Comments on: A Weekend with Darren

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:29:40 +0000

I’ve never seen the ingredients of a chai blend actually. I had a chai latte once, but it was made for me at a restaurant, and it had a very similar aroma to the one

There may have been some “extra” things in there if you were in Amsterdam.

By: Pearl

Pearl — Thu, 31 May 2007 12:16:08 +0000

That chai shot is interesting. Any chai I’ve seeen is much more homogenous — except for a tibetan one I had in amsterdam - it had something that looked like an avocado pit in it. And it smelt more like farm runoff than chai - some very odd spices.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 31 May 2007 11:50:59 +0000

@Xibee — Wow…I love how you can teach me about my culture. Now I’m all curious about this Pearl of Wisdom, and I’ll have to read up on it further. Ju in Chinese means “something small and polished”, so I’m guessing that’s what it refers to. I never even noticed that it was on the rotating ball in those parades. That’s what I love about the Chinese culture; there’s so much rich history to it.

@Stranger — Thanks for your kind words. I didn’t really stop enjoying marijuana but I knew that it was bad for me and I didn’t like what I became while on it. Was it as hard for you to give up as it was for me?

By: Stranger

Stranger — Thu, 31 May 2007 11:43:42 +0000

A stranger has read this and finds it interesting.

Seriously, a complete stranger. I was googling for instances where others have just stopped enjoying marijuana and gave up the “lifestyle,” and found this blog. After reading all the entries pertaining to that subject until I realized that this is pretty interesting reading and decided to read a whole lot more.

By: xibee

xibee — Thu, 31 May 2007 00:06:47 +0000

The orange flaming ball that the dragon is playing with on your container is the Pearl of Wisdom (ju). Someone else will have to fill you in on the rest of the symbology on the dragon chasing the pearl, but I know that’s it. It’s probably a Buddhist thing. Has to do with Qi, etc.

It’s the same pearl that they hold up like a rotating ball on a wand in front of the dragon-carrier guys in the New Year’s Parade.

Here here for hopeless quixotics.