I’m superstitious to some degree. I knock on wood, hit the car ceiling when I drive over a yellow light, avoid ladders and all that jazz. Of course I know it’s all silly, but somehow it became such a routine to follow all this nonsense, that breaking the habit seems a bad omen. The best of them are in fact horoscopes or astrology for that matter. Every week I read them, knowing that what I read is probably a load of bull, I still read it for a strange sort of guidance. Let me explain.

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“Your dad must be baker, ’cause you’ve got a nice set of buns”, “Wanna come sit on my lap and see what pops up?” and so many many more of cringe-inducing hiliarity. I love pickuplines for their crazy ideal that saying it might get you to score a chick. The strong drive to have sex is posed against the silly and lame desperation of the pickupline. It works so well, and makes me laugh whenever I read them. I’ve not used one yet, but I think here’s a way to make them work.

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For those who don’t know, for the past three weeks I was on an International Summer School in Beijing. I’ve learned some Chinese, made some new friends and learnt that everything is spicy. However, I’ve also learned some fairly arbritrary things.

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Ok, so I’m back. Niel that is. I was on vacation/studying in Beijing. It was great! For now, I’m going to pick up Twindie.net again. I was hoping my bro would do some posts, but at least he was almost there, with a draft of one post! Give him some applause!

I might not be able to post as much as I did in the vacation, but I’ll try my best to keep you distracted from studying/working/pretending to work or study.
Also Twindie.net has some great things in store in the coming few weeks. So stay tuned!

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