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I was supposed to be going to the gym or studying chinese or doing something self improving, but instead i decided to add something to my blog since i promised i would. (yes i am yuppy enough to have a gym membership these days and it pains me to say it, but i run on a treadmill….) So you all probably want to know what i’ve been doing since, um…. I can’t really remember when i last posted but it was a while ago.
I’ve had a couple of posts brewing inside of me for awhile. I’ve got a nice “bitch about china” one where i point out that as long as i have lived here the only two things that make me more pissed off than when I first got here is the goddamn insipid music and the fucking selfish ways these mother fuckers drive their goddamn hello kitty and anti Japan slogan plastered cars.
But this is supposed to be a nice post where i tell my dedicated readers my general situation and state of mind. First of all I have been without internet for the past 5 days and am feeling sever symptoms of withdrawal that probably inspired me to start writing this post in the first place. Besides my usual 5 hour a day habit of reading the news, various political blogs and other waists of time, (not to mention my commitment to acts of civil disobedience against Chinese laws forbidding yellow journalism) i have become addicted to instant messaging in Chinese. I started out simply enough, wanting to practice my Chinese and make a few friends.
QQ is the most widely used Chinese messaging system, but almost foreigners use it in Chinese. Basically this means it makes it incredibly easy for me to meet girls, even if they do live in inner Mongolia, shenzhen and chongqing. All I have to do is go into a chat room and say I’m American and I’m flooded by messages of desblief and curiosity. Of which I can cull out all but the cute girls. So i have been offline for over almost a week. My various contacts no doubt languishing in internet cafes, methodically sending messages just in case i happen to be on line but invisible…
This fucking blog, Why would i tell the world that i’m a sleazy bastard that looks for women on the internet? i mean my mom reads this blog.
Allright, so in my legitimate life what am I doing? Mostly studying Chinese. I like studying but the way the courses are taught is kinda getting me down, we just move way to fast and there isn’t enough time in class to practice all the new words and sentence patterns. But the Koreans seem to do just fine, so i’m probably just to lazy. (the Japanese are pretty good at remembering characters, but they always fuck up the difference between “r” and “l” so me and the Chinese students sitting in on the class laugh at them.)
Speaking of the whole Japanese situation, it has me scared shitless, my prediction war somewhere in east Asia by 2015, probably earlier, with the U.S. army totally fucking useless cause it’s tied up in the middle east. but I’ll let the Chinese government comment on the situation.
“The Chinese government has never done anything for which it has to apologize to the Japanese people,” Mr. Li said. “The problem now is that the Japanese government has done a series of things that have hurt the feelings of the Chinese people on the Taiwan issue, some international issues and especially the treatment of history.”
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