Wii and beaches

The wii works fine now most of the time, so blogging suffers. I must choose between telling tales of students or Lego Star Wars. Incidentally, the Wiis at the electronics store with the Sony sign near the Star Ferry in TST work fine oncce you set them up. Just took a native English and a native Chinese speaker to get to that point. They can be bought cheaper, but they do work.

On another unrelated topic, when playing lego Star Wars, it seems that you need Jar jar to leap about on Naboo. He does it better than the rest. This interferes with the joy I take in slashing him to pieces with a lightsaber. Since I've completed 3 levels out of 160, I don't think I'll ever finish it, but I can't see what greater thrill the game could provide than that, unless it combines Dance dance revolution with Hutts.

On an increasingly unrelated topic, I am heading back to Hainan. I've decided i like being cash strapped each month. Bought a bike, and was poor. Bought a Wii, and was poor. Time to travel and resume being poor. Sanya is a place with nice beaches and monkeys, and there's little else i want in a vacation. I hear it's getting more developed, but that there are still places that accomodate backpackers.

Might rent a motorcycle and drive around the island a bit, visiting a few remote towns. There are a fe flaws with that plan. First, i don't have a credit card. Second, I don't have a driver's license. Third, I'm still sketchy on the intricacies of motorcycles (as opposed to scooters), and might smear myself over the road. Fourth, I speak roughly three words of the hainan dialect, and not a word of the minority languages, which i think are closer to Thai or Vietnamese. I've had Chinese friends tell me that a lot of Hainanese have a weak grasp of mandarin, and cantonese is unknown.

So i might stick to the beach. And Monkey Mountain. You create a monkey preserve, I believe I am obligated to go.