So I became quite sick today drinking about half of a glass of beer and eating a veggie sandwich and a bowl of curried soup. And by sick I mean drunk. And by drunk I mean breaking into a sudden sweat and the feeling in my arms and legs became very very sensitive, that is, even the smallest pressure on them like resting my head on my arm or ( Read more... )

Between messy roommates who don't seem to heed messages left on notes for any more than a week (cases in point: turning lights off when leaving the apartment; disposing of garbage promptly; rinsing empty drink cartons; taking out recycling; wiping off stove after cooking; washing and putting away dishes after cooking; proper disposal of sanitary ( Read more... )

A little holiday cheer to myself:

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There were a couple of new people at LOLchoir (that is, as opposed to Concert Choir, aka SRSchoir / FUNchoir) today, so we went around introducing ourselves by which parts of Finland we were from. (This seems, in my very limited experience, much more usual with these Finnish-Canadians than it is with Hong Kongers asking each other what their 鄉下 [ ( Read more... )

I came back to my apartment yesterday to find that summer has finally 'come', that is, the temperature in my room went above 30℃ for the first time this summer.  Not only that, one of the new roommates had moved in last week to find the plumbing in the bathtub backed up. This means that our shower is currently unusable. Plumbers started working on ( Read more... )

"I always wear my bathing suit in the sauna because of those men. They gossip about bad things. You don't know HOW bad [because you don't understand Finnish]. I have to be careful. And as you are so young, you especially so ( Read more... )

I infer from what I have been told by Crazyfinn and AwesomeFinnishGramps that Mrs Crazyfinn is intimidated by me (and I also infer that Leena feels the same way for similar reasons) at camp. It's my temper, I'm sure, which she ignites so often exactly those embers of the frustrations that I have with my mother (please treat me like an adult!), and ( Read more... )

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Confucius thought that the Good Man should cultivate the "Six Arts". I'm not sure if this fact is explicitly taught to modern Chinese people, but if you really think about it, it seems as though the tradition has been passed down to the modern stereotypical Chinese mother and the kinds of things that they expect their kids to do:

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