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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on August 27, 2005, 02:28:06 am

Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: Kosh on August 27, 2005, 02:28:06 am
That I leave for China. It is now the 27th, and my first flight leaves in 10 hours.


At 10 am my flight leaves Portland, OR to San Francisco. Then at 2:30 PM I leave SF to Shanghai.


In case there is another plane crash that day, I will let everyone know my flight numbers.

My flight to SF is United Airlines flight 289.

My flight to Shanghai is United Airlines flight 857.


If either of my flights crash, then I would be royally pissed. I've been looking forward to this for a long time.
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: Splinter on August 27, 2005, 02:47:08 am
slightly paranoid are we? you know they found out that 666 isnt the mark of the beast... yeah the devil decided on 289 so you should look out.

Have a safe and productive trip and dont eat anything that dosnt look and smell normal cause over there it really isnt.
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: Kosh on August 27, 2005, 03:15:08 am
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slightly paranoid are we?



There have been 5 airliner crashes this month. I think you would be too if you were in my position. I just don't want to be on number 6 (should there be one). :p
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: kasperl on August 27, 2005, 03:19:08 am
Good luck, what are you going to be doing in China?
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: Kosh on August 27, 2005, 03:29:47 am
Teaching conversational english.


EDIT: And the flight from SF to Shanghai is going to be about 13 hours.
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: Windrunner on August 27, 2005, 03:39:16 am
wow, that a experince just to go to china. good luck dude.You can just hope that the chinese government hasn't put a filter for GS servers so that it doesn't prevent you from visiting HLP
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: Kosh on August 27, 2005, 03:46:34 am
Hope not. If they do then I will tell Karajorma whenever I see him again on ICQ.
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: karajorma on August 27, 2005, 03:49:36 am
Unless they've filtered that out too :D
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: Fragrag on August 27, 2005, 03:56:23 am
good luck teaching hopeless Chinese Students
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: kasperl on August 27, 2005, 05:30:58 am
As long as we keep down on stuff like freedom, human rights, and stuff like that, it ought to be all good.
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: Roanoke on August 27, 2005, 05:53:00 am
Don't come back a Commie okay ? :p
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: Carl on August 27, 2005, 06:41:27 am
Or you could just go to Taiwan. It's China Lite.
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: vyper on August 27, 2005, 07:25:17 am
Try not to get arrested by the secret police. We need modders in these dark times. :p
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: Martinus on August 27, 2005, 08:48:30 am
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Originally posted by Carl
Or you could just go to Taiwan. It's China Lite.

[color=66ff00]No, that's america.
[/color]
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: achtung on August 27, 2005, 09:51:17 am
Start a Chinese labor union :D :nervous:
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: Marauder on August 27, 2005, 10:06:34 am
Have fun Kosh!  Eat lots of noodles! ;)
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: Charismatic on August 27, 2005, 10:30:35 am
Tho i don't know you to well, have fun and keep safe. As they said, the secert poliece and all those comies over there:P

Hope ya can visit us! Teach them about Freespace 2! >)
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: Jetmech Jr. on August 27, 2005, 11:10:12 am
Have much fun, and don't drink the water.

...Oh, wait, wrong place. Just have fun and keep safe, then.
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: Bobboau on August 27, 2005, 11:24:14 am
you can get HLP there (or at least you could a year or two ago) and you most definately can get ICQ to work there. I talked with a girl from (IIRC) Harbin a whole lot over ICQ about two years ago, and I showed her some of the things we'd been doing here.
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: EtherShock on August 27, 2005, 11:49:21 am
Have a safe trip, and enjoy your time there.
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: aldo_14 on August 27, 2005, 12:04:59 pm
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Originally posted by Bobboau
you can get HLP there (or at least you could a year or two ago) and you most definately can get ICQ to work there. I talked with a girl from (IIRC) Harbin a whole lot over ICQ about two years ago, and I showed her some of the things we'd been doing here.


Kinky.

(god, I'm bored.......)
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: Ace on August 27, 2005, 12:27:52 pm
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Originally posted by Charismatic
Tho i don't know you to well, have fun and keep safe. As they said, the secert poliece and all those comies over there:P

Hope ya can visit us! Teach them about Freespace 2! >)


Personally I wonder how I have fun and stay safe here in the US with all of the secret police and idiots...
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: Kosh on August 31, 2005, 03:19:05 am
Made it. Sorry I did not post sooner but my dormitory has no internet. They will move me to a new apartment in one or two weeks after it is finished being decorated. They told me I would have a fast internet connection, DVD player, and big screen TV all free (courtesy of the Chinese government). So far everything is good. I have already made a couple of friends. For some reason one of them is intent on finding me a girlfriend. Not sure why, but he is a nice guy.

And yes, people stare at me when I go outside, but that was expected. Nanjing has 6 million people in it and only a few thousand foreigners at most. Sometimes I pass other "wai guo ren" (foreigners) on the streets.
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: WMCoolmon on August 31, 2005, 03:31:14 am
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Originally posted by Kosh
Nanjing has 6 million people in it and only a few thousand foreigners at most.


I'm inclined to wonder what would happen if you wore a shirt with the URL to HLP on it...
Title: Today is technically the day......
Post by: Kosh on August 31, 2005, 03:34:25 am
Lol, good question. Maybe we would get more Chinese people here. :)