Tuesday, January 29, 2008 ?
It's crazy here yo. It's snowing and covering everything. How cool is that?
I know it doesn't sound like much, but here in Shanghai, it's rare.
Anyways, here is the pictures.
Labels: shanghai, snow, trees
Thursday, January 10, 2008 ?
Yesterday my friend Albert told me he was going to try paintball. Never tried it before, so I was interested.
The odds were all against me.
I sent him three messages and he didn't reply. Called him, and suddenly found his phone had no more money. I called his sister's phone and he picked up. Told me to go to the clubhouse.
We met with his friends, E.T, Leo, 河马 and Justin I think. We spent about an hour trying to get a cab. A taxi the security guards managed to flag was willing to wait for awhile but after, drove off without a word. Lo 人...
All six of us went out to the crossroads and tried to flag another two taxis. Saw one, and I put out my hand. He stopped, and I was feeling very proud of myself until I walked forward some more. I was two seconds slower than the person in front of me. I couldn't help and let out a barrage of words that you probably won't want to hear. But it involves a teacher.
Saw another one with the empty light on. We all started waving to it and the light went off. Ridiculous.
Well, somehow we all managed to get to the place. It's at night, by the way. And outdoor. Walking to that place was like walking through some place in a game like House of the Dead or something. There was a long pathway which was almost totally dark. Someone said "Is this the way to hell"? Creepy..
The place we were brought to to change clothes was like a military bunker. Then there was the locker room. If you could call it that. They had a lock, but the lockers looked like places where you keep dogs.
I got my gun, my mask, and walked in, still feeling pretty excited about the whole thing. Until I got shot in the butt. It hurts like hell. I thought I would try and shoot someone but paintballs kept flying around me. I was hiding behind a barrel and kept hearing the sound of my barrel being hit.
Night + glasses + mask + fog = total blindness. That was not good at all. Not only could I not see anyone, friendly fire was totally possible. So I decided to go into my bunker. Found 河马 who was just like me and couldn't see anything. In the midst of the warfare, and bullets flying around, I asked him "Are you hungry"? We started talking a lot about nothing. Thinking about it, it was pretty damn funny.
After we came out, the workers found that we still had a load of bullets left. They told us to shoot the wall. It was a pretty loser thing to do, but it was fun anyway.
Our team's fatalities
Six shots in the head
One shot in the arm
One shot in the back
One shot in the leg
One shot in the butt
Their team's fatalities
Zero...
My arm is swelling up. All in all it was a cool experience though. Not that I'd be willing to do it in the distant future. It was fun to be around those guys.
Pictures coming soon.
Labels: pain, paintball, shanghai, taxi
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 ?
2008 is here.
Why am I not excited? Maybe because I don't want to face the present. I want to live in the past, when I was a kid, when I didn't have to think about things. When everything was simple.
2008. I have to think about my education, what I'm doing with my life and what I'll be doing with my life in the future.
I've always known this, but I never want to admit it. I'm going nowhere fast. I always make these resolutions to change the way I live, but things never work out. When things get tough, I run. I give up. And that's not the way it should be. But that's the way it is.
People are changing. My friends are changing. I'm not sure what is going on, and I'm not sure I
want to know.
I have been very lazy at locking recently. Keep telling myself that I'm not improving fast enough but my body's not doing anything.
Don't know where I'm going. But I'll keep going.
Labels: 2008, life
