The Revival of The Traditional Asian (and some irrelevent Pictures)

As promised, after Tax exam I said I would do a nice long post with lots of pictures.

Pictures make everybody happy. So miscellaneous photos first; and then the topic of today: The Revival of the Traditional Asian.

Have you ever tried to study/teach somebody anything online? It can be heaps distracting...or really productive. Here are two MSN screen prints which demonstrate this.

[See this is incredibly productive, Noelle is showing me some International Finance. And yes, my DP was the Tiger Onitsuka's.]

[I've annotated it for you all, but feel free to click on it for a better read. See how unproductive MSN can be? I got little done at home]

[In the end i did manage to learn the entire six weeks of Tax in about eight hours. Missed out ALOT of marks because of that last question. Dang it! Used 43 post-its for this unit so far]

[This was my mane in full flight after a shower. I had to cut it off because I have a bunch of meetings this week. I cut it at Top Image, not bad place either! I miss the flow and freedom of my mane already]

But now onto the main course, today i am offering a lesson in Persuasion 301. Prerequisites are Absent of Dignity 201 and Confronting People 101.

All these lessons are in an attempt to revive The Traditional Asian; the non-swearing, hardworking, Teochew/Cantonese/Minor dialect/bad Mandarin speaking martial arts oriented, cheap-ass hoarding warrior that belonged to the generation before us. And bought everything on the basis of Bang for Buck.

Our parents however decided not to teach us this (no idea why!) and decided we should be the Modern Asian; who are characterised by their constant cursing and procrastination, their over use of Mandarin-from-Chinese-School to the detriment of their ancestral dialect, DotA/KTV oriented, inability to understand bang for buck and slackness.

I want to revive the Traditional Asian and I'm gonna do it. The Modern Asians shame the last of us.

So here we go...

After Buddha's Birthday the other day, the wonderful people at FKS gave us a heap of tokens to go and buy lunch around the Festival. Pretty much coupons with $1 or $2 or 50c written on them and you trade it for food. I'm guessing they later get reimbursed for that stuff.

Anyways, so with my meagre five dollars I set out into the festival to find some food. On average things were about 3 dollars-ish. Some stuff was darn expensive too! Like Turkish bread, with the Vendor only accepting cash.

But back on topic, my first port of call was a lovely sticky rice stand tended by a pleasant innocent Malaysian-Chinese-Honky-FOBish-with-ABC accent girl around my age. So I carefully ripped off one dollar and went to talk to her to see if i could get a $3 sticky rice for a buck.

[Need i say more? I shall: "It was wunnn dorrrrrrlah!" It proved painful later on during the Lion Dance as I got stomach pains]

Down to four bucks i saw a $3.50 Ice Kacang vendor with a pretty depressed girl as the vendor. In light of this i wandered over to say hullo (she seemed familiar...turns out i didn't know her). We chatted for a little bit and finally i walked away with another great bargain. One Ice Kacang for a dollar. No need for a picture.

I finally blew the last 3 bucks on a bubble tea. I only managed to get the girl to give me 50cents off, but hey...that 50 cent is one share of Yellow Rock Resources (YRR).

But from that short story we have seen me milk five bucks into an Ice Kacang, a Sticky Rice and a Bubble tea.

HOW?!?!

I'll tell you how, by just being friendly and nice. Being well spoken and eloquent helps but its not necessary. Don't come on too strong when you are bargaining/asking for a cheaper price cause they just get scared. And if you really have to, just flick the flirt button on.

Just a hint, no more. The crooked smile, the slight tilt of the head, the wave. We are all grown up here. Don't deny it. You know who you are. And its not me. I use my smooth talking and elegant body language to get my discounts. Or Jedi mind tricks.

And if well spoken and flirting/Jedi mind tricks gets you nowhere with a discount. HELL Show your abdominal muscles. That woos everyone. Why else have them?!

[1st rule of Being a Traditonal Asian Club: Ask everybody to give you a discount]

And the concludes the first stage in Traditional Asian revival. Expect more. Always remember Bang for Buck and always get your entitled discount. The phrase "gaginang" works wonders and will open many doors. Only if your Teochew though.

And some more miscellaneous photos from the day. The captions are important.

[This kid...his hair...ha-lar-ious. Then he did the most pansy fan dance. If I was his parents I would find a psychiatrist quickly]

[Huge fan of Cheongsams in general (being traditional and all). But my god...i felt this one was really revealing esp for a religious function. Imagine if the wind had picked up. Worse, imagine if it had poured rain! White! Water! Girl! (^_~) Or am I just too old fashioned?]

[Jase and Me performing the Five Mandarins dance that made the crowd go wild]

[Andy and :. This picture was a good one of the sky...it was sooo close to raining]

[Penny, Mum, Me and Alison before the second dance. I never realised how short my mum was.]

Off to bed to lose sleep over Tax exam.

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Lucky

The quickest, most briefiest of updates because its 1.20am and i should be studying for an exam in approximately 25 hrs.

I want the whole world to know that i cheated the parking inspector at Broadway.

I parked there at 11.00ish in the morning (came late to uni to study) and moved my car at 4 in the arvo because i forgot i had left it at broadway. Effectively going 3hrs over the limit.

It felt good.

And on another note but no less worthy; i learnt six weeks of Tax between 11am today to 9pm. Now i am solidfying.

Have an awesome post with lots of photos coming up. It involves Buddha's Birthday.

Stay tuned!

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Do you feel itchy?

Again...I should be studying. Why aren't you?!? Probably because you don't have FOUR midsems. And TWO assessments afterwards.

Anyways, tonight I could not help but upload these pictures...instead of studying.

[Post modern photography? Look/read a little closer below...]

This first photograph represents my life. The juggling ball is an allusion to the circus that my life can be. The humor and the chaos which while is all fun and games is actually confined to the glass bowl that Perth is. In this case I used a glass jar. I can't escape.

The pen is the link to my studies and my love of writing where I can fully express myself. And the pocket-knife is a gift from a dear friend of mine. Not much more to that...or is there? Knife...

And the green string is there because I feel it illustrates me being tied to it all.

Introspective? Escape? Love? Feelings? Knife? String? I must finally be coming out of my emo closet.

LIES!!

The real reason is below...

[No so artiste anymore. This bug...is HUGE. Not close enough?! Below...]

It took me a solid five minutes of chasing this bug around my room to catch it. I almost lost it but cornered it successfully and now its in the jar. This monster was the size of my index finger from tip to tip.

[What the hell is that?!!? A daddy long-legs with wings?!?!]

Not one of my better movies but it's good enough.

[And of course a movie: Capture of the Daddy-Long Legs With Wings (approx 1.5mb)]

Why did I catch it?!?!?

I caught it so that tonight while I sleep in my bed I don't have Daddy-long legs with Wings buzzing over me when I am most vulnerable. And it could be laying mosquito eggs and spiders into my skin too!

Imagine waking up and being all red and itchy from the bug who has been biting you all night and laying eggs into your skin. Then you itch at one of those welts and find a bunch of arachnid babies crawling out.

Anyways, its cruel to keep the monster in the glass jar so I'm gonna go and set it free in my sister's room outside.

Freaking hell...I feel itchy all over now.

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Somebody must be looking out for me

I found my phone!! The world can breathe a sigh of relief. Well i can anyways. It was at work behind the till...thank god. My phone orchestrates my entire life.

I am obviously meant to be studying right now; but instead I am blogging. Why? Because I want to bring the attention of the world to the guy sitting next to me. And no this guy is not a study buddy.

This guy is Darth Vader. Well...he breathes like Darth Vader. If i close my eyes and just listen, all i can hear (instead of my iLecture I am suppose to be doing) is his breathing.

"hurrrr...chhhh....hurrrrrr....ccchhh"

It's almost as if i expect him to say: "Luke...I am your father..." but seriously; his breathing is sooo loud. And I'm wearing headphones and (trying to) listening to an iLecture.

Anyways, iLectures won't do themselves. Better get back to it. And now i need to rewind it about five minutes coz i did this entry.

-_-"

More like because i can't hear anything but Darth Vader...i should light saber this guy's ass, it is getting damn annoying. Blame it on Darth Vader guy if i fail my midsems.

And he KEEPS LOOKING AT ME!!! I think i am gonna move computers.

Good luck for exams, assessments, studying and cramming y'all.

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Missing in Action

Nothing else matters at the moment except that I am missing my phone.

Alongside my wallet, it orchestrates my entire life. Even more so then my wallet. With my phone i can call for help, help can call for me, i am in contact with the world. My wallet provides me with financial powers but what help is that if i can't communicate?

I am having some pretty rotten luck this weekend.

Anyways, exams are around the corner which is why I've been negligent in my duties to post things of note. Studying because I have FOUR midsems to do. With a DOUBLE on the first day back.

So unfair.

And then after that i have TWO assignments to hand in. And BOTH of them with Shirlz. How sucky is that?

Six assessments...god...thats like double the amount that some people I know have.

I hate studying for midsems!! Damn you Solow Growth Model! Burn in hell s15-2 ITAA97! Don't speak to me effective exchange rates! You can be my friend short sell.

Where are you phone of mine?!

Back to study

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Pae-go-p'a-yo (I'm hungry)

So we all know I love food. Let us remind ourselves with some pictures:

[It can be cake...]

[Or steak...]

[Even Japanese food...]

[But its all goooood]

So this entry is a...

Restaurant Review: Hana's BBQ

To satisfy my love of food, last night we decided to head down to Hanna BBQ in Applecross to chow down some Korean Buffet. It was actually Nissa and Kath's idea, but because I organise so many outings they thought i may as well do this one too.

Attending this wonderful trip south of the river was Euegen, Josh, Caroline, Kath, Whyetatt, Shirley, Dan, Apriry, Jase and me of course. A good crowd to eat with! Too bad for those of you who missed out.

I'm gonna say that I liked it. I reckon I managed to eat enough to feed a large family in Cambodia (although eveyrone else is soft and didn't even hit 15 bucks worth of meat) but not enough to fill me up. I only ate meat as well. No greens or rice or any other non-meat/bbq related food source. Except jelly and cake for desert.

We left soooo early and i was still soooo hungry afterwards.

You can't really rate the food because your cooking it yourself. And since i only ate meat, well...i'm the only one to blame that i can't judge the other forgettable things they had. I do however have a very cool picture story to show you how much meat I ate...

[Mmmm...coooking. The hardest part of eating]

[Still cooking...I ate sooo much baby octpus/squid things. Rubbery...]

[Eat time is me time. You can see how much eat is on my plate right? Multiply that by 5]

["Touch my food and I'm gonna break your face Josh" Alan said to Josh]

[Are you looking at me...]

[All gone!!]

[And a short movie (1.5mb): Attack of the squid!!]

Overall i give the place a generous 5.0/10; like Stonegrill i don't agree with such excessive prices if your cooking it yourself. No chef = cheaper...however in life that never happens. Why sucha low score? There was a hair in Shirlz jelly too. Thats alot of points minused Mr. Kim-Lee Park

Would I recommend it? Yes if your willing to eat as much as i did. No if your Eugene and ate "3 times less then Alan". Thats a direct quote from him.

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