the mango's from mongolia

sitting in front of building 3 waiting for our tutors...
a group going to Mongolia is waiting for their bus to arrive

Y's tutor asks Y: " where are they going"
Y who has been in Beijing for about 3 weeks tries to respond in mandarin: "they're going to 'mon-gwoh' (what she really said was mango in chinese, nothing close to mongolia"

dumplings, dumplings, dumplings

in Beijing...where they're famous for dumplings

at a restaurant, it's 8:30 and we're starving...

T is speaking to the waitress in mandarin: "do you guys have dumplings?"
waitress: "no"

K unaware of what was said has a pair of chopsticks in both hands and starts pounding on the table while chanting: "dumplings, dumplings, dumplings!"

randoms

compliments of Sorina

Aidin's favourite singer is Whitney Spears! after Nicholas Cage

dee laughs hysterically at Aidin's mistakes
aidin's reaction: "pshh..dee you're only going out with me because i'm funny, not because of my personality"
hmmm..i always thought being funny was part of someone's personality?? i guess not!!!

Aidin to English Dictionary:
Donalda = Donald Duck
AmBLUEnce= ambulance
"i don't want to drag about it" = "i don't want to brag about it"

Aidin decided to join the gym. In the form he had to fill out there was a question about his goals at the gym.....
Aidin's answer: "to losse belly and build "MUSK"
I wonder how well he's doing with building musk

cheap oil that killed?

advanced reporting and writing class (first semester)

we're analyzing an article that read something like this: "a stampede to buy cheap oil in China killed several people..."

our professor asks us for our thoughts....

Julia who is often quite critical of China was shocked and asked: "what was in the oil that killed these people?"

after reading it again a second time she still didn't get it
it was not until the class reinforced the word 'stampede' that she realized it was the stampede that killed the people and not the cheap oil

drama queen

Zeeshan and Aidin are at "work" (if you can call working at uptown work)

they're on their lunch break and Aidin takes some of Zeeshan's food (as always)
Zeeshan tells him to eat his own food and gets annoyed with Aidin

Aidin's comeback....

A: stop being such a dry clean Zeeshan!

Z blows up b/c Aidin is such a fob: it's DRAMA QUEEN...now stop eating my food!

the new steroids

Zeeshan and Aidin are talking about working out

they jokingly talk about taking drugs to enhance their performance

Z: yeah I think I'm going to start taking asteroids

....no one joins the conversation....

apparently fish don't breathe

Zeeshan is dissing seafood again...

Z: fish aren't alive because they don't breathe
D: of course they breathe...and how the hell are they NOT alive? they swim in the ocean!
Z: no they don't breathe...they drink!
D: they breathe through their gills....
Z: no they drink the water and take the oxygen from the water...that's called drinking not breathing

D stops arguing with Z knowing full well this conversation will only go around in circles...(and takes Farina's advice to just post this on the web and end the conversation there)

aidin comes out of the closet

Zeeshan and Aidin are acting out a song (but in a very gay way)
i.e. feeding each other chicken drumsticks

Farina and I look at them and ask ourselves what we did wrong in life to end up with these two clowns...

Z: hey i'm comfortable with my sexuality!
A: yeah...i'm open with my sexuality

Z immediately moves away from A

(a very proud moment for A...he finally admitted to the incident at Blue Mountain)

an ice-less iced tea

having dinner with Bei at a Thai restaurant...

the waitress asks us what we would like to drink....

B immediately asks for: "a Thai iced lemon tea without ice"

waitress looks at me to translate

I'm speechless....

This is the same person that asked for a decaf latte without coffee....

an anaconda turns into an avacodo

Zeeshan and Aidin are once again competing with each other...

Z: "wait until I unleash my anaconda" (pointing at his package down there)

A: "yeah well you don't know what I can do with my avacodo!"

hmmmm really Aidin...what CAN you do with an avacodo? make a salad?

Who sings this song?

on our way to somewhere (don't remember where)

listening to the radio...

sorina: who sings this song?
aidin: Nicholas Cage

interesting...we didn't know Nick Lachey changed his name

the story of a hotel tenant that got pulled over

Niagara Falls...

Zeeshan, Farina, Aidin and I are having dinner. A nice one at that.

Aidin decides to go for a walk and be his usual nosy self.

He comes rushing back, ....excited....

A: "yo you know what just happened?...the tenants in the hotel just got pulled over by cops!"

Z, F and D: looking at each other for confirmation that no one had understood what A just said.



What A really meant is that the guests in the hotel were being questioned by police officers in the lobby

Spider, Scorpio...Potato, Tomato

For the JMSC crew...

9am on a Saturday in our TV Production class...

Anna and I are having trouble logging and capturing our video clips

A: "ummm Scorpio....Scorpio!...could you help us for one second? SCORPIO?"
D whispering: "uhhh Anna...her name is Spider!!!"

it's raining sparkles!

Zeeshan and Aidin are driving to the airport...
suddenly it starts to pour

the two "men" are scared of thunder and lightning

up ahead in the road they see a large branch that has fallen onto the road

suddenly they hear thunder and see...

A: "sparkles! sparkles!" A yelled as he pointed and ducked.
Z looked at him and they drove on in silence...

finger toes & short pants

Canada Day long weekend camping trip at Wasaga

just had the tent set up and we're unpacking

A: your fingers on your toes are so long!
D: what??
A realizing he's got the word wrong changes subjects

A: hey have you seen my short pants?
D: WHAT??

end-of-conversation

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a fully grown plane!

enjoying the summer night...(last year)
we (Aidin and I) look up...
A: that plane is moving fast
D: it's a helicopter
A: no it's a plane
D: NO it's a HELICOPTER, TRUST me!
A: no it's a FULLY GROWN PLANE!