Creepy German Dude gets the boot thanks to my Laoshi.
Don’t even try and tell me that you don’t have to speak Chinese to live in Shanghai. Ok, maybe you can “get by” and “get around”, but who wants that? I went to go see an apartment last week and the landlord loved me because I was able to jump in on the conversation about the creepy German guy that currently lived in the apartment and who she wasn’t sure if she wanted to keep around. Being able to talk in Chinese about my legit job, my roommate’s legit job, and how long we’d both been in China really made an impression on her and we ended up with a rent price more than 800 kuai less than what Creepy German Dude was paying. The landlord made sure to point out that Creepy German Dude could barely say “Thank you” in Chinese. She mentioned she’s thankful she can call us whenever she’ll need to come over and we’ve already made plans to eat out with her daughter and her soon. Lets just hope she doesn’t find out about my cat.
-Ween
Cultural Crossroad
This week my Japanese friend assured me that my fantaticism for the Japanese illustrated arts, i.e. anime, would not help me win the hearts of Japanese women. “They will be put off and lose interest in you. Don’t tell them that you’re into that”, he advised me. Point taken, but I did not agree completely at first, and thought, “Why not tell them the truth, and let things unravel as they will?” I reminded myself that other cutures and people have different expectations of adulthood and emotional maturity, so more caution and premeditation is needed for foreigers. Does this mean I have to hide parts of who I am, at least in the short term??? I sure hope not because Bleach ep 271 was just released and the series is actually getting good again. So much to talk about.
-Gigglecat
Dude Wants Yo MONAY!
I’ve traded in my subway card for a bike and I’ve yet to look back on that decision. Everyday I see some form of a mild accident, it’s so entertaining! I love watching everyone rubberneck and circle around the accident, which is usually something very minor so not a big deal. The other day I pulled up to the crosswalk and saw some scrubby dude just chillin on the road with a frown grabbing his knee. A well dressed motorcyclist was standing over him, trying to persuade him into getting up and moving onto the curb but the dude wasn’t budging. It was SOOO obvious he was faking his “injury” in an attempt to get into the other guy’s pockets. Eventually, the wealthy biker picked up the victim and dragged him off the road while the hurt man was grabbing his knee and made quite the show of his inability to walk or stand, absolutely ridiculous. I couldn’t control myself, I yelled out in Chinese, “Great performance!” My fellow biking commuters started laughing and we all agreed that he was completely full of shit. I see this too often, I’m sure we all have. Moral of the story: If you’re a laowai and you accidently hit someone on your bike or motorcycle/scooter… don’t stop, just keep going.
-AK47
Salt: Online Movie Game
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/salt/moviegame/
I’ve been playing this game for Angelina Jolie’s upcoming action thriller Salt. It is so awesome and I suggest you check it out. Blow up walls, shoot down agents, assemble weapons – SO MUCH FUN! The techno background music is especially nice. I’ll probably watch the movie. In theaters July 23, 2010!
- Mike
Salt! Learn how to fuck people up!
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@ AK47
Where was this advice 2 years ago? I don’t know if the same rule applies to my situation. I was getting ride on by a large body of water but I was still in the middle of the street. There were some kids playing near by. This street was narrow and a car was coming my way so I avoided getting hit by the car but I could not avoid the little boy running into my rear wheel. The little bugger wasn’t hurt but when he saw this big black dude rollin around he freaked and caused a commotion. So people accused me of hitting the little kid with my bike at high speeds. I was going to leave but my luck got better. The mother of that kid was my neighbor and she knew where the fuck I lived.
There was nothing wrong with the kid but she wanted me to take the bastard to the hospital and get him checked out. So I call my wife and I explained to her and she bolts to my destination. Its me against 15 old farts that didn’t see anything and muzzled 5 year old. They threatened to call police and I knew in my mind that was asking for too much trouble so I made sure that they didn’t get the money but the Hospital did.
Its like the insurance scams in the US where they slam on breaks and hope you rear end them for easy lawsuit, except there is no rules against fraud here.
wowwww that sounds like HELL. In that situation, you definitely have to conquer your instinct to help, especially when it’s a child you almost decapitated, and just bolt. Fuck it man, nothing good is going to come out of a family raping your bank account so they can finally afford that 5 day luxury resort package plan to Hainan they’ve been dreaming of for years. That last part gives me an idea, maybe I’ll throw myself in front of the next Maserati I see, think I can get a couple 万s out of it?
Dude, Let me do a test run and if I survive i’ll let you know how it went haha. I don’t know if my dark skin negates the being a foreigner but I think im worth more than a couple of 万s.