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Published: June 21st 2005
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So you wanna be a VJ
Apparently, this is all it takes to get a cushy gig being a pop culture MC. Who saw Harold and Kumar go to White Castle? I think this is the Korean at the Asian club meeting who kept asking all the questions about being an I-banker. Please note the eyeware. Making a statement by shunning italian influenced frames in favor of the 80's Glen Plake skier oakley knockoffs. I'm sorry, but it's true. With the exception of Yao Ming, we weren't meant to play basketball competitively at the highest levels. The NBA has done a pretty good job of marketing over here and the basketball craze is fairly substantial. I walk past a bunch of courts on my way to class and you should see how many people are hoopin' it up. And by hooping it up, I mean almost killing eachother. For those of you that went to Hopkins, remember open gym? When the Lamda the "asian interest" fraternity would be out there playing pick up games and hopelessly flailing about underneath the net? Probably half the guys there were breaking ankles...and I mean that literally, not in an Alan Iverson Crossover type way. It's the same here. These guys are fit, but everyone thinks they can drive to the net. The shoe commercials here have scenes of Chinese men doing the skywalk on there way to dunk the ball. There are no special effects that can convince me that any player over here I have seen can dunk the ball. In fact, I was watching what appeared to be the college championship tournament and it was like
Ummm...yeah
leather loafers seem to by far be the footware of choice here. So do patterned slackes. Work it dude, work it. Put your thing down, flip it, and reverse it. watching the Wendler Junior High Rams practice. They need to start thinking like Steve Kerr and not Steve Nash.
At the risk of sounding like an episode of 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy', you can get fresh cut gardenias here for 25 cents a bunch. Nothing makes a room smell better than fresh cut flowers, particularly gardenias. Whoa, I just read that sentence back to myself. There's no risk involved, please disregard.
So here are some debacles I have experienced while attempting to grocery shop. I almost bought cooking oil when trying to get apple juice. I bought what I thought was milk and turned out to be sour cream. And the king of all blunders... I can't confirm it, but I'm pretty sure the tasty little cookies that I have been enjoying for breakfast are some sort of laxative biscuit. I can't find any other explanation as to why at 10 am, I find myself sprinting Carl Lewis style all the way back to my hotel to the comfort of a western toilet.
I know I have said it before, and anyone who has travelled with me can attest...but there is nothing better on the
I'm too sexy for my slacks
You should have seen this guys confidence sky rocket when he first heard his own voice on the mic. He was like "gimme that!" and just wouldn't shut up. road than an icy Coca-Cola. DAMN IT'S SO GOOD. I don't know what kind of addictive substance is in that soda, but if I get an icy coke with dinner, I'm a happy man. A coke and a smile, just like the add says. On the same note, all in moderation. I have seen kids walking around here with the yardstick like cups that they fill with Margaritas in New Orleans, except these ones are full of soda. Someone needs to inform the public health office that all you are gonna get are rotten teeth and a bunch of fat kids. Of course, who am I to judge since in my youth I was very fond of the Super Big Gulp suicide from 7-11. But seriously, buy Coke stock if it's not already a part of your portfolio.
On the western comfort foods note, I have been craving some food like that I can find back home. For those of you coming to Chengdu let me recommend (and I think you may find these in any decent guidbook) Grandma's Kitchen, Peter's Tex-Mex and Highfly Pizza (not to be confused with Hi-Fi Pizza in Adams Morgan, DC which serves up
Awe sweet, a pet...holy shi*!
After wandering into a market and mistakingly assuming that these were pet snakes, the dude yanks one out, cuts off it's head and then starts de-scaling it right on the floor. Then when he saw the flash from my camera he gave me the "you gonna buy one?" look. Ummm...no thanks dude, I think I saw a Kenny Rogers Roasters around the corner. the tastiest/grossest piece of drunken-bar-closing-munchie pizza you have ever had).
The Traditional Chinese Medicine classes that I have observed have been very interesting, I think I may have found myself a new hobby. They don't screw their students over with book costs over here like they do in the US. The textbook for the class, which I bought along with others, cost me 5 bucks. Of course, it's not as big and lengthy as the ones we have to buy in the states, but I end up only using about 1/5 of the pages in those books anyways. I attended a lecture on Chinese Massage which was pretty darn cool. Now, it was difficult to follow all of it since the professor spoke limited english, but I'm fairly certain that she said that these maneuvers are only to be practiced on young women after a nice bottle of Pinot. She also said something about it being more effective if there are candles and Barry White playing in the background. Hey, this is what she said, I'm just sayin...who are we to judge an expert?
Last night, 'Rudy' was on TV, IN ENGLISH!!! so excited was I. Now here is a bit of movie trivia which I recognized last night for the very first time ( I think). The duo of John Favreau and Vince Vaughn are recognizeable from their buddy characters in 'Swingers' and 'Made'. Everyone can recognize a pudgy young Favreau as the awkward grad student in 'Rudy', but I'm pretty sure I may have spotted a young Vince Vaughn somewhere in the film too...
much love,
ak
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dude, i thought that was you in the "so you wanna be a vj" picture. my bad.