Models on the moors! / Hot and sour soup / Abstinence problems? / Friday the 13th

High-scoring words of the night so far:

MOORS (287 points) - against Marie H. [two 5W, hook off BOUND to make MU / ON / OD]
MODELS (201 points) - against Toni S. [4W, 5W] {a good deficit-erasing word!}
ADDIBLE (108 points) - against Isabelle S. [two 3W] {a good deficit-erasing word!}


Relevant Taiwan conversation:

[00:02:54] Flami: so how's it going by yourself?
[00:25:07] Corey: uh, okay, I guess :P I still have over half my Coke and two bags of chips, and Jane's aunt bought me PEARL MILK TEA today (BUBBLE tea, as I learned today, is something else where they shake up tea and it has literal bubbles, so apparently, you are totally wrong!... except the place where I get chocolate pearl milk tea calls it bubble tea, so I don't know, but I had a talk about that today with Jane's aunt's English teacher
[00:26:10] Flami: you're subsisting on Coke and bags of chips?!
[00:26:43] Flami: I guess I shouldn't talk, since I had Coke and chips today, too - but at least I had noodles and a pot pie as well as other stuff :P
[00:26:55] Corey: no! but it's hard to go buy stuff like that without her here :P
[00:27:34] Corey: I can get to 7-11 and the chocolate bubble tea place by foot without getting lost, but I don't really know how to order the bubble tea. 7-11 works, I guess, but it's still kind of weird :P
[00:27:54] Corey: I get more weird looks if I'm walking around by myself than if I'm with someone
[00:28:43] Corey: but I did get "excuse me, Corey, handsome boy?" from a lady in Jane's aunt's English class today :P
[00:29:44] Flami: yeah, I can understand how it's hard without her there :P
[00:29:59] Flami: HAHAHAHA, what?!
[00:32:13] Corey: most girls ask me if I'm single, or get really shy around me, causing other people to tease them about liking me. :P
[00:33:00] Flami: you know what they say sometimes... Chinese girls like their men as their rice... white and hot! :P
[00:37:09] Corey: okay, so it doesn't work on cold days
[00:43:26] Flami: is it cold there?
[00:43:49] Corey: uh, a little. it's been windy and humid, so it's kind of cold in the evening
[00:47:27] Flami: makes sense...
[00:54:46] Corey: I know sorry in Chinese! it's the same thing as excuse me, apparently. like in Japanese. I still haven't learned "please"
[00:55:47] Flami: I forget what it is
[00:57:31] Corey: doy bu chi (probably spelled way wrong because the pinyin versions of Chinese words look almost nothing like what they actually sound like, making it a pretty shitty way to write Chinese so foreign people can read it)
[00:58:22] Corey: the Japanese system for writing in Roman letters is EXACTLY what it sounds like in Japanese. what the hell, Chinese? :P
[00:58:40] Flami: I know there's something in Cantonese which is KINDA similar to that, but that doesn't "ping" me as also meaning "sorry" ... I dunno
[00:59:49] Corey: if people ever say "sorry" in English here, someone will start saying "sorry sorry.. hahahhhaa." Sorry Sorry is some song I don't understand except for the Sorry Sorry part that's in English, and apparently it's really well-known and funny to say
[01:01:21] Corey: you don't know the difference between "ni" (you) and "nin" (apparently also "you," but slightly different?), do you? Rosetta Stone yells at me when I get those wrong, but I have no idea whatsoever what the difference is... it's completely in the language you're learning, so there's no explanations :P
[01:02:38] Corey: Jane's dad told me that Chinese is way easier than English since we use too many words, and they just have "ni, wo, and ta" (you, me, him / her), and "ni men, etc.." for multiple people. Rosetta Stone has shown me like 5 ways to say "you" or "that person" or something along those lines so far...
[01:04:30] Flami: I can't tell you about that song since I have never heard it... and Jane's dad would know
[01:05:37] Corey: well, I'll probably ask him later, but that might be hard to explain :P adding an extra letter to a word, or even a suffix is usually hard to get across to people here
[01:05:46] Corey: you have to spell it out
[01:07:16] Corey: I can probably ask Jane tonight too, if I remember :P we've been doing video chat on Skype. she can't figure out how to call home, so I've been putting her on Skype, and letting her parents talk to her on my computer once in a while
[01:12:51] Flami: ah, Skype... that is the one memory dragon which I haven't been able to kill or replicate
[01:14:02] Corey: what does that mean?
[01:17:26] Flami: well, okay... I lie. I need to do other things besides that, but I don't want to get a disease :P
[01:17:55] Flami: and that means "Skype was one thing I did with the ex - and I haven't done it since"
[01:18:24] Corey: what? :P you can use that to talk to whoever you want, you know
[01:20:21] Flami: I know.... but I haven't...
[01:21:15] Corey: well, get on there right the fuck now
[01:24:03] Flami: I don't know if I have it
[01:24:28] Corey: well, go get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[01:25:36] Flami: I had it before... not sure if I deleted it in a fit of rage
[01:25:49] Corey: why would a program make you mad? :P
[01:26:00] Flami: MEMORIES
*snip of irrelevant conversation*
[02:09:37] Corey: Jane's niece just came in here and called me stupid!
[02:10:11] Flami: why?
[02:10:30] Corey: that was after I tried to impress her by telling her she was eating bread (in Chinese :P), since she's always trying to teach me Chinese. I think she was mad that I was messing with her camera, though :P
[02:10:48] Flami: what are you doing to her camera? :P
[02:11:16] Corey: she tries to teach me Chinese a LOT, but she rarely points to things or whatever, so she's usually just trying to force me to repeat random Chinese words in a teacher voice, and I have no idea what they mean because she doesn't show me :P
[02:11:40] Corey: she had the flash on, so I was blocking it with my hand because it's bright :P I also took it away to take a picture of her with the flash on
[02:12:36] Flami: well, she's five... so I guess her teaching methods have lots of room for improvement. :P as for the camera, that doesn't sound too terrible
[02:23:17] Corey: well, usually if she bugs me, I pick her up and hold her upside down or something, so I guess she got off easy :P

Billie and I made plans for the end of the month, after her GJ friend Sammie Ann leaves town. We'll have hot and sour soup at a Chinese restaurant near my place. Also talked about sex, health problems due to abstinence (??), and other girly things. :P [and her new boyfriend]

Trivia fact for Wednesday, Apr. 14: What is the greatest number of Friday the 13ths possible in a single calendar year? Three. The last time there were three was 2009; the next time will be in 2012. This year, there will be only one - in August.