That’s absolutely insane! I cannot imagine living like that.

Lucky you got to choose to continue in the company abroad.

Your comment maybe adds to my reasoning of why I love China and east Asia but don’t want to live in China. Still aiming for Japan.

In my personal experience Chinese is only hard in the beginning. It’s an analytic language which in my opinion requires zero thought (sarcastic) compared to Japanese which is very synthetic. Japanese on the other hand is hard as hell for me. I pretty much approach is from a Chinese standpoint and it’s a challenge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_language?wprov=sfti1#List_of_analytic_languages

Chinese and Japanese. Learned some others but forgot sadly.

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I’m honestly lucky. I was drinking way way too much prior to my child. One month before it just clicked and I chilled out.

I haven’t smoked. How much is it per day? Whenever I look it seems super expensive.z

I hope you can feel better. I used to drink too much, I still drink but significantly less after my child was born. Makes me feel 100% better.

My academic understanding is that in Japan since meiji nikujiki saitai rules were repealed this is 99.99% common but in China that has rarely been the case. But yeah, there are certainly monastics in it for the money like at Leshandafo.

Glad you love it too :) Yeah it sometimes hurts my stomach but I’ve relaxed on eating too spicy. That sounds horrible! My uncle had me drink too much the first few days as well and it also made me slow down.

Wow! That’s a long time. How was it living through COVID? Was being closer to Wuhan difficult? Are you all in Kuala Lumpur? We lived there back in 2018. Very fun but not that walkable. Sounds like you’ve had a lot of good family time!

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Watched the new condor hero’s movie. It was 6/10 okay.

Lunch, plan child party, study/work, dinner, drink.

This is kind of sad buddy :/ sounds like too much weed

Link doesn’t say much but it’s still interesting. Wish there were affordable options. Most ships I see like cargo are $140 a day.

Thanks for sharing your similar feelings and what you do. Walking in nature doesn’t make me feel not empty but it certainly is a more enjoyable way to feel that way! I agree with slowing down. I use too much tech

That’s true :) Sometimes I just feel outside of my few hobbies, work, and family there is nothing else meaningful to do. Your question influenced me to think further! I don’t mean this in a depressed sense, just nothingness.

That’s exciting! I hope you all enjoy. What are the plans :)

This is honestly a scary question. My work and hobbies blend together. Outside of them I have zero idea what I would want to do. Sometimes that makes me feel really empty.

That sounds not up my alley compared to Sichuan food, haha! That’s interesting about baozi!

IDK your family, but the religious reasons is where they say oh monastics really eat meat… My PhD studies are Chinese Buddhism, I would know haha. The once a year this is annoying. You can always say you’re eating some medicine that you can’t drink. No crazy drinkers there?

Last week I went with an uncle and his friends and they drank an absurd amount. I probably had 5 plus standard drinks of baijiu. Too much… I don’t get the fun in too much.

If we are in Asia we always come but I haven’t been back since COVID so this year is a big one for us. What about you? I hope to come annually in the future.

That’s fun they make it too :) Is your Henan food spicy or what? Never been!

I think pretty much every family member in China doesn’t really get it and frequently tells me I can in fact eat meat. They said, my PILs have cooked plenty of plantbased meals for me. Eating this way was a personal choice but I am also Buddhist. I also get a lot of comments telling me that monastics in China eat meat, which isn’t necessarily true, so why don’t I. Then I also get the silly questions saying well what about shrimp? Or fish? Or pork? lol more silly than pressured.

Any baijiu for you? My uncle made 50kg of homemade stuff. It was good too :)

That sounds awesome! Lucky you for having awesome cooks in the family.

I don’t eat meat anymore but the best meat that I know from when I did was probably huiguorou or larou. The first is like a pan fried thick pork belly. The second is winter curred sausage. I just had a pan fried tofu dish and jiucai. Both yummy. Grandma gave me her pickled garlic which I really liked.

Took the time to interview her about the 60s. It was interesting!