Hehehehe...... I think she got it wrong in the translation, it should have been the 'ape man'!
Did you show them your hairy chest and other hairy parts , I mean legs???

you sure love your tea

I love learning of different cultures and histories. I ended up reading a manga (Japanese comic book)about a teenager learning bajiquan. He ends up on a trip to china to find his grandfather who had returned some years prior to thank those who had helped him when he was an injured soldier during ww2. Which is where he learned the art to pass on to his grandson. The manga itself touched on a lot of different ideas about martial arts and Chinese culture I thought were interesting. Things about the cultural revolution after ww2 as well as the beginnings of certain martial arts and short stories of some prominent martial arts figures like the spear god Li Shu Wen(sp?) as well as some others. It makes light of some other interests I have had like fortune telling and palm reading. As well as some other sayings that really stuck with me. Like when it comes to learning and remembering only the most important aspects of a lesson while discarding the unneeded. That Managa is titled Kenji.

high five, then

The exorcist we had over was not a priest and what he did was nothing like what you see in the movies either.
There's a difference between bad/negative spirits and demonic stuff. Bad/negative spirits can be bad enough. Often deceased people that aren't aware they are dead, or are stuck in the lower realms of the after world etc. Sometimes they're bound to an area, a building or a person. Can still be very hard work to help them pass over. Often they don't want to go, cause they are scared. Others can be nasty a-holes.
Different ballgame from the demonic exorcisms you get to see in movies.
And even the non demonic stuff can be pretty darned freaky... some places are seriously haunted.

I've once lived in a house, temp rental, a new house, and odd stuff happened there. Sudden temperature drops, chilling you to the bone, shadows, hearing things, sensing things, both my kids saw things. Then I found out the entire block was built on an ancient pre-Christian burial site :/ They didn't know, they found out when they'd started building. Friggin wonderful!
There's similar sites in the US, Indian sites for instance. Not demonic, but serious chit nonetheless. You often get similar things on places where heavy battle took place in the past.

The last house I lived in, the one that required an exorcist, was next to the church. As far as I could work out, it was built on leylines (not very smart, in the old days no one built a home on a leyline, for good reason) and on - or close to - what used to be the death road. The entire village had a weird vibe. Heard later on that the gallows used to be just outside the village. NOt just the one, but like a field of 'em. The place where ppl from the entire area were hanged, just outside the village.
Still nothing demonic, but serious chit. If you ever wanted to cleanse that energy, would be very hard work, not likely something one person can do on his/her own. And sometimes thing some places cannot even be healed, like some Indian places in the States.

lol... aren't all cab drivers a little nuts... lol...
the cab drivers you were referring to...they must've been Cantonese... ... a loud and colorful bunch they are..! you should see them in action as waiters....lol!

love these little dragon balls...mmmhmmm...
and the really good ones are pretty hard to make

Wow wow........ I didn't know about this! Interesting, especially the ones on the China’s Pyramids!

China's PyramidsIt’s not just Egypt that has pyramids. China has around forty of these giant mausoleums located about 16 miles northwest of Xi’an, on the Qin Chuan Plains in Shaanxi Province. These giant structures were built to house the remains of China’s early emperors and their relatives. Mysteriously, the Chinese government denies the existence of these pyramids and has even planted trees around them to disguise them. In total, there are around 300 pyramids in the Xi’an region. You can get to the pyramids from Xi’an, which has its own airport.

This just goes to show how big and large China is. A friend of mine has been there numerous times, and says he has only covered a small section of China and there are so many many more provinces he has never been to.