Mum: I walked a long way and then I looked at the map and it was only a little way ( Read more... )

[looking at a billboard for scuba diving training, reading "Dive for fun, learn to earn ( Read more... )

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Everyone is still alive. A care was... probably had, by someone, but Christmas is fairly underwhelming in general mostly. We're currently watching SUPERSTARS DANCE or something like that, a very American show that I thought was billed as a competition of traditional dances from different countries around the world. It is... not quite what I ( Read more... )

Me: K-A-E-K, that's how you spell cake.

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Very glad my brother is in China rn not South Korea (or North Korea, but that's significantly less likely to ever happen). zomg wtf this is not going to end well. D:

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My brother has been in China doing secret things for a week and apparently he's gotten so good at saying xiexie (thank you) that when he says it people try to keep talking to him in Mandarin. Take note, any anti-immigrant racists who somehow made it onto my friends list - he did not learn Mandarin before going there, so boo for the notion that ( Read more... )

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Older brother: So I went to http://www.harcourts.co.nz but the prices in Kaiapoi were still really high ( Read more... )

As I'm writing we don't actually have internet - power came back on later this morning and I'm not sure of the status of our water except that we're not supposed to be flushing the toilets and be careful with drinking water. Luckily I filled a 1.5L bottle yesterday and I also have something over a litre of soda. Also very lucky I refilled my ( Read more... )