Showing posts with label Jenny. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jenny. Show all posts

Monday, July 13, 2026

Monday 9:23 PM


It is comfortable outside.  Smooch the cat is lying down outside, very calm and content.

I hope I don’t forget to let her back in.

Meanwhile I read this:

The emperor’s bedding in the imperial bedchamber is placed with the pillow facing east. Sleeping with the head in this direction generally confers dynamic yang energy, which is why Confucius also slept thus. Mansions built in the shinden style often have the bed facing south.

Retired Emperor Shirakawa slept with head to the north. However, the north should be avoided as inauspicious. Someone also pointed out that the great shrine of Ise lies to the south, and surely it is wrong for His Majesty to lie with feet pointing towards this sacred shrine. When worshipping the distant Ise Shrine, however, the emperor faces not due south but south-east.

AKIC blogger's pillow is on the north side of the bed.  AKIC faces south when he sleeps.  What direction should AKIC be facing?  Not eastwards towards Mordor.  Maybe westwards towards the new republic.

AKIC's wife Jenny is currently on her way to the Shanghai Pudong Airport.





Monday, February 16, 2026

My wife’s Chinese New Year Dinner


 Tony, I and my wife are separated for Spring Festival this year.  Tony & I were supposed to go to a CNY dinner last evening but my neighbors had to postpone it on account of having caught bad colds.  When we can do the dinner is very up in the air because I’m so busy. I had made myself free for last night’s dinner,

I can only now watch the video above and see what I have missed. A nice little detail in the video is the sound of fireworks going off in the surrounding environs.

Ten Hours Aho

 We dropped off Jenny at the Airport. Ten hours later, she’s still on the page.