Okay, so let's get up to speed here... starting from the end of July 2006, which is close enough to the last blog entry.

The first major event worth notice that occured after the last entry of last year was that I took a 3-week trip to China with my parents and my sister, who is 4. It was interesting to say the least. We definitely had a lot of fun, but it's a lot of the little things that you really notice...

Funny story, I once got myself lost in the subway system whilst in China. My parents and my sister got on the subway and they're like "Is this the one that goes to blah blah blah" and I was hanging back because it LOOKED like they hadn't confirmed the destination yet, and then the doors started to close and I'm like "HOLY SHOOT" and I grab the doors, thinking they'll stop and open, like on elevators. Nope. In China, if you ain't on the subway in time, serves you right for losing a finger. No, I didn't loose one, but you know what I mean.

So then my mom is shouting at me that they'll be at the very next station as the door closes and I just wait there, then the next subway comes, and I take it to the next station where I find my dad and my sister, and it turns out my mom actually went BACK to look for me, so we had to wait for her to come back, and eventually we got where we were going.

Funny how that's one of the most vivid memories I have from the trip. I hike up to the Great Wall, hike up TaiShan, go to World Park and Beijing Amusement Park (where the doors also don't care if you lose a finger), visit the village where my dad's side of the family still lives, and above all of those I remember getting lost on the subway. 'Cuz it's really those little life experiences, isn't it? Like when I got a nasty mosquito bite on one of my... thingies... gland... line... amajiggers no idea the English term for it, anyway a huge red line ran up my arm and almost to my chest, it was rather freaky, and that's another thing I remember, going for the first time to a Chinese hospital. Works a lot different from American ones, I bet you could have a limb half hanging off and you'd have to wait for the person in line in front of you before you'd receive treatment. Okay, that's probably an exaggeration, but it's really different to say the least.

The Great Wall was awesome, they have this new thing called the Slideway, where you get this little toboggan and there's a brake and there's a huge metal track going down the mountain and you get to slide down, controlling your own speed. It's AWESOME. I'd wait for as long as possible in one place, until I could see the person behind me, then I'd let go completely and just speed for as far as I could without hitting the person in front of me. When I could see the person in front of me I'd brake again, then wait once more, and repeat. It was awesome!

So then we came back and school started.

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And you're essentially up to speed. Dang, school is BORING. oO

Oh, and about llamas? Pfft, you know what four legged animal is a bajillion times better?

The cat.

Preview of a ginormous CG project I'm doing. What you saw is not even a sixth of the final image. It's a HUGE image.

Have funs.