11/23/08, 5:40 PM: It's spreading. (II)
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(1030)
Okay this is getting a little bit disturbing. "Coolio" is my word! Well, kinda. My dad said it and I put it on the web in my own spelling.
Apparently, after checking the Urban Dictionary, coolio's not exactly my word, and it's been on the web since 2004 or earlier! That's a real let-down.
I'm quite sure no one reads a long post, but anyway, here I go!
And furthermore, I have been tagged by LinChun to do this quiz.
Directions:
- People who were tagged need to blog about 10 weird habits/little-known facts about themselves and state the rules of completeing the quiz clearly.
at the end, you need to choose 10 people to be tagged and list their names.
- NO TAGBACKS PLEASE!!
10 weird things/habits/little-known facts about me:
1. I pretend I'm holding a shotgun when people are not looking. And I go, "BANG, CHICKA!" really loudly when I'm found out.
2. I pretend I'm holding a pistol when people are not loooking. And make hand gestures of the gun's recoil when I'm found out.
3. I sing softly in public because I think I sing well. Due to comments made by certain members of the public, I have recently toned down to lip-syncing very emotionally.
4. I like to run upstairs very softly and imagine I'm a ninja.
5. I one day intend to start my own vlog.
6. I want to be a singer.
7. I like to irritate people by spamming nonsense in a group convo.
8. I stare at people who style their hair.
9. I feel bad when people are having fun.
10. I like playing fairly in a GundamSeed game.(that means no Seed mode Damien!)
THE广州EXPERIENCE MANZZZ
Interesting bits; CTRL + F:
FIRE
PIPE BOMB
DOUSHEBAG
DON'T GO HOME ON WEEKDAYS
路痴
PAEDO
ANNOYING
ROLLERBLADE BREAK-RUBBERDUST
POST GUANGZHOU TRIP CONVO
Yeah, I'm back from China! I'll update later in an edit, my blogposts look weird in double posts.
(1530)
Okay now, CHINA. Aww, man, there's just so much to say! WHERE DO I START? Ehmm, no pictures today, because I was the video guy over there. I'll upload pictures in a later edit(tomorrow). Probably will kope from Quinn and Azmi.
Roight so first day. Woke up dead early. 0430, cabbed to the airport, and flew at 0830. Yeah that's 4 hours between waking up and flying. Not so interesting crud in between.
AIR PLANE! I got the window seat! Got some awesome footage of fluffy clouds!
We got to meet our buddies as soon as we arrived in the school. The lodging was amazing. Our "hostel" was a huge bungalow thing that had enough beds for MORE than 20 people!
Then we joined our buddies' timetable, which incidentally, was afternoon nappy time! So we stayed in the hostel and a number of the UPPERworld people: Adrian, Weiliang, Azmi, Farhan, Haziq, Quinn and myself, played catching in the big house. Yay. Note: We are the UPPERworld because the people down stairs are the underworld. That's all. Honestly if they're the underworld we should be the OVERworld.
Plenty of dry stuff until the Welcome party, where we enjoyed ourselves a lot in the Karaoke lounge. (OMG I WANT ONE TOO) I didn't much lah. Too many Chinese songs.
At night after the party we joined our buddies in class. 初一-十 was the class I joined, along with Sean(Shawn?) and Azmi. The class was very keen in knowing more about the Aliens who speak both English and Chinese, fluently. I'm not an Alien. I can't speak chinese fluently. Haha.
THE NEXT DAY, the first thing we noticed when we got up was the seriously ANNOYING school bell. I call it a "bell" but it was really just a collection of Midi songs. And there was a PA system wake up call, and whenever the PA system was in use, there would be this like grand instrumental music going on in the background, music that would be playing during a march.
We got up and got ready for the full day of class. Uhh, their English classes were a little bit warped. There was a lot of rote learning throughout and a little bit of mistakes in their worksheets. And sometimes I think even the teachers are not completely sure what they're saying. But their chinese classes were HIGHLY intellectual. Basically meaning that I am unsure of what they're saying. By far the only lessons I understand are the English, Biology and Physics lessons.
OH OH OH and their physics lessons were REALLY interesting and FUN! Even though the physics teacher was a complete ARSE to the students, he kinda ignored us Singaporeans during his lessons.
It was fun because we get to watch things burn. Uh, by things I mean like you know the 孔明灯? Yeah they made those mini hot air baloons, which were constructed mostly of paper and a few wires to hold a bit of burning kerosene soaked paper in place. Paper plus naked flame equals big fire! Okay not really lah, it would be better if the paper bag thing was soaked in kerosene too, but no, they don't soak kerosene on the paper bag to watch it burn. They burn the little bit of paper and watch the hot air baloon take flight, and hope to god the strong winds don't blow the flame onto the paper bag. Of course, it is inevitable for ALL baloons to not catch fire. Yes so some spectacular flights include one kong ming deng that flew up at least three 5 stories high and then burst into flames. IN MID AIR! Video, coming soon!
Yeah then it was back to lessons in class and then afternoon nappy time. This time we played catching for about 1 hour and then went to sleep for about another and it was lessons again.
After lessons, it was our turn to make those flammable bags of DOOM. AKA kong ming deng. I think I'll call it a doushebag for short. It was fun making the doushebags. I drew a timed pipe bomb on the one quinn and I made. Oh and guess who taught us how to make them?! THE ARSE PHYSICS TEACHER! Oddly he was really patient with us. According to the teacher, you write your wishes on the lantern and hope it comes true. Normally people would just light the doushebags and let them fly to the sky, but because of strong winds plus naked fire plus dry grass which added together would equal a large flaming soccer field, twice the size of the one in Victoria, they added "long string" to the equation. Which would equate to small fire that can be stepped out without burning anyone's pants off. But that would also remove, "doushebag flies all the way to the heavens to grant your wish!" from the result! So I was wondering how the hell would anyone's wish be granted unless some how the bag was sent to the heavens by some other means, and I came to this conclusion:
BURN THE BAG.
Which of course was rather dumb. But you know, Damien and Dumb goes hand in hand. So I drew a timed pipe bomb to aid the bag in reaching it's supposed destination and highest potential!
Unfortunately, my well wishes were in vain, my doushebag returned safely back to earth. Although a few of the other bags did burst into flames haha.
ON DAY THREE we had an excursion of sorts. It was fun. I got to wear my new shades. We went to see a GIGANTIC statue of the Goddess of Mercy which peaked the mountain. Photos of me acting like a dumbshit later on. Then we went to the Wang Fei Hong Martial Arts Hall, which is sort of a place built and a lion dance troupe set-up in memoriam of Wang Fei Hong.
Then really boring shopping. It felt like everytime you weren't looking at your bag, it would be sliced open and you'd get robbed! Maybe I was just paranoid because I had quite a few bits of valuable stuff on me
THE FOURTH DAY was the day that I got to show off my skating skills at last! It was part of the itinerary that we got to skate, but incidentally, before that part of the itinerary, it was my class' PE period, so I got to skate more. YAY! Well, I could see that many of them there were not really happy that they couldn't skate as well as I could, but I don't really care! I'll speed-skate around the rink while all the rest of you look like crippled old freaks all I want!
EAT ROLLERBLADE BREAK-RUBBERDUST! I was better than the teacher apparently. Just as the skating session was about to end, I realized that the class room windows right above the skating rink were open and that they were all watching us. I asked Azmi if he knew and then he said that they were watching since we started and I felt bad. I have to say though, watching the crippled old men rollerblading, and having the students there clap and compliment me there was a great ego boost. (good or bad, I'm not too sure.)
Then after that was the most AWKWARD experience I've had so far. The house-visit to the buddy's house for dinner. There were countless moments where I just felt like jumping out the window and running away, but yah, that would suck. Yuki and her parents were very nice to me lah. I gave them a packet of Laksa paste and Mee Rebus paste as a "Thank you" gift to them, and in return they just spammed me with all kinds of gifts that could stack up to about 60cm tall? Including 5 apples that I kinda managed to finish within an hour on the ride to the airport. Dumb Damien thought that you couldn't bring it up onto the plane. Haha. I guess I'll be healthy for 5 days then! The nice little girl even brought me around her house and showed me around where she stayed. Then while walking I learned a new chinese phrase! 路痴, which if translated to English means, road idiot, or describing a person who has zero sense of direction. AKA a Damien or a Yuki. So then we had dinner, in a restaurant. Oh right did I mention they gave me motion sickness pills as well?
After that was back to school. I got to rest in the hostel, but my buddy had to go back for lessons. IT WAS EIGHT AT NIGHT!
Oh yah and the school food was really crap lah. So I had emergency Milo and cup noodles. I spent two nights fiddling with the back ends of toothbrushes to use as chopsticks. I found chopsticks in the school canteen two nights later. HAHA.
LOL I don't have the time-table with me so I think I missed out a day! But yes, I'll blog the interesting stuffs and you'll find out more later.
We even got to BBQ within the school's compounds! Although I had a little trouble with the chicken wings, the wings that I tried to cook always ended up burnt on the outside and raw on the inside. But at least there was sausages and hotdogs. I almost typed "hotgods". I'm not exactly sure if this was before or after the home visit, but I'm certain we had it.
FRIDAY was the last day we could properly see our buddies. Because the bulk of them got to go home at the end of the week. YES, THEY DON'T GO HOME ON WEEKDAYS! There were lessons as usual in the morning, and at night there was a scheduled farewell party, again held in the Karaoke lounge. There was meant to be more lessons after the break at 12, but then we managed to persuade the teacher in charge of the trip to allow us to go shopping one more time. So,
boring shopping for 1 hour.
Then YAY! Back in school 4 pm. Just in time to watch our classmates leaving for home. Yeah, I kinda wish we could have said goodbye in a more proper fasion. We had some rest, and then at 5, we learnt chinese painting! How delightful! I didn't like it that much lah. I did it before a lonnnnggg time ago but I didn't like it. I still don't like it.
Dinner, then partay!
I wasn't feeling particularly well during the party. But I tried to have fun. The party started at 2030 and ended momentarily at 2100. My buddy told me that she was leaving already and said that she wanted me to send her off. I found that a little bit "dodgy" but I found that it wouldn't be nice to decline. So I followed her anyway. Apparently her parents had more gifts for me and she tricked me into following her so that they could give me the presesnts and give me a surprise! SURPRISE! There were a few communication related problems on my buddy's side so I hate to wait a little longer than expected. Also there were a few communication related problems on my side, which led to a bunch of flustered Victorians frantically searching for a now "MISSING" Damien. Yah but in the end they found me lah.
I told the teachers, I didn't tell my friends. Haha. Sorry.
tsk I hate story mode, it's damn hard to tell a story interestingly.
The next day, we packed our crud and prepared to leave the NHZX campus for the Airport. Breakfast, another tiny farewell presentation, then we said our last goodbyes. How nice it was for my buddy to drop by again to send me off. Took pictures, said goodbye, recieved 5 apples, said goodbye. Took more pictures, said goodbye. Boarded the bus, waved goodbye. Watched buddies cry, waved goodbye. Awwww. Oh GOD I'm becoming like QUINN(who is labeled a Paedo by me)!
TO ALL THE STUDENTS OF南海执信: 谢谢你的热情招待！
Post GuangZhou trip convo:
Later...
from LinChun's blog. I am hell bent on LENGTHENING MY MOST LENGTHY POST with just barely sensible stuff. From what I've seen, inexperienced bloggers like to fill their posts with "..."s
(1030)
Okay this is getting a little bit disturbing. "Coolio" is my word! Well, kinda. My dad said it and I put it on the web in my own spelling.
Photo from 小猫王's flickr photostream!
Apparently, after checking the Urban Dictionary, coolio's not exactly my word, and it's been on the web since 2004 or earlier! That's a real let-down.
I'm quite sure no one reads a long post, but anyway, here I go!
And furthermore, I have been tagged by LinChun to do this quiz.
Directions:
- People who were tagged need to blog about 10 weird habits/little-known facts about themselves and state the rules of completeing the quiz clearly.
at the end, you need to choose 10 people to be tagged and list their names.
- NO TAGBACKS PLEASE!!
10 weird things/habits/little-known facts about me:
1. I pretend I'm holding a shotgun when people are not looking. And I go, "BANG, CHICKA!" really loudly when I'm found out.
2. I pretend I'm holding a pistol when people are not loooking. And make hand gestures of the gun's recoil when I'm found out.
3. I sing softly in public because I think I sing well. Due to comments made by certain members of the public, I have recently toned down to lip-syncing very emotionally.
4. I like to run upstairs very softly and imagine I'm a ninja.
5. I one day intend to start my own vlog.
6. I want to be a singer.
7. I like to irritate people by spamming nonsense in a group convo.
8. I stare at people who style their hair.
9. I feel bad when people are having fun.
10. I like playing fairly in a GundamSeed game.(that means no Seed mode Damien!)
THE广州EXPERIENCE MANZZZ
Interesting bits; CTRL + F:
FIRE
PIPE BOMB
DOUSHEBAG
DON'T GO HOME ON WEEKDAYS
路痴
PAEDO
ANNOYING
ROLLERBLADE BREAK-RUBBERDUST
POST GUANGZHOU TRIP CONVO
Yeah, I'm back from China! I'll update later in an edit, my blogposts look weird in double posts.
(1530)
Okay now, CHINA. Aww, man, there's just so much to say! WHERE DO I START? Ehmm, no pictures today, because I was the video guy over there. I'll upload pictures in a later edit(tomorrow). Probably will kope from Quinn and Azmi.
Roight so first day. Woke up dead early. 0430, cabbed to the airport, and flew at 0830. Yeah that's 4 hours between waking up and flying. Not so interesting crud in between.
AIR PLANE! I got the window seat! Got some awesome footage of fluffy clouds!
We got to meet our buddies as soon as we arrived in the school. The lodging was amazing. Our "hostel" was a huge bungalow thing that had enough beds for MORE than 20 people!
Then we joined our buddies' timetable, which incidentally, was afternoon nappy time! So we stayed in the hostel and a number of the UPPERworld people: Adrian, Weiliang, Azmi, Farhan, Haziq, Quinn and myself, played catching in the big house. Yay. Note: We are the UPPERworld because the people down stairs are the underworld. That's all. Honestly if they're the underworld we should be the OVERworld.
Plenty of dry stuff until the Welcome party, where we enjoyed ourselves a lot in the Karaoke lounge. (OMG I WANT ONE TOO) I didn't much lah. Too many Chinese songs.
At night after the party we joined our buddies in class. 初一-十 was the class I joined, along with Sean(Shawn?) and Azmi. The class was very keen in knowing more about the Aliens who speak both English and Chinese, fluently. I'm not an Alien. I can't speak chinese fluently. Haha.
THE NEXT DAY, the first thing we noticed when we got up was the seriously ANNOYING school bell. I call it a "bell" but it was really just a collection of Midi songs. And there was a PA system wake up call, and whenever the PA system was in use, there would be this like grand instrumental music going on in the background, music that would be playing during a march.
We got up and got ready for the full day of class. Uhh, their English classes were a little bit warped. There was a lot of rote learning throughout and a little bit of mistakes in their worksheets. And sometimes I think even the teachers are not completely sure what they're saying. But their chinese classes were HIGHLY intellectual. Basically meaning that I am unsure of what they're saying. By far the only lessons I understand are the English, Biology and Physics lessons.
OH OH OH and their physics lessons were REALLY interesting and FUN! Even though the physics teacher was a complete ARSE to the students, he kinda ignored us Singaporeans during his lessons.
It was fun because we get to watch things burn. Uh, by things I mean like you know the 孔明灯? Yeah they made those mini hot air baloons, which were constructed mostly of paper and a few wires to hold a bit of burning kerosene soaked paper in place. Paper plus naked flame equals big fire! Okay not really lah, it would be better if the paper bag thing was soaked in kerosene too, but no, they don't soak kerosene on the paper bag to watch it burn. They burn the little bit of paper and watch the hot air baloon take flight, and hope to god the strong winds don't blow the flame onto the paper bag. Of course, it is inevitable for ALL baloons to not catch fire. Yes so some spectacular flights include one kong ming deng that flew up at least three 5 stories high and then burst into flames. IN MID AIR! Video, coming soon!
Yeah then it was back to lessons in class and then afternoon nappy time. This time we played catching for about 1 hour and then went to sleep for about another and it was lessons again.
After lessons, it was our turn to make those flammable bags of DOOM. AKA kong ming deng. I think I'll call it a doushebag for short. It was fun making the doushebags. I drew a timed pipe bomb on the one quinn and I made. Oh and guess who taught us how to make them?! THE ARSE PHYSICS TEACHER! Oddly he was really patient with us. According to the teacher, you write your wishes on the lantern and hope it comes true. Normally people would just light the doushebags and let them fly to the sky, but because of strong winds plus naked fire plus dry grass which added together would equal a large flaming soccer field, twice the size of the one in Victoria, they added "long string" to the equation. Which would equate to small fire that can be stepped out without burning anyone's pants off. But that would also remove, "doushebag flies all the way to the heavens to grant your wish!" from the result! So I was wondering how the hell would anyone's wish be granted unless some how the bag was sent to the heavens by some other means, and I came to this conclusion:
BURN THE BAG.
Which of course was rather dumb. But you know, Damien and Dumb goes hand in hand. So I drew a timed pipe bomb to aid the bag in reaching it's supposed destination and highest potential!
Unfortunately, my well wishes were in vain, my doushebag returned safely back to earth. Although a few of the other bags did burst into flames haha.
ON DAY THREE we had an excursion of sorts. It was fun. I got to wear my new shades. We went to see a GIGANTIC statue of the Goddess of Mercy which peaked the mountain. Photos of me acting like a dumbshit later on. Then we went to the Wang Fei Hong Martial Arts Hall, which is sort of a place built and a lion dance troupe set-up in memoriam of Wang Fei Hong.
Then really boring shopping. It felt like everytime you weren't looking at your bag, it would be sliced open and you'd get robbed! Maybe I was just paranoid because I had quite a few bits of valuable stuff on me
THE FOURTH DAY was the day that I got to show off my skating skills at last! It was part of the itinerary that we got to skate, but incidentally, before that part of the itinerary, it was my class' PE period, so I got to skate more. YAY! Well, I could see that many of them there were not really happy that they couldn't skate as well as I could, but I don't really care! I'll speed-skate around the rink while all the rest of you look like crippled old freaks all I want!
EAT ROLLERBLADE BREAK-RUBBERDUST! I was better than the teacher apparently. Just as the skating session was about to end, I realized that the class room windows right above the skating rink were open and that they were all watching us. I asked Azmi if he knew and then he said that they were watching since we started and I felt bad. I have to say though, watching the crippled old men rollerblading, and having the students there clap and compliment me there was a great ego boost. (good or bad, I'm not too sure.)
Then after that was the most AWKWARD experience I've had so far. The house-visit to the buddy's house for dinner. There were countless moments where I just felt like jumping out the window and running away, but yah, that would suck. Yuki and her parents were very nice to me lah. I gave them a packet of Laksa paste and Mee Rebus paste as a "Thank you" gift to them, and in return they just spammed me with all kinds of gifts that could stack up to about 60cm tall? Including 5 apples that I kinda managed to finish within an hour on the ride to the airport. Dumb Damien thought that you couldn't bring it up onto the plane. Haha. I guess I'll be healthy for 5 days then! The nice little girl even brought me around her house and showed me around where she stayed. Then while walking I learned a new chinese phrase! 路痴, which if translated to English means, road idiot, or describing a person who has zero sense of direction. AKA a Damien or a Yuki. So then we had dinner, in a restaurant. Oh right did I mention they gave me motion sickness pills as well?
After that was back to school. I got to rest in the hostel, but my buddy had to go back for lessons. IT WAS EIGHT AT NIGHT!
Oh yah and the school food was really crap lah. So I had emergency Milo and cup noodles. I spent two nights fiddling with the back ends of toothbrushes to use as chopsticks. I found chopsticks in the school canteen two nights later. HAHA.
LOL I don't have the time-table with me so I think I missed out a day! But yes, I'll blog the interesting stuffs and you'll find out more later.
We even got to BBQ within the school's compounds! Although I had a little trouble with the chicken wings, the wings that I tried to cook always ended up burnt on the outside and raw on the inside. But at least there was sausages and hotdogs. I almost typed "hotgods". I'm not exactly sure if this was before or after the home visit, but I'm certain we had it.
FRIDAY was the last day we could properly see our buddies. Because the bulk of them got to go home at the end of the week. YES, THEY DON'T GO HOME ON WEEKDAYS! There were lessons as usual in the morning, and at night there was a scheduled farewell party, again held in the Karaoke lounge. There was meant to be more lessons after the break at 12, but then we managed to persuade the teacher in charge of the trip to allow us to go shopping one more time. So,
boring shopping for 1 hour.
Then YAY! Back in school 4 pm. Just in time to watch our classmates leaving for home. Yeah, I kinda wish we could have said goodbye in a more proper fasion. We had some rest, and then at 5, we learnt chinese painting! How delightful! I didn't like it that much lah. I did it before a lonnnnggg time ago but I didn't like it. I still don't like it.
Dinner, then partay!
I wasn't feeling particularly well during the party. But I tried to have fun. The party started at 2030 and ended momentarily at 2100. My buddy told me that she was leaving already and said that she wanted me to send her off. I found that a little bit "dodgy" but I found that it wouldn't be nice to decline. So I followed her anyway. Apparently her parents had more gifts for me and she tricked me into following her so that they could give me the presesnts and give me a surprise! SURPRISE! There were a few communication related problems on my buddy's side so I hate to wait a little longer than expected. Also there were a few communication related problems on my side, which led to a bunch of flustered Victorians frantically searching for a now "MISSING" Damien. Yah but in the end they found me lah.
I told the teachers, I didn't tell my friends. Haha. Sorry.
tsk I hate story mode, it's damn hard to tell a story interestingly.
The next day, we packed our crud and prepared to leave the NHZX campus for the Airport. Breakfast, another tiny farewell presentation, then we said our last goodbyes. How nice it was for my buddy to drop by again to send me off. Took pictures, said goodbye, recieved 5 apples, said goodbye. Took more pictures, said goodbye. Boarded the bus, waved goodbye. Watched buddies cry, waved goodbye. Awwww. Oh GOD I'm becoming like QUINN(who is labeled a Paedo by me)!
TO ALL THE STUDENTS OF南海执信: 谢谢你的热情招待！
Post GuangZhou trip convo:
Damien says:
so are your jade pieces fake?
Quinnylummy says:
sort of
Damien says:
hah what sort of?
Quinnylummy says:
erm
Quinnylummy says:
it is cheap rock...
Damien says:
relly?
Damien says:
HAHA.
//\ z m i :. I knocked on heaven's door says:
China. what daya expect
Quinnylummy says:
go bugis buy
Damien says:
Well, in china, expect anything.
Quinnylummy says:
i expect everything
Later...
Damien says:
or more commonly known as a, "Quinn"
Damien says:
Prone to blowing up.
Quinnylummy says:
i shall not deny or confirm any of the facts above
Damien says:
HAHA.
Damien says:
you have just stated them as, "FACTS"
Damien says:
thusforth confirming them as TRUE.
Quinnylummy says:
then
//\ z m i :. I knocked on heaven's door says:
lol
Damien says:
you should have used, "claims" instead of facts.
Quinnylummy says:
i shall not deny or confirm any of the contents above
Damien says:
claims.
Damien says:
claims
Damien says:
CLAIMS.
Damien says:
haha.
Quinnylummy says:
fuck ur claims
"Back to sch......Kinda =.=
o man...... 6.5 hrs sleep adae is tat enuff? no rite... for a kid like me...unlike other ppl sleeps 8 hrs Lol.
Homework Homework evrydae..... Screwed up my hist Proj Raj suxz... Ask her to f**k off.... ask stpid questions and say "so wat! big deal".... lame shit~.. stress is filling my BRAINS>....projs here projs there wish my D&T won be screwed up... 1 of my fav subs besids lit... Reading 2nd bk of Pendragon hmm... whether wat is like to be in cloral.. even though clearly described but i wan 1st hand experience... I wanna go to the fantasy world where no raj, no hw, no projs and most importantly no "bleep bleep" "heii u.... meet me at my ofish ah..1 old clock to 5 old clock Understand.... i used my binocularrs can see many thing... .. make sure i camp in the toilet Arh... " lol my chia my om hahaz.
shouldn laugh at him u noe... he was a cid 100% true
should i end with 1 sentence and contin muggin
"Watch as i work and progess to higher heights?? lol ... kinda weird hmm FaNTaSy~"
from LinChun's blog. I am hell bent on LENGTHENING MY MOST LENGTHY POST with just barely sensible stuff. From what I've seen, inexperienced bloggers like to fill their posts with "..."s