただの自分」になるのかもしれませんが、私のように地位もなく、無名な人だと、ひとりで行動することが多く、「孤独」と感じたことはありません。
旅への思いは人それぞれ、孤独という意味もいろいろあるので、「ひとり旅＝孤独」とは言い切れないと感じました。
「ひとり旅」のコラム、確かにそうだなあ…と共感しました。
ひとり旅は寂しいのでしたことはないのですが、いろいろ悩みがあるときや、現状に納得がいっていないときは、ひとり旅をしてみるのもいいかな、と思いました。
一人旅についてのコラムなるほどと思いながらよみました。ココロに響くものがありました。
自分と向き合う旅という一人旅は否が応でも自分という人間のキャパを感じるものです。自分ってこんなんだったっけ？それはいい意味でも悪い意味でも必要な事だと思います。人間は孤独で最後は一人で死んでいくものです。自分と向き合うことは日々どうしても避けてしまいがちですがやはり必要なことだと思います。
この前思い立って京都に一人旅をしてきました。一人の気楽さと一人の寂しさと一人のふがいなさを痛感しました。
旅の準備などは楽しいので女性の一人旅が楽しくなるようなものをどんどん販売してくださいね。無印の旅行グッズはかなり愛用してます。すぐにパッキングして旅にでたくなるのでまた一人旅寂しいけれども自分を成長させるためにもまたでかけようと思います。
「ひとり旅」のコラムを読んで。私は2歳の娘がいる主婦です。
日々、育児や家事に追われています。でも、いつも頭の片隅から離れないのは、スーツケース、いやリュックひとつあればどこでも生きていける気持ちを持つこと。別にひとりでなくても、娘との2人旅でも必要最低限のものがあればオムツなどどこでも手に入るだろうし。
結局、旅に出るのに1番必要なのは好奇心。開放感を求めてもいいけれど、パッと出かけられるようなそんな心持ちで日常を過ごすことだけで日々の育児も、顔見知りとばったり出会うことや、ママ友達と遊びに行くことも、地元でしかできないと感じて、一日一日が大切に思えるんです。
ひとり旅についてのコラムを読みました。『ひとり旅で「わたし」を感じる』まさにその通りですね。ひとり旅ゆえの不安や不便さもありますが、慣れるとそれはそれで楽しみの一つになります。
50歳の主婦ですが外国をひとり旅していると普段とは違うパワーがみなぎります。自分が行動しないとどこにも行けませんから。
なんだか、やたらアグレッシブな私。ただ、無理のない日程（体力とか気力とか、なんせ若くないですから）の設定と事前の情報入手はしつこいくらい入念にします。
それでも先月のような200年に一度の火山噴火なんてのもあります。はい。ちょうど私のひとり旅最後の日、4月16日です、自分としては多分体力ギリギリの2週間の旅の最後の日、火山灰のせいでスキポール発の帰国便がキャンセルになりました。その後帰国便がでる21日までは、本当に「これが人生ってやつね！」というくらいのあり得ない日々。
帰国後、出発前よりちょっとタフになった自分がいます。
ひとり旅、やめられません。そして気持ちよく送り出してくれる家族に感謝しています。
私にとってひとり旅とは、「自分自身を成長させること」としてとらえています。
特に海外へ行ったときには感じますが、ゲートはどこなのか？など、細かいところまで自分で調べないといけません。日帰り旅行では時間配分とか、思わぬことに出くわしたときのプラン変更など、予測、変更、決断に対して強くなります。
失敗したときは全部自分にかかってくるので、人に迷惑をかけることなく次の課題を見つけられるところが楽しいです。もちろん観光や地元の人たちとのコミュニケーションも魅力です＾＾
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