Phil and Red's Excellent Adventure

Today was another interesting one. I slept in. Woke up and did some laundry. Headed to the gym at 1pm. At the gym the girl working behind the counter likes to speak to me in chinese knowing full well I don't know much. And then she tries to write what I say. AIYA! Duh, I can't read either.
Well, anyway, i come down from the locker room and she comes running up to me with this green bamboo looking stuff. Now, this ain't bamboo, its sugar cane...i think. Its a long rod that you scrape off the green outerlayer and then chomp on the wood inside and suck the sweet juice out of it. Then you spit the chewed up wood into the trash. Its good. Sweet. A desert. Very interesting. She explained to me that she bought me a rod. Ok...you didn't have to. I didn't accept it at first, but she wouldn't take "no" for an answer.
After I got done there, I went to the little shop for lunch. While waiting for the food to cook, I checked out Sheng-Ya DVD shop. They had Kung Fu Hustle out already, however no English Subtitles. Poop. I then found "The Blade" but it had no english either. ugh.
I head back and eat my lunch. I then go to pay for it and they say they don't want my money. I am like it costs 5RMB. here is the money. And they are all speaking to me and I can't understand. So, finally one of them makes it real simple. Some guy sitting at another table who had left awhile ago and I didnt notice at all had paid for my lunch. Whoa. Why did he do that? I was confused. Surprised as well.
I then headed home. On the way home two guys on a mo-ped drove by. As they passed me they looked and started to laff and giggle and they slowed down and were staring back at me as they kept driving on around the corner. "PAY ATTENTION TO THE ROAD, JERKFACE!" He ran into a car pulling out of a drive way. Serves you right, Moron. I hope that teaches you not to stare.
I got home and then I got ready because Peter and I had to meet up with Sean, John, Clyde, Suzannah, and Mark Lee at Continental Cafe to discuss this Guzhen English performance next week. We had our discussion and I got more info into Clyde's past involving his stint in the porn industry. Very bizarre stuff. Apparently, his company was responsible for sending out tons of Porn SPAM from 97-00. He said in 1 year alone, his boss reaped in more than $2million from SPAM alone. He had tons of other funny stories. All in all, he is a very interesting guy and he is one of the funniest guys too. I say he is right behind Matt Naas in the funny category.
We discussed stuff and we had some decent Western Buffet food. The fries were fantastic. After that we went upstairs and played some snooker. Well, we played pool on the giant snooker tables. Ash had shown up by then. I was playing against him and he was standing next to ball I was shooting at. Some how the ball popped off the table and hit him in the waist, nothing bad, but the shock of a ball flying off the table and hitting him caused him to accidently shove his pool cue into his mouth. No major damage, just a small small cut.
Oh, what I said earlier about the guys on the mo-ped running into the car...that didnt' really happen. Though I wish it did. These jerks were staring and laffing at me as they were driving slow ahead of me...i wish they would have gotten their come-up-ings.
After pool, we headed over to the Beer Gardens. Sean brought along someone he met. A guy named Martin. We just chatted a couple hours. Toby was being all philosophical...at one point I, due to his non stop discussion/one-sided arguement, i started banging my head on the table. SHUT UP! SHUT UP!
Damon showed up after his class was over and we chatted a bit.
Anywho, about Martin. He is this Chinese guy that was born in HK. About 12 years ago, he moved to England. He spoke English with a Chinese/British accent. He had a couple kids that he raised and they were now off doing other stuff. He had saved up enuff money on his own that he moved to Xiaolan, where is mother is from, to retire. He looks quite young. He said life is too short. I am assuming he is divorced from his kids mom, because he said when he got here, he got a girlfriend, bought a horse, and got a new kid...."Instant Family." We laughed for about 5 minutes after that one. JUST ADD WATER.
sweeet.
Damon, Martin, and I chatted about lots of things, including Taiji, while Toby was blabbering on about something useless. Toby then said, "Politics...Let's talk about Chinese Politics...that Chairman Mao..what's up with him..." SHUT UP YOU RETARD!!!!
We took off about 12AM and I walked home. It had gotten chilly and I was wearing just a long sleeve shirt. No jacket.burr. good nite.