Globalization at its Finest

There is nothing more surreal than rocking out to “Dancing Queen” with a middle age, mainland Chinese guy you’re carpooling with back to Ottawa, that you met through ComeFromChina.com.

Exam Season

At stake – 6 essays, 1 debate, and 1 exam. 16 days to finish them all. Here is what I’m doing/planning on doing to finish them on time. Lord have mercy on my soul. And yours too, should you take any of this as advice.

• 8:30 AM: wake up
• 8:40 AM: shower
• 9:00 AM: leave the house
• 9:15 AM: arrive at library/workplace of choice, dick around on Google Reader and email
• 9:30 AM: Write at least 100 words, within 20 minutes. Write or Die has been very useful in this regard.
• 9:50 AM: 10 minute Google Reader, or Too Many Ninjas! break
• Repeat previous two steps until late and/or tired
• 2:00 AM: walk home
• 2:15 AM: brush up and sleep

I hope not everyone from China is this creepy

Session Start: April 15, 2008

• kw..KW..?ok – heading back to TO this weekend anyone? (*****@hotmail.com)
• Storm (*******@hotmail.com)

(12:34 AM) Storm:	hi
(12:35 AM) kw..KW..?ok – he:	hey who is this?
(12:35 AM) Storm:	oh ,I’m from China
(12:35 AM) Storm:	see?
(12:37 AM) kw..KW..?ok – he:	cool
(12:37 AM) Storm:	Haven’t seen you for a long time
(12:37 AM) kw..KW..?ok – he:	sorry do i know you?
(12:38 AM) Storm:	I knew yu last year
(12:38 AM) Storm:	remember?
(12:38 AM) Storm:
(12:38 AM) kw..KW..?ok – he:	don’t recall man
(12:38 AM) kw..KW..?ok – he:	where did we meet?
(12:39 AM) Storm:	I didn’t mean we met before.\
(12:39 AM) Storm:	Just knew on the net
(12:40 AM) Storm:	see?
(12:40 AM) kw..KW..?ok – he:	where did we meet on the net?
(12:40 AM) Storm:	msn You know that
(12:40 AM) Storm:	haha
(12:41 AM) kw..KW..?ok – he:	i don’t think i know who you are
(12:41 AM) kw..KW..?ok – he:	sorry
(12:42 AM) Storm:	That doesn’t matter.
(12:42 AM) Storm:	we can know each other again,huh
(12:43 AM) kw..KW..?ok – he:	i don’t talk to strangers on msn
(12:43 AM) Storm:	oh
(12:43 AM) Storm:	I see
(12:43 AM) kw..KW..?ok – he:	sorry!
(12:43 AM) kw..KW..?ok – he:	maybe you can meet someone else who’s more open
(12:43 AM) Storm:	Would you say “goodbye”
(12:44 AM) Storm:	bye
(12:44 AM) kw..KW..?ok – he:	sure thing
(12:44 AM) kw..KW..?ok – he:	later, nice talking to you
(12:44 AM) Storm:	me too
(12:44 AM)	Storm has been blocked

Elisha is awesome

Who says the Bible isn’t funny?

Elisha left Jericho and went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, a group of boys from the town began mocking and making fun of him. “Go away, you baldhead!” they chanted. “Go away, you baldhead!” Elisha turned around and looked at them, and he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of them.

2:23-24 2 Kings

A Long Time Coming

That’s right kiddies, I’m deleting this blog and never writing online again…

Just kidding. That’ll have to wait for another day. I’ll let the following speak for itself… note the steady declining trend of each picture.

Tagged

- by a certain SK.
Four jobs I’ve had (What the heck is this, practice for my resume?):
1) “child caretaker”
2) “math tutor at the Kumon Math and English Tutoring Centre”
3) “shopkeeper for the University of Waterloo Bike Centre”
4) GUITAR TEACHER FFFFFFFFFFF YEAH

Four movies I can watch (and/or have watched) over and over:
1) uhhh Star Wars?…
2) …Sin City?…
3) …
4) …Max Payne 2?

Four places I’ve lived:
1) Hong Kong, Sha-tin represent!
2) Hong Kong, Kowloon
3) Sauga
4) Chicago… for a few days

Four TV Shows I love (Take the best answer):
A) Does anime downloaded here at Loo count?
B) Family Guy and Arrested Development were cool before they sold out lol
C) Reality’s entertaining enough already.
D) TV? Didn’t Bittorrent kill that awhile ago?

Four places I’ve vacationed:
1) Vancouver
2) Hong Kong
3) Hawaii
4) Chicago

Four of my favorite dishes – ie. what I CAN make here at Loo:
1) congee with Kirkland chicken breast meat!!
2) blackened banana
3) expired turkey coldcut breast
4) fishballs with wonton mein

Four sites I visit daily:
1) Gamespy – my love since Half-life came into being
2) Jobmine – let the agony stop please : (((
3) Xanga – roots.
4) Gmail – obvious

Four places I would rather be right now:
1) at my own law firm
2) at my own corporation
3) my bed
4) Hong Kong (vacation only though)

Four bloggers tagged:
1) Simon, you’re long overdue
2) Jamie, you too
3) Paul, perhaps?
4) Go for it, Kary

WordPress, your editor is a pile of deficient crap.
Blogging doesn’t come to me unless I’m really bored. Like now. Thanks accounting!

TRUE ASIANS REPRESENT

Ray and Trevor decided to visit Waterloo yesterday (Wednesday), just to see what the squalor that an university student exists with. They seemed pretty impressed with our living conditions… but that’s not the point. We were able to give Chinese people great reputations at not only one, but TWO businesses yesterday! Here they are:

1) We decided to visit Long & McQuade for picking up strings and for kicks and giggles. After arriving, we proceeded to touch pretty much every single instrument possible in the store, including the electric guitars, the acoustic guitars, the classical guitars, the pianos, the trumpets (not sure about that one), the books… you name it, we diddled with it in some way. Mind you, we were the only ones in the store so the salespeople just looked on awkwardly and asked whether we had any questions. At the end, we finally decided to leave for dinner. “Oh, we don’t have that brand of strings right now”, the salesman said when I asked for the pack of strings I was planning to get. Not wanting to be rude, I decided to buy a pick as a goodwill gesture for taking up their time. The cashier rung up the pick, which turned out to be 38 cents. Dickery dock, I only had 31 cents… so the salesman was all like “don’t worry about it”, but Simon paid the missing 7 cents right at the last moment before the cashier closed. We sure got the hell out of there then, and can only imagine what the salespeople were thinking. “Cheap Chinese people, wasting our time like that!” Yep, we definitely maintained the sterling Chinese image!

2) After the L&M debacle, we decided to go for dinner. Some debate ensued, and we decided to go to the “Rude Native”, a place that some MCBC people and I were supposed to go to but never did. And… thank goodness we didn’t go that time. After entering the restaurant and getting seated, there was a huge painting of a naked male body with handcuffs on. I don’t know about you, but I don’t think S&M when I eat. That was the first warning sign. We got to take a look at the menus, and the cheapest main course was $12.95. Our asian senses went off then, and we started brainstorming ways to sneak out with the smallest impact on our wallets as possible. After some thinking, we finally decided to order two buckets of mussels at $10.95, costing each one of us a beautiful total plus tips of about $6.50! And it was technically a legit meal too, because we might have been getting ready for a wild kegger or something. YEH YEH. In the end, we escaped unscathed minus both the restaurant’s and our egos. And… that’s another food place that we’ll be getting dirty looks from in the future :S