Moving to China

Hello every, well I know I said the last time that there would be a new and special post this time. But really it is a little more difficult than I thought to pull of what I wanted. So I will just post this, and continue working on the special one.

As I said before December 30th I am going to move to Guangzhou-city, Guangdong Providence of the PRC. Which should start a new chapter in my life, I hope a good one. The only problem is that because of the medical bills and the costs of moving back to the US I am extremely low on funds now. So I am trying to come up with ways to earn money before Dec. 30th. I wish I had planned better earlier this year. My main idea is to sell off the few remaining items that I have from my days in Taiwan, namely my DVD collection: all are Region 1 movies, a lot are American movies some are Japanese anime movies and few are foreign films. I have around 100 or so movies that I am selling for 10 each. Japanese study books, I studied Japanese before coming to Taiwan and studied a little while in Taiwan these are currently on eBay so if anyone is looking for a good Japanese textbook and study materials all in Japanese/English take a look at them.

I am also planning to sell the my car that I had as a college student, its a Teal 1993 Ford Tempo GL Sedan 4 Door that’s in great condition for being as old as it is. It has become a little sun faded but its not bleached out or anything, there very little rust on the car. It has new tires, new water pump, new front bearings, new head lights, new platinum tipped spark plugs, as a new windshield wiper control knob, new 100watt speakers in the front doors. The only things wrong with the car is at some point during a wind storm a tree branch came down and cracked the front right side bumper, and has left a small but noticeable hole in the top of the bumper. The brakes have softened from sitting for so long. Beyond that the car is in excellent condition, so following the Kelly Blue Book price I am wanting to sell the car for something between $1300 and $1605.

I have an original Limited Edition Halo translucent Green Xbox consol with the original Halo S-controller and box, with it I am adding my special edition Japanese Xbox controller, DVD player attachment, Halo game, and a few other games. This is the same Xbox system that people fought over and spent 1000s of dollars on ebay to buy them, however, since the demand for it is no longer as crazy I am only looking for a fair price. I haven’t figure it out yet but you can email me and we can negotiate a price.

The rest of my things are 1 DVD recorder (Panasonic DMR –E50), collection of 45 manga books (3 complete series and a few stragglers that didn’t get completed as a result of my moving to Taiwan), Large Philips 30” SD-TV. The manga collection I am looking to sell at 7.50 a book since I kept them all in practically brand new condition. I am willing to negotiate but realistically I am trying to raise money to live abroad so the price isn’t going to go too much lower than say $250 for the whole set.

Beyond trying to sell these things I started a web store last year when I was in Taiwan, its a custom ordered apparel store where I design clothes and accessories. Its has had a lot of traffic for not being very well publicized but still no sales. So If anyone is looking for a custom designed shirt for the holidays  you know were to look.
http://Chububobcat.spreadshirt.com/ Stop on by and see what I got. This is just a small selection of what can be sold or made.

Ok well that’s my sales pitch blog for the day. I hope someone out there will pass the word along to their friends and family that I am selling things. You can always contact me here through comments or PM’s and I will see what I can do for you.

Ok I am Chububobcat and this was my random thought for the day.
Have a good week stay warm, stay happy, and happy holidays ya’ll.

America is boring.

So I have been back in the good old US of A for just about a month now and I have to say I don’t remember it being this damn boring. My life is filled with greeting relatives that I haven’t seen in … well actually I don’t remember seeing most of them, hearing about people’s lives for the last 5 years and suffering from culture shock.

Aside from the annoyances of returning home triumphantly after 5 years, and hearing people say I got fat. (screw you I am not fat I am fit) I have the weekly visit to the hospital to continue my physical therapy from my traffic accident earlier this year. I did make a posting about it but one lawyer lead to judge that made me remove them. That’s the great thing about Taiwanese legal systems they are great for the Taiwanese but not always so great for Americans nor for common sense.

Any the short and long of it was, I was out of town to visit a friend when a gnarly BMW driver attempted to run a red light and cut off a whole line off traffic over corrected his steering crossed the road and ran into me (a poor defenseless scooter rider) throwing me from my bike sending sliding across the ground only to have the scooter land on my hip pinning me in a weird and burning position. Remember kiddies scooters are hot especially when their exhaust pipe comes to rest on your legs. Anyway after 3 rounds of legal negotiations the case was herd before a judge who said what I had been claiming all along that the man was guilty and should pay for my medical fees. Well that didn’t happen he paid the mandatory upfront money and skipped town with the rest of the loot. So ever since early March I have been in and out of court, and in and out of the hospital for this test and that along with the physical therapy to help me to recover from something. Not really sure on the why, the Taiwanese doctor had excellent English, but his annunciation wasn’t great so he slurred his words together.

So now that I am back in the US I am still going through the therapy at a local place, and have visited a 2 local doctors first a general doc. who referred me to a specialist, who told me that I have a dehydrating hip joint and that the best option would be surgery. However, a poor international school teacher can’t afford this surgery in US. Practically used up all of my 5 years savings so far on the several medical tests and therapy sessions, which since my Taiwanese medical insurance doesn’t reach into the US is all out of the pocket costs.

Enough of my ranting about not having money, and more ranting about not having money.
Next month on December 30th I am going to move to Guangzhou-city, Guangdong Providence of the PRC. Which should start a new chapter in my life, I hope a good one. The only problem is that because of the medical bills and the costs of moving back to the US I am extremely low on funds now. So I am trying to come up with ways to earn money before Dec. 30th. I wish I had planned better earlier this year. My main idea is to sell off the few remaining items that I have from my days in Taiwan, namely my Halo Limited Edition Xbox with a some games, DVD collection, Japanese study books, I studied Japanese for several years before coming to Taiwan and studied a little while in Taiwan. I have a DVD Recorder (kind of like a VCR but it uses DVDRs or DVD RAM disc for repeated recording.) I have a 93 Ford Tempo that is in really good condition for being almost 20 years old, I have some manga books that I collected while in college about 45 of them.

I am not trying to make fortune off this stuff just trying to earn around $3000 USD so that I will be able to afford to live in China for the first 3-6months. That’s all I took to Taiwan and I survived for 5 years, so I should be able to do the same thing with China.

Ok that's my post for today. I will write more about going to China the things I am trying to sell and try a new style blog next time.

I am Chububobcat and this has been my random thought for the day. Happy Holiday’s ya’ll ha ha.