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New Years fireworks (actually on December 31/jan 1). They're waaay better than ours. The countdown was every couple levels on Taipei 101 tower lighting up and then they shot a ton of fireworks from all the sky scrapers. I'm jealous.
So...little kids in Taiwan are really weird. They get attached really easily. lol. A younger cousin who I only met three years ago (and she doesn't even remember me...I think she was 4 at the time or something) really really likes me. I spent three days at my grandparents so she was with me a total of....6 hours? After I left she started bawling so much that no one could stand it and my aunt ended up slapping her to get her to stop (she couldn't take it. and that kid is obnoxious. if she's in the house you know she's there). but she kept crying! so they were like "it's okay! she'll come back in the summer!" "really?" *stops crying immediately* haha.
and then apparently she felt bad because she didn't give me a gift (?) so she was like "big sister! you're going to get so many presents in the summer when you visit! you can't even imagine what you're going to get!" and then I found out that she started selling her toys on the street! She's selling her own toys to make money to buy me something! This from a grade schooler that I probably only talked to for an hour or two.
It's cool but I'm still freaked out.
I also met the rest of my step mom's extended family in Taipei. I really like them cuz they're a lot closer to my age than my cousins from my mom's side or dad's side. We stayed with them for two days. The day after I leave my step cousin (?) starts complaining to my step mom (cuz she for three more days after we left) that she already is starting to miss me. haha. her grandma overhears her and gives a whack on the backside of her head. she was like "I've raised you for 10 years and you only miss this big sister that you've only known for 2 days!? what?!"
Definitely going back to Taiwan over the summer. I'm making about 700 a month right now from three jobs $_$.
We went to my dad's house and there were 9 nephews/nieces that I had never met/no idea about. NINE! That means in the last three years, there's been nine more babies....from my cousins. Of all the cousins older than me, there's only ONE that isn't married and that's cuz she doesn't want to be married. There are still a few...maybe 5-6 cousins that are younger than me. ahhhh.
...more taiwan and work stories later ...probably? (the people on my dad's side of the family are like rabbits!)
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So my car ran completely out of gas last last saturday. It started doing spurts of acceleration and I was like hmmm something wrong. It started going up the hill at 5th avenue and columbia. Got alll the way down chicago almost to the street light with Charles st. before it was just like...'um not going up that hill'. but it wouldn't let me brake and I was slightly up the hill...
yay for parking brakes!
and then I called the restaurant and asked them to get me gas. =D
and then that same night I went to their house after the restaurant closed up (and I filled up) and we played mahjong until 1am. My boss is really good at mahjong. I'm not even sure whether or not my dad is better than him. I'd really want to see a game between the two. mahjong face off haha.
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bwahahaha
Lindsay finally played it right today! yay!
so I got to go to two new years parties and a mardi gras party over the weekend. My mom came up with the best plan ever. lol. she was hosting a new years party on saturday but I wanted to leave it for my mardi gras party later at night. So she was like...hmm okay you can leave at 9 and announce it to them so that they'll leave too.
she figured that by 9 she'd be tired and the party would be pretty much over. so we purposefully left my car in the garage and then around 9 I was like...'ummm I actually have to go now...is anyone parked on the right side of the driveway?" etc. It totally worked. it was amazing. They were all like 'oh! yeah yeah, I should go too it's getting late and I have a long drive home blah blah"
yep.
fun stuff.
on the espn channel in taiwan half the time I saw it they were showcasing pool and ping pong. it was pretty funny.
The metro in Taiwan is so cool! the subway whatever it's called. You can get multiple use cards like our cta...except that these cards are have sensors in them so you don't even have to put them in or anything, you just pass it above the sensor thingy and it beeps and you can go.
and then if you're just passing through and only want one ticket or something, you get a plastic token that's sensored too! except that on the way out of the other station you have to insert it to get out of the station so that you can't keep it. (otherwise I definitely would have).
=D
I'm going back to Taiwan in the summer for a month. yay!
...anyhow I was really really really bored in french today. we were just in the computer lab doing nothing so I google searched how to kill a chicken (I was feeling a little frustration at my stupid french teacher =p)
the first result was some kind of forum and the topic starter was like "so I have three hens that haven't been laying really well for the last three years, I figure it's about time for them to go. How do you kill a chicken? I don't believe those people who say you can just twist and pull and their heads come off. that's just stupid. I heard that if you turn it upside down and twist their necks three times and then pull down really hard, their heads come right off. Is this true?"
lol. and then one guy was like 'just grab them by the necks and pretend its a bullwhip'
all the other ppl just start recounting horror stories of headless chickens chasing after them and some weirdo is like "the axe is the best! use an axe!"
finally someone posts something along the lines of 'oh poor chickens! don't kill them! they've served you so well etc. etc."
and the original guy is just like 'well I bought them to make a profit and if they aren't laying they're really no use anymore. if you want them to keep living, you can send a donation to me to pay for their food and caring for them. In return I'll send you photographs and two nice big bags of the manure they produce every week."
lol. anyways, it was just something weird that I found. caught one of the people i tutor playing gunbound when I went over last week. he's only in 5th grade. good times.
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