Day 289: Perfect Sunday

 

October 16th, 2011Today was pretty much a perfect Sunday as I spent the day eating various things, and exploring various places. In the morning, I woke up at a perfect time: noon. I cooked some fried rice for lunch, and it turned out pretty good (almost as good as Howard and Leandro’s). I gave Tyler some before I departed afterwards for campus. I met up with Geetha at her place who returned from a long weekend back at home. We decided to ultimately go to Island’s brunch, and subsequently bused there using the SuperLoop. While there we consumed some delicious strawberry lemonade as seen in today’s picture of the day. Afterwards, we shopped at Marshall’s where she failed to pick up clothes, but instead picked up scrapbooking material. After proceeding to Best Buy for a bit to look for tablets, we went to CVS to get toothpaste, before going back to my place. She took a nap while I worked on various Ron Paul fliers among other strenous activity. When we went back to campus we relaxed at her apartment for a bit before we going to the Communications building for the start of my video editing. Unfortunately for me I left the USB in my backpack at Geetha’s place and subsequently had to run from Marshall to Sixth and back. The night ended with me comatose from video editing. The movie on the other hand is turning out… decent.

The embattled Chinese Communists break through Nationalist enemy lines and begin an epic flight from their encircled headquarters in southwest China. Known as Ch’ang Cheng—the “Long March”—the retreat lasted 368 days and covered 6,000 miles, nearly twice the distance from New York to San Francisco. Civil war in China between the Nationalists and the Communists broke out in 1927. In 1931, Communist leader Mao Zedong was elected chairman of the newly established Soviet Republic of China, based in Kiangsi province in the southwest. Between 1930 and 1934, the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek launched a series of five encirclement campaigns against the Soviet Republic. Under the leadership of Mao, the Communists employed guerrilla tactics to resist successfully the first four campaigns, but in the fifth, Chiang raised 700,000 troops and built fortifications around the Communist positions. Hundreds of thousands of peasants were killed or died of starvation in the siege, and Mao was removed as chairman by the Communist Central Committee. The new Communist leadership employed more conventional warfare tactics, and its Red Army was decimated. EEEEK COMMUNISM…

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