A FunTy Half-Decade. An still climbing.

On a lighter side..

Merry Christmas y'all non-outsiders visiting. Have a blessed life filled with his glory and riches.

I picked up the fragments @ 12/26/2004 01:21:00 PM

Voyeuristic outsiders.

My log. My mind. So scram and take your less-than-productive remarks with you. Hypocrites.

I picked up the fragments @ 12/26/2004 01:18:00 PM

The Bells go ringing, this time not sleigh bells.

Eight days ago i went to visit my roots. It was actually a very different experience than living in this country, mainly because, they spoke of an extremely hard to comprehend mandarin. And as you know mandarin is already hard to comprehend (for me). So a hard-to-comprehend incomprehensible language adds up to a whole big hairy bunch of incomprehensibilities (boy this word is long).

Its like when i stepped into the china macdonalds, and ask what meal they have and they go 'ting ting ting tong tong ting tong' and im like "sorry, where's KFC?" Its not normal chinese man. They make use of their tongue alot. Erm in their speech that is.

Cold, cold, cold cold cold. Snowed twice. Rain once. Rain, then snowed, once. My hood collected a block of ice. Dry skin, nose bleed, cracked lips, frozen red ears. If my nose fell off i would not be able to smell again. China winter is retarded. When i was there, the lowest it went down to was minus 10. And it was 'not the worst temperature' yet to the locals.

Great food though. Eight courses three times a day for six days. Oily. Salty. More meaty than veggie. No white creamy dips.

Boring sights. Temples, temples, temples, gardens, gardens, gardens, a temple in a garden, and plenty similar to that.

For those who had not visited china (shame on you you friggin westernized fool. this reprimand applies to chinese people only. those who are of a mixed decent involving chinese blood applies as well), the great wall of china is not that magnificent than it is hyped. It is just long. This reminds of a time when i asked this idiot which country build the great wall of china, he had to think for five seconds. But i digress.

After some observation, like japan, china girls are either very pretty or grossnot at all to a great extent. I dun look at china guys for a good reason.

Someone should really rectify the beggar problem. It irritates the normal people. I sound cruel, but nooooo, dun be fooled by those beggars. Like biao said, its an industry. And they even have different strategies and modus operandi in doing their 'business'. Some would follow you for ages and pester you till you give in. Some would discharge a group of 'pity-looking' beggar children. Some would simply lie on the ground and cry out in pain. And some, the smarter ones, would camp, survey, watch other beggars getting money from a rich guy, then pester that same rich guy. We should never give to the beggars for a good reason, that is to discourage them from begging and finally urge them to get a proper job. Some of them are quite young and able-bodied. Why beg?

Cheap goods. And its legal according to the government to sell imitation goods. Sounds absurd but true. If it wasnt winter, i could shop till i fall to my knees (i dun drop; im not that much a shopaholic, so the most fall is to the knees). Winter apparel everwhere.

And that was beijing in seven days. Learnt little. Im on holiday not a field trip, mind you. When the tour guide went tinging and tonging i wasnt listening. Listen to bells for wad.

Thats one long bunch of words. Wonder if there is people actually reading. Cos when things get lengthy and superfluous you tend to skip it. Not that i desire people to read word for word or i cry. Dun read lah.

Guy 1: "So, which country built the great wall of china?"
Guy 2: "Erm.."
Guy 1: "You have to think?"
Guy 2: "Any hints?"
Guy 1: "Whats the word at the end of great-wall-of-china."
Guy2: "China."
Guy1: "So you have the answer?"
Guy 2: "Not yet."
Guy1: "Ok. One of the two. Is it france or China."
Guy 2: "Must be france then. Cos since french fries arent from france, the great wall of china shoudnt be from china."

I just made that up.
Look at the time. Must be the jet lag. ting tong bells still ringing in my ears.

I picked up the fragments @ 12/23/2004 02:38:00 AM

no place like a cheena-free home.

back from the middle. i can finally smell again.

I picked up the fragments @ 12/22/2004 02:19:00 PM

I dream.

Nice song by Taufik and Sylvester.

Btw, the one which ivan sent to me (which was sent to him from hh) includes Sylvester's voice, so the artist name with the song shouldnt simply have Taufik's only. Apparently, when i tried playing the song on my com, there was an error which says that the song was either in an unsupported format, or compressed by a codec unsupported by wmp.

But, the song plays perfectly in any portable mp3 players for example, erm, a Nomad Muvo TX FM player (which i so dun have by the way) or likewise.

And truly speaking, airwalk is indeed a totally different brand than nike. Just saying. And it resembles nothing, and i repeat, nothing in common with anyones or anythings.

If you are gonna be anywhere far or wide, be safe, have fun, have fun safely.

I picked up the fragments @ 12/09/2004 10:16:00 PM

Graduation night over.

Yah yah. So what if i went to club. bleah.

I picked up the fragments @ 12/07/2004 01:42:00 PM

No World Idol for Taufik.

Injustice.
Sly getting better deals.
Double injustice.
And all he did was smile and point and sang chinese.
Triple injustice.

I picked up the fragments @ 12/02/2004 09:27:00 PM