My bad!

Haven't blogged in over a week. Problem is that I actually have to be home to post something and usually that's around 3am. As you could see from my last post, blogging when drunk is not as great an idea as you think at that time. The reason why I'm never at home is that I'm always at my friend's place and it is so much nicer than my room. I'll probably be there all the time until they charge me for rent.

Macao so far has been great it's just too small to really do different stuff each day. Thats why we kind of party and drink and eat and party all the time. (Mom, if you're reading this, I go to class and the library as well. Those are the only places I can sleep at. It's so nice and quiet there.)

My neighbors have this baby that keeps waking me up. There is just no way in shutting that baby up! So I sleep with headphones on and hope that I will hear my alarm when I wake-up. (That baby is one of the reasons why I sleep during class. The other one reason is that all the professors have such a monotone voice, I could get rich if I taped it and sold it to people with insomnia. You'll fall asleep within 10 minutes GUARANTEED!)

There is a shortcut from my house that leads though a small alleyway but saves me maybe 15 minutes in walking. During daytime it was really easy to navigate through the maze of small roads. However during the night and my intoxicated state it was a whole new ballgame. Me and my friend Anthony walked there with all these mean-looking straight-out-of-Resident-Evil dogs barking at us and we just got completely lost. We ended up taking a route that took us much longer than if we would've taken the normal road. According to another exchange student we must have passed a psychiatric ward as well. It is Macao's very own Arkham Asylum.

We got an offer during Chinese Culture to teach english to young monks for 3-6 months in a monastery. In exchange you would not get paid in cash or other riches for ordinary people. No. They would pay us in Shaolin Martial Arts training. Yes that's right. If I had time to do it I would've been Batman after summer. I'm actually a bit saddened by the fact I probably don't have time to take her up on that offer. I mean that would've been the experience of a lifetime. I wonder what kind of superpower they would imbue me with. Super-strength, teleportation and invulnerability would all be fine with me.

This weekend I will be going to Hong Kong to meet up with some friends and to visit the peek. I hope to update more often next week but I'll probably need a few days to sober up first.

'Yes, I know what you're thinking. I like me too' ~ Yeo

You want to become an iceberg??

Had my first classes of this semester this week. Lots of fun but it is so different from back home. For example the chinese students dont say a word during class. Me and my canadian friend Yao are probably the loudest people in the classroom and I can't say we're having a lot of fun. That might also be the reason the chinese are not talking to us. too noisy too loud, it's not one of my better traits.

Already had my first wrong class as well on Tuesday. I thought class was on Tuesdays and I probably had some alcohol in me from the day before (dress-code party from one of the french) (please dont tag me on facebook). Since I was already late I ran like 10 floors because there were probably like a 1000* people waiting at the elevator. Got in class just in time and after 5 minutes it became clear my class wouldnt start until Thursday. Yes I'm that stupid, there I said it.

Some of the classes have teachers that dont speak english that well. If you say iceberg instead of expert and cunt instead of count, dont be mad when I'm laughing my ass off during your lecture. "If you want to become an iceberg you can cunt on a lot of studying."

Some random thoughts:

In restaurants I just point at my food to order what I want. This is usually a good idea except they then start to talk in chinese to me and I just say okay until they walk away. This will not always give you the dish that you want to have and therefore knowledge of the chinese language might be handy in some cases.

Nice to know I have about 15 pageviews each day. I dont know how you manage to keep up with all the BS I'm posting but I'm happy for it! Hopefully we can all have a laugh about this someday when were grey and old. Or high. Or drunk. I dont ever want to be old. And grey.

Still too lazy to upload pictures... I need someone to kick my ass and make me do it. Unfortunately I'm stronger than each and everyone of you. 

*my calculations for saying it was a 1000 people. China has a population of over a billion. the odds that there are a 1000 people near a elevator at any given time I've set at 50%. So it's a fifty-fifty shot. Since I have a huge fucking chip on my shoulder and am always right (building block rule of the universe), I'd say my odds of getting it right this time is a 100%.

Stylish puppies

Saw some pretty cool things these past days. During the tour on Friday we went to a lot of places and some museums, I have pictures but too frackin lazy to upload them. Also I'm probably on none of them, actually that might be a good thing.
The karaoke party was crazy and everyone was kinda drunk so we had a good time. Yellow Fever didnt get a chance to perform but I think no-one kinda cared anyway. Yellow Fever's time will come no doubt about it!

Some random thoughts about Macao:

I'm a little disappointed for being in a part of China and I didnt see a single fire-spitting dragon yet. They are either hiding incredibly well or they're in some other part. I bet I'll eat part of a dragon without knowing it sooner than see one.

The dogs here actually have more style than I have. They fracking rock baseball jackets and fucking paw-gloves. Scarfs, hats and don't be surprised if they even have more better looking cars. If you see a dog without clothing, it'll probably get arrested because of public nudity and obscene gestures. They'll eat it afterwards.

Bought a jacket for 20 euro! It'll probably only last a month or so but still! 20 euro is as if you're buying groceries in Holland! It's probably better than spending it on gambling as well.

One week in Macao and didnt spend a penny yet on gambling. I like me

Tomorrow is the first day of class so no party tonight, we'll make up for it on the other nights though. Now off to get some sleep! Hopefully there will be no drilling of any kind in the rooms next to me.

Chicken!

Had my first signs of a jetlag in the past few nights. Couldn't sleep until 9 AM, which was annoying since I definitely needed that sleep. Anyone with some good tips to help me master this problem, you are welcome to let me know and for this one time I'll try to listen.
Yesterday we had a tour through Macao and we saw some nice places and I got pictures too. At this moment though I'm just too lazy to put them online. Highlight of the day was the Tower of Macao which has some glass floors on the top. Pretty scary but I just pretended like I was tough. Just so happy I didn't pee my pants when I acted like it was nothing. You can also bungee jump from the tower but I'm not sure yet if I wanna do that. It sounds cool and all but it's incredibly high and I really don't know yet.
At night we went to the Venetian which was crazy. Free drinks for ladies and there was a band, people doing backflips and stuff. I hoped he would fall except he didn't obey to my secret silent commands. Tried the Force on him as well, didn't work so the Force is probably weak in Macao.
Tomorrow we've got another big day. Tour part II and Karaoke at night. I can't promise anything but I might sing a song or two, or more, or until I pass out again.

No pictures please

Btw I wasn't scared. I never am.

Comatose

I think I might have set a new personal best after I've slept about 15 hours last night. Probably had no energy left due to all the travels but the good thing is today was much better than yesterday. Had some proper food (Korean BBQ) and then a party at some of the exchange student places. They called the police afterwards saying there was too much noise so we have to find some other place to hang out.
The other exchange students are great actually and we'll probably have a lot of fun. Right now we're planning to go to Malaysia during the Chinese New Year celebration and hopefully I can stop by in Singapore to see Ray as well. That's all for now, tomorrow is ladies night at the Venetian so it'll probably be a lot of fun!

No funny anecdotes in this post, cause I'm too tired. I'll make sure I'll have some tomorrow.

TTYN xoxoxo (I have no idea what this means)

Fear Factor without the 50.000 dollar prize

Today was my first day in Macau and no need to say that it was eventful at the very least. It started after arriving in Hong Kong, when after a 12 hour flight I had to sit in a bus for 40 minutes and then a ride on a boat comparable to a one-hour roller coaster without the cool picture when you're screaming your lungs out. Inevitably I was exhausted but sometimes you just gotta man the fuck up and go on.
The exchange students had a introduction lunch and thats when I joined the group. This lunch was nothing compared to the horrors we faced during dinner. If I would have known, I would've eaten a lot more of those Portuguese Egg Tarts (i.e. THESE ARE FRACKING DELICIOUS!!! someone better find a place where they sell it in Amsterdam).
Dinner as mentioned before was not as expected. We were tired and hungry when we arrived at a crappy looking place in the center of Hong Kong. The dishes started off pretty nice with some egg and shrimps, sweet and sour pork, but this was just a small diversion to what was coming. Maggots as thick as my thumb, the tongue of a duck (which wasn't even that bad), worms hidden in scrambled egg, snake (no fangs), some weird looking creature they caught in the sea (i called it mutated shrimp) and more exotic 'delicacies' that I cannot begin to describe.
Hopefully the rest of the introduction dinners will be less exotic since I can't imagine eating that again. Memorable is probably the only word that would describe my day, even if I wished I could forget it