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Another “toy”

Completely procedurally generated, should make 1 revolution in 6 seconds.
Definately not the final concept. Simply work in progress

Got bored today so I made this toy-game thing:

(Be sure to move your mouse or some particles glitch away somehow…)

Just try and keep your blue minions alive

Delete all you cookies relating to google. That is all =D

I saw a note on facebook of a girl I know lamenting about not being able to go on tumblr. I already knew one other friend was a tumblr…er but I had no idea there was a secret society of them, Anywhoo I asked for a link and took a gander and it was pretty weird neat. You should go browse tumblr sometime, it’s mostly quotes/pictures/videos of uh I don’t want to use this term, but it kinda accurately describes it *girly*.

I also played alien swarm. It was fun. Oh and it’s free too!

Derp, I’m kinda sick right now so I’ll cut today’s post short.

Frack me. I wrote half the post and it got lost somehow. (everything disappeared)

Secondly, get on msn you fools.

Day 3: SHANGHAI GET! was pretty intense. I had some weird ass sandwhich for breakfast. It had filling on top as well as inside.

The airport was pretty cool. But the flight was not. We were on shanghai airlines and the service was pretty terrible. The food was really bad; it had this weird red grape shapped thing that I assumed was a tomato. They turned out to be tomatoes but since they are grape shapped, they are henceforth named grapmatoes.

The reason why the photo is so janky is because a flight attendant told me off for having my phone on and forced me to turn it off, despite my insistance that in was in flight mode. I then snuck a photo in later. Also there was this broken chair. As we exhumed ourselves from the airport, we saw these huge-ass ventilation pipes. Huge-ass:

((the picture really doesn’t do it justice))

After the crappy flight, we spent an hour in traffic getting to our hotel which was pretty cool, it had a staircase leading to 2 bedrooms, with a living area downstairs. Obligatory toilet photo below:

Please excuse my lack of pictures henceforth, I borrowed my cousins DSLR and don’t have it here with me.

We then walked around a few blocks down from our hotel for a restaurant and there was this lady who was super nice. She suggested us some places to eat but kept on emphasising this one place. That seemed a little shady. After we ditched her, we went to the place she was talking about and found the place to be pretty empty with the prices of each dish ridiculously high. So we asked around some more and found this fantastic authentic shanhainese restaurant where there was this old dude who was dressed up and stuff =D.
Dinner was good but rather boring so let me skip ahead a little.

After dinner, I got pwned. Hard. We decided to go to the “Oriental Pearl Tower”, calling it crowded is a sevre understatement. You buy tickets on the outside, where there is a line of at most 10 people; when you get inside however, its a totally different story. I lined up for around an hour in just the lobby. Almost one more to get to the elevator and 20 mins to get to the actual overvation deck. Two and a half hours.  faskljfsad. It then took us almost an hour to get down. We spent 3+ hours lining up for say…20 mins at the observation tower at most. It was very pretty at the top though.

Afterwards we had a brief visit to shanhai’s 外滩¹ which is on the opposite shore of the river on which the fracking pearl tower stands.

Day 4: QUEUE  HARDER

On day 4, I went to the world expo, the entire reason I went to shanghai. We asked our various taxi drivers which pavillion was the best and determined that we’d go for the Jap. pav. Which reminds me, taxi drivers are so funny, they have their own rules within their own subset community, just like bus drivers!². Anywho, we took a taxi to the fourth gate and got our portable fold up stools ready and sat in line waiting to be let in. At 9:00 the gates opened though there wasn’t much of a mad dash, not for those at the back anyways. See at uh any or every significant structure, there’s a security check involving metal dectectors and ecks ray scanners, just like airports.

It took us 2.5 hours to get into the Jap pavillion. P.B. If I might say so myself =D. No seriously, it’s pretty short considering it might’ve taken up to 5 hours. Lining up involved walking through a CRAZY LONG maze. I can’t even draw it to scale properly. As I lined up, I put mah head phones on I hit play all and shuffle on my phone and the songs perfectly suited my situation. FRANTIC! Songs included: Clapfusion, Discombobulate and others that I didn’t note down :3³ The pavillion itself was really cool, video of a “holographic” display below. At very bottom, Firefox 3+/Chrome req.

Neat huh?
We also visited some “smaller” pavillions with little or no queues =D I highly reccommend it has little or no queues and has air con.

Now, ever since I was little, I’d complain after walking more than say.. 2 hours. My feet would hurt. I had no idea this didn’t happen to other people, my parents just thought I was whining because I was bored, but I’m aparently flat arched so the front flat bit and heels of my feet really hurt after walking for more that 2 hours. So you can imagine what’d my feet felt like after both lining up at the pearl tower and the expo :/

Oh OH! I almost forgot, I did my first uh…set? of number twos in one of those squatting toilets⁴. Proud and shameless I totally am. =D

My feet were hurting alot and I was getting cranky, so we left at 9 absolutely smashed. All in all we visited the Japan, Pacific, South africa, African combined, Myamar, Vietnam pavillions. ALSO KOREAN PAV LOOKED SUPER COOL⁵

I almost forgot, before I went souvenier shopping,⁶ I came down with a severe case of heat stroke :/ The days I was in shanghai, I think I got heat stroke everyday… I ended up sleeping on a bench for a hobo for an hour, I think I’ve checked off several things on my bucket list that day…

Day 5: TOILET YES NOT SO HYGENIC

Ya, as we leave our hotel room in the morning, I got a stomach ache. This foreshadowed my state for several days. I did a small pooper and left our hotel room. That day, we visited some hugeass shopping…street which was mainly skyscrapers which kinda lame. To be perferctly frank, I’m quite sick of skyscrapers and much rather see some classic oriental streets… After a brief trip on the subway, we arrived at the Shanghai World Financial Centre. Yea it’s that building that looks like a bottle opener. We werer herded by some peeps looking to make some easy money and joined a temporary tour group for a whopping discount of 20 RMB per person to get up the tower; other perks included a waiting room instead of a suposedly massive queue =d Once we arrived at the 94th floor, we needed to wait in queue for an elevator up to the top. There was a set of staircases which also lead to the top but my mum convinced me otherwise.

The top was like any other skyscraper with gimicky glass floors and panoramic views. *Yawn*. My feet was burning at this time so I raced down the stairwell to the souvenier shop where thankfully there were couches. I attempted to take off my shoes but some dude told me off so I lazily put ‘em back on. Stupid expensive tower with stupid rules. The rest of day was uneventful except for one incident at the airport involving poorly designed toilets, stomach troubles and a mysterious noise. I’d rather explain this in person ;P

That concludes my Shanghai trip, sorry for the huge delay, but the thought of writing this massive post scared me back into procrastination mode =D

Look out for a beijing post soon!

1. Spelling? [↩]
2. who wave at each other as they pass! [↩]
3. Possibly suited because most my sons songs are techno/drum&bass [↩]
4. because I was busting to go [↩]
5. but the line was to long so I didn’t go [↩]
6. YES if you know me personally, you’re likely to recieve a GIFT [↩]

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As the title says u got absolutely smashed un shanghai. I’m still in SH right now so i’ll do ny 2 day mega post when I get home tonight.
Until then I have a video for you :3
Video up in 3go format

I went and got a haircut tonight, it was quite eventful.

You get a lot of time to think while you get a haircut, even with the small talk the attempt to make.
It was funny, firstly, I thought how utterly pretentious my thoughts were¹ and how absurdly stupid I can be sometimes.
Next it was about why our entire culture is based around sex. It really is! Even the songs I remember singing in primary were about some chick  a wearing polkadotted swimsuit…
Then I realised that our genetic code dictates that we must procreate, so out goes any crazy thoughts.
At this point, the hairdresser asked me about NZ, the chicks there and how much haircuts were. I think he wanted to move from china?
Bleh I totally had a point to this post, and now I forgot. It’s 10pm here, so it’s 2am in NZ, so I’m dead tired. WAIT, IT’S 10? hurrr. My body clock is pretty messed up, I have no idea what time it is, at any point through the day…

Oh right, I was going to point out how I was going to talk more about my personal anecdotes on zee blog I’ve tried to avoid publisizing my public life because of my age, but I guess that’s fine now, or something like that…

Back to the haircut:
The dude who cut it had a pretty interesting hair cut. He was pretty chubby² and totally had a top heavy hairdo. That totally reflected into my own haircut. I have this theory where hairdressers leave “signatures” in their work so when someone else next cuts it, they’re all like “OOH that dude cut your hair last, Pffft, noob” etc…

ANYWAYS, Without further adieu:

Arg, I hate posting pictures of myself, I’m totally anti-narccistic. Which is why I have a blog; irony, no?

Oh and I totally think this hairdo’d look good with a beard:

SIDEBURNZZZ! BEARD!!! 5 O’CLOCK SHADOW!!! KINDA…

PS. Accidentally wrote haircunt as the title. Some typo eh?

PPS. Thoroughly entertaining post, No? I think the more tired I am, the funnier my posts are…

PPPS. Mum+Auntie thinks my hair looks liek a rockettt SHWOOOOOO

1. they really are [↩]
2. I’m not sure how that’s relavant, but I’m trying to paint a picture here… [↩]

I MISSED IT!!! BY A WEEK!. It was last sunday, after I attended our school ball.

Sorry blog.

I’ll make it up to you when I get home :s

Relatively uneventful day today, went out to breakfast this morning and it was SOO TASTEY. It probably woudl’ve gotten a B or lower in terms of health and saftey standards but I don’t care I love this:

It’s Tofu curd or something, sounds nasty actually, but I’ve been craving it ever since I last went to china (11 years ago). It’s basically…uh…Actually I have no idea what it is. It’s mainly tofu and some soupey stuff that is kinda viscous.  Here’s the Wikipedia article, look for 豆腐脑 .¹ Oh and it’s the first place I’ve seen transports soupy stuff (IE. 豆腐脑 for takeaway) in a fracking plastic bag… weird no?

I also went shopping today and saw a skeletal concrete building, it was pretty cool though there are a ton of construction things going around. Also I walked past one of those sushi on tracks kinda things though I left my phone at home (my shorts had no pockets) so I couldn’t take any pictures . Also there was this building on fire (I think). There was smoke comming off it and everything, though the smoke was white so I kinda thought it was water… In china, theres alot of water heaters on the roofs². It was quite spectacular³ but I was too lazy to take photos…

Finally, did you know that IE. is real messed up with gmail⁴, it can’t even attach files!

PS. Crossing the roads here is like play frogger. Only more dangerous. Though in some ways, it’s safer, since cars travel alot slower here⁵.

Oh man I totally forgot, dinner last night was really good. Our immediate family went to this fancy-ish restaurant that was a WHOLE BUILDING. A whole APARTMENT sized building. Yea, where every room has a table, couches and this:

I knew this post felt incomplete before this picture =D

The food was really intracately placed for the most part, especially the entree?⁶ Pictures!

I’m going to shanghai tomorrow to the expo so expect more pictures!⁷⁸

1. If you can read Chinese, then here’s a better article…I think… or use google translator ;D [↩]
2. rooves?) and some of them may have blown up due to the heat ((It is almost 40 degrees celcuis here after all… [↩]
3. kinda [↩]
4. might be an old version, but still… [↩]
5. though ALOT more reckless… [↩]
6. It was chinese cuisine so it doesn’t really have “courses” per say, but with the meager portions on the large places, I’d argue that it was an entree [↩]
7. I promise! [↩]
8. hopefully I’m going to buy a DSLR camera soon, Canon D550? =D [↩]

Now this is up fairly early, but I’m at my rellie’s house and have nothing to do…

Warning TOILET HUMOR
Bored of regular number two’s? Newspapers not spicing the experience up?
When you’re next on a plane, why not try not try number two’s again? It gives the experience a fresh new overhaul, adding excitment and risk!
Constantly worried about turbulance ”shaking things up” while trying to relax and “go with the flow”, it adds challenge to an otherwise mundane experience!

*ahem* Yea it was pretty crazy actually. I don’t actually recommend it…

Being the nerd I am, I decided to check the ETAs they provide on the flight, according to my calculations, they were off consistantly by 8-9 mins, which was really stupid in my opinion until I saw our flight path:

Yea, I guess they wanted to avoid…land… Oh sidenote, *all*¹ flights descend at a gradient of 1:20 (1km down for every 20 km travelled) =D

Food on the flight was pretty average, nice pineapples though =D

It was crazy hot once I got off the plane, the causeway really felt like an oven (no aircon on the docking thing), and there was a radioactivity detector. No comment. Sorry I don’t have any photos of the airport, I was too busy figuring which relative was which, but the ride to the apartment was crazy. Everywhere you looked, you saw some high-rise apartment/office being built, it was quite spectacular, only there was quite a bit of smog so one couldn’t see very far. Also the fog caused the buildings to look about 10-20 years older than they really were.

Oh and one more thing about the car ride. HOLY [PROFANITIES]. The transit system is downright crazy, alot of round abouts where there really should be traffic lights and alot of weaving through traffic. Quite exhilirating actually.

The view from our apartment is pretty cool, but a picture is worth a thousand words no?

I think that’s all for today, dinner with more rellie’s tonight² and we might sneak in some shopping this afternoon…

Ps. Entertaining stickers I found on the plane:

PPS. Chinese web design consists of squashing as many hyperlinks into a page as you can @@

1. tentatively used [↩]
2. where I get dissected again “Oh his eyes and chin are from his dad, but what about his nose?” [↩]