How Many?

There were many potential exciting blog topics that I could possible write down for you to read and see, over the past few weeks quite a number of weird, exciting, boring, and worldly stories just keep on coming to make my world my world. No that's not a mistake the double 'my world's adds effect. So I could tell about going to the police station yesterday... I could also inform you of the US and its plans to build new nuclear weapons with the added bonus that they would be MORE viable for actual use... just check out this cool flash animation about it:
NUKE BOOOM!!!! YEAH!!!


I could even divulge a bit into what I really do here... Telling you how I got on Local television - and not a cheap 'Look at me at a sporting event making a face to get on camera type' but I got interviewed! Take that! But alas no, I will tell you nothing about the above at all, but rather a fairly hilarious story involving Aeroplan points (kinda like airmiles except a Canadian Original Idea) since i'll be collecting very very much many traveling to China and all. 8000 miles alone one way. But just to put it in perspective I need 25000 miles to get a free flight from Toronto to LA, what can I say? Aeroplan miles is reason enough to FLY! I can see the next time I talk to a travel agent...

She: "Where do you want to go?" -travel agents are always females... I know its gender discrimination... but us guys can't do anything about it.
Me: "I don't know, I just want aeroplan miles.. how about I just pay you for a ticket and you debit my account with aeroplan miles?"
She: "That's stupid...why collect aeroplan miles when you could actually travel with a ticket AND collect aeroplan at the same time?"
Me: "The plane might crash? How am I going to collect areoplan miles when I'm dead? bet you didn't think of that one..."

and so on...

So in order to collect areoplan miles you need to show your aeroplan card # to the travel agent. Now I need to book tickets back to LA and Toronto and I do want to collect those miles... but I had a problem, I had no Idea where that number was, so I thought hey, maybe I can go on the website and find out since I had to register on the web in the first place. On the website you have to log in. Great! Using your areoplan Number... which I don't have. That being said, I also need to type in a password too, which I also forgot. hmmm kinda stuck.

Luckily sifting through my emails I find an email from Air Canada with my aeroplan mile number. Go back to the website, and remember I still need my password. I was not completly out of options, since the login page also had a link aptly named "click here if you forgot your password". Which I clicked and sent me to a page where I had a answer a secret question. Secret question you say? Its a question that you make up when you first register that if you happen to forget your passward and you can answer your secret question, they will give you your password (or a least email it to you.) Usually people have a question like "What is my mothers maiden name" or "What year did world war II end" but when I took a look at mine it said, "How Many?" .... great that's MY QUESTION? HOW MANY? how many what? I don't know, I don't remember what I was thinking at the time. Talk about making a secret question difficult for the person who wrote the secret question. Though I must say it was a good one cause it stumped me. I tried 4, 11, 7777, and 1979... but apparently that's not how many of what I was thinking at the time there were. *sigh* Can you help me tell me how many?

Irony?

"Europe's CIA Inquiry: Poland, Romania hosted secret prisons" -TMP

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003390.php

Realpolitick, REALLY! A view of this nations poor.. They are all LAZY!

A particular minority group here is very poor(I won't even tell you which country its in). The reason? They are lazy. Sure they live in some of the most remote places in the area where as the other minority groups live closer to the main roadways and transportation arteries. But that doesn't excuse them from using helicopter transport. Hospitals use helicopters, I see no why bush men from China can't use them either. Sure at the altitude that they live makes it difficult to plant the cash crops or crops to feed themselves, but some of the best hasheesh come from those remote area's, forget planting corn and rice - heroin my brothers brings a world full of delusional perfect joy, uh, well until tomorrow... but as the bible does say, "Do not worry about tomorrow".

So what have we done for these lazy people? who sit on their grass thatched carpets watching TV all day? We build a school in their village, hire a teacher from another Minority group - since we want our minority peoples to know they are valued as the regular citizen, and educate the younger generation. Even as we provide such service, the students only come to class once a week! How despicable! how are these children suppose to learn so to better their future? Why even the teacher seeing the laziness of the people decided to come only once a week! Lucky he's a minority or he would have been replaced for only coming once a week (which is not his fault), being a minority does have its benefits!

So the next time you think someone is lazy... don't bother thinking again... They are!


ChrisGoChina - Dumbing people down since 2006

What's left to ponder?

"Facebook commercializes 24 million users: Sells special access to News Feeds"

Just to let all us facebookers know... "http://blogs.zdnet.com/micro-markets/?p=1484"

I'll let you ponder on this for a bit...

"With permission of the priest, the family of an incurable sufferer might drop of large stone on his head."

I wonder what was 'classified' as a large stone.... did the church have 'large' stones ready for use on such an occasion? I'd hate to be the first person to be an incurable sufferer, while people drop 'large stones' until they find one big enough to take me down.

The wonder of some medieval church practices... If it were true, yeah I could cite the website, which doesn't provide a cite of itself, but just image for a second it was true, oh how funny it would be... how funny it would be.

WORST GOODBYE EVER!

So I was just in Guilin for the past 4 days. No. It/s a lie. I mean, in LiuZhou and Yangshao, (I was in Guilin for 2 hours - had to change buses), to visit a long time friend. Wait wrong again. No. A friend I knew for a couple weeks last year but we just clicked; you know the 'potential boyfriend / girlfriend' click. Chemistry right? Yeah. So Alice if your reading this, don't tell Alice. Anyways its just a way to describe a friendship :). Back to the story. Yes. And Guilin is a beautiful place, lots of mountains... well not mountains more like hills, but exotic hills or even better oriental hills. Onces that make you think your the only foreigner for miles. Wait.. I was. So yeah had a great time then came the good bye. Came back to Liuzhou (the city my friend lives in right?) she came back a day earlier, when I come to her place as she is in a rush to pack, since my friend has to go to Shang Hai this saturday. So I realized that I probably don't want to take up anymore of her time since she is also visiting her parents. So after figuring out which bus to take to the train station so I can take a 15 hour ride back to Kunming, her father, she and I walk to the bus station so I can take a bus to the train station. Well as we approach the bus station, the bus just arrives at the stop. Worst possible time to say a proper goodbye. In a rush I shake her fathers hand and thank him for his hospitality... then I shake my friends hand and say.... *sigh*... "Nice to meet you".... She in typical chinese and proper english protocol said "Nice to meet you too" with a slightly confused look, but hey! Who the heck says "Nice to meet you?"

I'll tell you who, the chinese children in elementary school in their English Class, and that's all I could come up with. So endearing.... the banality of my life. I've been saying that to students all year now - so be prepared if my english has gone down a notch coming back.

Nice to meet you too!

I want to become a farmer,

That is my next career goal and if I wasn't in this internet cafe needing to go to a bathroom at the moment I would explain to you why. More later...

The marked reciept scandal!

It always came across as a strange supermarket practice to get my receipt marked with a pen mark, upon leaving the store. Was it another Chinese tracking mechanism (radioactive ink perhaps?) or just a simple way to give another one of the millions, no hundreds of millions of people in china a meaningful existence. If I for one had a work visa, ticking receipts of customers would be the very first thing that I would make sure to stay away from as a job. I do not have the qualifications. But unfortunately, as always, the secret reason for the check was revealed to me by another foreigner, continuing to prove the myth that I have yet to be able to think for myself (in logical and rational ways). He postulated that the real reason for marking the bill was to protect against would be thieves.

Here is how it works: The reason why they mark the bill is to prevent people from coming into the store with the bill(so they purchased the things on the bill already once before), picking up the items they bought that are on the bill and walk out of the store (without paying for their things) if they are stopped by one of the employee's they can claim that they have a bill that 'proves' they had just paid for it. In the confusion of a large supermarket such a scam might in fact work, and I encourage you readers from north america to try it out, and see if it does work as a proof of concept. If you are stopped just claim that you were participating in a 'proof of concept' explain the way you were going to try to rip them off, and then finish it off with a, "if you didn't catch me... then I would have told you that you have a security hole in your receipting system". Then offer your services to them by marking all the receipts with a pen after they are purchased.

Hey, Of course you can also check the date and time of the receipt... but that would be to much of a hassle.

Peace