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Post by Lotus Eater on Jun 8, 2004 19:07:38 GMT 7
Apart from being the gorgeous one over in the corner, the one the Spanish amongst us have taken to calling 'loco' I figured you may want a quick intro to see if you really want to drink with me! Female (you hadn't guessed had you?) career highlights: Secondary teacher teacher librarian TAFE (Voc Ed teacher - Literacy, numeracy, life skills and intro to deck hands - what I don't know about seine nets...) Family Services Officer (child protection/juvenile justice) Community Correctional Officer (i.e. probation and parole officer - highlight - writing and implementing the first community based sex-offender program in Queensland - and what I don't know about sex-offenders ....... red wine please!) Regional Director for Gov't Dep't dealing with WPHS, Industrial Relations, Apprenticeships and Traineeships, and Employment Programs) State Director - same Dep't different name - of Indigneous Employment Programs. (I can go back to this Dep't if I ever decide to leave China) 3 amazing adult daughters - 2 with the Australian gov't, one in private sector computing. Favourite drinks : Champagne, red wine (merlot/grenache) and vodka cruisers - yeah I know a real girls drink! But when forced will drink whatever is put in front of me. Please stock the saloon appropriately, there's a good chap. The rest is liable to change with the day.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jun 8, 2004 19:18:01 GMT 7
Please stock the saloon appropriately, there's a good chap. Don't worry, dear, we're ready. We are blessed with many lovely Australian clients, and we keep all that stuff handy right next to the sheep dip.
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Post by Lotus Eater on Jun 8, 2004 23:47:49 GMT 7
Believe me, when desperate even sheep dip tastes good - and you don't get blow flies! Should we make this a sticky, and ask the new members to add their bits?
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jun 9, 2004 0:22:58 GMT 7
I'm not judgmental about the sheep dip. We live to serve our customers. Plus I like to start the morning with a quart of aviation fuel myself. A sticky? I'm easy. We already have an introduction area Upstairs. Should we add one here or reserve it for the 'Flies?
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xiaoyu
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"Life is short, live it up!" - Kruschev / "Can you handle it?"
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Post by xiaoyu on Jun 9, 2004 5:49:54 GMT 7
me? i am the tall, blonde with an eye for the wild up at the bar. where's the booze, bartender? also, female. Cheers, girls! life highlights: only have a quarter of a century worth but here goes. raised in montana with 6 sisters, no brothers. attended university of wyoming. BA in international economic development focusing on asia. minors in sociology and french. ran away to china as soon as i graduated. ESl teacher for ages 5 and above. beginning to advanced levels (though i prefer business english). moved to the grand canyon. hotel management and auditing. back to montana. continued working in my dad's outfitting business (those of you who don't know what this is check out one of his sites at http://www.montanahorsecountry.com) and hotel management and auditing. best gifts possibly given? anything to do with hockey, horses, travel, languages, sociology, robert jordan books or any adventure (still waiting to bungee) favorite drinks: triple gin martini (dirty with 3 olives), wine (shariz, pinot gris), good dark beer ..... love tequila but try to steer clear as it brings out the crazy in me. signs: aquarius and sheep there you go if you didn't know already! xiaoyu
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Wolf
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Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.
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Post by Wolf on Jun 9, 2004 12:15:09 GMT 7
I'll skip the one line description, as I really can't think of anything to write.
species: Human offline, various odd shaministic spirits online.
Career highlights: have been EFLing ever since I graduated university 5 years ago. First there was a half year stint at a gas station while I was job hunting. Then 3 years in Japan. 1.5 years here. Soon back to Japan. Have taught at private companies and a public university. The uni job was easiest but doesn't pay that well. Will be going to teach kids back in Japan. Currently attempting to get qualification for teaching.
family: Currently living the rugged, manly, loner lifestyle. Not certain as to if, when and/or how this will change.
Favorite drink: Have recently taken a shine to green tea, due to its cheap availability and ease of preparation. Preferred method of caffination is coffee, however.
Chinese zodiac sigh: Dragon.
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Ruth
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Post by Ruth on Jun 9, 2004 13:30:57 GMT 7
Female - that's 3 females to 1 male on this post so far and I know we're outnumbered here at the bar. C'mon guys.
45 - but I look much younger according to everyone here in China. Probably they are just being polite, but I like hearing it. Married to Crippler for 25 years last month.
Three step-children, one of whom made me a grandmother when I was 24. 7 grandchildren and I claim them all. All living in Canada. Two sons - ages 21 and 23 - one in the navy based in San Diego and one living in Florida.
Born and raised in Canada, emigrated to the USA in 1988. Didn't finish college the first time around, so went back once my kids were raised and finished my degree while working full time.
brief job history: foster home/group home parent; psychological testing in a sex offender treatment program; state government in Tennessee (children's services) and Florida (developmental disabilities); English teacher in XingCheng since Nov 2003 - high school kids.
drinks: in order of importance - can't live without black tea (had some Earl Grey sent from home); coffee is high in importance, but I could probably live without it, as long as I had tea; when I choose to indulge I like Kahlua or a glass of wine.
Chinese sign - dog - that makes me loyal, honest and demanding of those around me. Pretty accurate.
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Post by Kurochan on Jun 9, 2004 21:02:53 GMT 7
It's strange that two of the respondents have worked with sex offenders! But, considering the people you'll work with in China, that might come in handy!
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Post by con's fly is open on Jun 9, 2004 22:27:54 GMT 7
I'm Con. I have been teaching in China for 7 and a half months, in which time I have taught at least 3 classes without the foggiest notion that my fly was open. This is one of the key reasons why I wear black ginch. This is my first teaching gig, and, being inadequately trained when I came, the first 3 months were hell. Since then things have settled in. I'm the only native English speaker in town, so my students outperform their peers and I get more credit than I probably deserve. I'm a lazy, lazy writer by trade, and apart from a journal on my year here, and numerous postings on a certain degenerate Chinese forum, I haven't found the time to pursue my side projects. Capricorn, born 4 days into the year of the monkey, although I think I'm more of a sheep at heart. I'm 36, single and have no kids. Being around so many is a good fix, but the baby urge is beginning to swell. Favourite drinks: Champagne (but the decent stuff's way beyond my budget), Beer (but nothing), and red wine, so long as it's merlot with steak, or shiraz otherwise. When I finish this tour I'll probably come back to the same school. They like me, treat me well, and I could put more time in on the same kids and see them farther alongin their Engrish, so why fix what ain't broke?
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Post by Steiner on Jun 9, 2004 22:45:21 GMT 7
the baby urge is beginning to swell. That's an unfortunate mental image. I never knew people called it their "baby urge."
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jun 9, 2004 23:15:55 GMT 7
Just a note here to let xiaoyu know that plenty of booze is ALWAYS here, on the house, for tall blondes with an eye for the wild. Ever tried ether?
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xiaoyu
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Post by xiaoyu on Jun 9, 2004 23:47:21 GMT 7
Raoul- don't think that i have tried ether yet. you know i won't pass, though, so hand some over! as long as you are willing to help fold me into a taxi later, if need be! Con- i agree with Steiner. that really is quite the image, isn't it? xiaoyu
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Crippler
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Post by Crippler on Jun 10, 2004 7:28:55 GMT 7
Blonde, blue-eyed, 6 foot male, 58 but most of the girls guess my age between 40 and 45. It is not that I look so young, just that Chinese males go downhill fast at 50.
Previous work has been, gas station attentdant, manager, taxi driver, taxi owner, zoo owner, professional wrestler, smuggler, group home parent, foster parent, sex offender specialist. I actually worked in 3 sex offender programs in US and wrote the program for one and managed it. The British prison system tried to recruit me but I decided China was more scenic. Government worker, ESL teacher. I am sure I left some things out but who cares.
Favorite drink, Jack Daniels straight, beer.
Music, Country, especially outlaw music and traditional.
Favorite entertainment. Ruth
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Da Dan
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Post by Da Dan on Jun 10, 2004 8:18:34 GMT 7
Light Blond hair, Deep Blue eyes, 197 cm X 17 X 6, 85kg, Very Manly, love sports, travel, moonlit walks on the beach, music, I'm a great singer of love songs & hiphop, DVD's in my home with my giant screen digital TV, driving my Benze keeps me happy, badminton, ping pong ball, tennis ball, I just love balling, I’m very healthy & my skill is great. I speak good Chinese, English, French & Japanese. My company is very sucessfull. I don't like games. Send me a message if you want to meet with me, I want to be your good friend. Oh wait, wrong profile, that’s my fun one I use at AFF
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Post by Nate M on Jun 11, 2004 1:47:03 GMT 7
Since this seems to be the thing all the cool cats are doing, I figured I'd drop a line here too. I'm a whopping 22 years old. I'm 6'2", Blond Hair, Blue Eyes, about 175 lbs, (yeah, take your metric system and shove it!), Libra, Cock. Not single. I'm originally from Green Bay Wisconsin, and I hate the Packers. I currently live in Minneapolis, MN, and hate the Vikings. I'm also a Vegan, and have been for nearly 4 years, and I haven't had a drink since I was 17, (although there's a chance that either or both of these things will change upon my departure from the states). I listen to alot of Punk Rock, folk music, and some hip-hop, generally nothing very commercial. I graduated High School in 2000, and then went to the University of Minnesota and got my degree in Political Science with a minor in History in 2003. While I was in school I was involved in with alot of the radical politics on campus. I organized rallies, speeches, die-ins, building occupations, etc. It was a helluva lot of fun, and I've come to be pretty good at it. I'm still involved with a couple organizations, but not as intimately as I used to be. Yesterday, however, I got a call from the police asking if "I knew about such and such organization and if so what my involvement is with them". Given the name, I think some rednecks thought it be a good idea to "break a whole bunch of poo and blame it on them hippies", tried to spraypaint our name on something, and got it wrong. I don't really know what happened to necessitate the call though, as the group I've been involved in that sounds similar to what was named hasn't even been active for months, and when it was we never really did anything illegal. But whatever, I guess I can't really expect any less from "John Ashcroft's America", can I? It was at the U of M that I also caught the "China bug". I took a course in 2002 called "The State and Revolution in Modern China". I really enjoyed it, and as a result ended up going on a study abroad trip to Tianjin, Beijing, and Shanghai that summer. Ever since, I've been searching for a way to get back. I've worked as a grocer, pizza delivery guy, a video store clerk, and most recently as a substitute teacher. The school year here is over, so it's back to work at the video store for the summer. I also plan on getting my TEFL Certificate this summer from Hamline University. In the fall, I'll be back in China, and I'm currently looking at which jobs are the best. Hopefully I'll arrive at a decision by early next week. I'm looking in general to teach middle school, (high school), or college level students, and so there's a good chance that a few of my students will be older than me by the time I arrive. Finally, I also run a site called Nate's China School Review. Anyone who's taught at a school in China should go there and post a review of their school, if they haven't already. The website is www.ChinaSchoolReview.com, in case you didn't notice from my sig. The site is new, so it needs your input. word out.
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Post by MK on Jun 11, 2004 6:42:26 GMT 7
Hi! Pushing thirty here…I think my life is pretty ordinary so far, apart from teaching EFL… school…university…drifted into EFL/ESL because I wanted to travel, and it was easy to get a job, but found I liked it, and now I am working on those quals... I am getting a little fat these days and I worry about that…other than that, I enjoy teaching and life is pretty good. Worked the nine to five back home for a little while and that sucked far worse than your nastiest Kindergarten class…so, here I am!
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Post by con's fly is open on Jun 11, 2004 20:21:39 GMT 7
Sing me a song, you're the piano man. On our worst day, we have purpose to drag us out of bed: students who will learn something if we show up.
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motis
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Post by motis on Aug 10, 2004 5:10:27 GMT 7
As the newest of new chooms, I guess I should really jump in feet-first and join this thread for my virgin Saloon post.
I'm MOTIS, a septic tankee doodle dandy living in Chengdu, Sichuan. I'm forty, but my many detractors claim I comport myself more like fourteen. I feel five most of the time... and yes, that's a GOOD thing.
I'm originally from Los Angeles, but I've lived all over the States and traveled all over North America. I've done all kinds of work in my day, from roadie to nightclub bouncer to aircraft mechanic to Emergency Medical Technician to System Adminstrator for a web hosting company to entrepreneur to teacher to professional musician (not in that order). That's just a partial list... I've been a dishwasher, too, and an IATSE stage hand. The list goes on and on... this is the curse of leaving home young and being interested in too many things and too many places.
Still, you have to laugh.
I was six foot even-steven until I broke my back in a skiing accident in Alaska. Now I'm just over 5'10" (the back has healed fine, thanks, and everything works, thank Bog). I've got black hair, hazel eyes that change from blue to green depending on my mood and my attire, and skin that is way, way too white for a native Angeleno. I'm a Cancerian Wood Dragon, if anybody cares.
I am addicted to Vegemite.
When I'm being serious, I say what I think. This, coupled with an unabashedly irreverent sense of humor that respects no sacred cow, has throughout my life tended to polarize people: they either love me or hate me. It can be a nuisance, but I find the quality of my social interactions is enhanced by my amazing superpower of being a human litmus test. Now if I can just figure out how to use it to fight crime...
About a year ago, it was made clear to me by the fascist overlords who gleefully wield their AWESOME POWER as moderators of the big mainstream China TEFL groups that I was not welcome in their midst. Fine, I started my own, and called it TEFLCHINAFREESPEECH. I've been too lazy and unmotivated to promote it, but we've got 35 members at the moment, most of whom are disgruntled rejects from the big groups... people either too sarcastic or not Christian/conservative enough for THE BIG CHEESE POWERS WHAT BE over at places like the teflchina forum on Yahoo. I'm hoping to integrate the bulk of my group with you folks, over time. We'll see how it goes.
I'm in Chengdu, Sichuan at the moment, and have been for over a year. I didn't really expect to be coming to China when I left the States, it just sort of happened. Actually, I was living in Moscow, Russia and decided to come down this way to make some money and shake off the bitterness of a marriage gone down the drain (she wanted me to wear a SUIT AND TIE every single day of the week, can you imagine?). My ex and I are still good friends (we love each other, though we're not in love), and since we have a daughter, I'll be going back to Russia just as soon as I've saved up enough money to start building a house on the patch of farmland I own there. If any of you like to talk about house building, I'll talk your ear off and listen your mouth off on the subject, especially if you're into exotic ways of improving energy efficiency.
I'm drinking Laphroaig. Neat, no chaser required. That's good sippin'!
SPECIAL NOTE TO NATE: I think it's pretty m'kayin' funny that you're a Vegan in China, where they eat every part of an animal except its name. I will probably make fun of you for that at some point, so I hope you're not one of those insufferable thin-skinned vegetable nazis like the guy I used to know in Seattle who would go around haranguing people about how they should stop! murdering! animals! and move back to the trees THIS INSTANT. He even had a 'zine all about it... I think he died of malnutrition or something, I forget. Cheers!
SPECIAL NOTE TO DA DAN: Hey, I know you from Asian Friend Finder! It's me, 'Mimi'! How ARE you? Um, me being a big hairy heterosexual non-Asian man isn't going to come between us, is it? If so, can I keep the presents you sent?
SPECIAL NOTE TO THE CRIPPLER: Please do not cripple me. I would make a decidedly lackluster gimp. Oh, hey, do you do contract work? There's this waiban I'd like you to meet...
SPECIAL NOTE TO CON: Am I the only one who has connected the dots between "my baby urge is beginning to swell" and "my fly is unzipped"? No worries, mate... in China, you can probably get away with that kind of thing indefinitely. It's all good.
SPECIAL NOTE TO RUTH: You were born in Canada and moved to the States? You expect us to believe that? Oh, come now... I know lots of Canadians, and short of kidnapping, that would never, ever happen, even if Canada were a real place and not a fiction invented by a group of Vietnam-era draft dodgers led by Farley Mowatt. No hard feelings, though... I appreciate a good tall tale as much as anybody. Hey, I've got five pounds of French Roast and five pounds of Colombian Supremo in my freezer right now... beans, not grind. Envy me! (But if you visit Chengdu, bring Kahlua and drop by for a cuppa.)
SPECIAL NOTE TO WOLF: Please tell me you don't have a fursuit and aren't into yiffing. Please. Please?
SPECIAL NOTE TO XIAOYU: Do the hockey, horses, travel, languages, sociology, Robert Jordan books and bungee jumping have to all be incorporated into a single gift, or can they be separate? If I can get Robert Jordan to write a book about a bungee-jumping polyglot pony who plays interspecies hockey and travels through time and Chaos with his magickal sword to conquer racism and fear of the number 13, will you, like, go out with me, or what?
SPECIAL NOTE TO LOTUS EATER: I'm fascinated by the incredible niche specialization of today's post-post-post-modernist sex offender. Like, there was that guy who got in trouble a few years ago for making so-called "crush videos" of girls in high heel shoes taping mice down by their tails and then stepping on them. When some kinky kinkster gets that specific about his or her fetish, does he or she start focusing on minutiae, like whether the tape goes ACROSS the tail or ALONG the tail? Where does it end, and exactly how much red wine does it take to erase the memory of interviewing a middle-aged man dressed in a Sailor Moon costume with velcro panties? INQUIRING MIND WANTS TO KNOW.
Cheers, y'all!
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Post by George61 on Aug 10, 2004 5:56:58 GMT 7
......I like the boy!! Now I believe everything he says.
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Post by Hamish on Aug 10, 2004 6:10:36 GMT 7
I'm drinking Laphroaig. Neat, no chaser required. That's good sippin'! MY MAN!!!!!!!!! I've been to the distillery. In fact, I drank in every Islay distillery I could find. I kept lookin' 'til I went blind...temporarily. GOOD!!!!!!!
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Post by Raoul Duke on Aug 10, 2004 13:43:28 GMT 7
My utter revulsion and horror at the thought of being addicted to Vegemite (aka "vegetable tar") is offset by my admiration of your choice of sippin' whiskeys. Somewhat offset, anyway...
I met Motis while cruising the net in search of Weird Asia photos with which to festoon The Friendly Confines. Be watching for his work...it's brilliant.
Welcome, Motis. I think I made a lucky turn of the (untaped) mouse.
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Post by George61 on Aug 10, 2004 17:01:55 GMT 7
The Motis is obviously a man of taste and discernment, quite unlike The Raoul, who allegedly drinks only cheap vodka.......and prolly spreads peanut butter on his toast(chunky, at that) It's good to have fellow travellers here who enjoy the finer things in life.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Aug 10, 2004 17:40:30 GMT 7
I like my toast smeared with butter, thank you very much, just like my women.
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Post by con's fly is open on Aug 11, 2004 0:52:06 GMT 7
chunky= bu hao
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motis
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Post by motis on Aug 11, 2004 1:32:36 GMT 7
And now, a commercial break.
[OUTSIDE DAY, A PUBLIC PARK SOMEWHERE IN CHINA. GEORGE61, DIPPING PIECES OF BUTTERED TOAST INTO A DARK-COLORED JAR AND EATING THEM, COLLIDES WITH HAMISH, WHO IS DRINKING FROM A BOTTLE OF AMBER-COLORED FLUID]
GEORGE61: Oi, mite! You've got Laphroaig in me Vegemoit!
HAMISH: Hey! You got Vegemite in my Laphroaig!
[THEY BOTH HAVE AN EXPERIMENTAL TASTE JUST AS RAOUL DUKE ENTERS FROM OFF-CAMERA LEFT]
GEORGE61: That's top stuff!
HAMISH: Huh. Not bad! Of course, we're both going to Hell for using mixer with an Islay malt.
[HAMISH AND GEORGE61 SHRUG AND DIG IN WITH APPARENT GUSTO]
RAOUL DUKE (vomiting into his hat): HLURP! HWAAAARRRRGH! BLEARGGH!
GEORGE61 (peering into DUKE's hat): Vodka and chunky peanut buttah? That's DISGUSTING, that is! Gerron wiv ya, ya bloody wowsa!
[VOICEOVER:] Laphroaigemite! Two great tastes that taste less disgusting than regurgitated vodka and peanut butter together! Ask your pharmacist!
WE NOW RETURN YOU TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED BANTER.
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