yum la pok gai!

whoever introduced kanye west to the roger troutman-esque voice synthesizer or whatever you call it thing should be shot. hey kanye, stick to producing, dickhead! he makes me dislike him even more on his new album. fuck that guy. go listen to "lucifer" and then tell me he's better as a rapper than producer. a-hole. so yea i downloaded that new shit and i don't like it. i also got luda's new "theatre of the mind" actually he may have spelled it theater which makes me like it less. i bet he doesnt even pronounce it thee-ate-er like i do. whatever, no worries. i've been working on a mix for the past few days after a brief bbm with brooks re: ti's "tell em i said that." that's a hard one. i hit a mini-mix-block after 9 tracks but hopefully i can pick up where i left off and finish it off soon. i'm not too into imixes on itunes as far as how it works but maybe i can figure out how to publish it or send it or ship it. i'll do something to it.

yesterday after class i had some quality time with my classmates. we had a 45 minute foot massage (hk$108 ~ us$14) which was cool. i'm still chackatee mak maa (learn thai if you wanna know what that means) but it was dope. we tried to practice with our massager people and they thought it was hilarious. my conclusion is i know the right word to say, just dont know the tones yet. i need a whole lot of practice with it. why the fuck couldnt the chinese just use different sounds like someone with a slim bit of logic would. these motherfuckers had to just use the same sound more than once? each sound has 4 tones. not all sounds use all tones. what the fuck you been? (oceans 11) but then when these fuckers talk to each other, they talk so fast there really isn't much tone anyway. tone this, bitches! anyway after our massage experience we went to this meat house that i had gone to with maxx for a quick (20 minute) happy hour. i guess it was like a happy 20 minutes. 2 beers for hk$18. now we're talking. pbr bottles. so good. chris (dutch classmate) was like "this shit tastes like water with a hint of beer." i said something like "excuse me mr high horse chill out and drink up water is good to stay hydrated." everybody knows the value of hydration, especially when attempting the combo on a good friday night. although there are rumors of an even harder combo. youd have to ask eddie or mark. anyway, after the happy 1/3 hour, we met up with one of our teachers named candy for thai food. akiko's husband came and the 5 of us went for japanese food. the point of the dinner was to get thai food but it was "sold out" according to our teacher, candy. shes totally amazing and has more energy than i would after 10 red bulls. its really incredible how happy and outgoing she is all the time. im trying to find her on facebook. updates to follow. dinner was fun since akiko lived in tokyo for 4 years. we learned a few new japanese customs; like appropriate respectful chopstick positioning when not being used. the correct answer there would be left-right, in front of your plate, closer to you. i'll go to that.

after dinner and a brief walk i met up with some friends in TST at what turned out to be the same building i had been in with other friends a few weeks ago. Katherine house. I don't like that name with that spelling. i wonder if any of you know why. its associated with the same reason i dont like white cars. weird, for sure. anyway the night ended up messy but was really fun. hk$300 (~us$40) to drink all you want. they were bringing me pitchers of chivas/coke like it was nobody's business. this dude who worked there named cyrus was wearing a fedora so my first question (naturally) was if he knew sweet sweet ontonee. he didn't. then i asked him if he'd ever been to the poom poom palace. surprisingly, he also hadn't. at this point, i'm like "cyrus, my man, you're gonna go and wear a fedora and a leather jacket and tell me you've not only never met sweet sweet ontonee, but you've also never been to the poom poom palace?" he started laughing really hard as his sign he had no clue what i was talking about (probably like you right now) and then handed me a business card from the bar (called Miss) with his mobile number on it. he said i could call him "any time." I recognized the fact i had just met him 5 minutes earlier and showed great gratitude and accepted the card with 2 hands like a good asian businessman would.

this is really turning into another long post. what the fuck. i go like 3 days and then all of a sudden i have a lot to say. laziness is a bitch.

today i took a walk from cwb to central with the goal of seeing wan chai in a better way than before. mission accomplished. here's a few photos i got on the way.....



these courts were made up of a bunch of 3 on 3 games and it didn't look like anyone could play. i was about to drop some air j-bag on em but then realized it was probably a bad idea. next to these courts is this hardcourt soccer field.



it was a pretty casual game even though both teams wore jerseys and were somewhat organized. then i checked west and it turned out they had fans.....



there were some whites who probably thought they were at some big important soccer game and other people just hanging out and watching. it's nice to see some fields/courts in the middle of a huge city. it's literally just off the main street. you could kick those balls into some serious traffic. like rush hour 2 type traffic.

after many of those personal pitchers of chivas/coke last night, i learned the phrase for which this entry is titled. yum la, pok gai! = drink up, motherfucker! i digg some of this chinese slang. and you'd better believe i got the tone right on that one.