a recipe for disaster

i suck at updating.

i have nothing interesting to say, or share.

Just got back from Guilin. 桂林山水甲天下is really true. It’s totally beautiful there. Wet, and rainy, but beautiful.
Uh. Pictures and movie stuff later. I promise. I’m updating the Nanjing post soon.

I apologize for the extreme lack of quality in my recent blogging. I don’t know what’s wrong, but I assure you, the perpetrators will be caught and punished.

And now for something completely different!
It’s really hard to see past the poverty in Guilin. There’s such a depressing dynamic between American tourists eager to spend money, and residents eager to earn money. You walk into the streets, and you’re instantly accosted by a horde of people offering to rent you a bike, to sell you a tour, fruit, or a mishmash of other items.

Stuff can be haggled down to insanely low prices. The price of labor is indeed low. I don’t know where I’m going with this. I haven’t really had a chance to organize my thoughts on the place.
Guilin is a lot like Zhang Ziyi. A lot of natural beauty, but brutally massacred by advertising and such. Oh, the power of the American Tourist.
Anyway. It’s still beautiful. It’s exactly like a Chinese brush painting. You should go.
Have a video

This is a video of Guilin