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I just finished a long one, but I haven’t uploaded the pictures to acompany it yet.  I’ll just keep it saved until it’s ready tomorrow.  I’m going to go rent a movie now.  Hope you enjoyed your weekend.

Agent M

Helen landed Saturday morning. I went and got her, then Helen, I Ping and I all went to Jilong to get work done, have dinner and drink tea. Two Saturdays ago was my first time going to Jilong and if you don’t know about it, it’s a quick bus ride there (30 min.) and a pretty fun time (night market and busyness.)

That night I went to a UFC party to watch the newest UFC availible with all the guys from [TaiwanBJJ.org]. That was really fun, I drank beers and made fun of the fighters. It was home for sleeping after that.

Sunday Helen and I went to Game Club and played a new game “Dos Rios.” The object of the game is controling 2 rivers, so they water the fields your people are on. It’s very fun because each player move can potentially change the entire board (the flow of the two rivers.) I won of course .

Monday was just work and me getting my house further organized. And now we’re back to today.

I forgot to mention my cool ass backpack. I took it out for a test run on Satruday and it passed with flying colors.

That covers just about everything. Helen slept all day yesterday. That was pretty funny. I don’t think she ever moved from the couch.

That be all m.

Imagine… You’re studying Chinese, surrounded by hotchicks. Constantly bathing in the glow of beauties analyzing a language that goes back 5000 years. Every young male Chinese student’s dream, right? WRONG!

I arrived a little late for the first half of class, but that went pretty smoothly. I stepped out to grab a bite to eat during the break, and when I came back I walked into a discussion about sun tanning or something. Cool, some new vocabulary. That turns into a disucssion about whiteness of skin, skin types, whitening creams, etc. etc. etc. etc. AAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!! It went on for like 40 minutes. I did get to jump in and make a comment about how nice my skin looks. Then that turned into a discussion about how boys just use one bar of soap for everything and about how our teacher stopped using soap at 30 something (because of allergies or something) and now she uses tea leaves.

Actually, the class isn’t bad at all. It’s really fun. But it’s funny how quickly a discussion about anything can slide into something about make-up and beauty products (and regularly does.) Suppose if the class was mostly guys discussion would quickly slide into shagging, Xbox360, and [A-Team].

Helen lands early tomorrow, so I’ve been cleaning up the house, getting her room all setup. Not much else to report. Ah, one thing. I made an oral test sheet that I gave the kindergarten kids today. It was part me asking them questions and part reading. Most of the kids did very well, and the now I know exactly what to work on for the one that didn’t.

Looking P.I.M.P:

I think I look real “Hip Hop” in this shot. I don’t know if my mom remembers the story, but I had this Treasure Troll in a tuxedo when I was little (remember [Treasure Trolls]?) Anyhow, I cut his hair up all cool like. I was marching him around the house and let the phrase “Dude looks PIMPISH!” slip out (pimpish was an in word at the time.)

Mom wasn’t having none of that. “DO YOU KNOW A PIMP IS SOMEONE THAT SELLS WOMEN FOR MONEY?!?” I didn’t know what was going on at the time. I thought it was just a word to discribe some fly ass shit. It’s life lessons like this that make you tote a dictionary everywhere you go. The wrong word for the “right” reason might get you no cartoons for a week. Remember that.

(I don’t think I missed any cartoons, but I probably could have in the right/wrong house)

miltownkid – “If life is just a bowl of cherries, is death just a bowl of pits?”

This post is about the barter-trading. The guy from the company called me up yesterday and answered the rest of my questions. It looks like it’s going to be pretty sweet… Wait, should I briefly explain barter trading?

Here’s one site that did a pretty good job explaining it quickly I think. Click the picture for the site.

Basically people (you people) will be able to trade your skills and stuff for Barter Dollars. You can then use these barter dollars to buy stuff, or services from other members.

Now Daniel (the barter guy) told me I could setup the system so that I only charge businesses a member fee and a commission on trading, and let regular folk (like you and I) join for free and trade for free. The system will allow for both. That was something I was a little worried about. I didn’t want to charge regular members anything.

Also, people will be able to make trades with other barter groups, example: You go to Australia and use barter dollars to stay in a hotel there (because they have groups there.) It’d all be under the same umbrella, so to speak. It should be all set and ready to go by next week. People will be able to sign up and go to town with trading . I’m a little excited about that.

I’m thinking about calling it LETS Taiwan. If you come up with something better in the next few hours, do post.

Today I went over to Frost’s house and saw his new computer. He has a PC in a Mac case with a bunch of extra fans and lights. It was pretty neat. Then I went over to Sogo to look at laptop bags. I looked for a really long time at a lot of different brands and ended up getting a Jansport, because I remember my mom buying one at a rummage sale and trading it in for a new one once (I think .) I’ll get a picture up of it maybe tomorrow, I’ll find a weblink or something.

Let’s about it for today.

Namahottie gets today’s picture. Plus she left about a billion comments on my flickr (that was fun to read, thanks)

That reminds me. Happybirthdaybitch.com got updated for a special someone

That B all for now.

MK

I wasn’t going to write about me and my medicine taking antics after seeing [this post on forumosa].
I have a funny feeling that it’s in reference to this blog. I never do (nor ever have done) any kind of tracking to see how many people read this, but that’s one more I didn’t know about (or maybe did and forgot about .)

Well, no one has recently asked me “Have you been taking your medicine?” But today I had to ask myself “Have I been taking my medicine?” I thought back a few days and realized that I hadn’t (for a few days.) My side effects from not taking me meds are mild (if present at all.) When I do begen to notice something, it’s usually hyperness, fast thinking and things like that. Why am I telling you this? (Well, not my mom she knows already )

1. Be careful about (jokingly) making the comment “Have you been taking your medication?” to people. You might accidently say it to someone who takes medication. I’ve never been upset with anyone who has mistaking said that to me, but if it’s mistakingly told to me when I haven’t been taken my medicine I think I do get a little upset. I hate taking the medicine, and hearing that is like a reminder like someone going “See you do need to take medication!” (I think I don’t… )
2. That was a long one, shit… what was two… Ah yes two… I guess I think talking about it is a good thing or something. If I, someone who is medicated, don’t like talking about it, how are people who aren’t (medicated) suppose to know more about it and stuff (and feel confortable talking about it.)

Reminds me of another story. (I’m supposedly bi-polar by the way… Don’t feel bad if you go “Oooooooh, that explains it!” ) I decided to let my Chinese teacher know why I had to see the doctor last week (for a chat and medicine.) It ended up turning into a story about some college kid that would study non-stop and eventually burned down his parents house. >.< That made the Japanese student next to me feel nice and confortable . I understand that some (what’s the PC word… ah fek it) crazy folk do talk to people that don’t exist (ah yes, that college kid did that too), run around naked, and burn down houses. But other crazy folk (or people that have been diagnosed as crazy folk) are people like… uh Larry Flynt – Hustler magazine publisher, Tim Burton – movie director, DMX – Rapper uh.. yeah . OK, I just pulled those names off of [the first site I googled with famous bipolar.]

Seriously though, manic-depressiveness (bipolarness, etc.) is a strange beast. All “mental illnesses” too (I hate that word, I hate being called sick too.) It’s not like having the flu, breaking a leg, or catching gay. Doctors can usually fix those things up and then your “back to normal” (OK, sorry about the catching gay, bad joke, here I am complaining about metal illness making gay jokes lol.) The thing for me is my “back to normal” is crazy (or something like that, I think that’s the best explination.) I like being hype and dancing on clouds and stuff. That’s my normal (well, sort of ).

I’d rather not be taking any medication, but I guess I’m on a level now that keeps me at a level of hype that I’m happy with. I was diagnosed with crazy like 6 years ago and I still have trouble taking me medicine everyday (both with remembering and comfortableness.) I guess some people accept “the fact” (yeah right ) that they have to take the meds, but I’m “always” thinking about (I try to not think about it too much now) the day when I don’t need to take medication anymore. Some people (maybe you) think it’s necessary once you’re diagnosed that way. Others (like me) think alternatives are out there….

Well… The was quite a rant about something. I do have strong feelings about some things (I usually cover them up though.) I don’t think I’ll write much more.

uploadedsome [photos to the Flickr] and will be organizing them soon. And the [Barter-Software.com] guy will be calling me tomorrow. Maybe I’ll post about that.

I also obviously have a small case of OCD (Obssesive Compulsive Disoder) because I just spent about 45 minutes getting the links to display just right (WordPress kept messing them up, maybe you saw it, mayeb you didn’t.)

til next time

Millhouse

Oh, almost forgot a picture… “Kids love chocolate!”

My niece