I. recent downloads
A. TI - Trap Muzik
B. Wu-Tang Forever
i. wow
C. Clipse - Lord Willin'
i. track 6 is fire
a. this is real neptunes shit. stick to the beats!
D. Sean Kingston - Sean Kingston
II. semi-recent downloads
A. Pharrell and the Yessirs - Out of my Mind
i. thoughts
a. this unreleased album is a compilation between all the ladies' favorite pharrell williams and the famous ?uestlove, of the roots. pharrell's version didn't sell well and he apparently begged mr ?love to remix it with his crew.
b. pharrell is a bitch
c. ?love is the snails
d. it's much better than pharrell's version. even though all the lyrics are the same, the beats flow with the tracks much better. in "that girl" which features the doggfather, pharrell says "we do this in our sleep, n*." really? if he could do that shit in his sleep, he wouldnt have had to beg another musician to remix his shit to make it pop.
III. travel
A. i've planned a visit back to nyc. i'll be back towards the end of the month for a week. i dont know if i'll have my same phone or bbm or whatever the fuck, but i'll be there. trust me.
IV. requests
A. given III, if there's something in hong kong that you want, let me know. not like "bring me something from china." more like "i need a clot sweatshirt, red, size medium". specifics would be sweet. if you want something else from another area in the region, fly me there before jan 29th and i'll hook you the fuck up. try here if you need a good booking website.
how was my outline? did you notice i used the phrase "trust me"? when's the last time someone's said that to you? it's coming back.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
what the fuck?
i'm trying to upgrade my blackberry to a bold so i can use that in japan and korea next time during my travels and not hate myself like i did the last few times i went there. craigslist in hong kong isn't as popular as it is in ny, but i thought i'd give it a shot.
i got a couple hits and one guy showed some promise. he asked me to set up a time for a meeting, which i did, which he ignored. after 6-7 e-mail exchanges, i get the following e-mail:
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The North American PDA reviews said 8310 has negtaives:- no 3G/WiFi connectivity, slow processor performance, low battery life. My offer will go below $1000 which if you think you can accept, then let me know.
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fyi, our previous e-mails were discussing the device in the $1300+ range
here's the e-mail i sent him back......
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I'm not interested. FYI, this is the best device I've ever owned. And quite honestly, if you're going to get involved on craigslist, do your research before you try to set up meetings with people. You had all the appropriate information in front of you before you could have even sent me your first e-mail. Let's try to save each other time in the future. That being said, I wish you the best and good luck in the new year.
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i didn't think it was too nasty, and then i sweetened it up at the end with the new year comment. see my last post re: upcoming lunar new year.
anyway, here's the e-mail i got back from him........
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Well said and agreed with you 100% and I can understand your anger and let me apologize and wish you Happy Chinese Year. I did do research on Blackberry before I make any deals but only on Storm and Bold models not 8300, 8900 or Pearl series. As you can see, I am a very smart man, smarter than George Bush trillion times. I think Americans are jokes to the world creating troubles to the world and mess everything up not knowing Americans are the most stupid people on the face of this earth themselves.
Frankly speaking, pigs are even smarter than Americans. Anyway enough of politics said, I am sorry not much research has been done on 8310 on my part but I didn't set up any meeting and it is you trying to suggest to meet around Times Square and I did indicate to you I will go in depth on my research on 8310. I know the machine is good to you but I want more at bargain price. I didn't mean to upset you becos I am not that kind of person.
Anyway, good luck with your trip to Japan. My offer on your 8310 is $500 if you are still interested to dispose it before you go abroad.
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notes:
- he wrote pretty liberally about americans given the fact that he has never met me
- i think he dislikes america, george bush, and pigs
- see my usage of FYI? how was that one?
- what research has he done to conclude that pigs aren't smart creatures? maybe he's a pig farmer in china. i heard they use these pig farmers in china to pass around the flu bug to see which strand is going to be the "flu" for the year. maybe he caught it and he's bitter
- a colleague (hk'ers call them "college") of mine mentioned perhaps he's canadian. maybe even a mounty. his handle is snowy mountain man. there's both snow and mountains and men in canada. could be onto something here.
can you believe the hate that exists in this world? fuck that!
i got a couple hits and one guy showed some promise. he asked me to set up a time for a meeting, which i did, which he ignored. after 6-7 e-mail exchanges, i get the following e-mail:
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fyi, our previous e-mails were discussing the device in the $1300+ range
here's the e-mail i sent him back......
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| hide details 11:01 AM (8 hours ago) |
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i didn't think it was too nasty, and then i sweetened it up at the end with the new year comment. see my last post re: upcoming lunar new year.
anyway, here's the e-mail i got back from him........
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Frankly speaking, pigs are even smarter than Americans. Anyway enough of politics said, I am sorry not much research has been done on 8310 on my part but I didn't set up any meeting and it is you trying to suggest to meet around Times Square and I did indicate to you I will go in depth on my research on 8310. I know the machine is good to you but I want more at bargain price. I didn't mean to upset you becos I am not that kind of person.
Anyway, good luck with your trip to Japan. My offer on your 8310 is $500 if you are still interested to dispose it before you go abroad.
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notes:
- he wrote pretty liberally about americans given the fact that he has never met me
- i think he dislikes america, george bush, and pigs
- see my usage of FYI? how was that one?
- what research has he done to conclude that pigs aren't smart creatures? maybe he's a pig farmer in china. i heard they use these pig farmers in china to pass around the flu bug to see which strand is going to be the "flu" for the year. maybe he caught it and he's bitter
- a colleague (hk'ers call them "college") of mine mentioned perhaps he's canadian. maybe even a mounty. his handle is snowy mountain man. there's both snow and mountains and men in canada. could be onto something here.
can you believe the hate that exists in this world? fuck that!
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
yo jew!
in case you don't know, i MSN. the other day i was had a msn with my buddy ricky and our conversation looked something like this:
dk: yo man
ricky: oh whassup man
dk: yo what are you doing for cny?
ricky: say what?
dk: chinese new year man, are you going away to see your family or something?
ricky: what the fuck is chinese new year
dk: ummm
ricky: we just had new years man, remember, you went to macau?
dk: yeah, i remember.
dk: OH
dk: LUNAR NEW YEAR!
dk: what are you doing for lunar new year?
ricky: oh, lunar new year, of course
ricky: yea i'm gonna go see my family
ricky: why'd you call it chinese new year?
dk: no reason. that should be nice, i hope you enjoy that
this was a major disconnect for me. i never had any clue about the chinese/lunar new year outside of tang's dad giving me some lucky money last year. actually i bought a lotto ticket with that money and won $20 so maybe that's why i'm a believer. people are psyched about it though. it's definitely bigger than our stupid new year. there should be some fireworks. there have been grand sales all over the city. i'm looking forward to this celebration. i think there be some money exchanges. there will probably be some drinking. and the year of the ox will begin! i'm a pig. check your shit.....
if you're before 1965, suck it. or subtract multiples of 12. your choice.
today in class we learned about going to the post office. buying stamps, sending parcels, even sending telegrams. we had an extended conversation about telegrams as i believe they are not used often enough. email and phone calls can't always be trusted. sometimes you need the real deal in front of your face. akiko made me aware that people send each other telegrams in tokyo regularly. these telegrams are more just delivery of notes, not as exciting as singing naked midgets in a market research company or clowns with balloons in a tucson furniture store. and, they are cheap, as little as 200Yen (~us$2). at this point we reviewed our sheng zi (vocabulary) and what's the first word that comes up? right, post office. clearly. how do you say post office in mandarin? YOU JIU. that's right. pronounced "yo jew".
like ti and jay-z say "you better watch what you say to me!"
dk: yo man
ricky: oh whassup man
dk: yo what are you doing for cny?
ricky: say what?
dk: chinese new year man, are you going away to see your family or something?
ricky: what the fuck is chinese new year
dk: ummm
ricky: we just had new years man, remember, you went to macau?
dk: yeah, i remember.
dk: OH
dk: LUNAR NEW YEAR!
dk: what are you doing for lunar new year?
ricky: oh, lunar new year, of course
ricky: yea i'm gonna go see my family
ricky: why'd you call it chinese new year?
dk: no reason. that should be nice, i hope you enjoy that
this was a major disconnect for me. i never had any clue about the chinese/lunar new year outside of tang's dad giving me some lucky money last year. actually i bought a lotto ticket with that money and won $20 so maybe that's why i'm a believer. people are psyched about it though. it's definitely bigger than our stupid new year. there should be some fireworks. there have been grand sales all over the city. i'm looking forward to this celebration. i think there be some money exchanges. there will probably be some drinking. and the year of the ox will begin! i'm a pig. check your shit.....
if you're before 1965, suck it. or subtract multiples of 12. your choice.
today in class we learned about going to the post office. buying stamps, sending parcels, even sending telegrams. we had an extended conversation about telegrams as i believe they are not used often enough. email and phone calls can't always be trusted. sometimes you need the real deal in front of your face. akiko made me aware that people send each other telegrams in tokyo regularly. these telegrams are more just delivery of notes, not as exciting as singing naked midgets in a market research company or clowns with balloons in a tucson furniture store. and, they are cheap, as little as 200Yen (~us$2). at this point we reviewed our sheng zi (vocabulary) and what's the first word that comes up? right, post office. clearly. how do you say post office in mandarin? YOU JIU. that's right. pronounced "yo jew".
like ti and jay-z say "you better watch what you say to me!"
Thursday, January 8, 2009
and we're back
it's been a little while but i'm back bitches. things with me have been very busy over the past few weeks. has it been 3 weeks? hot damn. i haven't even gotten that many pairs of sneakers since my last post. actually, the aquas are the last pair i bought, and i got them in my hands on christmas night. it was a christmas miracle.
it was difficult explaining to people here that i don't celebrate xmas. they couldnt grasp it. dare I drop the J bomb on em they'd have no idea what i'm talking about. i was able to see a xmas tree in central though and check it out......
not bad. and you'd better believe i dropped the peace on it with both hands. i look like a nixon. i'm a crook. actually mystikal is a crook. that song is inappropriate though so i won't link it. if you know it, you know what i'm talking about. scott definitely knows. anyway as you can see the streets were empty on dec 26th and i have no idea why. maybe they heard eddie was coming and ran for the hills. he was clearly bigger than most of the city, which made me fit in that much more. it was a sweet deal.
i took a quick trip to shanghai which was pretty awesome. i met a person named Any, which i think is supposed to be Annie, but when she told me to call her, she spelled her name Any. this makes my imagination go crazy. what kind of thinking was going on when she decided to take an english name and spell it that way? her name could mean any number of things. oh yeah. see how i did that. that was good. she lives in shanghai and doesnt have a computer. she isnt familiar with the internet. remember when you didnt spend all day on the internet? crazy.
here are some shanghai photos that i didnt take......
that's right. 431 km/h! whoa!
there's the proof right there. pretty ridiculous! i wanted to ride the train all day but i guess that would be counterproductive as we only had 48 hours in shanghai. like the above photos, i didn't shoot that video. i looked it up on youtube and then embeded it. real technology huh. you could have done the same. actually while searching i just noticed there's a train in japan that goes faster. you'd better believe i'm gonna ride that shit. 500 km/h is absurd.
i'm not in my 7th week of mandarin and i'm getting pretty good. lan told me she was really happy with my chinese! then she told me "jew who speaks chinese is number one". now we're fuckin talking! and you idiots questioned why i wanted to learn mandarin. shibuya!
in shanghai we went to this mess hall style restaurant cafe and got some deliciously local food. everyone in the place (dozens of people) all had snails on their tables that they had picked from the food line. we were literally the only idiots with no snails. apparently we missed out on that one. the phrase of '09 is "the snails" as in "damn that new quik track is the snails!" try it, see if you like it, share it. it's a year of sharing.
in other news, i made 1 resolution for 2009. no mcdonalds in the month of January. sounds easy. try being drunk at 3am and walking past 7 mcdiesels on the way home. and it being the only place open. today one of my teachers told me they're now serving curly fries. that does not contribute to my success in regard to my resolution. i repeat. NOT.
if you know mandarin and can write pin yin, let's liao tianr. if you don't know pin yin or what liao tianr means, F yourself.
here are some more photos to send you off.......
it was difficult explaining to people here that i don't celebrate xmas. they couldnt grasp it. dare I drop the J bomb on em they'd have no idea what i'm talking about. i was able to see a xmas tree in central though and check it out......
not bad. and you'd better believe i dropped the peace on it with both hands. i look like a nixon. i'm a crook. actually mystikal is a crook. that song is inappropriate though so i won't link it. if you know it, you know what i'm talking about. scott definitely knows. anyway as you can see the streets were empty on dec 26th and i have no idea why. maybe they heard eddie was coming and ran for the hills. he was clearly bigger than most of the city, which made me fit in that much more. it was a sweet deal.
i took a quick trip to shanghai which was pretty awesome. i met a person named Any, which i think is supposed to be Annie, but when she told me to call her, she spelled her name Any. this makes my imagination go crazy. what kind of thinking was going on when she decided to take an english name and spell it that way? her name could mean any number of things. oh yeah. see how i did that. that was good. she lives in shanghai and doesnt have a computer. she isnt familiar with the internet. remember when you didnt spend all day on the internet? crazy.
here are some shanghai photos that i didnt take......
that's right. 431 km/h! whoa!
there's the proof right there. pretty ridiculous! i wanted to ride the train all day but i guess that would be counterproductive as we only had 48 hours in shanghai. like the above photos, i didn't shoot that video. i looked it up on youtube and then embeded it. real technology huh. you could have done the same. actually while searching i just noticed there's a train in japan that goes faster. you'd better believe i'm gonna ride that shit. 500 km/h is absurd.
i'm not in my 7th week of mandarin and i'm getting pretty good. lan told me she was really happy with my chinese! then she told me "jew who speaks chinese is number one". now we're fuckin talking! and you idiots questioned why i wanted to learn mandarin. shibuya!
in shanghai we went to this mess hall style restaurant cafe and got some deliciously local food. everyone in the place (dozens of people) all had snails on their tables that they had picked from the food line. we were literally the only idiots with no snails. apparently we missed out on that one. the phrase of '09 is "the snails" as in "damn that new quik track is the snails!" try it, see if you like it, share it. it's a year of sharing.
in other news, i made 1 resolution for 2009. no mcdonalds in the month of January. sounds easy. try being drunk at 3am and walking past 7 mcdiesels on the way home. and it being the only place open. today one of my teachers told me they're now serving curly fries. that does not contribute to my success in regard to my resolution. i repeat. NOT.
if you know mandarin and can write pin yin, let's liao tianr. if you don't know pin yin or what liao tianr means, F yourself.
here are some more photos to send you off.......
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