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• 1983-08-05
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• Vancouver, BC
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• 2003-08-02
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• Writer; Part-Time Hero
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• James
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Achievements
• Visiting eight different myO friends in person thus far
Anime Fan Since
• Winter 2001
Favorite Anime
• Neon Genesis Evangelion, .hack//SIGN, Naruto, Bleach, Beck, Peacemaker Kurogane, Ranma 1/2 (the guilty pleasure)
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• Visit the myO friends I've missed thus far; complete a cosplay from 300
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• Writing, Gaming, Kung Fu, Movies, Acting somewhat strange in general
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• Can recognise most quotes from almost any movie/show on first listen; Can recite the entire 12 days of Christmas by memory
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Sunday, January 25, 2004
C-c-c-c-cold!!!!!
Alright, so yesterday I had that performance to work at. 8 lions, 1 dragon, and I was the 6th dragon person out of 7. And it was outdoors. And it was windy. And raining a little bit . . . . . but ya know, save a couple lions breaking a little from who knows what (the cloth "body" sections had come loose from the "head" part) and the dragon (my part) being effectively oblivious to the main plan (we sorta faked our way through most of it . . . eheh . . . . .), it wasn't too bad.
Well, I didn't trip on the dragon at all, nor did I slip on the wet ground and firecracker bits (incidentally, I left my white shoes at home, so I borrowed a pair from another guy - two sizes bigger than me [heehee . . . they were like clown shoes on me!!!]). However, just standing outside in this windy little nook of the building was absolutely painful! Hands were cold to the point that it hurt! Man . . . we were all hurting . . . . . but, we got to go into the building soon enough, and we thawed out . . . then we did the lettuce-throwing thing a little bit at some shops, and we were done.
After that one, we had ANOTHER thing to do at a different mall . . .
So, I don't know how familiar you guys are with how lion dances work, so I'll spell it out a bit . . . so there's a thing we do where there's a thing of lettuce or something with a thing of money on it. These are usually hung outside shops, and then the lion comes, does a little dance in front of it, "eats" the lettuce, takes the money, and then spews the lettuce back out. It's actually quite entertaining to watch - maybe I'll look for some pictures of this sort of thing some time . . .
So yeah, at this other mall, it was about an hour of going shop-to-shop, making messes of lettuce every which way . . . very tiring for the lions (they're doing all this moving under stuff!), and very tiring for the musicians (I'm lucky I've developed big forearms for "endurance-cymballing"). But, it ended, we all cheered, and then we all went out for dinner (hooray for our sifu!).
So yeah, all in all the Chinese New Year stuff so far has been pretty good. And then you know what the best part is? Well . . . .
I get to have another one this afternoon at a DIFFERENT mall! More lettuce-death!!! Hooah!
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