Wednesday, November 03, 2004

Passing the time

To combat boredom, I've finished Final Fantasy 2 and 9. I've read a star trek book, a dragonlance book and various short books lying around the house. I've read Isaiah. I've watched horrible hong kong movies. I'm semi-addicted to a Mandarin Soap Opera. It's not translated, but I can understand, 'I don't know' and 'I'm sorry'. Thankfully most of the dialogue uses those two phrases.

These are the facts I've gathered.

This handsome man owns a wine shop which eventually closes down. He is in love with a girl who is dating another man. He perms his hair. His mom looks unbelievably young. He has a lot of close-ups. His father is dead.

This is his step-sister.

She is in love with him. She killed her step-father. She causes trouble. She lies a lot. She got a man who liked her killed because she was acting sucidal. Avoid her at all costs.


She may or may not be engaged to a man who tries to look a lot like David Beckham. This man fell off a building and was in a coma for a year. She likes the handsome guy from above but can't admit it because of her ambigous relationship to mr beckham. When she smiles she looks like my sister-in-laws matron of honor.

That's about it folks. I think the title of the soap opera is "love's purple bamboo"

As to the elections. My personal opinions don't matter much so I won't write anything. However, looking at the news from the satellite dishes, the world seems to have given a collective shrug. For some reason I was expecting anarchy and rioting in the streets. I expected to turn to Jordanian Television and seeing people predicting the end of the world. Nothing... none of that. Interestly, the opinion pieces on the news channels from Singapore supported Bush. However the reasons were economic.

If you're really fed up with the US, move to Canada. Everyone loves Canada.



Traffic suprises me here. Not only are one way streets and lanes optional, but you can fit a family of four on a scooter. Sorry for the bad photography, but this scooter was going 20-30 mph and only about 2 feet away from our car.


I don't know what this is either. My job is to eat it and pray it doesn't give me runny poop.


Finally,
The family.

1 comment:

david said...

couple observations:
1. that food looks like runny poop.
2. my canadian student visa is good til '06.

if the draft comes back, i know where i'm goin...