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Posted on: Interested in Chinese Medicine

Thanks RJ. Thanks Jason. I was looking for that kind of help.

Posted on: What does she look like?

I can't get the picture to pop up on my screen.

Posted on: Interested in Chinese Medicine

Helpful lesson.  The introduction is especially helpful for the tip about expressing interest in stuff.  Now if we can be only taught the term for "peer-reviewed research"

Posted on: What does she look like?

yeah, count me as one more person that likes the male voice actor. This guy is a CHARACTER! I like it when he says "EEEEEEEEHHHHHHH??????" or "AAAAAAHHHHHHH?????" One day, the actors will be introduced to us online. Or maybe not.

Posted on: Keen on Clean

It probably was, but I didn't look too closely at him. Anyway, after the first hour, I got used to the smell. This is a good thing, since it was about a 6 hour flight.

Posted on: Keen on Clean

I was flying from San Francisco to Boston, and I was sitting in the window seat, waiting for passengers to board the airplane.  After about 10 minutes, a guy gets ready to sit in the middle seat next to me, and he says, "you'll have to excuse me, I just came down from the mountain". I thought that was an unusual thing to say to someone you've never met or talked to.  Then he sat down next to me, and I smelled what he meant. I suspect he hadn't taken a shower in about 6 months. Or at least he hadn't seen soap in a while. Not even on his hands.

Posted on: What does she look like?

It's all relative.

Posted on: Practicing Kung Fu

Everytime I see these poems, I don't recognize any of the form that I learned. This poem isn't even close (admittedly it's a palm form), and the Northern Long Fist I learned can't be found anywhere.  I only recognize Dragon whips his tail, and Swallow Skims the water:

Dragon Palm

Preparation
1. Lean on a Horse to ask the way
2. Green Dragon turns right

1 - Single Palm Change
1. Green Dragon takes in the tail - right
2. Green Dragon looks back right
3. Green Dragon turns left

2 - Double Palm Change
1. Green Dragon takes in the tail - right
2. Sparrow-Hawk soars into the sky
3. White Snake coils in the grass
4. Green Dragon looks back right
5. Green Dragon turns left

3 - Forward Palm Change
1. Snake turns and thrusts its tongue out
2. Yellow Dragon chases its tail
3. White Snake coils in the grass
4. Green Dragon looks back left
5. Green Dragon turns right

4 - Sideways Palm Change
1. Green Dragon takes in the tail - right
2. Swallow flies into the wood
3. Green Dragon stretches its claw
4. Monkey pushes aside a branch
5. Green Dragon looks back right
6. Green Dragon turns left

5 - Threading Palm Change
1. Green Dragon takes in the tail - right
2. Swallow flies into the wood
3. Horse turns its head
4. Swallow skims the water
5. Green Dragon looks back right
6. White Ape offers fruit

6 - Holding Palm Change
1. Lion holds a ball
2. Lion rolls the ball
3. Lion holds a ball

7 - Sliding Palm Change
1. Swing fan towards the door
2. Monkey pushes aside a branch
3. Monkey holds a peach
4. Phoenix spreads its wings
5. Swallow skims the water
6. Swallow flies into the wood
7. Windmill turns back
8. Green Dragon looks back right
9. Green Dragon flies up

8 - Turning Body Palm Change
1. Swinging sleeves into the wind
2. Monkey kicks the branch
3. Swallow skims the water
4. Swallow flies into the wood
5. Boa rolls its body over
6. Monkey pushes aside a branch
7. Swallow flies into the wood
8. Fierce Tiger hunts for food
9. Green Dragon turns over

Posted on: Going to the Gas Station

Not sure what the metric for "few" is, but I know where 4 gas stations are in a 4 mile stretch, and I don't even drive.

Posted on: Hospital Visits and Prescription Medication

I will say that it was less of a hassle to see my doctor in the US, and then get the necessary referral to see the specialist. In China, I wouldn't really know to see the specialist in the first place. Certainly helpful that we tend to go to the western medicine hospitals, so there's no confusion around Chinese or western medicine being dispensed.

And thank God the line at the hospital I go to isn't like the line in the picture for this lesson. That looks like a DMV licensing fiasco.