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Name: bp
Country: China
Metro: Zhengzhou
Birthday: 11/13/1981
Gender: Male
Interests: china, my computer, photoshop, manga, anime, music of all types
Expertise: if youre going to be with us you better bleed with us
Occupation: Education/training
Industry: Education/Research
Message: message me
AIM:  smallbenben
MSN: leetface
Member Since:
10/23/2003
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| ive decided to update because i recently experienced 3 funny things
1. went to a place called carrefor. its walmart run by the french. they recently built one here in zhengzhou. thats a big deal, foreign foods and what not being made available there. its close to our place too, so thats nice. tiffany and i were there shopping obviously. we walked out with our bags and were unlocking our bikes when i noticed a man. this man was checking the lock on his bike. he had a grocery bag in his hand and was fairly well dressed and clean (well dressed and clean counts for a whole whole whole lot in this country). i couldnt understand why he was locking his bike up when it looked like he was done with his shopping. as he walked away from his bike he walked over to the steps at the front of the building that were just a few yards off. as he walked he proceeded to pull a bottle of wine, unopened and rather expensive looking, out of his bag. he then sat down on the steps, popped the cork, and started drinking whatever sorrows he had away. i just laughed. this man had come to the grocery store to get his booze and didnt seem to feel like dealing with going somewhere else to get blasted. tiffany said he must have had a rough day. i said it must have been pretty rough to have to drink it off at the local carrefor. its like going to walmart to get drunk.
2. thanks to stores like carrefor tiffany and i can now buy nice things for our house. one of those things is the blue water maker that you put in your toilet. it makes me feel nice and clean to have that blue glow in my toilet. tiffany and i were talking about dinner plans when it struck me that i really needed to pee. not stopping the conversation, i went ahead and started to make use of that nice blue glow. i finished up, and mentally noted that the water was now green, not blue. i told tiffany that i was like ziploc, if its green its shut, but here its more like, if its green you peed. as if i needed confirmation that my body had actually voided that waste because i didnt feel it or something. but, i suppose people are too lazy to check if the bag is closed they must be too lazy to pay attention to if they are actually peeing or not.
3. i recently happened upon a game called uplink: hacker elite. i think that title speaks volumes. ill say no more other than you should just google it and discover it for yourself.
nothing else has happened lately. play games, ride bikes, teach english, eat, sleep, and according to my toilet ive been peeing as well. got imogens new cd. got tv on the radios new cd. havent listened to either much so who knows how good they are.
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| after some time ive decided to update. im in japan now, using a japanese computer. the keyboard is quite different so please forgive mistakes. ive been here for about 2 days. it seems appropriate that i now pass judgement on the country. before that though, a few thoughts:
-the tires on cars are about the size of oreos
-nearly all toilet seats are heated, and the toilets themselves are shaped in such a fashion that it seems they are about to speed away
-it maybe because ive been in china for so long, but the beds and bedding here are amazing
-there is no chocolate milk in japan. there are a million different flavors of drinks available at each corner of the street, but no chocolate milk anywhere, not even in grocery stores. there is no chocolate milk in japan.
-ancestor worship is big
-sony is god. as such, there are ps2s to be found everywhere.
-the cute borders on unbearable at times
-someone once told me that japan was too clean. i have found the opposite, its just clean enough. i think its the same as america really, as far as cleanliness is concerned.
-kotetsu tables are very enjoyable, as is heated flooring
all in all japan is very much an asian place. there are several similarities with china, but most of it is something that floats just outside of plain recognition. its really very hard to put my finger on what it is thats the same between china and japan, but its very easy to notice that which is different.
would i rather have the chinese man screaming 2 inches away from my face or the japanese man bowing with sickening politeness? both can be annoying to some degree, but i think we all know which is the lesser evil. all in all, japan gets an A+. its not america, but then again, im not japanese.
in closing i will impart one of my first thoughts about japan. its like america, if everyone was japanese. oh, btw, recently got lightning bolts latest cd, hypermagic mountain. give it a listen if you are man enough. | | |
| Ive been playing shadow of the colossus for the ps2 recently. One of the best games ive played in a long time. You can beat it in one day if you rent it, and its worth it. I beat it and watched the rather strange akiraesque ending. So after beating it I started going through some of the other modes of play, but they cant entertain as much so I also started playing devil may cry 3. in the opening cut scene of dmc3 I knew several things right away. 1. a bunch of fat otaku dorks made the game. 2. I understand what kan meant when he said he couldn’t play a game because the main character was too macho. 3. if I tried to take the game seriously at all, at any point, I was just going to get pissed. Dantes speaking parts in the cut scenes consists of “lets rock”, “lets party”, “lets get this party started”, “lets party”, “woo hoo”. Pretty much the first words sure to come out of a fat otaku dorks mouth if he were ever to get a hold of a huge stupid looking sword and two pistols.
Expecting nothing of any real value from the game has allowed me to laugh a lot. The cut scenes are simply hilarious. Funny enough that I want them on my computer. Funny enough that I would show them to people who come to the house. For example: dante throws his sword and as it goes through the air it skewers several enemies, then as the enemies are all stuck together on the sword dante shoots the butt of the sword to make it go faster, so fast in fact that the tip of the sword starts to catch fire as though it is entering the atmosphere. Dante, not wanting to lose his sword, runs after it at such speed that his outstretched hand also begins to enter the atmosphere…….wow.
The game has several weapons to choose from, swords, shotguns, whatever fat otaku dorks think is cool. Everything was pretty much expected until I found a new weapon that looked like a guitar with strings made of lightning. If you are familiar with warlock guitars it looks like one of them. I thought, sure im not going to wield a guitar as a weapon. El kabong fights the demon horde. Sure enough though, I went into battle and started wailing on a guitar. Each time I strummed the guitar it summoned a little pack of bats full of electricity that flew out and hurt the enemies. I laughed until I literally fell on the floor, you can ask tiffany, she was there. Trying to do some combos with it yielded the funniest result. Dante hollered out on of his “leet” cliché lines like “lets rock” and dives forward on his knees to unleash a wicked solo. While hes wailing like no other amidst the demon horde bats and lighting and what not fall from the sky destroying everything around him. When his solo is over he lets out a nice “woo hoo”. I laughed again.
So, in conclusion, play shadow of the colossus because it is absolutely worth it, a true minimalists game. Watch the dmc3 cut scenes if you get a chance, but don’t play it unless you plan to get the guitar. It’s the only thing that makes the game worth while.
Everything else in life is the same, maybe going to japan over the spring holiday here, that’s about a month long. Most likely going to Tibet at the end of the year. Coming back to America for the summer. Got a real hankering for blue grass lately.
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| tiffany is a cook. chadwick used to talk about how a stomach was the way to a mans heart, and i would think, i dont care about that. i mean, ive never been picky about food at all, id eat pretty much anything. i must say though, after eating good homecooked stuff, i am rather pleased to have a wife who cooks well. i have cats, you may this you may not. i never thought i would own a cat. now i have 2. i bought them because i thought they would crap in a box instead of behind the couch like dog. the only real difference is that cats try to aim for the box whereas dogs just dont aim period. i havent had to clean up as much crap, thats for sure, but ive still been cleaning up crap. i watched the first season of 24. i enjoyed it. i like my cats. im playing final fantasy tactics advanced. (anyone who was ever a fan of FFT needs to play it) been listening to mylo and maiden. dont do much with my music as of late. until i get the net run to the room where my computer resides im kind of on a musical break so to speak. havent changed the stuff on my mp3 player in a while. but who needs to when its a bunch of maiden? almost showed my students an episode of the simpsons the other day, but i opted for some other movie. i just couldnt bring myself to do it.
same old stuff in china as always. heard that josho got busted up just in time for his wedding. i told this to my japanese buddy and ended up recounting all the horrible mistakes and foul whatevers that have befallen josho in the past. some of those included are as follows: water ballons thrown at dick miller, fire alarm in the getc, water ballons thrown at that jeff guy, choking 4 or 5 girls, pooping in a wendys cup, cutting his leg at the beach........im sure you all remember the rest. now we add breaking his leg just in time for his wedding. i really have to wonder why so many bad things happen to josh.
i had no problem imagining josh riding the jetski or whatever it was and him thinking "hey, if i run this thing into my brother it will be ok. everything will be great." then as he sped towards certain doom for his leg he thought, "man, this is the best idea ive had in the past 30 minutes!" then afterwards, looking at his leg, "it was totally worth it." now i dont know for sure, but when i heard what happened thats how the events took place in my mind. im real sorry that had to happen for josh and ashley, but i cant deny the humor in all of it. congratulations on your marriage and i hope your leg gets better soon. im eating now. | | |
| as per joshos comment, here is a new post. all is well in china. i had a bike wreck a few weeks ago. a serious one. i tboned a girl that pulled out without looking, i think she was in junior high. she felt the utter wrath of my new bike and all the speed that it was capable of, well almost. i was fine. i dont know how, but i was fine. nothing wrong with me except a small scratch on my arm (so small that i noticed it a day later). the girl laid on the ground whimpering and i felt nothing but scorn for her. to my discredit i didnt even help her up. it was her fault anyway. i was too mad to say anything, honestly, all i could think was bad words. you see, i had my phone in my hand when it happened, so i only had one hand to break with and she didnt look either way as she pulled out into the road. if i had been a taxi she would be dead for sure. but since i wasnt a taxi my phone died instead. thats what made me really angry, that my new phone got busted. but, as i said, all is well in china. i got my phone back from the repair place yesterday and its good as new, minus the cracks and scratches on it.
hasler: ryan is having some of the same troubles that we did i think. the mashed up our classes between him and the new ben. hes got a mix of yours and mine from junior 1. they are junior 2 now surprisingly. kan and i both pitched in and bought a ps2. games are cheaper than dvds. almost all of them are ripped straight out of japan though, so lots of japanese. needless to say, i am unstopple at nartuo2 now and patiently await the release of the 3rd one. we eat in a lot more than we ever did last year, with tiffany, kan, and tomoko all being cooks.
funky: read what i wrote above. i need to email you but im gay.
josho: shut your freaking mouth
whoever just read what i wrote those other guys: what a sucker
i teach everyday, i ride my bike everyday, i play ps2 almost everyday. its my job to take out the trash, clean the toilet, and wash the dishes. i do those things often. ive been watching six feet under (no one should watch it) and reading the death note and naruto mangas (i think more people should read those). im using a mac right now and i like it. so, aside from my bike wreck thats life lately. | | |
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