aureentuluva

2009-01-30T19:58:00.000-08:00

back in alaska

2009-01-30T19:34:00.000-08:00

naizuud minee, sain baitsganuu? bi neg sarin omno alyaskand butsaj irsen. negdugaar sard odor bolgon ogloo 11 tsagd manai nutag ene zurag shig haragddag. nar haan be?? hehe

你們好! 我回阿拉斯加來了. 以上的詞就是英文母子的蒙文. 本文旁邊的照片讓我們看阿拉斯加冬天的每天11點早上的陽光如何. 說到底, 陽光有, 但太陽怎麼了?? 哈

蒙古大會

2008-11-15T04:54:00.000-08:00

有340人左右參加

回到外蒙古之後的大會mongolian convention

2008-11-15T04:48:00.000-08:00

azure mere碧祿池塘

2008-11-15T04:39:00.000-08:00

no artificial dyes or sweeteners!

daisy

2008-11-15T04:24:00.000-08:00

這隻狗就是我爸媽的.牠叫daisy, 是husky. 有藍色眼睛的. 情注意, 阿拉斯加雖然還夏天/秋天,但是海拔1500公尺以上常有雪冰. 空氣都完全沒有煙,污染等.

2008年9月

2008-11-15T04:16:00.000-08:00

這張照片是在阿拉斯加離我爸媽的家不遠拍的. 秋天山上的草花都變紅了

kotaro and tulga

2008-08-15T17:33:00.000-07:00

terelj

2008-08-15T17:09:00.000-07:00

游泳跳水是這麼好玩:)那天我們有點曬傷中暑了.
但是滿好玩. 照片中的那條河離烏蘭巴托城不太遠.
九十分鐘之內就可以到. 從山上遠眺, 看到那個成吉思汗的一座很有名的雕像.

darkhan

2008-08-01T07:10:00.000-07:00

kotaro
galaa
ian

darkhan bookstudy

2008-08-01T06:53:00.000-07:00

a score of us gathered in an upper room...no group or congregation as of yet in this second largest population centre in outer mongolia.
aren't they brilliant? :)

達爾寒, darkhan, 第二大的外蒙古城市, 還沒有小組或者會眾. 如今只有個書籍研究辦. 我們二十人在日本的一對的家聚集起來. 他們都好棒!

暴亂的一些照片 riot in the capital--rally 'round the family, pocket full o' shells

2008-08-01T06:41:00.000-07:00

7月1號 (你可能已經聽過)有暴亂發生. 4個人被殺了, 也有很多受傷. 選舉時,一個政黨將了投票的數目歪曲掉. 結果呢?

山頂的風

2008-07-28T10:41:00.001-07:00

kotaro 跟 tuvshinbayr 一起站住在烏蘭巴托四週的山峰. 你也可以看得出那天風都吹得滿有力.
the encircling uplands, replete with cairns and khadags (blue cloth), wax downright lenticular in their scree-ful barrenness.

friends from the hall(s) at bayanbulag

2008-07-28T10:31:00.000-07:00

grinnin' like a proper band o' Cheshire cats, we were...我們也笑得嘴都合不攏了...

2008, 03 month

2008-03-25T00:54:00.000-07:00

對不起, 我好久沒有寄一封email給你們. 我希望你們的健康, 工作, 學習時間, 於會眾的交往都還不錯. 我不久之前,
有找到一分容許我經常參與傳道於聖經研究活動工作. 像在台. 湾一樣, 我這裡也是個英文老師. 一般而言, 我晚上都有課, 最近烏蘭巴托的空氣
污染有變得好一點兒. 這裡的溫度越來越暖, 所以所有住蒙古包的人都還不要點炭火了. 下個週末我們這裡舉行一場大會, 可是, 可笑的是, 如果只有兩群會眾參加的話, 真的可以叫做'大'會嗎?
我昨天第一次有喝過駱駝奶. 酸酸的. 而且好濃. 但願春天會儘快來到, 我一直都乾咳. 我念念不忘你們, 難以相信兩個月已經有過去. 光陰似箭, 不是嗎?
我現在要全神貫注蒙古語. 願耶和華以自己的無可抵抗的聖靈慷慨地祝福你們. 傑克

deep thoughts and fact-free stories

2008-03-13T00:13:00.000-07:00

yestereve, as i soliloquized and ruminated whilst savouring my mug of camel's milk (хормог), i waxed sardonic, bemused by the paradoxical nature of the gifts which at times are granted to us by
our Deity and, perchance, by the happenstance of the folded matrices of this cosmos. for if a man be by thought sundered from even his compatriots, his peers of like nascence and fealty, what nocent jab could him e'er betide by
sojourns and peregrinations to lands far-flung? the dissolution of threat abolishes also fear of that selfsame threat, yes? we fear not the death of the ephemeron, or of the deceased. maim the hostage and disarm the kidnapper.
no device to bandy overproud words has he left. burn the bridge and cross that Rubicon. or, rather, find it burned ere your survey. and be wise enough to perceive yourself enmeshed in this irony, and adopt it as a gift truly.

~ now, i must confess, i will likely be committing a lot of sins here in UB. why, praytell? well, because in mongolian, the word for sin is (romanicized): noogle. and you gotta admit, it's pretty hard to take sin seriously if you call it a noogle.
also, an alert reader alerted us alertly that the word for main/cardinal qualities/attributes is: gol chanaruud. but in prayer you could say: Lord, forgive us our noogles as we also forgive our fellowman HIS noogles. so hamartiology in mongolian
is the study of noogles. noogle-ology, if you will. also, here it is readily observed that any creature possessing an external organ even remotely similar to an udder gets milked. and the milk is then: 1. consumed as a beverage, or 2. fermented
until possessing a volumetric alcohol percentage rivaling the blood of the average citizen of Ireland. then consumed as a beverage (or, alternatively, stored for emergency blood transfusions for Irish tourists). also, the mongolians are a physically
talented bunch of folks. examples include: contortionists. jugglers. and the guy who, despite the ex-soviet bus (motto: pedestrians are great traction!) being crowded with approximately 6 passengers per square foot, STILL manages to attempt to
pickpocket ALL FOUR of my trouser pockets. (i didn't even know about the other two until we hit a bump (okay, so it was a pedestrian) (but man he was good traction) and he was caught in the embarrassing position of having to explain why he was
buried up to his forearms in my two pockets i didn't know i had.) (he said he thought i had an itch.) (so i said, 'well then, lord, not my butt only but also my whole... ') anyway, so now i put honey in my back pockets, just to teach would-be thieves a lesson.
i guess the lesson in all this is, if you see any Irish tourists or thieves in whom you are interested, first check them out to make sure it looks like they have external organs remotely similar to udders. next try to guess their gender. then follow them onto a bus which was manufactured by
Lenin's drinking buddy and which is packed so tightly you lose feeling in your legs. then, discreetly, take the graham crackers out of your wallet. (you will have to ask it back from the guy next to you who stole it five minutes ago while you were busy not feeling
your legs.) next, with great sublety and suavete, dip the graham crackers in the honey in the back pockets of your would-be target individual. if caught, confess your noogles and all will be forgiven. also, i would like to cogently point out that 'Noogle and the Golchanaruud's' would
be a killer name for a rock band.
zif

用英文來紀錄一些觀察

2008-01-31T06:04:00.000-08:00

dilapidated soviet-era concrete structures wreathed in diesel fumes and woodsmoke rise stoically amidst the backdrop of cables and cranes sleeping contortedly until spring. windshorn slopes rim the outer districts, whence the vapours of coalstoves three hundred thousand strong unfurl their plumes unto the periphery of the thermocline hallowing the valley. ~the tongue is glottal, resonant, atonal, inflected, agglutinative, subtle, aspirated, and deep--it wins my favour. the people who speak it--thus far my image is~colourful, hale, hearty, good-humoured, stoic yet not repressive or repressed, aggressive and active yet not forever-driven, playful and adaptive, phonetically gifted, not prone to extended contemplation and deliberation, humble and lovable. i wish very much to hold converse with a great many of them as soon as possible.

頭三個星期的筆記

2008-01-31T06:00:00.000-08:00

很抱歉! 我好就沒有更新我blog 的內容. 反正, 我再慢慢適應烏蘭巴托這裡. 現在我在家裡有電話線的網路--結果速度慢得要命--照片會比較少.
首先, 我來講一些關於會眾的事情. 這裡有兩群. bayanzurkh 於 bayangol. 我現在屬於後者. 會眾裡的朋友都好慷慨, 又一至忍耐, 包容我. 最近有俄語的又有漢語的傳道,續訪,研究等.
嗯...天氣, 氣候--還可以. 冷的凍死. 零下三十度--可是, 有的時候還好--下午陽光較強等. 我上個星期有機會去山區爬山玩雪滑雪. 滿號玩嘍! 今天晚上我有陪一個姊妹跟一個年老的奶奶研究.
研究完成之後, 她的老公送我們 arkhii--就是蒙古的傳統的飲料. 是甚麼樣的飲料呢? 發酵的馬乃--要好幾次蒸餾. 未到有一點兒酸酸. 上上個星期是第一次我吃過馬肉. 吃得...像鹿肉, 我覺得.
嗯....還有甚麼...對了, 烏蘭巴托的郊區有三十萬人左右住蒙古包. 冬天大部分以碳為燃料--這個景況造成城市空氣污染惡化. 但我聽說夏天應該清澈.
情你們為我們禱告--有很多人對上帝的話語感興趣, 卻如今沒辦法回答他們的問題. 蒙古問的書刊目前很有限. 我可以很公開地關於這些事情講解, 因為蒙古正並不受中國的政治控制.
我已經常常想你們---給我這麼深刻印象, 我真沒辦法忘記你們. 那.....下一次.

ulaanbaatar, microdistrict 3

2008-01-24T06:46:00.000-08:00

ulaanbaatar on a clear winter day, january 2008

sea of clouds

2008-01-01T21:13:00.001-08:00

Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies,
Now gay with the broad setting sun;
Farewell, loves and friendships, ye dear tender ties,
Our race of existence is run!
Thou grim King of Terrors; thou Life's gloomy foe!
Go, frighten the coward and slave;
Go, teach them to tremble, fell tyrant! but know
No terrors hast thou to the brave!

Thou strik'st the dull peasant-he sinks in the dark,
Nor saves e'en the wreck of a name;
Thou strik'st the young hero-a glorious mark;
He falls in the blaze of his fame!
In the field of proud honour-our swords in our hands,
Our King and our country to save;
While victory shines on Life's last ebbing sands, -
O! who would not die with the brave!

Burns

unholy trinity

2008-01-01T21:09:00.001-08:00

party on the peak! we found a wee nook in which shelter from the wind could be had.
this mountain precipitates its own clouds on an otherwise clear day.

end of decembre 2007

2008-01-01T20:56:00.000-08:00

so...just completed a most excellent tour of taiwan with mychael and lyuda, i will be posting a few pics here pretty soon....this one here is from the summit of yushan ('putr doesn't feel like typing in chinese today)

2007-12-11T08:29:00.000-08:00

最近自然而然有幾個朋友問我為什麼要遷移到外蒙古. 好問題. 基本上, 這個決定的因素如下:

1. 因為那兒只有兩群會眾(我是個聖經的傳道員) 因此, 應該還要相當的潛力

2. 我還年輕健康夠好, 沒有藉口不去

3. 我的經驗又個性使得我可以比較順利地適應那裡的文化語言地形氣候等.我希望.:)

4. 要滿足冒險精神, 否則年老時就會大感遺憾

貼上一些圖片

2007-12-11T06:33:00.000-08:00

台灣的海邊山水陡峭山脉斜坡等都很漂亮.

2007-12-11T06:29:00.000-08:00

陽明山

2007-12-11T06:21:00.000-08:00

終於! 現在我的電腦甘願合作. 上個禮拜天我跟王家聽去陽明山看風景.

yangmingshan

2007-12-11T06:16:00.000-08:00

my computer doesn't feel like typing in chinese at the moment (she can be rather capricious) anyway, sunday went up to yangmingshan and saw the sights with my good friends the wang family.

12月8日的思維觀察計畫等

2007-12-07T21:53:00.000-08:00

今天已經12月8日. 時間過得這麼快. 光陰似箭. 我最近將所有我的書都整理好, 以及組織起個人的不能缺少的書庫來. 我買到我的單程從桃園至烏蘭巴托的機票. 我還要預備mychael and lyuda 的墾丁花蓮與我再一起的觀光時間. 應該會滿好玩的. 這樣子.

nigh on september 07

2007-08-28T07:26:00.000-07:00

so i am now streamlining everything in an effort to cut all ties (save communication and ordering systems) with the west. my eye is set upon the mongoliin tar/steppe, and my time for departure thereto is now four months in the offing. so: cancel vonage, arrange for my debit card to be sent here, finalize the sale of my vehicle, provide proof of expat/alien status so as to obviate penalty charges while cancelling t-mobile service, order necessary tools for studying mongolian. like a mongolian-chinese dictionary. the mongolian-english one costs about 60 pounds before shipping. i'll give the mongolian-chinese one a try first. books are hard to obtain/access there (ub)--ergo bought shakespeare's works and a wonderful tome for conceptual high-level mandarin. soon i will procure a merck manual. i also need to bolster the RAM on my 'pooter and run dreamlinux 2.2, give it a chang-changkan.
i have already informed my presiding overseer, my boss at work, the trade-relations office, and basically those who need to know. now i must arrange the details with the japanese branch.
taro ice cream is the bomb.
gotta go, miles to go before i sleep.

2007-08-26T06:37:00.000-07:00

today went to jilong/the seaside for to see.
rather interesting film presentation and subsequent tour explaining all of the forces responsible for sculpting that particular piece of peninsular sandstone and calcium into the mushroom planet which it currently resembles. and good times with friends.