reshuffling, reorganising, rearranging

My mind's a huge jumble of mess now. Too many thoughts, too many things to do, too many things to write, too many things to complete. And worse thing of all is that i'm doing this at 4am in the morning under jet-lagged conditions with a brain that's too excited and won't calm down for me to smoothen out my thoughts. So now, i'm just catching whatever flies out of the mess and throwing them on a piece of paper(or computer) and hopefully i won't miss out anything. HOPEFULLY.

Ok this post is not meant to be a showcase of all the thoughts that are zooming about within the confined space of my skull. So i can guarantee more posts in the near future when i sort things out a little.

So what exactly is this post for? Nothing. Just throwing out a few pieces of mind jumble that came out flying out and looked like they should be posted. so here they are(still in a pretty messy state i think, but better).

Nice revamp of this site gerard. Looks different at one glance, but looks the same as the old one after a longer look. Except the memories slideshow. And the numbers at the top. 897. Any meaning to that? And there're small lines of words which i can't read. Any hidden code within? Haha

And beijing is not that cold, minimum -6 deg? You don't need 4 layers, though that will probably keep you comfortable. You probably didn't try what it feels like in less than 4. so let me give my experience.
Chicago was having a weird period of extreme cold the day i arrived. So normal chicago temperature of -3 to 1(based on last year) was sorely missed. Because the temperature was -20 to -12. The day i arrived was -17. I felt frozen(like seriously), but i was alive. It was tough and really painful to do many things, but i could breathe easily and walk easily. That said, i only had 2 layers on my body and 1 layer on my legs, and no gloves.
I was better prepared later in the day. I felt tempted to change to 4 layers(thermal underwear, t-shirt, hoodie, down jacket), but i was lazy so i went with 3 layers on body and still 1 layer on legs, with gloves this time around. I was perfectly fine. If you're really cold, all you need to do is to pop into a random shop, though i didn't really need to do that.

Furthermore, chicago is known as the 'windy city', and the wind is really f***ed up. That was 1 point in time i nearly fell down to a sudden faggot gust of wind. I'll talk more about this in a later post.

Hence, if 3 layers is fine in -17, i conclude that -6 has no need for 4. haha. ok besides the great wall where winds can be crazy and if you're feeling cold, there'll be no help for you. So bundling up in 4 layers would be smart.

And cool rard, you actually bothered with experimenting with the jade. I doubt many of us would have done so(don't pretend you would, dear readers), and i applaude the action. However, since you actually did, let me suggest a better way of doing that.

Instead of dropping it back in your hotel room, this is what you should have done.
When he was teaching you ppl to differentiate real and fake jade(something about shining some special kind of light and seeing if it's green right? i think i rmb), kindly ask if real jade smashes easily.
He would say NO.(jade is known for its toughness, and is even used in ancient times as weapons)
Then, 'accidentally' drop the free jade in front of him, and watch his fine-spun lie smash to pieces with the jade.
Take a photo of the initial expression on his face, and post it on failblog.org.
Kindly offer to clear up the mess, and ask if you could have a real piece of jade since he must have 'accidentally' mixed up his gift.
Happily leave with the new piece of jade(which he'll give to save his own face, and which has a 90% chance to be real so as to save face in front of all the other tourists).

Oh well, things always look so much easier on hindsight, isn't it?

Oh and i realise that of the last 100 posts, I have have more posts than everyone else combined(52-48), so if this blog is to stay alive, everybody needs to do something. NOT me all the time. And it's weird seeing a request for blog revival that is not written by me, considering all my previous requests have fallen on deaf ears or inactive hands.

Sorry, i'm having weird mood swings now. Need stabilisation. Will be back in awhile. And i hope there'll be a post by the time i come back.

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