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en:Otto Murphy zh:奥特
Tooth
Tonight I was eating rice and I chipped my effing tooth filling off again. When I was young I fell into a hole and my tooth hit a shovel on the edge and the top of my front tooth chipped off. They keep filling it but the damned filling keeps coming out every few years and it happened again tonight so anyway I have to get my ass up at 10:00 AM tomorrow (4 hours from now) and get some kind of a temporary filling on it.
Bone
The latest x-ray revealed that the bone at the fracture site isn't perfectly aligned. The callus has already begun to form, so at this point it seems there's nothing to be done in terms of rectification. Once healing is complete there will be some big lumps around the bone. The doctors told me not to be so fervent in my daily exercises.
Got on the Net Again
There's a mysterious wirelesss network that sometimes seeps into my room. So I connect. Today I sent a message out on the MSHOME domain asking if anybody was out there and that they should come to my room if they got the message. My parents are here and they want to bring me home. But I don't want to be finished here. I wrote to the undergrad admissions officer asking to defer another year and he said: let me talk to the department head. After discussion with the department head he said: okay. You can defer another year because of the special circumstances surrounding the breaking of your leg which cut your trip short by three months. Then I told the mother+father organism about the plan and it responded with a negative. So I was like shit shit they won't let me defer another year, well maybe it's okay I'm excited to go back anyway and go to college. And then I was like wait a motherfucking second, let me think about this and try to convince them. TODAY is the day I must respond with my decision and they still say I cannot defer OR they WILL
not pay for college. They are staying in a hotel across the way from the hospital and I can sit in a wheelchair now so I'm going over there at 6 for dinner and we'll talk about it a little more and then come to a conclusion.
Now I've been here for a month and they say I have to stay in bed for another month SHIT>
I was existing in bed for a while and then my dad called to say he has a fever. He won't let me into his hotel room because he doesn't want me to get it. That's too bad I said and eat plenty of fresh fruit I said. Oh man how am I going to convince them to let me stay here another year?
My mom's coming over and I'm bored so I'm adding sentences to this section. She made an excel doc with pluses and minuses of deferral to try to convince not to do it oh god.
Parents won. I'm going to college this fall. They're the ones paying so their word is final.
MidnightWiki中文版
美国没有拥护者了。提供一个中文midnightwiki，就可以让我的中国朋友使用。
2008 Olympics
I applied to be a volunteer. Hopefully I'll get accepted. Right now it's something like a 1 in 5 chance cuz there's billions of other applicants.
My Shack
So I'm still living the Hangzhou, the original city I was in. But I'm not living with the Chinese family anymore. They were great but I decided it would be fun to try a more independent life without having to worry about coming home late, making a mess, etc. It's pretty much a shack on the roof or a 农民家 (old farmer's mansion which has been converted to an apartment). Apparently these farmers were really fucking rich so they built gimungus houses and now their grandchildren who inherited these mansions live lazy ass lives renting out the rooms. Anyway it's cheap cheap cheap and kinda dirty but it's a blast. Anyone who wants to chill with me in cordially invited to hop on down to china on an 18 hour flight (or by boat?) and I can show you the life.
Name
Every Chinese character has an etymology, and once the system is familiar, symbolic meaning can be found in all of them. But you have to know that that strange shape represents a spear, or whatnot. These characters are interesting because their meaning is blatantly related to their form. Also, the sound happens to be very close to my English name, so it's perfect. I've been using this name for about the last 3 weeks.
I don't go by the name OB because it's way too close to the word for vagina in the local dialect. No joke.
Update: well, acutally I don't really use this name too much. It's kinda hard on the ears and I agree the characters are kinda dumb after all. Mostly now I am either aodi (similar pronunciation but better sounding) or NBA. People literally call me NBA, started during a basketball game and hasn't died.
Another edit: Well now I have a new name and I don't play basketball much anymore. aoteman 奥特曼 (japanese anime character).
Another (6/26/07): The name I used in the hospital is 奥迪 which I think is the best so far.
Here I go again. This changes too much. Anyway the final name is 奥特. I used that during my month in China.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is utterly the shit. I want to live here when I grow up. I'm living in this place called the Mirador Mansion. Full of indians running around everywhere with boxes of merchandise and yelling shit in hindi. The place is enormous and old and dirty in some places, but full of little guesthouses that are clean and cheap. Hong Kong island looks spectacular at night from across the water here in Kowloon. You can take the ferry across for $1.7 HKD. Super modern cityscape. Everyone here basically has one thing in common: they like to make money. And this is the land of dim sum. Basically what I'm trying to say is this is the coolest city I've ever been to.
Lijiang
I went down south to Kunming for 2 nights and from there took the bus to Lijiang. 8 hour ride, but quite an unforgettable. It was raining when the bus departed so the road was wet, and muddy in some places. There was this one section that we drove along for about 5 minutes that was incredibly awesome and hilarious. You see, this section of road was in horrible disrepair, with giant potholes and divots every-fucking-where, and I'm not talking about pussy divots, but giant motherfuckers, and they were made even more beastly on account of being filled with water on this occasion. And this road was all covered is slimy mud as well, with streams of water tunneling through it and into the holes and down the gutter at the side. And the awesome thing is that the Chinese drivers just didn't give a flying fuck about these conditions and were just barreling down the road up to 20-25 mph--don't forget that these things were 6 inches to 1 foot deep--and so it was a fucking romper-room with mud flying everywhere and spattering on the windows and the giant chorus of revving engines as a background, and cars bouncing in the air, no to mention our bus was shaking like one of those hydraulic amusement rides at a theme park. And this is china, so there were horse-drawn carriages also, and these three-wheel carts (where the person walks in front and pulls) piled high with miscellaneous merchandise weaving in and out of the cars and trucks. Finally the inevitable happened and one of those three-wheelers hit a pothole at about 15mph and flipped backwards because of the weight at the back end. And the driver guy was suspended about 8 feet in the air at the front of the cart just sitting there with a "what the fuck do I do now" kind of expression and meanwhile the traffic continued to rip past him. It was fucking awesome.
Hangzhou
Arrived Sept. 12.
Beijing
Arrived Sept. 6.
The wind ripped the clinging smog away from the city yesterday, and we were left with a beautiful blue sky and some white clouds. I saw the wall and got a view for miles. Saw those soft green mountains and dipping valleys indigenous to China spread to the horizon, the wall slicing through the green surface as it snaked outwards and away, and I knew it that it continued far past the horizon. 4000 miles long. Christ.
Last night I wandered into an alley that smelled like roasting meat. I found the street vendor and his barbeque and ordered two lamb kebabs. A woman approached me from behind and put her hand on my shoulders, and invited me in to her small restaurant for some after-hours tea. It took me a few seconds to figure out what she was doing, but of course as soon as I understood I followerd her inside and had some tea with a white flower in it, not sure what exactly it was. Is jasmine white? Anyway, her son was there and two of his friends and we spoke broken Chinese-English for a while, and then the guy brought me my lamb, and it ate it, had another cup of tea, and then went on my way.
| Hello from far away |
| Ott0, 07 Sep 2006 |
| Holla, peeps. I am currently in Beijing, Capital of the North, pimpin' it up or something like that. Let me tell you, the pollution is pretty awful; the sky is straight up gray most of the time, and sometimes you can't even see the sun on account of the smog. But that's the only bad thing I have encountered so far. It's really an amazing place, and very different from the old America. People talk really loud but are very courteous. I'll be here for a few more days most likely and then head south to Hangzhou where I will stay for at least a month being a nanny (Zarkov's word) although I don't prefer to refer to it like that and besides they are not really nanny duties which I will be performing, more like big-brother duties. That means no diaper-changing, piss-wiping, or potty-training. |
| EKleinKnaveryBBQ, 07 Sep 2006 |
| Chinese is freaking hard OB. Freaking hard. |
| Ott0, 08 Sep 2006 |
| I agree with you there. Btw, today was beautiful and windy--that must have blown the smog away. There are these people who approach you and start speaking to you in English and then after getting friendly with you, they try to sell you stuff. My strategy now is just to speak to them in Spanish. It totally throws them off and it's awesome. Thanks, Robie. |
| Zarkov Atreas, 10 Sep 2006 |
| Good for you my man. Did you get my email? Jay wants to talk to you so you can hook up with his Chinese Pals. And you are not like a asswiping nanny, you are like a Mary Poppins Nanny. You straighten the kids out. Slap them around. Like Maddox. Oh, and isn't fucking hot. Like 10,000 degrees hot? Have you seen Peking Opera? eaten the duck? bought Starbucks in the Forbiden City? Oh, and buy a lot of cheap shit while you are there, you may never have acess the fine quality 100 percent silk ties again in your life. Have fun, be safe, y hablaras espanol mucho. Bein Voyage!
Mucho Amor, Zarkov El Atreas |
| Ott0, 14 Sep 2006 |
| Yeah, actually I'm not really performing any nanny duties at all so far. I'm just living with this crazy Chinese family in Hangzhou. I'm not sure how long I'm going to be able to stay here , but it should be at least a few months. I didn't have any peking duck in beijing, actually--just never got around to it. I mostly ate from street vendors. They sell dumplings and things for realy fucking cheap, and the food is awesome. Like every morning I would go to this little stand down the block from the youth hostel where I was staying and get this egg wrap thing with some kinda brown sauce on it and lettuce in side--really good--and it was only 12.5 cents. I ate two every morning, along with some green tea. A fucking full breakfast for 50 cents. It was amazing. And yeah, the youth hostel where I was staying was only 7 bucks a night and really nice and well kept.
The people I'm staying with now are professors at Zhejiang radio and television university in Hangzhou. They have a nice ass apartment with a giant TV and broadband internet access. Hangzhou is beautiful. There's some marco polo quote where he says it's the most beautiful place in the world or something. Kris said "the girls" were pissed that I left without saying goodbye. Sorry girls. I looked up a flight with my parents and there was this flight that left really soon, but it was perfect and cheap. So I just got it and then I had to pack pronto and I also went camping with my dad for one night before I left. You should have called me or something; I would have responded. But yeah, Kris and you younguns tell me about BHS, and college studs, tell me about college. I wanna know about this stuff. |
| Zarkov Atreas, 24 Sep 2006 |
| OB, Man, I totally didn't get this message from you until today. Sorry. Ni Hao Ma? College is good. Midterms are coming up next week, so I'm pretty busy. It sems like yoou are enjoying the cheapness of China. Man, I miss that. It seems like the most expensive part of traveling there is the airfare. For School, I've been taking Oceanography (Its a little crazy, it is supposed to be the study of the oceans, but it's really the study of the mechanics of the entire planet. We haave done almost nothing related to the oceans, just plate techtonics and atmospheric mechanics.) I'm taking Paleo-Anthropology (My professor is like Mr. Firpo, but one of the greatest living anthropologists.) I'm taking Precal.... Plant and Molecular Bio (Awesome professor, wear shorts to class everyday. Super nice) and I am taking Celtic studies, which is a history of the celtic people from 12,000 BC to the Present. I have been doing a lot of writing on the side too. The Roomates are good, the room is pretty awesome. When are you coming back? Are you coming back for summer, or are you gone until the fall. Oh, and if you have the chance, please, please, please, go to Xi'an and go to LiJiang in Yunan Provence. I will post more info on my page later. Tell me how you are getting along with the language. |
| Ott0, 27 Sep 2006 |
| Wo hen hao. Oceanography sounds awesome, wish I could take that class. Maybe I'll be able to do something like it when I get back. And celtic studies = pimp. No other word for it. I actually don't know when I'll return, but it will be sometime next summer. My chinese is progressing, although it's a hard friggen language and as I mentioned in the talk page I'm not really learning to write it. |
| Zarkov Atreas, 19 Oct 2006 |
| Dude, isn't LiJiang Awesome!!!! Check out old town. So sweet. In addition, if at all posible, I highly reccomend taking the trip to Jade Moutain to see thier cultural center and to see the shrine on the mountain top. When I went it wa all misty and magical, I hear normally it's totally clear and you can see uber far. |
| Kris, 26 Jun 2007 |
| holy fucking shit, you went through hell. and you sound completely chill about it. and about that deferring: you do it and i fucking swear i will break your other femur.
Otto/ob 1 year is plenty time to stay in china, for now. If you spend too much time there you will have a hard time getting back into school. Also, you're fucking in my class of '11. I will shoot you if you decide not to be. after you graduate, you can go back to china and stay as long as you want. Get school out of the way first. You can even do study abroad at China for Stanford - same stanford education in china.
and dont cause so much stress for your poor parents. they've been through a lot, ob (not that you haven't). |
| Ott0, 16 Jul 2007 |
| Yeah it didn't work out, especially with my leg and everything. But it would have been awesome. I finally worked out a business to start but now it's too late, boohoohoo. |
I Love
- Bigelow Constant Comment tea, although I'm thinking I should stop drinking caffenated beverages on account of my insomnia. I heard that you should cut caffeine completely out of your diet if you're having trouble sleeping. Edit: I'll continue to consume them during the day, just not at after 6pm.
- TI89 Titanium; that machine is a beast
- Scottrade ($7 a pop!)
- buffer overflow
- Canon Powershot SD630
- red hot chili peppers
- boston
- clapton
- the beatles
- that aerosmith song
- pole vaulting, I think, maybe, never tried it
- mole (MOLE-AY)
- Yellow Dog Updater, Modified (YUM)
I Negative Love
- dependencies
- Harvey Mudd's Website
- McDonald's crappy food
- Chinese McDonald's crappy food
Rand
I took this with my dumpy RAZR camera: Mafia "I'm in the mafia!" It's pretty crappy, more of a test.
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