February 2, 2006

  • Things that have made me laugh out loud, lately:



    • the "diahrrea" song from the movie Parenthood ("when you're sliding into home and you're feeling something foam..")
    • King Julien and his sidekicks from the movie Madagascar, especially when they're dancing and doing the robot.  Cedric the Entertainer is HI-larious.  I find the combination of his voice and the animal using the voice very .. uh.. entertaining, indeed.
    • Karen, from Will & Grace, doing a really robotic small wave while saying "Adios"... you have to see it yourself...
    • I received one of those automated emails from a non-native English speaker that read "I am out of the office on an official TRIPE".  I know it's rude to laugh, but come 'on, it's funny.   And then the response from friend jelly: "he must be asian.  only asians go on tripes.the whiteys, they go on official ribeyes. okay. i'll stop." 

    Random bazaar statements:



    • "I'm sorry this rice is so expensive" - from a Korean grandma selling me 713 rice, the kind of rice my people (and yours, too, maybe) eat
    • "They're all good!  They're all good!" - annoyed orange seller, watching me squeeze each of her oranges

    Sad thought:



    • being a housewife and mother are already the most underappreciated, underpaid jobs on this earth.  compound that with a culture that treats women, in general, like crap... and you get...

    ICK!



    • sitting in my neighbor's kitchen, trying not to notice all the cockroaches running around her kitchen. At least they're small?  I remember seeing some nasty big cockroaches in my house in Houston.  BLECH BLECH.

    Tick......(10 second pause)... Tick... (10 second pause)... tick... (10 second pause):



    • what it sounds like when I'm typing an email in Russian. It took me about 20 minutes to write a 5 line email.

    Thus ends the fascinating report from this side of the world.

Comments (4)

  • I thought it was fascinating. I like your entries, especially these kind... kinda get a glimpse of your life there.  I met a few Uzbeks at work the other day.  they're mid-level gov't employees who are spending a year at an econ. program at Williams.  really cool guys.  can't pronounce their names, tho!!!!!

    hope you're doin well, Ahrim-u.  prayin for you.

  • haha...the orange story is funny....and Michael Bolton? 

  • Ahrim, tell me... how we can be lovers...if we can't be, can't be friends?

  • During my first year of teaching, when i was setting up my classroom, a senior citizen teacher down the hall asked me to take away a stack of construction paper that was supposedly left for me. I removed them, only to discover a nest of small roaches CRAWLING in the entire corner that the huge stack of paper had concealed. I literally SHOT to my room to retrieve my Raid and sprayed the suckers...only to turn around and have the teacher I now strongly dislike hold a single sheet of paper towel at me and say, "Do you mind?" My answer was, "Yes, I do mind."

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