| | Where's the expiration date on my calendar?
Okay, that headline has nothing to do with the following post, but it
poses as a good question nonetheless. Anyway, here is a sample of what's to come for my Asia vacation recap:
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Only in Asia would you find "Sprite: Ice." At first, I thought it was
their version of a clear Sprite (what?). But after reading the English
text--or lack of--I found out that there's more to it than high fructose
corn syrup and water. The "ice" they refer to is a "cooling sensation"
that you get after you take sip. It's like chewing Winterfresh,
and swallowing the sugary/minty saliva (ewww, so gross). It leaves a
cooling sensation in your throat which I thought was pretty nifty.
- PSPs were all over the place. Although I didn't see many on the
streets, I saw many systems in various stores. Their "Best Buy" is
called "Fortress" which kept me ogling over their products for hours; a
man with a mop and sponge followed me everywhere.
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In Hong Kong, they have these things called "Octopus cards" They're not
your ordinary everyday "Metrocard (for all those non-NY'ers, they're
subway credit cards)." But that's not all you use them for: McDonalds's
allows the use of them, vending machines with all those Asianly snacks
and drinks, and of course the public transportation system. Pretty much a debit card.
- Egotistical Asian. That's my Beijing tour guide in a nutshell. A
racist Chinese tour guide at that. If you actually paid attention
during Social Studies in 9th grade, you'd of learned about the Japanese
invasion into China. Pretty much, it was the unheard of "Holocaust" held in China,
carried out by the Japanese. I don't feel like going into details, but
long story short: my tour guide took great resentment in that (he
parents were killed by the Japanese when she was one), and pretty much
bashed the Japanese over the speakers, and told us things like: "Don't
buy Japanese electronics, we Chinese make better ones" or "When I make
enough money, I'm going to visit Hong Kong--never Japan!".
Little did she realize that there was a half Japanese lady on the tour
bus. I'll leave the rest to your imagination for what happened after.
"I have a secret to tell you, that wasn't chicken you ate."
- During my stay in Guangzhou, China, I received one of those
notoriously known "Asian massages" that every guy froths their mouth
over--except mine was clean and rated-G thank you. It was my first
professional massage, but caused my masseuse to laugh uncontrollably
every time she tickled my underarm or feet. Oh, the fun it was. Best
part: $40/hr, which translates to roughly about 5 American dollars. Do
I hear bargain?
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China has some of the craziest or most skilled drivers. It depends on
how you look at it. They can maneuver a double-decker bus where most
Americans would demolish a Mini Cooper. But then again, China's drivers
seem to never
of heard of a thing called brakes. My dad said "their honker is usually
the first thing they replace."
"The E-brake isn't for sitting?"
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If you want cheap food, Asia is where it's at. When I headed out for a
late-night snack with my roomate, we ordered a bowl of noodles. I look
at the price with horror "$28? What the?" Then I realize that it's
China, and that's less than $3 here in the U.S. Oh how much tastier
that bowl of noodles was.
(insert kitten or puppy here)
Look at my David Blaine "floating" skills.
There's a poem in China that
says something along the lines of: "You're not a man if you don't climb
the Great Wall."
Degrading Basketball Photos of the Day
"Have you been working out the gluteus maximus?"
It's electric!
You can't feel it.
It's electric!
Boogy-woogy-woog
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