travel advisory, and other things

this just in, actually it came in a few days ago, anyone planning to travel in southwest china needs to reconsider their plans. there is considerable flooding near guilin and yangzhuo. please be advised that rain will continue to fall and conditions will only worsen. also of note, i am not near wither of these places, and it has rained only a little where i am located right now.

but, i will only be located here for another few hours. off to the xining soon. i finally worked out my travel arrangements and booked on a flight. i hate flying withing china, trains are much more fin and cheaper. but alas, i was tired of waiting here in guangzhou for trains to be open.

on another note, it really chaps my hide to see the spurs cruising to another championship. that team might be luckier than any in recent memory. if the mavs hadn't choked the spurs would not have beat them. man, what a crappy basketball season.

on yet another note, i watched a bootleg copy of pirate of the caribbean yesterday. it was not that bad. i had really low expectations mind you, but it was okay. it was astoundingly average, which is a step up from the second one. the only problem i had was the issue of will and elizabeth's relationship at the end. come on, the entire movie is cliche and then at the end you decide to move away from the expected. boo!

one final note, it seems that almost all backpackers are pretty much the same. the slightly grungy, go anywhere do anything crowd. but sometimes you get a few rare birds, i am usually one of them for different reasons. but is appears there is atrue rare bird among us in guangzhou. a 60+ year-old pervert of a man. i think his sole purpose of travel is to find the message parlors and to pick up young women. he's really creepy. it's just so sad that someone could view these women like that, and that they are so naive or vulnerable to someone like him. that is not to mention that he walks around the hostel in his whitey-tighties. just wrong!

sorry to leave you on that thought, but that's exactly what i am doing. the next post will be coming from X, that is what i'll call xining from now on.