why move?

it seems as though china has lifted the ban from blogspot.com so i moved away from the ever-so-complicated bokee.com back to north american internet-soil.

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complainers

hypocritical post - i'm complaining about a complainer.

okay so here's the situation. there's a lady in my class unhappy with one of our teachers. i go to the office after class since my only friend decided not to attend class again that day, and there is the lady in the office talking to the program head. she says that she can't learn anything from the teacher and she gets the same benefit just reading the text by herself. that's the reason that she either always comes late or doesn't show up to his class at all. this whole time she keeps looking over at me for assurance and agreement on the subject. i provide neither. after realizing that she's looking at me, i casually stare out the window as i know she glances in my direction by the projection of her voice as she turns.

so the program head says she'll do her best to clear up the situation, and have a talk with our teacher and even come into the class the next day to evaluate and take control of the situation.

so what does ms. complainer do? she stops showing up for the teacher's class.

now THIS didn't make sense to me at all. i mean, if you complain about something and the other party agrees to deal with the situation, shouldn't you stay to see results? by her not showing up entirely in my eyes, she is now at fault. sure, we might not have an ideal teacher. but who's to say that she is an ideal student? it just pissed me off that she was the only one complaining about it and said how everyone else shares her views, and now she's the only one not showing up. retarded.

meeting new people, easy?

so it's late friday night. i was bored so i went around randomly bothering china people on various online communities.

seems as though some of them were also bored on this friday night, and returned my messages. please examine the following conversation to realize the hardships of cross-lingual communication:

sickEum says: (12:11:50 AM)
hey how are you

gobi says: (12:12:05 AM)
not bad.. you?

sickEum says: (12:13:50 AM)
What?

gobi says: (12:14:09 AM)
how are you?

sickEum says: (12:14:44 AM)
ye ye how are you how are you

if that made sense to you, please tell me for i am lost.

in other news, i discovered a nice restaurant on campus. and no, my campus is not huge like most universities, as it houses only one faculty. so there are maybe 10 buildings in total, and one of which resides a small restaurant that was recently renovated. the head chef there is actually from the beijing hotel, or so i've heard. workers and students advised me against going there as it was 'too expensive'.

so after a long chat in the office after class, i missed the timeframe to eat at the cafeteria so i decided to try the restaurant.

went there, nobody around as it was 1:30.

side note: people here only eat on time as they're told to. if you go to a restaurant after 1ish, or after 730ish at night, it's bound to be empty.

anyways, ordered fried rice as it was the only dish i could read on the menu that wasn't curry. after trying it, i realized this was the best fried rice i've had out of hong kong. and do you know how much it all costed?

10 yuan. including tea.

that works out to about 1.50CAD. SOOOOOOOOO expensive.

i don't understand it though, if these people went outside to eat at a restaurant as nice as this, it would have costed over double. i mean, even the hong kong cha-cantings are 20ish each dish. i guess i love being at the opposite end of the financial spectrum.

i'm going to be rich

so i was reading the paper on the flight back to beijing yesterday, and one article caught my eye. a company called LifeGem will take the ashes of someone who passed away, and extract the carbon to create diamonds. one body has enough carbon to make over 100,000USD of blue/yellow VS clarity diamonds.

so this got me thinking. over 100,000USD from just a body? i should turn this into a business. this would work especially well in china since life is valued so cheap. for example, if someone hits you with a car and you die, they only pay out 6000USD. so let's look at it this way. average salary in major cities in china is in the 200USD a month range. let's say you offer families 2000USD in return for a major portion of their diseased ones' ashes. how many families would do this do you think? while this is close to the average annual salary of people in major cities, the majority of people have never seen this kind of money in their life. so let's say with a population of 1.3B, a few thousand die per day. if .1% of the people choose this option, that's still over 100,000USD of grey goods per day.

unethical? maybe a little. but you're doing the families a favour with all the money, and it's not like previous diamonds weren't created from the carbon of previous living organisms. so you can look at it as wearing a diamond that's fresh from another human, or wearing a diamond that was formed by the remains of a dinosaur. wait, dinosaurs are pretty cool. so let's say made from the remains of a retarded neanderthal. which would u rather have now?

okay maybe buying human remains is a little too far. but how about animals? i'm sure you can buy cattle or farm animals for quite cheap, and since they're organisms you can throw them into the fire and make a bunch of diamonds. and with cows being multiple times the weight of a human being, the amount of carbon in them is likewise the same ratio. so go around and buy up a bunch of diseased mad-cow animals, or chickens with bird flu and then burn them all up in the oven and pump out a bunch of diamonds. perfect.

so i bet someone is going to steal my idea in the near future since i don't have to capital to buy high-tech ovens which turn the remains of living organisms into prized jewellery. or maybe this LifeGem company is just a front for something of this nature? maybe by selling this service to people to turn their loved ones into diamonds it's a coverup for them burning heaps of cows thus flooding the diamond market with blue and yellow sparklies? i know one thing for sure, DeBeers will be crying over this whole ordeal in the future when somebody saturates the market with cheaper man-made diamonds.

nice holiday

so i am at the end of my week-long holiday. oct 1, 1949 was the establishment of china under the communist government, so in the recent years they have made it 'golden week' which is basically a week-off for workers to raise tourism around china.

right now i'm still in hk, flying back tomorrow afternoon to the capital. had a nice week in hk/guangdong with my dad. managed to get some flu from south china which wasn't so pleasant.

saw the funniest picture on a handicap washroom at the hotel in heshan, guangdong. instead of saying 'handicap access' or something politically correct, it said 'deformed people' with the regular wheelchair symbol. i couldn't stop laughing after seeing this sign that i pee'd on my foot.

okay, not.

but it was still funny.