When it rains it pours

You know just when you think you have settled in and things are starting to go well in your life, a ton of bricks gets dropped on you. I haven't been in the boss's office for a while now for anything other than normal work stuff, but today he calls me in after work, he has been diagnosed with some type of heart problem, likely do to all the drinking and smoking he does nearly every day.
"Doug, I'm not feeling well today so I'm not going to make this a long speech."
"Alright. (dammit what is it this time)"
"Doug I'm forced to tell you that we are going to have to extend the porbationary period of your contract one month. You arrived here on september the 4th, so it would normally end in a few days, but now it will go until january 4th."
"ok (He's saying I'm a shit teacher again) so how is this negative and how does it affect me?"
"Well to many students aren't resigning for your classes and your loosing the school money. So other than having a good chance of loosing your job in a month, the only other thing would be that you can't take any paid time off for the next month. It's sad really as you are usually the most active during the teachers meetings, where as everyone else hardly participates."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqru0I0_jes Our living room for anyone who has interest

I have another vid for you guys but it's still processing, I'll add it to this post when it is done so check back.

New vid

Got a new interview vid up for you guys, check it out here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6zgSRcgdlg

One of those days

it's just been one of those days today, i'll speak more on it tomorrow and I am going out to get some vid monday.

Army surplus, internet at home, and just friends.

Was able to find a coat that fit at an army surplus store near the house. It's brand new and apparently is a police jacket. It is a pretty serious coat, and it's actually two coats in one. Has an out and inner part, it's great and I even got a russian hat with it at no extra cost. I'll try and get some photos up for you guys. Got the internet set up today, it's nearly painful to use on this laptop. Was trying to get a new computer today but it didn't work out like I thought it was going to. In a couple months things will be a bit better I suppose, Ola is uninterested in me as a boyfriend and I am uniterested in her as just a friend, in fact I barley like her at all. So i think I am just going to be her english teacher and that will be that. I'll walk her home to make sure she is safe, but I am interested in a girlfriend and spending to much time with her is a waste as this relationship will go nowhere, maybe it just need time but I am unwilling to put to much time into relationships these days. I would rather be with someone who wants the same thing I do. I have decided to stay here as long as I can and I want to be with someone during that time. not much to say really, If i want a family i have to do it soon. I am getting a little old to even think about it.

No Coat for Me

Well, went out after work last night to try and find a proper coat to wear. I bought Tom a nice one for his birthday and I must have tried on every one in the store, but China must have something against big people because nothing fit. There were a couple that were close but even they weren't close enough and even so they were nearly 400 yuan, way more than I want to spend on a coat. I am told it's unlikely I will find anything and I should just get used to what I have, which is multiple layers of clothing. Somehow it doesn't work very well, I may go out after class today and see if I can find something on the street, but I am even more doubtful about that in a way. The funny thing is, I see people as big as I am aroudn and they have coats that fit, where are they getting their cloths I wonder? Thing is I can't ask them, I just have to look endlessly until I find the oen coat in WuHan that actually will fit me. Maybe I should just pay Baaska and Stoerm some money and have Baaska's mom get me a Deel, people would think I am bad ass here if I wore one of those, throw in a russian hat while were at it. Those things are expensive though and I really can't afford it right now. Anyhow I have to get to class guys, I'll update later. White Russian party tonight I think.

Thanksgiving dinner

Thanksgiving dinner in China actually exists at that Italian restraunt called Gianos. They even had two turkey's!!! But when we got there every westerner in WuHan had to be there, so all the turkey was gone. But there was always Pizza and togetherness, had some ice cream with bailey's on it. I was expecting a shake but that was fine and a little less expensive, and really pretty good even though it was like 40 degrees outside. Even the Brits came to celebrate with us, and the Canadians, it was really nice that they came and celebrated an american holiday with us. Tom's bithday today and I was planning on taking him to Gianos but we went last night, so I dunno what I am going to do, that is if we get paid today and right now it's not looking like that. Seems like no one agrees with me on how the Chinese school system works here, I say something and just get dissagreed with, I think I am going to go back to not saying anything at all. If I am the only one that feels that way I have to be wrong, seems logical somehow. Not to much to say today I think I may update later tonight, looks like no internet for another week or so.

Dogs ... My 2nd tattoo ... hot laptops ... DVD's From Home

Well, the dog issue is a big deal. Health care isn't great here, it's basically free, and curing rabies is expensive. It's easier to remove the problem than to produce the cure, besides this country is on it's way to a new future and their laws will need to be inforced at some point, even their laws in regards to dogs and cats. All the cops want to make sure of is that the Animal has had it's rabies vacinations and vacinations for any other human contagious diseases, this isn't unresonable, especialy when you have had a rabies epeidemic. Most of the dogs here in WuHan are small because smaller dogs eat less and in general are easy to care for, people with bigger dogs are usually wealthy. Come to think of it every guy I have seen walking a German Sheopard, Dalmation, or Chow has looked seriously rich. The United states puts thousands of animals a day to death, you just don't read about it in the paper because it's common practice. Ask Patrick if you like he used to work at a humane society and it's my impression that a number of animals were put to death daily and that is just on humane society. Think about all the humane societys in Austin or the greater RGV area, I wouldn't be surprised if the numbers were stagering.
My other tattoo is in fact an animated character, her name is Nanoka and she is from a series called Koi Kaze. You would have to be very open minded to watch this series and I won't get into it's subject matter here, but I will say that it's very controversial. The overall theme is a relationship that is very hard at times but in the end becomes one of the most beautiful relationships I have ever witnessed on screen. For me Nanoka sybolizes perserverence, love, and the fact that there is someone out there for everyone. I feel as though tattooing is something very personal, if someone doesn't understand the meaning it doesn't matter, as long as the wearer knows what it means to them. In a way it's the best journal one can keep, I look at my tattoos and I know where I was that day, I know who was with me, and what we talked about. I remember the pain and how it freed me from the pain of living for a while, gave my mind time to focus on other more important things. These times are burned into my mind, I'll never forget them.
The laptop has been helpful and it will save me money in the long run, I have been spending a lot on internet cafes, home based net should be a lot cheaper. It does very basic things, as long as I can get online and write it's fine. This should also give me a chance to play some of those classic gamers I loved like quest for glory and kyrandia and such. I am still looking for a better laptop but ti will have to wait a couple of months. It'll be a lot easier for me to afford what I want after I get my flight money back but perhaps in a couple months I will have something more permamnant. then tom can use this one fo ronline stuff for a while, or I can give it to Ola to do research with, she is a student after all.
As for the DVD Grandma made us, in all honesty I'm not sure we brought it. I think it was in Tom's posession, although it really doesn't matter because we were in such a hurry to leave that we ended up leaving behind more than we thought we would and I think somehow it wound up in the mix. We would love to have one though, so if perhaps one could be shipped to us it would be great. Oddly enough guys today is actually thanks giving here, it should be for you guys in a couple of hours, just trying to see if anyone is online dad is but isn't around. Was really hoping to have a voice chat, but oh well some other time. All of you have a safe happy thanksgiving and Christmas, we are going to a restraunt to celebrate after work so all is not lost. Haven't had much time for videos as it's been a little colder lately but I promis I will get some up for you soon.

Chinese Internet ... Bad laptop deals

I think that today I am going to talk about Chinese internet. It’s awful, not really that fast and in all honesty to limiting. The government is always blocking things or the internet café has to much security on their router or something like that. It’s odd, all of the internet connections in the world experience fluctuations in bandwidth but here it’s very fluxative. Literally your flying one second then standing still the next. Cafes are always full of these gamers that have no real business being there taking up valuable bandwidth but they are there all right. I’m not sure what exactly is the problem, I can do certain things from the school that I can’t do from the café, I’m sure it’s their router but at the same time the government just blocks random stuff, there is no ryme or reason to it, google will be blocked for like 20 minutes. They free up wikipedia for a couple weeks until someone really finds out what happened at Tiananmen Square. I say again that many of the people in this country feel free and that is fine as long as they don’t mind being ignorant. You know many of them don’t seem to feel that way, you know what, when I was going to come here Stoerm said that Chinese people will frustrate me to no end, and he was right. They sleep all the time, and I’m not kidding about that. If they have nothing better to do they’re sleeping, they know you can’t speak Chinese yet they seem interested in yelling at you in it to try and communicate the idea, They always try and make you pay more because you’re a westerner or they don’t give you the right change even when their register tells you how much you should get. It’s frustrating but at the same time these people are bad ass. They get work done quickly, they sleep all the time because they work nearly around the clock and just grab sleep when they can. I haven’t had any of them treat me really badly … well other than my students and cab drivers, most cabbies don’t even speak the dialect of mandarin I am learning. It just seems odd their internet is so bad. That is one thing I won’t miss about being here is the internet, I hate having to proxy everything to maybe get it working, sal there is to say right now I guess, got a laptop today so once I get it sorted I should be online a lot more from home. I hope Tom will get one soon, not having to worry about a pc anymore is a big weight off my shoulders. At the same time it seemed a little to good to be true, once I got an English version of windows back on it I had found that for purchase the laptops registry had been altered and in fact I had purchased a laptop that is over 8 years old and is in fact a Pentium 2 with 64 megs of ram. This sucks but at the same time at least I have something to use in the mean time, I can do simple things with it and get on line and it will do until I can afford something a little more substantial, I really can’t do my video editing or anything like that. I can just upload vids and such, I can finally do some writing and things like that but at the same time I got really ripped off 1500 Yuan <189> for this substandard piece of junk, and the really sad thing is that it did cross my mind but then I thought ot myself-there is no way this guy is that smart-, well I guess I learned my lesson the hard way, again. I may be forced to do some part time work to make up the extra cash, I don’t want to but the truth is I am already running low on the next paycheck and I haven’t even acquired it yet. I had to purchase an external CD rom since it’s a sub notebook and doesn’t have drives. And since it only has a 5 gig HD I am going to have to purchase an external HD, if those weren’t so useful I would be really pissed. Well I am really pissed, but hey if anyone out there makes poor decisions it’s me. I am to trusting and I think that’s one thing China is going to change about me very quickly. Buy electronics from an electronics store not off the street, no matter how good the price is. Tom must think I am a complete moron because of this, I guess there are ways this thing can come in handy, anyway guys kinda depressed and upset with myself. Maybe I will get some videos up later

Portrait unveiled

Well here it is

Tattoos

I have had that thundercats Tatto for a while now, along with the other one you guys don't know about yet. I recieved them both at the same time in trade for some work I did for a local tattoo artist. Sadly he was beggining a battle with drug addiction then so the pieces aren't as good as I would like them to be, the one on my arm I have had redone so it's up to par (but ti could still be better) my other one looks good but needs a lot of work. I may get it done here since there are some amazing tattoo artists here now. It's a sad thing because the artist I went to used to be so good, he is the one that did Carrie's. It's sad to see a creative and talented individual go down hill due to something stupid like cocain. I can only hope that he can get over it and get back on his feet.

Cold stuff

You usally have to get injections for colds around here, cough syrup is about the best they have and some herbal stuff.

Autumn in wuhan, chinese money

I would also point out that Chinese money is all different sizes as well. The widths and even sometimes just the lengths are different. Maybe I will try to get some measurements up for you or something like that. The weather today is awful, it around 65 degrees outside but it's raining too. The fact that it's wet just makes it feel colder, I don't have any rain gear yet so I am just kinda walking around in my beanie and jacket trying to stay under buildings as much as I can. I fear what winter is going to be like, probably very wet and very cold, I'll be sick a lot and probably Tom as well. I think the purchase of a heavy coat may be in order next payday, I'll have to get one that also repels water and what's more I'll have to find one that fits. That is a lot easier said than done around here, Id prolly wear a triple X here or something like that. The thing I don't get is that there are Chinese guys as big as I am, wonder where they get their cloths? Oh and you will probably see me wearing glasses very soon, perhaps by December. I failed my eye exam big time and I am starting to notice that they are going down hill, I am having to hold things really close to read them and it's starting to give me a headache so I haven't been reading or writing much. I am at least going to go get an eye exam and see what the verdict is. I will have to take a chinese person with english skills to translate for me, they have a lot fo cool frames here, I was thinking abotu something really square. They have a lot of really cool frames here. Anyhow gotta run guys

Dogs in China, WuHan Specific of course.

Well it appears that Beijing has instituted a 1 dog policy, like 2,000 people got rabies and they killed 500,000 dogs. It is sad but this is no big loss, there are plenty of them in China. I a couple of my students have told me they have a couple of dogs here, but usually one stays home at a time. Very rare that you see someone walking more than one dog. Remember that the people here don't have much money, hell they are only allowed to have one kid. So dogs are a great expense, people seem to prefer cats more. Cats can go out and hunt and stuff, they have wild ferrets here, those make quite a fine meal for a feline. cats also just go into random restraunts and eat off the floor, dogs don't get away with that. Cats are simply good at being sneaky and surviving. One of my sutdents said "I have a pet cat teacher, but he leaves for 2 hours every night and he is fat when he comes home." Odviously this feline is frequenting the restraunts on Zhong Nan San Lu or something. Dogs do the same things but you see dogs eating out of garbage cans and stuff, sometimes they have to resort to eating piles of discarded veggies and such. Dogs are also not very nice hear, you just get the feeling they will bite you. I haven't petted a dog since I have come to China, Lex is going to get a big cuddle when I get home. I will try and get some pictures of dogs for you guys and put them up. Linda your right that is a very small sidecar on that bike, bigger side cars are usualy used for hauling things around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BclD0tddGmE Video about Chinese junkfood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkJy4I-uc_I Some autumn stuff and finally Chinese money.

Oh what a tangled web we weave.

Alright it's been brought to my attention that I'm a huge asshole, sorry about that I have turned the comments feature back on and will try to avoide swearing in the future. The two more recent offensive posts have been removed and things can resume as normal. There are a few things that I must add though.

1. Comments are difficutl to respond to when I don't have much time. So if your going to ask a question about something I have posted, for example, where a video has been shot, please look in teh post or the video description on youtube. I have suually been very clear about where I have taken what, who is going out with whom and such. Now just general comments that i really don;t need to respond to are of course most welcome. I would love some more video, picture, post requests this is really why I turned comments on in the first place.

2. Often bad things happen in life and it's no different here in China. Perosnally i feel that many negative things have happend over my lifetime and they are continuing to happen. So if you want a blog that is all flowers and sunshine every post, then this may not be the blog for you. *I am going to post the good and the bad, this is something that will never change. Often the bad outnumbers the good but some decent things have began to creep into my life so we will just see how it goes.

3. It is very important that everyone realize that I am in China. I won't go into the sordid and brutal history this country has with Japan. Rape and murder are only a few of the atrocities Japan has commited and they are still bitterly hated here. Relations are getting better with the new prime minster in Japan but still, the last thing I want is from someone in Wuhan to see this blog and not see me putting people in their place about this fact. You should all check out a book called "The Rape of Nanking" by Iris Chang and then see how you feel about Japan. It'll put a lump in your throat from what I understand. So please, if you guys don't want me to get "snippy" then this is something I have to be hard about.

Anyway hope to have a couple vids up for you in a few hours.

Been a while

Sorry it's been a while for a post guys but things have been really busy around here, I have a date tonight so I am going to make this short and update this post from the cafe tonight. Got a couple more pictures of motorcycles for you. The top one is a police bike with a side car and a russian engine. All of the sidecar bikes seem to have a place for a spare tire, kinda handy. The second bike is just a cruiser with a little 150 CC engine in it. the driver seat is missing the leather on it so he just covered it with plastic, that happens a lot here. Motorcycles are about the cheapest and all around easiest way to get around, more reliable and faster than scooters, and not as expensive as a car, really popular. Here is a video for you guys demonstrating the number of taxi's in WuHan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFXaGlx5dhY

More vids for everyone.

Sorry I haven't updated in a couple days, but here is a vid for you guys. Also I wanted to say somethign about clubs in WuHan. They are filled with smoke, loud music, and many many men usually. Men that seem quite interested in dancing very closely with other men, It's hard to get used to men and women being closer in thsi country on a same sex basis. It's not a very big deal when you think about it, it's just hard to get used to from a male standpoint. That may sound bad but that is just the way I feel about it. You can;t hear a thing, the staff just seems to want to get your phone number and not call you, or play dice. Frankly I am bored with dice for a while, anyhow enjoy the vid it isn't to long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIRrcRnyofQ 4 Chinese girls in our apartment, the one in the orange is Ola BTW.

Ola in a video?

To my knowlege Ola hasn\'t been in any of my Video\'s, you must mean Yama, she works with us. I did however manage to capture her and three of her friends on vid tonight and will be getting it up soon. If I made it sound like I had captured her on film I\'m sorry but you guys have not seen her yet, but you will I promis. Yeah I feel bad about Nemo but the truth is I have felt bad about Nemo for a long time, I was never as good to him as I should have been. I think about him all the time, and honestly I should have given him to someone else a long time ago. There isn\'t anything more I can do but hope he is alright now so ... that\'s what I try to do. Lex is a good dog and she is well cared for and my mind is settled with that. Guys is there some type of problem with my posts? Let me know if they aren\'t clear enough because I am getting an awful lot of responses that say I said or didn\'t say something that i did or didn\'t. Hmmm I wonder if that will make sence.
So I had 4 chinese girls at my place tonight, that was really cool and I have video to prove it, I will be getting that up as soon as our computers are back up at work. Again I am dead set on buying a computer on the 25th of this month and I should be able to get internet easily set up. Hopefully Tom will take care fo that end of things but who knows, anyhow I had a great day off, I got a heavy wok for my hotplate so now I can really cook almost anything I want without burning it. Made some great eggs that were full fo meat today for lunch, Tom didn\'t really like them, but I have grown to accept that about his tastes. Nothing has really been good food wise for him hear so as long as he says alright then I know it\'s tollerable at least. Anyhow that is all for now.

Sigh...

I am not even going to waste a post on the previous comment, I have already addressed the comment privatly. I am speaking of a certain type of American/Canadian. I am sure other foreighners act in similar ways but I don\'t have the good fortune of understanding French, Castillian Spanish, Beligian, German, Etc. I believe I made this very clear in the post, Self centered, superior rich kids. Also realize that many times I make these posts after having way to much to drink, therefore I am a bit more honest than even I would often be, and I am a very honest person. I don\'t think anyone likes those kinds of people.

Before class

well I have no luck witht he computers at work, they are all on the fritz and having windows reinstalled. I dunno if we will have time to come to the cafe tonight, and honestly it's always quite busy and slow on the weekends. So, I came to the internet cafe before class to update the blog. honestly I haven't got much time so here it goes. I won't be seeing Ola today, she spends the weekends in Hankou with her aunt, seeing as how she shares her one room dorm with 6 other students I can't blame her, I have been invited to her home a town away but the thing is it's on a weekend so it won't be easy to do. Weekends are so busy, that is the one period of work I never look forward to. very busy, very long, very tiring, luckily though our days off are right around the corner.
Found a book store today with some classics in it, nearly brought a tear to my eye to see Macbeth, Treasure Island, The Chronicals of Narnia, Moby Dick, Etc ... The two books I was looking for weren't there though, Huck Finn and Watership Down. Watership down I want the most, many people feel that it's one of the best books ever written. I certainly have fond memories of the movie and am sure I will like the book. BTW if you have fond memories of Watership down then watch this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5I9izys2ek these are clips from the movie set to Marilyn Manson's version of sweet dreams. VERY GRAPHIC AND NOT FOR CHILDREN, none the less enjoy. I have to run and prepare for class guys later and have fun.

Westerners in China

You know, I have met many of them and I am finding one thing in common with most of them. I don't really like them, in fact most of the Americans and Canadians really piss me off (OH NO HE'S NOT GOING TO ATTACK AMERICANS AND CANADIANS IS HE? ... Yes he is). These seem like the same people I was really trying to get away from, honestly I was warned about this but had a fair amount of scepticism at the time. Now I can honestly say most of the foreighners here I just don't like, yeah Chinese people may be frustrating. They really seem to feel superior to everyone here, it's enough to make you want to puke in your suite sometimes, not to mention that most of them have just hit their 20's, just a bunch of kids really. All they wanna do is drink, and smoke, and all kinds of shit that punk teenagers want to do, all whilst stating their superiority to everyone else. I tell you what though, there are a few worth while, but not many. We have spoken and Tom agrees with me here and he gave me permission to say that, so if any of you out there are considering making a career for yourself in China be mindfull of the people you may be around.

On a better note, I went out with Ola again and it was great. Spent way to much money, in fact I have had to borrow money every check so far. Not getting our full salary hurts right now, this girl likes me and it won't be to long before things get a little closer, I hope for much closer. Anyhow I hope you guys are enjoying the vids, I have no idea as no one really comments any longer. Met someone that knows Stoerm today, small world.

Pictures and vids

Well guys I promised some photos and such and some more vids, and here we are. Up above is easily the most popular car in WuHan. It's the citroen ZX, many citizens drive these and all of the taxi's are this same car. It has a 1.4L in line 4 cylinder, 5 speed manual trans, comes in an array of colors (Yes even yellow), and comes in a hatchback as a sport edition. It may not look like much but the fact is these are great cars, they are quick and nimble and seat about 5. Easily more of these on these streets than anything else.

Here we have what I would call a very "common" type of motorcycle in WuHan. Kinda a big bike, holds lots of fuel, and almost all of them have trunks for the helmet or a few items. Now back home a bike like this may have a 1000 CC engine in it. This bike only has a 150, you can see it nuged in there, just a small, loan, solitary cylinder. This is good enough for most people as I have explained in my motorcycles in China post. Some bikes even get a little bigger than this.

Now I'm not sure what you call these bikes but they are very popular, and very fast. Notice there is no up tube that the fuel tank normally sits on. Instead the tank hangs off the downtube, and there is a little rack there for holding things. Notice the engine is tiny, prolly only 48 CC. Now the only difference between these bikes and a conventional motor scooter is a transmission. Motor scooters are all one gear, so the only way to get a motor scooter that will go faster is to get one with a big engine, these bikes have these tiny 48 cc engines, but they have a 3 or 4 speed trans so they literally hall ass on very little power, they sound alright too. I wouldn't want to get in an accident on one of these, but this is prolly the bike I would ride around. Now the videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW-Klk9wnGk this is a vid of me showing off a couple of love notes Tom's students made him, yes teenage girls love Tom in this country. Boy just when you think things are going to be different.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3zmAr3PLGE This one is of us getting drinks outside work, I go into a brief discussion about Fu Dogs/Lions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7GWFJYoq-w This one is of us eating some Mongolian beef at a place called "Next To Bob's" on Zhong Nan San Lu. It's near our place. Baaska would prolly say this isn't traditional but damn it was awfully good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xABrYS6BEs This one is the first part of our Halloween party, not great but you'll get the idea

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgJuFN9aIOg The second part of the halloween party, the carnage, better lighting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifxaJb-FTKs Right after the Halloween party in Hong Shan park, Tom's in his Sith/Jedi outfit. It's kinda dark but I think you will get the idea, it's amazing that all these things have been built from scratch in the park for the mid autumn festival.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsuyGgcmsjY this is the first video in Daft Punk's interstella 5555 series (The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem). It is dance music but it has a rock beat and the video's are just amazing so I will try and post all 14 of them at some point. They literally tell a whole story with just music.

Anyhow guys that's it for now, hope you enjoy

Every cloud has a silver lining

Tom just gave me a good spot of news, I won't go into details but if all works out it may be good. There will of course be some for lack of a better word "bullshit" I have to go through on my end but hey it's just another day in the world. Now it looks as though I will be going out with Ola again tonight, that is if I get out of work when I think I do. Cool girl, she likes me, want's me to correct her english, doesn't get mad when I do, and she's cute too. Not gorgeous and maybe to some not really pretty, but hey a gorgeous woman in this country is nothing but trouble. She is also ticklish, doesn't mind me really touching her or anything like that. It's early but seems to be a good match so far. I am already starting to forget she is nearly 10 years younger than I am, yep 19 this one, and you know what ... don't care ... doesn't bother me one bit. She wants to finish school, she's mature for her age, and very responisble when it comes to managing her time. Anyhow it was kinda a rough day, I was freaking out for some reason. I'm not really sure why, you know when your the only american sitting around a table full of brits it's nothing but frustrating. All they want to do is talk about back home and ignor the American's, and then when your typing a text message to the babe your going out with on your cell phone they wonder what the hell your doing. I love having a cell phone again, it makes things so much easier and text messages are so much cheaper on those, this country is all about texting because it's affordable. I can send 100 text messages before I run out of cash, but I can only make a few calls comparativley, plus Ola reads allot better than she understands spoken english right now so it's easier to get things across that way. I really am going to try and get some better camera equipment at some point but the big thing now is that I start my degree within the next 4 months, it may be easier said than done but hey I have to get it done at some point . Guys really tired, kinda a long day and a date maybe, there is a vid for you below but it's not one of mine, one of our computers at work went down so everyone is using the one I use to transfer, later all.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDKDhNMJQns episode 3 of back to the 80's

It was a wonderful night ...

That is exactly what my date said, in english even. One good thing about the girl your dating not really speaking the same language very well is the fact that arguments aren't easy to come by. She is learning very well though and seems to like the fact that I am quite a bit older than she is, seems to be the way things work around here. Very common to see young girls with seedy scumy old men. Since she is in college she had to be back to the dorms by a certain time, so we ate, walked and sat in hong shan park, talked a bit, and then I walked her home. She gave me a hug and held on a little longer than I was thinking she would, I didn't mind, and that was that. Since it was Halloween yesterday (By the way dad congrats on 3 years of retirement) I decided to go to a western bar called vox with some friends, drank spirits all night, and spent way to much money. There is a skateshop there and odly enough they had a pair of shoes my size so I bought those as well. Got some more pictures and vids for you guys and as soon as I find some time I will get them up for you. Hope you guys are enjoying the ones I have put up already, anyhow I have a class that I must plan for so I am going to call it quits for now, if I go to the cafe I will make another post there.