2005.6.12=7[#163]:4703.5.6[++#4]:T#26 Hsueh's last full day, all to Hist Mus, then 3 to Guang-hua computer "mall" for Hs & me. Liu/Miao come massaging

Big rain south, cloudy warm, later some rain: One sleep to 4:40, newspaper checking long at toilet sitting so up, tel bank and find wired money there then lost credit card at my "triangle" where I lost pen a few days ago, finally tel Ren-chan after asking mom about it for many days leaving message. Hiro/Dju in after 10, go to Nat. Hist. Museum as mom wishes to see Buddism to China program starting, mom buys NT$300 paper fan, so I buy "Taiwan's beginning in 17th c." 100 and "Soil houses{?} of China" 140, after checking pagoda book for an idea of building tall structure above "tang-ha", after examining "White Snake Biography" exhibition on history of pagoda building in China. The snake is suppossed to be buried under a famous pagoda. Dju buys a good wristle hand ornament 100 for long hours, we walk and wait for her, to Teacher's Meeting Hotel for a good lunch. Hs/J leaves right after, then we discuss about whether to accompany Dju to dancing shoes stores nearby under light rain. Hsueh wants for a little meng-tien, so mom, she and I taxi to Guang-hua Shang-chang's computer store street of Ba-deh Rd at Sung-jiang Rd. Many crowded stores, Hsueh finally gets what she has wanted, a drawing pad, and I buy without any planning computer microphone, earphone, camera, and keyboard with Chinese characters etc. in addition to alphabet, all very cheap and almost all Made in China. With some exchange of keyboard from 407 to 100, mom is tired, and taxi straight back home for 100, mom somewhat upset. Now here 6:00pm, delete then aswer Ron's email. Home dzung etc., Liu Yu-hsiang tel then come with Miao-ling 9-10:30 gives mom a good massage again, all baths, simple one for me to bed first 11:45. http://www.lewrockwell.com/