Random Thoughts: The Return

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Well, a biker = a bikie, yeah? So it only makes sense that someone would figure out sooner or later that knifie sounds good with it.
Kinda like a very unserious Mad Max.
 

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Well, a biker = a bikie, yeah? So it only makes sense that someone would figure out sooner or later that knifie sounds good with it.
Kinda like a very unserious Mad Max.

Usually they have guns. :P

That said, I haven't really seen many bikies around like I used to, but at the same time they are usually concentrated further up north or a bit further inland.
 

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THEY HAVE "INCA CHIPS" HERE! "Ethnican" flavor.

Totally procrastinating on my Chinese corporate law reading.

I'm starting to really like Ohmwrecker, who is a Youtube gamer who plays a lot with H20Delirious and the other guys I like. It's SO nerdy, but I really like his voice XD Then they said he was a lawyer by day (he went to business school too, not sure, maybe he just has a MBA) and they record late at night so they can play with him, I was like, omg! XD I love watching the group play Uno and other games. It's just the best XD

I'm listening to a video he posted when he reached 700K subscribers and how he used to dream for so long of reaching 100K subscribers, and when he reached it he felt humbled and thought, "What now?" I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN OHM. His video is so cute, it's about chasing your dreams and not being complacent and how we have one life, how he thought he would love something but once he got into it he didn't actually like it as much, but to keep trying, how he's made amazing friends along the way, etc. AWWW!!!! I can't wait to see his 1M subscribers video now~ (EDIT: IT'S JUST AS NICE!!)

Ahem.

We had a great guest speaker today and he's a professor from the US. It's hard to find US people 'round these parts. USA REPRESENT. I thought right away he was from Seattle and he couldn't believe how I was able to tell XD I don't know why, but he just screamed "West coast" "Seattle" "Oregon". He spoke to us about mergers and acquisitions between China and the US, national security reviews whenever a deal is brought up, reactions in both countries, and I LOVED IT. It was so interesting! I didn't know much about M&A other than the basics from classes, and that Richard primarily did that when he was a practicing lawyer, and it was so cool to learn about deals between China and the US. We also talked about Google in China and I participated like a nerd because I wrote a paper on the subject earlier this year. He has a seminar that's twice a week and I think I might audit it! :3 We went walking after class and talked more about Yahoo in China and some people on this listserv. It's full of China scholars and related people. He said my China Law professor in the US is one of the more sensible ones, but a few are very black and white and constantly critical about China that it gets...
A: "Old?"
N: "Yeah, you can say that!"

He'll add me to the listserv, yay! It was another "it looks like its about to rain" so I mainly walked around closeby and stayed indoors. *procrastinating*

And learning all the death penalty cases is a lot of fun, even if it's sometimes sad.

As if I couldn't get more spoiled here, the maids changed my sheets and pillow today and left it made. Two come every week to vacuum and mop my floors, throw away my garbage, and do a thorough cleaning of my toilet and bathroom. It's just so hard~
 
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double post because I was speckledorfed:

I mentioned to Laura from Switzerland that I was thinking of going to Disney this weekend (she had messaged me about my WeChat profile picture of me and Walt), and she asked if she could come along and I said sure. Today we went to the China and USA M&A/business transactions seminar and it was AMAZING. It's a class for Chinese students and it's taught in English. I learned so much about the BIT or Bilateral Investment Treaty between the US and China that has not been passed and it was fascinating. There was also one Chinese girl who was very nice and gave me two pieces of tissue paper. She seems nerdy, in a good way. The students gave presentations and I really learned a lot from them.

Another reason I really like my classes is that as I am from the US a lot of it is super relevant to me and I care. And a lot of things are modeled on US things so I'm like a sponge and absorbing everything. Also, the professors always look at me when speaking about the USA and make hand gestures towards me as I'm usually the only 'murican in the room. USA USA USA. AMURICA!!!!!!!

After the seminar finished Laura and I walked out together and chatted. She asked what I was doing this weekend and I said I think I'm going here and there and blablabla. She said she'd be doing yoga and meditating for hours. I asked if she wanted to come to Disney, to just let me know so I can know what time, and she said she's not sure, she's thinking about it as she's still "trying to understand the concept of Disneyland."

... Yeah. I went, "Yeah, ahah... (WEIIIRDOOOOO)." This poem totally fits:

Here at the frontier, there are falling leaves.
Although my neighbors are all barbarians,
And you, you are a thousand miles away,
There are always two cups on my table.
 

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She said she'd be doing yoga and meditating for hours. I asked if she wanted to come to Disney
Dear Blog.
I was just settling down into the padmasana, concentrating my mind to make it malleable, wieldy, and steady, but just as I was about to transition into the meditative absorption of the first jhana, some girl came along inviting me to Disney. Clearly this was a daughter of Mara sent to tempt disciples away from the noble Eightfold Path. Little did she know that for a true follower of Sakyamuni, the very concept of Disneyland is incomprehensible.
Bodhi Svaha!
 

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OMG she asked to come along first so that's why I asked to confirm! :lol: She invited herself! XD

Going to bed now. Looks like our school trip coming up soon is to Huzhou, which I have never heard of before until now... XD SOUNDS LIKE AN ADVENTURE!
 

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biker = a bikie

Actually, I just remembered the other day that we're not supposed to call them 'bikies' anymore, they're to be referred to as 'outlaw motorcycle gangs' or 'criminal motorcycle gangs'.
 

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Actually, I just remembered the other day that we're not supposed to call them 'bikies' anymore, they're to be referred to as 'outlaw motorcycle gangs' or 'criminal motorcycle gangs'.
At whose request? :lol:
 

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I'm not opposed; it makes them sound like an actual threat this way...
 

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The government/police refer to them as that now.
I thought the gangs might have requested the change ::meev::
"MOM, I'm not a 'bikie', I'm a member of an outlaw motorcycle gang! GOD!!"
"Mm-hm, that's nice. When are you getting a job?"
 

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lol Hanachan

So with the elections coming up and drumpf already sabotaging himself (yeah followers! go out and vote November 28!), someone asked Reddit what the young'uns are saying about the election.
This particular discourse has me cracking up.

Person 1: My nephew said, "Donald Trump hates women and Hillary has secret emails." I thought he thought about rainbows and candy corn. We are also Canadians.

Person 2: How old is the little man?

Person 3: 36

Nevermind that a random Canadian kid seems to know more about why our candidates are absolute crap than the majority of us do.
I'm osculating between not voting, or writing in "Canada".
 

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What, I spelled it wrong? :lol:
The word that means penduluming back and forth between two things.
My computer has french spell check.

Anyhow...

Because it's equally useless. No one outside of the main parties has ever been elected (or at least not in long enough for it to make a difference).
Besides, most people who would do that are going to be scrambling to vote for Hillary because she's not drumpf.
Then, once you get past all that, there's the inevitable truth that the US government is in such a bad state of things that no single president is going to make a difference.

So...Canada. They seem to be doing pretty well tbh.
 

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I feel like some of my classmates have this habit of attempting to impose their will on me XD Twice today it’s been like having these decisions made for me and I’m like, "No. I'm not doing that." XD I think it's because I'm 'murican.

I woke up early because I was planning on going to a Chinese modern art museum with Laura the Concept and she texts me saying if we could move it to 10:15AM. Then she asked if we could move it to 11AM. Now to this I say I'm not sure because I had class at 1PM so by the time we'd get to the museum and me leaving to make my way to the train we'd have at most barely an hour there. I don’t want to rush things or be late to class, and she knew I had class. She said we'd probably be done in an hour.
Uh, probably? XD I mean, this is a museum and I don't think museums usually take a rushed hour (especially in China because they're all huge) and what if there was something I wanted to keep looking at? Anyway we rescheduled.

After Mandarin class I asked a couple of people if the big cafeteria was open. They're classmates of mine, but in a different program. So the guy, Emmanuel from Nigeria, says we can check it out so the three of us go.

We get there and it's closed. We asked the people working when it would be open and they said 4:30. FOUR THIRTY. It was 3:45PM. I said I ain't waiting that long for the cafeteria to open and that I would go to Cloud Nine. Emmanuel said that it would take me that long to get to Cloud Nine and I said uh no, I walk there almost every day and it has never taken me 45 minutes to walk to that mall. He said, yes it does. He wouldn't believe me.

why are you arguing this point with me, this is getting weird

Emmanuel said the cafeteria will be open at 4. I said they told us it would be open at 4:30. He said it'll be open by 4 though. The girl had left to go to the bathroom and had come back at this point. I said I'll wait until 4, so 5 minutes. 4 comes and it's not open.

Emmanuel said we could kill time by going to this shop to get the girl a drink, and it'll take us 10 minutes to get there. We get there in 1 minute and the shop is closed. At this point it's like 4:02PM. I ain't waiting. I had class at 6PM. Emmanuel said we can go to a muslim shop and buy a snack, and return to the cafeteria. He kept thinking of ideas for us to kill time so we can return to the cafeteria.

As we're walking I start turning around and I go, "I'm going to the mall, bye!" (I was heading off to Global Harbor Mall, which is even closer to us, and I pointed to that direction.) He goes:

"But it's--"
"I'M GOING TO THE MALL :)"
"Okay bye!"

I felt like someone was attempting to trample over me and I was feeling feminist XD Then he messaged me an hour later saying, “Hi” even though we’re not WeChat friends and I think he revoked his message because I don’t see it anymore… *weirdoooo*

That reminds me: His friend Donald from Ethiopia (?) was a guest speaker at the Welcome Ceremony. He made a nice speech and all was well. I never spoke to him, never met him, and I was just sitting in the audience. A week later he starts messaging me, saying hi, giving me his number, asking if I’m in my room, how he’s going out tonight with people and he’d be happy to see me, things like that. I showed Simona because I’m a GURL and we were like WTF XD The next day he messages me, “Hi” and I still have not responded at all. Then I found out he already graduated and isn’t even in a program anymore. WTF XD WEEEIIIRDOOOO.

Anyway, I’m off to Huzhou this weekend so that should be fun. I found a few masters students who seem super nerdy and nice! They’re so nice, nerdy, and one even gave me her extra copy of our Chinese Civil Law textbook so I wouldn’t have to wait for more copies to be printed. ^^ I was all, “OMG thank you!!!” They’re also going to Huzhou!

This past Monday my classmates and I went to a “Learning English Club” that has Chinese students learning English to make friends with us. It was so much fun. Simona, Reshabh, me, and three Chinese girls, Vera, Vincy, and Lily.

We named our team “The Blind Girls Plus One” because we all wore glasses or contacts and Reshabh is a guy and joined at the last minute.

We went through three rounds of competition. We had to learn the names of Chinese snacks, memorize idioms and match their characters, and correctly explain the meaning of the idiom. It was a close race and it was between us and Anthony’s team. He’s my one law school classmate. Our Chinese girls coached us and it was just like Rocky. Soon enough Vincy, my coach, was flipping through pages of characters and I was spitting them out like BULLETS. She said, “You know this.”

We lost the second round by 5 seconds and I felt nervous. We were so close. The final round was to raise your hand fast and explain the idioms. The final one to be explained was up. The person who screamed the loudest would be chosen. The beep went off and I SCREAMED MY HEAD OFF.

I was chosen! So Reshabh and I explained the meaning of “Blind men touching an elephant” and Saakshi challenged our meaning but was defeated. We won. It was intense, friendships were severed, but we won postcards of Shanghai and paper cut bookmarks.

Anthony afterwards said he doesn’t like losing and he can’t believe it, and I just wiggled and did a victory dance. ADRIAN!!!!!! He said my Mandarin was very good though and Vincy said the same! Vincy is actually FROM Suzhou and she said she can be my guide for the city. YAY! She said it’s up to me to decide when to go and she’s up for whenever. I like that attitude! Wow, it’ll be so nice to be taken around Suzhou by a native! :D

now to get ready for tomorrow’s adventures…
 
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Double post. There's a mimikkyu rap out for Pokémon Sun Moon.
It's a little sad, but mostly that's overridden by the stupid. So much stupid.

 
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