The SO Crap Box #4
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Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
Confucius was an alcoholic wife-beating redneck farm boy who was always babbling incoherently.
confuse-us?
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me in singapore too! haven't been pigging out too much. 1st couple of weeks back in SG was sick sick sick. weather hasn't been great - one min super hot, the next min raining cats & dogs. terrible flu bug going around....how not to get sick when there are people coughing in my face on the very crowded public transport?
prices of everything seem to be going up, up and up. the freaking bak-kwa is over $40+++/kg now (i thought that's the CNY prices??!!!).
at least the hawker centres/coffee shops/food court food prices still pretty reasonable....so that's a good thing! i haven't cooked a single meal since i'm back....hee hee....always eat out lor...i live in tiong bahru...havelock and tiong bahru mkt and many other good food places all within easy reach.
i'll be here for another 3.5weeks more....hopefully won't put on weight =P
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oh man i was sick for the 1st few days too! have yet to venture out in the day so congested and hot. gonna try out one famous hawker center ev week, any SO pple back for the hols wanna do a food tour lol
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Originally posted by vito_corleone:
oh man i was sick for the 1st few days too! have yet to venture out in the day so congested and hot. gonna try out one famous hawker center ev week, any SO pple back for the hols wanna do a food tour lol
i'm back till mid august. let me know.
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im here till mid aug, look out for a pm hehe. got offered a job as student instructor on campus, shitty pay but good on the resume. hmmm tempting
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Originally posted by vito_corleone:
im here till mid aug, look out for a pm hehe. got offered a job as student instructor on campus, shitty pay but good on the resume. hmmm tempting
take it up! a lot of hassle on the paper work though.. i was a student instructor too but decided not to continue cause i was bored.
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hey hey....so quiet these days. lovegoddess & vito back in the states already? where are the rest of the people? summer is almost over....i'm looking forward to fall. i'll be flying back to the states tomorrow.
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yea seems dead... will be back in LA on fri. uneventful summer sigh...
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Originally posted by vito_corleone:
im here till mid aug, look out for a pm hehe. got offered a job as student instructor on campus, shitty pay but good on the resume. hmmm tempting
hey...go for it!!!! it will definitely look good on the resume. besides, any experience is an experience. it will benefit.
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Originally posted by lostintransition:
hey hey....so quiet these days. lovegoddess & vito back in the states already? where are the rest of the people? summer is almost over....i'm looking forward to fall. i'll be flying back to the states tomorrow.
yeah, sorry sorry......bz bz at work 'cos we went thru some org changes. adjusting and slowly getting in sync with new structures.
it's been a lovely summer i must say although i much prefer the cool temp. i am looking forward to the fall. :P
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No! No! Keep summer going! lol
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it was so darn hot when i first came back that i got sick.....i don't really fancy those hot summer days. now it's already significantly cooler over here....we are in the 60s. i much prefer cooler temperature too.
@littlestream: hope you have settled comfortably at work
@jetta: how was summer for you? and your new place?
it has been awfully quiet over here lately....
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It has been pretty quiet in here, but I think that is perhaps due to people being out and about enjoying the summer and not having time to post. I know I've been "guilty" of that.
With summer winding down, I'm sure we'll see more of the usual suspects back in the forum.
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Hi all, it's been a while. Hope everyone is well and doing fine.
LIT: Thanks for asking. It's been a cooler than usual summer for us in SoCal. Mildest it's been for 3 decades (I think that's what the media said). Aside from the hassle of the move and everything associated with that, it's been all right. Kids are settling into their routine at their new school, I've been getting more hours at work (which I dislike), etc.
The house, well, it's been keeping me super duper busy.Mum came for a short visit, I painted the entire exterior of the house, dug up the dirt in the entire back yard, planted grass from seed, decimated the bamboo forest planted by years ago, etc etc, Too much to go on, don't want to bore you with details. :P
Hope your Sg hols went great. How are things with you?
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Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
With summer winding down, I'm sure we'll see more of the usual suspects back in the forum.
I'm glad you said 'suspects', I was nvr convicted you know!
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Originally posted by skid:
I'm glad you said 'suspects', I was nvr convicted you know!
You can't fool us, skid! We know where you hid the body!!
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LOL......okay, officially fall on wednesday but weather already speaking fall liao. needed a light jacket since last week. must be the fault of hurricane igor?
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Originally posted by littlestream:
LOL......okay, officially fall on wednesday but weather already speaking fall liao. needed a light jacket since last week. must be the fault of hurricane igor?
Ugh. What a depressing thought. I actually like fall but quiver at the notion of what lies thereafter.
On a slightly brighter note, I'll be leaving for Montana this Thursday to go prairie dog hunting with a couple of friends.
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it rained SO HEAVILY this morning.....lightning and thunder. it caused the barricade at the rail track to act up. i got caught in the jam because of that. crap, weathermen said it is going to rain ALL week. looks like i have to leave the house earlier than usual. it took me almost an hour to get to the office. wth.
oh...montana? well, bundle up. looks like it's gonna be a cold fall. yikes!!!! the leaves are changing colours tho'. a pretty sight i must say.
enjoy your mini trip, MG. ;-)
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Originally posted by littlestream:
it rained SO HEAVILY this morning.....lightning and thunder. it caused the barricade at the rail track to act up. i got caught in the jam because of that. crap, weathermen said it is going to rain ALL week. looks like i have to leave the house earlier than usual. it took me almost an hour to get to the office. wth.
oh...montana? well, bundle up. looks like it's gonna be a cold fall. yikes!!!! the leaves are changing colours tho'. a pretty sight i must say.
enjoy your mini trip, MG. ;-)
Funny you mentioned the rain, as we got hit by a very strong line of thunderstorms early yesterday morning too. Woke up at around 12:30 a.m. to the sound of howling wind and torrential rain, but it was mostly over by the time of the morning commute.Thanks! I've no doubt about enjoying the p-dog hunting trip--it's just the 11-hour drive there and back that makes it tiring. I'll post pictures once I get back!
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Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
On a slightly brighter note, I'll be leaving for Montana this Thursday to go prairie dog hunting with a couple of friends.
Prarie dogs or Richardson's squirrels? The squirrels, my cousins call them gophers, run rampant on their farms. If you guys kill less than 500 of them(gophers) in a weekend you weren't really trying.
Gonna be using a .22 or .17 cal? Anything bigger would be overkill....unless you're honing your sniping skills.
I have a couple photos I took of 'gophers' that got in the way of a .22 that I won't share here.
These are what they shoot pretty much every day on the farm in eastern Montana:
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Originally posted by skid:
Prarie dogs or Richardson's squirrels? The squirrels, my cousins call them gophers, run rampant on their farms. If you guys kill less than 500 of them(gophers) in a weekend you weren't really trying.
Gonna be using a .22 or .17 cal? Anything bigger would be overkill....unless you're honing your sniping skills.
I have a couple photos I took of 'gophers' that got in the way of a .22 that I won't share here.
These are what they shoot pretty much every day on the farm in eastern Montana:
skid,Here's a link to my picture thread from our last p-dog hunting trip to Montana in 2009:
I believe the species we were hunting was the black tailed prairie dog. At least, they certainly looked like the one pictured in the Wiki article.
The three of us will be using essentially the same guns this time round: I'll be shooting my usual AR varmint rifle with a 24" barrel, Dave will be using both a 20" AR varmint rifle and a Ruger .204 bolt-action, and Bob is bringing his 20" AR.
Whereabouts in eastern Montana are your cousins located? We'll be staying in Glendive and shooting on BLM land just outside Terry.
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They're in Lustre, Montana which is about 3 hrs northwest of Glendive. The closest actual town to Lustre would be Wolf Point.
Nice photos from the previous hunt. The scenery could be from Lustre, it looks exactly the same.
Hope you have good weather....they've already had snowfall in Lustre this month.
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oh man damn the colder weather the girls in school are covering up
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Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
skid,Here's a link to my picture thread from our last p-dog hunting trip to Montana in 2009:
I believe the species we were hunting was the black tailed prairie dog. At least, they certainly looked like the one pictured in the Wiki article.
The three of us will be using essentially the same guns this time round: I'll be shooting my usual AR varmint rifle with a 24" barrel, Dave will be using both a 20" AR varmint rifle and a Ruger .204 bolt-action, and Bob is bringing his 20" AR.
Whereabouts in eastern Montana are your cousins located? We'll be staying in Glendive and shooting on BLM land just outside Terry.
can i come along on the next trip? i wanna try my saiga 7.62 on little cretins