And Thats the Holidays

March 4, 2008

Originally Written on 2nd March Sunday 2008

Its Sunday morning, the last day before the holidays start again. Fortunately if I remember correctly there are two preceding long weekends on the way in the coming weeks so its not too bad.

Today I am tieing up all of the loose ends. Which means that I will be compilating the 10 pages of entries which I haven’t uploaded over the past couple of months. I’m also putting together all of the other articles, videos and media that I have to sort out for other projects.

I also want to use to time to fill in some of the gaps over the past few weeks. Theres been some interesting stuff going on, some of which I am afraid that I would prefer to keep to myself. But for everything else, heres the spill:

A few weeks back I went to my Chinese friends 22nd Birthday. We went to a Chinese restraunt out of the city. There were about 15 people in total, 13 Chinese people, 1 Japanese guy and me. As you might expect this was a great opportunity for me to practice my Chinese which I did.

I should probably mention that I didn’t like the restraunt, it didn’t even look like a restraunt, the price was incredibly expensive, the staff were terrible and I think that I got sick from the food there (even though I only managed to eat one small plate of food).

Despite the awful restraunt I had a lot of fun, I met a lot of friendly people. Unfortunately I often found myself completely overwhelmed with the situation at hand. I’d be talking to someone in Chinese and could barely hear them because it was so loud in the restraunt furthermore other people were interrupting saying that I couldn’t understand etc. It was hardly the ideal place to converse in a foreign language.

Fortunately someone moved seats and sat next to me so it was much easier to talk. We were there for maybe 3 hours I think and I only managed to eat a small plate of food because I was too busy talking and listening.

Afterwards we went back to my friends place and did some stuff and then people slowly started to leave. Two of the guys had a PS2 set up, my friend told me to bring some games so I chose KOF XI and Street Fighter Alpha Anthology. I only played a few round of KOF and got my ass handed to me. I don’t think that it was my fault though as my controller was busted and I couldn’t pull off some moves.

I spent more time to become acquainted with the people around me and we talked until quite late. By that time I was so exhausted, I don’t think that I have ever felt so drained. Translation requires so much brain work and when you have to constantly keep that up for an extended period of time its exhausting. So I almost gave up speaking Chinese.

I also gave my friend her present and she liked it very much. I was woken up 2x in the night or should I say in the morning. The Japanese guy couldn’t find the bus stop back to the city and the second time someone poked me asking if I was cold. I wasn’t cold but I was frickin’ asleep!!! Infact I was having a dream about this shmp on the Xbox 360, Raiden Fighters I think it is. ><

From there I just got up and went home with some of the others. I had heaps of fun and made some more Chinese friends which is great. I don’t really want to add any more as I am currently writing a Chinese article about what happened. It has lots of difficult situations for me to put into Chinese so I want to write about it. Currently 800 characters thru, will probably be a pretty large article as I am still no where near getting to the restraunt yet.

Yeah so by the end of the weekend I was exhausted, I had realized that I had probably eaten something bad an got some kind of bug because over the past week I was not feeling very good. Sick in the stomach, tired, sore eyes etc.

I also had a pretty tiring week beforehand as well. Lots of running around, meeting people.

So for the past 2 weeks I have been trying to recover from whatever I caught and doing the usual business; Chinese revision, catching up with friends, writing blog articles, playing games. I guess with a lean towards writing blog articles and Chinese revision. I have been on a roll with my blog articles and I have a fantastic selection of some of my best articles yet on the way. So I am looking forward to posting those.

I have also been organizing my stuff for Uni which starts tomorrow. But beyond that, thats it.

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