Rainy Weekend

It started raining sometime Friday night and it has not stop till a short while ago. Not a very fun weekend at all. Ping went to lab on Saturday morning, thinking there wouldn't be as many people tailgating (basically having a bbq or picnic before a football game) since it was raining heavily. But guess what, the people here are super hardcore about the game because there are as many people tailgating as any sunny day.

Later that night, we had a steamboat session at Chang-Wee residence to celebrate the Mid-Autumn festival (中秋節), also known as Mooncake Festival. We wanted to go lantern walk after that but unfortunately, the rain did not stop at all, even after we ate all the mooncakes. By the way, green tea mooncake is yummy!!! Ah Pei brought some back from M'sia and that's the first time Ping tried it. Thanks 親愛的!!!

Spend most of the morning reading for ESP's assignment on animal agriculture. While on it, Ping realize that the local community here play a pretty big role in decision making and they definitely take the initiative to be heard. It is such a big difference compared to the M'sian culture. If the same issue is happening in M'sia (the negative impact of Confined Animal Feeding Operations, CAFOs), people are more likely to just brush it off or gossip about it during the morning market gathering. While sometimes Ping agree that there is no point in making a fuss about small stuff, issues like the CAFOs need to be taken seriously. Someone has to take the initiative to make the communities opinion be heard by the authority and residence should be part of the stakeholders. M'sia has a long way to go until the people take action. We are still very use to the 'whatever lah' and 'all talk but no show' attitude. Now Ping is curious on how they assess the risks of CAFOs in M'sia.

This is definitely a weird weekend. Michigan rarely get rain continously for two days. The rain are usually not more than a few hours. Feels like rainy season in M'sia. 感覺悶悶不樂的. Hopefully the rain will stop when Ping needs to get to campus tomorrow morning. It is definitely not fun waiting for the bus under the rain. But at least Ping's plants are very happy!