so i moved overseas, and now my late night is your daytime.
Wait what? Why would you do that?
ben there, done that. How’s Hong Kong?
-Starhammer-
I’m kinda there… but you are all the way across and not just halfway there. Hong Kong, huh? Working there now?
yeah, patience is a virtue, but I’ll say this much. my patience meter is leaning hard towards the Empty right now. I think it’s mostly just this area. all I need is a job, ANY job, and I’ll make the green to get the hell outta here.
yeah, the heavy drinking isn’t gonna help in the end. I know it and I’ve already gotten that down. The only real hard part is just being around this pile of garbage they dare call a city. I guess that isn’t so different from a thousand similar stories. I thought I could just hold out until the cash got to where I needed it to, but I might need to take a break from this place before I end up eating the furniture. of course, if I do that it’ll set me back even further. Patience is a virtue. Sanity? That’s a commodity.
-Starhammer-
going to school actually. got into a good one here and its full ride, so i figured, what the heck.
i think you got the best of both worlds though ducky - overseas, but still in the states!
hammer: it’s hot and humid, but otherwise pretty cool. where are you at that blows so much ass?
I love all the dim sum and char siu bao when I visited Hong Kong. At that time I was still learning Cantonese, but I was surprised that a lot of people understood English. I want to go back now that I can speak Cantonese a lot better.
Hawaii is great, but I wish I was living it up in China/Hong Kong where the economy is actually getting better and not turning into complete shit like it is in the states. I’d only have problems if those fuckers kept me from my porn, otherwise we’d be cool. What school are you going to over there? Full ride, too? Someone hit the fucking jackpot.
Chinese University of Hong Kong, and yeah. i’m pretty happy about it.
i’m trying to pick up cantonese, i’ve made some progress, but its hard to learn compared to Latin languages
WTF, since when has Weeks been in Hong Kong? Have I been out of the loop that bad with my srk brethren? :wonder:
a hole in the soul of life called Geismar, Louisiana. It’s ironic. when we first started the late night thread I was in a pile of shit called Lemoore,CA. Now I’m over here. Right now I’m just trying to be patient. Hopefully, Monday will be when I can do something bank-wise. Hopefully I’ll luck out job-wise Monday as well so that I can finally get the ball rolling a little faster.
The major most problem with this area is everyone wants to be Ghetto…Again. I’ve just gotten so tired of it and it did take a little while for me to get myself in gear, so it just built up and now it’s messing with my mind really bad. God knows I have precious little mind to mess with as is. My little financial plans WILL work as is, but it’ll take forever. still, with a little help I’ll be able to speed things up to my satisfaction. A little work or a winning lotto ticket would do the trick.
-Starhammer-
Learning spoken Cantonese wasn’t too difficult for me - although it did take me a greater portion of 15 years before I became fluent enough in it to sit through a Hong Kong action flick without any subtitles. I never picked up Mandarin because the sounds were much more difficult to reproduce compared to Cantonese, at least IMO. You speak Mandarin though, don’t you?
what’s the difference between cantonese and mandarin? Just wondering.
-Starhammer-
naw. i don’t speak any form actually. I’m learning as I go.
from what i understand, cantonese has more ‘sounds’ and is more of a slang language. people tell me its harder to learn than mandarin.
ah. I guess mandarin would be the “proper” form of Chinese and cantonese would be more like broken english. good luck with them. it’s always good to learn something new.
-Starhammer-
so i gotta ask, what made you decide to move to LA if the town sucks so hard?
They are two different dialects of Chinese… it is written the same, but the pronounciation is very different. Mandarin is considered more proper and that is what is spoken more in the north. You get down to the south nearer to Hong Kong and Cantonese is spoken more. There are other dialects (toisan, chiuchow, hakgai) too which sound completely different, but Mandarin/Cantonese are the most spoken, IIRC.
I learned spoken Cantonese, so I’m pretty fluent in it, but the sounds are so radically different that I can’t really understand any Mandarin at all. I can’t read/write Chinese either, so I’d really be stuck in China if I was in an area where no one spoke/understood Cantonese or English. I don’t really have any reason to go to China anyway so I guess I’ll never really have to worry about it.
the short of it is like this…
I got out of the Navy, a buddy I met when I was in there asked me if I wanted to move in with him. Since I didn’t have family left anywhere else and my only other plans were to just stay in Cali (Lemoore sucked too.) and at the time we were all in Baton Rouge, which wasn’t nearly as bad. I obviously decided to come by for a while. A little while after I got there, he ended up meeting this chick whom he ended up marrying and of course moving out with. I ended up holding the bag, but I’ve got the house. Too bad it’s in a place that might as well be a prison. Now I’m just trying to break out.
-Starhammer-
Ah. crystal clear, this has become. Thank you, Yoda does.
-Starhammer-
Yo starhammer I saw the youtube commerical of the girl in ur av hella funny.
Choco party…good, good. :tup: Unfortunately, nobody knows what her name is, or at least I’ve never heard anything confirming it. still, I’m not too unhappy. she’s shaking it and that’s what really matters, isn’t it?
-Starhammer-