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Just thought I'd grab your attention with the biggest word on the front of the Maclean's I recently read. Mother's package has finally arrived (after a mishap with me badly translating the address & one poor guy in Neihu being bothered with unsolicited mail multiple times). The hackeysacks were a nice touch, but since the trip I have been taking in more English media & also got my humour back... I bust out every once in a while (after dinner with my host dad, or on the phone with a random Mormon missionary that called me). Affability to the max.
Speaking of media I put a bunch of Chinese songs on my iPod. Also, I got an audiobook called "Free Culture." It's pretty interesting & I like the listening to someone else read while I rest my eyes. Too much ambient noise can irk me though.
When I went to pick up my package at Chen Jia, some random things happened. While enroute I ran into Chen ba, looking good as ever. Zhang ba is really, really ripped though--spends all his time slaving over handmaking fishing lures, but he's somehow got the kind of super-forearms I dream of... not near as ripped-to-the-bone as Gregg's but really muscular. Also met some Mormon missionary chicks and talked to them for a while. At Chen Jia I got to talk to Shiwei for a while too. Before, not only could I not speak Chinese but she was away morning noon & night. Now that she has compressed all of high school into 4 months of study, she has a teacher come to her house every day & just reviews for the test again.
I played drums today finally. After a false start (finally got the key) for the "safe" place in the activities building, I got shut down due to noise interefering with class. haha. So now I get to go to the place with the kit that features a double-kick pedal. Mmm...
That's all for now, folks. This post took 70 minutes but only because I went to talk to Zhang ba. We listened to tunes about the Hawker CD I just ripped (the next addition to my iPod library). I wonder if his new one is out yet. rock on
8 Comments:
"mormon missionary chicks" --haha, never heard THAT before...that's cool though! didja tell them about the fwuffs?
and kevin--your forearms are nice. they're not too bulky.
double-kick pedal!! * drool drool drooly*
Yes, girl missionaries & double-kick pedals. The twins, & all sorts of events associated with you, are part of my library of anecdotes; you guys compose a large part of my LDS-based experience.
I don't mind my forearms, but I believe my entire upper torso needs work. I don't want to end up looking 'emo' or something, no not at all. Naturally one needs the upper body & biceps to make the forearms not look out of place--I don't feel like being nicknamed "Popeye" again right now. :p
Thanks to everyone who posted both on the last post & this one. rock on
so many references to Mormon missionaries. it sounds like they're all over the place
English media. nice. an audiobook, eh? I've heard about those, but never condidered getting one until my eyesight goes. Forearms can look out of place, but what can you do? They just come naturally from drumming and pianoing. congrats on finding a place to bust out
I guess I'm going to be the only one that comments on the title. Hmm interesting title.
I see you're now responding to your adoring fans, tag me backkkkkkkkkk *poutz lolz@21!!*
(You're probably thinking, what the devil?)
Connie
Yes Connie, if I were the kind of person to say "what the devil," I just might have at that point.
What is the significance of the number 21? You have it in one of your email addresses as well.
As I said, it's on the cover of the March 28th Maclean's. It's one of the ones I have read already... taking in far too much English media, but whatever.
Rock on
what the devil, connie?! 21 is an awesome number. It has been present in many of my past passwords. It is the drinking/gambling age in the USA. It equals one of my lucky numbers, 7, multiplied by my birthday, 3. Therefore, it is one of my favourite numbers.
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