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HHBSO 25: I Cheated Every Week at Saturday Chinese School · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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Hello, Welcome to Heat's Hot, But something's off with me.
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Just Joey T I've said it a million times, but I will say it
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again. You can watch the video version
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of this podcast on Spotify or on my YouTube channel.
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Just Joey TI mentioned it because I'm wearing a hat for
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today's podcast. It's a new one.
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Hats don't agree with me. Generally glasses don't
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generally agree with me. I must have like a weirdly
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shaped head. I guess it doesn't look weird
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when I'm not wearing a hat and or sunglasses, but I find
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glasses and sunglasses to be difficult to shop for.
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I feel like 99% of them do not look good on me, so I should
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need new sunglasses. I've been getting just cheap
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with sunglasses off of Amazon that are like 10-15 dollars per.
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Because I only really wear sunglasses in two situations
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when I'm traveling, where that's when I usually spend a lot of
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time outdoors or when I'm driving because you know, a lot
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of glare and everything. It's just hard to see.
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Sometimes when you're driving you don't wear sunglasses.
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And when I'm in the car, I don't really care how stylish or not
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my sunglasses are. I'm in the car.
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And yeah, that's. I don't care.
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But I'm travelling and out and about a lot, and I wear
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sunglasses. I kind of want to have a
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slightly not nice. They don't have to be nice or as
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inexpensive because I just don't want expensive sunglasses
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because I'm going to damage them, scratch them, lose them,
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sit on them, whatever. I don't really want to have the
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hassle of having to pay extra attention and take meticulous
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care of yet another expensive item.
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OK, I'm not good at that. I just want glasses that look
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decent on me and I don't want them to be expensive.
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I don't think that's that hard to do, but it's like buying
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jeans is not something you can really shop online for.
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I know they've got some websites, I think they have
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things, AI or something where you can virtually try some
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sunglasses on. That's not quite as good as
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trying sunglasses on in real life.
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So that's why I don't have decent looking sunglasses,
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because I hate trying on things and shopping I don't know about
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in stores and my face is a weird shape.
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Same thing for hats. I wear hats not for fashion, not
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for style, only purely of laziness because I don't feel
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like doing my hair. I actually just cut my hair to
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be quite a bit shorter. Earlier this month I grew up my
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hair in the Pandemic, got it quite quite a bit shorter.
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So in some ways right now it's not hard to style my hair.
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But the level of laziness of me, myself and I is that even it
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only took 60 seconds to style my hair, there will be some days
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where I'm too lazy for that. I just wear a hat and I'm just
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going to the gym. I may or may not do my hair
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because like I'm just going to the gym and I probably have to
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wash my hair afterwards anyways because I might get sweaty and
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all that kind of stuff. So why waste the time to put all
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this product in my hair? I'm not trying to impress anyone
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at the gym. I probably should be, but I'm
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not and when I come out I wash my hair anyways.
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So wearing a hat is what I usually do.
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This hat I got brand new. Like I said, I'm trying to break
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it in, I guess because it's the exact same hat that I bought
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like a year ago, just in a different color because I like
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the hat a lot. I guess I had it in Navy and
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there's a white one. I'm breaking this one and I
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haven't worn this one yet, so I think it's identical hats.
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This one fits a lot more weird, so I guess just need to break it
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in or something. So as you are listening to this,
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I will be in Taipei. I'll be in Taiwan by the time
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this goes up. That's Tuesday.
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As I record this tomorrow morning, Wednesday morning, I'm
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going to hop on a couple of planes to take me to Taiwan is
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Taiwan Pride this coming weekend.
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I've never been there before and I it was, it was kind of sort of
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on my list. I've got a list of events and
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places that I want to go. I do like traveling, but I don't
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need to like see the world. There are a limited number of
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places that I haven't been to that I want to visit.
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I mean I won't die if I don't see them but it's it's it's nice
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to go it it it's like a nice to it's not it's not bucket list.
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It's not to like that level, but it's if there's a good
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opportunity and I have the time and if it's my schedule, sure,
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why not let's go try it out. So Taiwan is one of those places
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and happens to be Taiwan Pride. So yeah, going there just for
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like 3 full days. And I when I planned the trip, I
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didn't know anyone that was going.
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But as we're getting closer, I'm hearing more people post on
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Instagrams or whatnot that they'll be there for that.
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So I know a small number of people that are going so hope to
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hang out with some of them. The only thing I'm anxious about
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is I don't speak Mandarin. I speak Cantonese.
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I'm from Hong Kong, but I don't speak Manjin and Cantonese are
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both Chinese, but it's very different, I think.
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I I feel like this is something I've talked about before, so I
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won't harp on it, but I I'm curious to see what the this is
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like such an American thing to wonder about.
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I'm curious to see what the level of English is in like the
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stores and restaurants and stuff that are around.
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I'm not there for very long, honestly.
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And I think if you speak Cantonese, you can kind of sort
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of for like very basic things, be able to function in a
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Mandarin location, in a Mandarin speaking location.
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I know like the bare basics of Mandarin.
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I did take Mandarin classes in high school, so in Canada where
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I went to school, because Canada is bilingual English and French,
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you have to take both English and French up until the 8th
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grade I think, and then starting in like the 9th grade, that's
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when you can opt out of one of the two languages.
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So I I grew up in an area of Canada, which is most of Canada,
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where English is predominant in Vancouver.
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It's only really in Quebec where French is dominant and
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everywhere else in Canada. Not that many people speak
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French really honestly, but everything has French on it.
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Like everything you buy in a store, every packaging for every
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item in every store has to be bilingual, no matter how little
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French is spoken in your neck of the woods in Canada.
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But anyways, so as soon as I was able to stop learning French, I
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did. But I think there was some rule
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or something where OK, OK, no there wasn't a rule.
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My mom had put me into Saturday school when I was younger in
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elementary school. After we moved from Hong Kong to
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Canada, my mom put me into Saturday Chinese school.
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So it was at the local high school where this happened.
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So it was like kind of it was close to our house.
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It was the same high school that my brother and sister went to,
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but I was in elementary school. But on Saturday, Saturday
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morning for like 1/2 day was Chinese school and they just
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went and they just taught you Chinese.
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They like different levels and stuff, but like they borrowed
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the local high school to like run that program.
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My mom doesn't listen to this. And yeah, my mom barely has
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Internet and I talked about it last time.
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Every time I go back to Vancouver to visit her, I help
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her with some tech stuff. I mean, she template has
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Internet now, but she doesn't even know what a podcast is
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anyway. She didn't, she doesn't even
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know how to use Google every week.
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I think I went to Chinese school Saturday, Chinese school for I
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think this was 4569, maybe for like 4 years or something like
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that. And then when I got into like
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high school, we start on the 8th grade.
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I think that's when I was able to take Mandarin as one of my
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courses in high school and therefore my mom allowed me to
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stop ticking the Saturday Chinese school.
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So the Saturday Chinese school was still in Cantonese, and
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obviously my mom's thinking was, what, Joey's only eight now that
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we've live in Canada, he doesn't.
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He still needs to learn more Chinese.
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He still needs to learn more Cantonese, like reading,
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writing, vocabulary, all that kind of stuff, which is, you
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know, any, like, sensible parent would probably think that,
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right? They're moving to a different
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country with a different language.
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They would probably prefer their kids to still keep up their
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native tongue, if you will, when they're younger, right?
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I did not like learning Chinese. I was very fascinated by
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English, but I did not like learning Chinese.
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And obviously when I started going to school in Canada,
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everyone was speaking English, right?
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So And all the kids at school speaking English, so it felt
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like English was like the thing. And I started reading all these
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magazines and stuff about cars and computers, stuff which I did
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have access to in Hong Kong. But you know, I mentioned this
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last time, I would love to read car magazines, computer
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magazines, because there's like the things I found interesting,
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even though I was really, really young, I didn't understand half
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of what was said. It was on English.
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So it's like everything was English now.
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So in the Chinese school, I think for the first like one or
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two years and I was like 8 or 9 or 10 or something, I just did
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it and it was like fine, whatever.
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But I think soon after that I literally started cheating every
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single week. So the way it worked, the way it
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works is, Oh my God, if I ever have kids, I'm gonna that's a
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whole other can of worms. So if I have kids, I'm not gonna
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force them to learn Chinese. But anyways, the way this worked
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is almost every week we would have a test, and the test,
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usually almost every time, is we would have a textbook and there
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would be some sort of paragraph or like a number of sentences
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that we would need to learn the words to.
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OK, usually it was only maybe two or three sentences, 15 or 20
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Chinese characters, which is not that much, honestly.
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So it's partially A vocabulary exercise, right?
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You're supposed to memorize these words and know how to
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write them without, like looking at the textbook.
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The textbook. We had to It's the same textbook
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throughout the whole year. And then, but beyond the text,
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we have a notebook, which is just blank pages, and you're
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supposed to take the notebook and use that for the test as
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well. So it wasn't a piece of paper
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that was handed out to you to do a test.
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It wasn't anything the teacher gave you.
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There was this basically notebook, a blank notebook that
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would you use throughout the year for the test and they let
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you keep it like you just brought your own notebook.
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If you're, you can probably get the drift of where this is
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going. So I didn't like Chinese school,
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obviously, by then at least. So what happened was they would
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tell you each week, OK, next week's class we're going to be
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doing the test on like this particular section of the
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textbook, like like these sentences or this paragraph is
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what you would have to be able to write out like without
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looking at the textbook. The teacher would actually read
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out what the paragraph was. So you don't have to like,
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memorize, memorize it. But you need, you need to know
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how to write all the words as the teacher read out the
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paragraph in the words to you. So what I did was, because we
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all kept get to keep the notebook where we would be
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writing the test in, I would take the notebook, I would go to
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the next blank page where we'll be writing next week's test.
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And I would take a pencil and I would write in there very, very,
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very faintly. The entire paragraph, all the
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characters, all the words for the upcoming test, so that you
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couldn't see that anything was written on it unless you were
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like, unless the notebook was like 12 inches away from you,
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unless you were sitting right in front of the notebook, you could
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not tell anything was written in it.
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And I did this week after week after week, and that's how I
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passed. I didn't learn anything because
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I just didn't want to learn it. So yeah, have I cheated that
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prolifically in anything else ever in my life?
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No. Like, no.
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Not even in like high school or middle school or whatever.
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I didn't. No, I didn't cheat in high
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school because, yeah, I don't know.
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I just really didn't like this concept of Chinese school.
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I just, I I just didn't want to do it.
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It was one of the first things that I ever was forced to do
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besides swimming when I was younger, like before we moved to
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Canada when I was, I don't know, five or six or seven, like,
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parents love to do this, right? My mom told me to, There's this
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local casino. There's like this one local
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casino in Macau, actually Macau nowadays, it's like the gambling
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capital of China. There are like tons of big huge
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casinos there. But this was in like 1990 Okay
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times are different. Before there were like 20
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million casinos in Macau, but there was like this one main
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casino and it was like not just the key casino, it was like also
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a hotel. And they had like some other,
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like it was like a nice casino. So like all these amenities and
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it has a pool and they actually taught swimming lessons there.
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So my mom signed me up for swimming lessons at, you know,
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like the local casino, hotel, swimming pool, but they offered
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that. So don't remember that much of
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those lessons because I was like 5 or 6 and I was really young.
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But I do remember the instructor forcing me to jump off the
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diving board and because I have a fear of drowning, I couldn't
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really swim. I have a fear of heights.
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I have fear of falling, I freak out a diving board.
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So whenever like gym class or like these swimming lessons,
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when they forced me to jump off the diving board, I would I
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would do it in like my own way that would get me to like the
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edge of the swimming pool and Get Me Out of quote UN quote
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danger as quickly as possible, right?
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And whatever way was that felt the best for me.
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So I remember one time the instructor wanted me to jump off
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the docking board and then swim in like a particular way.
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This is like different breaststrokes or whatever,
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right? So I think the only stroke that
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I really was supposed comfortable with was just like
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when you just like swing your arms like forward, like you
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pedal and then you just like flap your feet like that,
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whatever the. I don't know.
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I don't, I don't know what that's called breaststroke where
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you just like your arms are just going in circles and then your
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feet just go pepper, pepper, pepper.
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I'm not making a lot of sense, I know, but he wanted to meet the
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swim, Swim, What's that? The where you kind of swim like
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a frog, where you're like you're kind of like you put your arms
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out from in front of your chest, you go straight out and you
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scoop the water to the side, whatever that is.
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He wanted me to do that. He wanted me to jump on the
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diving board and swim, scooping well, water to the side, using,
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using that fashion over to like the edge of the to the pool,
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right. I would jump begrudgingly and
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then once I jumped, I was like so freaked out that I I would
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just swim whatever way I wanted to, which was like the regular
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way, the most way. I'm most comforted.
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And I remember him being just like frustrated and exasperated
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that I wouldn't do what he wanted me to do.
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So that wasn't cheating. That's not cheating anyways.
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But yeah, like beyond the the the Chinese go cheating.
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That's the only time where I cheated so massively, cheated so
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massively in anything I've done in my life, ever.
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Because I just hated it so much. And the swimming, I hate it so
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much as well. So I think This is why when I,
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when I hear my sister putting my niece and nephew into all these
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extracurriculars, not a kind of subwoo, but when I was younger,
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I was a lot. The younger I was, the more shy
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I was. I wouldn't say I'm shy nowadays,
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but when I was really young I was really shy because like,
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well, that's a whole other can of worms again.
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But I was shy. I didn't.
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I kind of killed myself. I didn't say anything.
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But my teacher, parent Karma, says teachers always told me I
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was talkative, so I don't know what the fuck they were talking
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about. But anyways, so I never really
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voiced my opinion to like, authority figures, basically,
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let's put it that way. So I never told anyone that I
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hate jumping off the diving board.
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I mean, I'm sure by the body language people could tell it
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doesn't look like Joey wants to do this.
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So whenever I visit my family and then my my sister has my
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niece and nephew doing all these issue curriculars, especially my
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nephew because he's 8 and he's a little older.
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So he's doing ice hockey and he's doing dance like K pop
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dance. The last time I visited him, he
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was doing K pop stuff and he was doing piano and I think he was
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doing like swimming, ice hockey, dance, piano, swimming.
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Like he's doing at least four things on top of like regular
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school. And I can't tell whether he
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wants to do all these things. He probably wants to do some of
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them, I guess. I can't tell whether he wants to
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do any of these things versus he's just blindly doing what my
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sister's telling me to do just because you know she's the mom,
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right? Because I'm not saying everyone
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needs to be as lazy as I am because I'm so lazy.
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But to do that many extracurriculars, doesn't that
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seem like a lot for like an 8 year old?
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I don't need my kid to do extracurriculars and doing
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school, but apparently, according to my sisters at
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least, he's not stupid. He's doing one grade up in math.
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Oh Oh yeah, he's also doing extra tutoring.
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And yeah, it was. It was.
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It was the first day that I was back in Vancouver and I was
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having lunch with my mom, my brother-in-law and my nephew.
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And we're just talking. And then they're saying, oh,
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Lucas, Lucas is my nephew. Lucas is going to go to the
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tutor place upstairs from where the restaurant is at like 1:00.
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So like, Lucas is going to whatever, he's going to leave
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early. I was like, oh, like is he like
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falling behind and stuff, blah, blah.
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It's like, Oh no, he's like he's a great ahead in math.
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So we want to like keep that up. So I don't know.
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I think we still try hard. It's I I guess he's not like
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doing badly in school. All is your curriculars.
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But at some point, like, does he have time to even be a kid?
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Like does he have time to like just chillax a little bit?
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Because every time I talk to her and just figure out the plans
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for anything, but every time I come back, I ask, hey, I'm
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coming back in like 2 weeks, you know, like do we have plans to
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like do a family lunch, family dinner, blah, blah, blah.
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And it always is. The schedule we work around the
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most is my nephew's schedule because he's got so much stuff
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going on. Like he's got more stuff going
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on than like. Almost every adult that I know,
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his schedule is like, so packed to do school and like all these
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extra things, and it's like multiple times every single
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week. So I'm tired just hearing about
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it. But every time I hear them, my
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sister talked about something like, does he want to do these
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things or are you just breathing, resent in your kid,
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unbeknownst to you that you're doing this, but like, he's he he
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gets pretty young. I'm pretty sure at any point now
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they're going to force feed him Chinese, going to take him to
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Saturday Chinese school and I am fully ready to teach him how to
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cheat in Saturday Chinese school, if it does come to that.
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Oh, like they're also going to a private school.
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So I don't, I've not looked into this, but they're paying money
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to go to private school. I'm not a parent, obviously.
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I'm. I'm a bachelor and I've not
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looked into this, but all I know is how much they're paying for
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private school and damn that shit.
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Kids are expensive. Kids are really expensive.
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I'm thinking the public school's so bad and the private school's
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so much. Quote UN quote.
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Better that you wanna put your kids in private school and spend
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all that extra money. I would rather put it was my
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kid. I think I would rather put the
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money for private elementary school.
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Instead of doing that, go to public school.
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We'll try to live in like in a decent school district for you.
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But I would save that money and put that towards a college
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education fund for you, honestly, so that you don't have
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to end up with so much college debt when you graduate.
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I think that's probably like the smarter long term goal.
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I don't know if they're saving for his college, but I wouldn't.
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I don't know to to pay the amount of money you can pay for
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private primary school, like elementary school when they told
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me the numbers. It's like that's crazy.
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Like people can go to college or Community College, I guess.
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I don't know Community College for that.
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That's like a crazy amount. Oh my goodness.
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So yeah, I won't be. I'm I'm going to visit my my
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parents in December the next time I go to Vancouver, so I get
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an update for that. The other thing I wanted to talk
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about this week is I'm trying to get into TikTok.
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Not because I'm trying to be like hip and with it or whatever
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with the Gen. Z people, which I don't.
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Whatever. I'm not trying to do it just to
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do it, but I do need to learn it, to do social marketing for
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the business I'm trying to start up.
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I want to get more familiar with the platform, so I'm doing it
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personally just for myself for now.
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And one of the things I'm finding out really quick is that
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this is gonna sound so basic to most of you that remotely touch
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Tiktok. But I haven't really even like
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looked at Tiktok videos into like very very recently.
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And Tiktok videos are very very short.
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So apparently when Tiktok first launched videos for only 15
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seconds and they've like extended it a couple of times, I
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think it's like 60 seconds or like 2 minutes or whatever it is
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now. So I was talking to someone that
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has some success on Tiktok, but more than me, I have like 5
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followers or something like that and I saw some of their stuff.
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And then he showed like, I tried to upload like 3-2 or three
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separate videos and then he's like, yeah, these are too long,
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they need to be shorter and they were like 32nd videos.
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I always have this like YouTube mind frame when I'm creating
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videos and he's like, oh, these cats keep like way shorter, you
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need more caption, you need to put like a trending song in
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there, blah blah blah. So I'm very slowly learning how
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to have I hate the word viral. Like I I I have a problem with
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that term. Personally I think it's accurate
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to describe quote, UN quote viral videos.
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I'm not trying to go viral per SE, I'm not trying to get
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popular. I'm just, I just want to figure
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out what works and what doesn't work vis A vis the the TikTok
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algorithm for example, right? I want to know like you know
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what are if I want to create successful TikTok videos, they
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don't have to be like viral and get like a million views or
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whatever, you know, get some practice doing that.
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So one of the things I'm having problems is finding just coming
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up with ideas for TikTok videos. I know that a lot of people do
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dance and lip syncs and that kind of stuff, but I think I'm
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trying to find ideas for videos that is an overlap between
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something that would be a successful TikTok video and also
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the type of content I would actually want to create.
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There's a difference between creating content primarily or
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purely just to have it go viral or be successful, or just get
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lots of hits, even though it might not be a video that is in
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good taste or is reflective of your own values.
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It's kind of like if you look at it as a business sometimes, if
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you just want to turn a dollar, you can turn a dollar, whether
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you believe in that thing or not, right?
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A lot of people do that. They're just to use the YouTube
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world as a reference because the concept is the same.
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There have been more than a few notable Youtubers over the
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years. This is not a new phenomenon
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where they've done very questionable YouTube videos and
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at least Hindsight's 2020. But even without hindsight, just
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at the moment where they obviously did it only for the
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publicity and for the clicks and for it to trend or get talked
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about. And it's either something that
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was like super shady that they did or something that was like
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very, very questionable or in extremely poor taste.
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Or maybe it's like an ethical occasionally even illegal.
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And you know they they just want to get the clicks.
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You know whether when they're and and honestly when you get to
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like that level and a lot of the videos you watch.
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And I'm learning this for TikTok, but I've learned that
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for YouTube already. Anytime you see any sort of
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video, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, whatever, that seems to
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be like a viral radio nowadays. It's not by accident that that
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video happened most of the time back like 10 or 12 years ago.
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It would have been easier to have you know like accidentally
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a viral video without really thinking too much about how to
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make one. These days there's so many
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content creators, so many people posting so much content and all
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these platforms that if you want like a good, you want like a
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really successful video 90% of the time.
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And the odds are you have to plan out that video.
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There's a lot of work that goes into videos, at least for if you
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want to do like a one hit wonder, Maybe you might have one
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or two of your videos go viral. But if you want to have on a
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sustained basis consistently well performing videos on
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YouTube, on TikTok, whatever it is.
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So that's not just like one or two or three videos here and
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there. If you want to be consistently,
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if you want to consistently get the views consistently get the
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clicks, that takes work like without doubt.
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So every like popular, successful, famous, social media
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influencer person you see on any of these platforms that are
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consistently churning out successful videos or lots of
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views. A lot of work goes into that and
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the end products sometimes look quite effortless, especially in
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the shorter forms like the Instagram reel or on TikTok.
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You might watch a 1520 second thing and it's like oh, how much
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effort could it take to make a 15 second video?
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Yeah, they were dressing up. Obviously.
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It looked like they, you know, set up a calendar for
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themselves. That video could have taken
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days, if not like a week to really plan out.
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Especially if you can do a collab or something, right?
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Yeah, you could sometimes not imagine how much time and effort
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it takes to set up a shoot, even for the shortest of video.
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So all these people that again over the years have done very
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questionable videos with very questionable content, they did
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not happen by accident. Something in their heads, we're
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thinking we got to get more clicks, we got to get more views
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coming, more money, whatever it is, it's like, oh, we need
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something more controversial or like more shocking or more click
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bait or more, whatever, more and more, more.
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Because the vast majority of them, they were doing YouTube or
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TikTok or whatever for a while, and they needed to keep things
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fresh, right? So it's kind of like, OK, you
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get to a point where you've done so many different types of
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videos. Like you need to find something
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new. You need to find something
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unique, right? There's more and more people
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doing videos now. You know, these people have been
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in the game for a while, Got to keep things fresh.
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And yeah, sometimes that mindset can get kind of addictive and
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then kind of messes with your head.
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So you're like, OK, this is probably not something I would
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have done three or five years ago, but hey, they feel like
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they need to do it for whatever reason.
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So I am not trying to do that. I don't need a million
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followers. I don't need a million views.
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If I got like 10, twenty, 30,000 views on a video, I would
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consider that pretty damn good. And I don't need any more of
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that. There was one video that I
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posted on Tiktok, and it's the only video I posted where it
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actually was a bit of a spur of the moment thing.
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I was literally walking home from the gym and you guys have
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heard me rant about cars and drivers and all that kind of
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stuff. One of my pet peeves about
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driving is when people park or stop in a driveway in the way
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that blocks the sidewalk. So you know, a lot of places.
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The driveway is not very long into an apartment complex or
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your house, whatever. So when people stop the car on
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the driveway but their car blocks the sidewalk, this is
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such a basic thing for me. For a regular, fully able human
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being like me that has no difficulty walking and
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especially walking around things, it might seem to you no
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big deal. But what if someone is, You
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know, like, what if, like, an elderly person with a Walker
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needs to, like, is walking on the sidewalk, taking a stroll,
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and they've got a Walker? And, like, it's difficult for
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them to walk around your car, which is blocking a sidewalk.
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Also, especially if you could have just moved your car up,
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like by three feet further into the driveway, and so that your
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car is not blocking the sidewalk, you can stop in the
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driveway without blocking the sidewalk.
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That like, drives me crazy. Even more because there was like
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no reason at all for you to not be blocking the sidewalk.
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Someone's in a wheelchair and they can't go around your stupid
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car that you could just move three feet up and it drives me
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crazy. This is exactly what happened,
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like a few months ago when I was walking back to from the gym and
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this car pulled into a driveway, fully blocking the sidewalk.
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And they could have easily pulled up another three feet and
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be completely clear of the sidewalk.
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And they could have like stayed stopped in their driveway for
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whatever the reason that they have because they explosive by
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explosive diarrhea needed to get in their house or something.
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But I was so miffed. I was like, I'm going to take a
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photo of this or I'm taking video of this.
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I'm going to post it on Tiktok, so I posted this photo.
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I was like walking towards the car, but it's like from 30 feet
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away I can tell the whole side was blocked.
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So like from like 30 feet away. Whipped up my camera, started
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recording and I recorded as I was walking towards the car and
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I was like and I was. And also as I was walking around
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the back of it and as I got closer, I realized there were
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like two or three people at like that were clearly with the car
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in some capacity. That was just like chit chatting
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about something. I don't know, they weren't
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fighting that they had, you know, they were just having a
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nice pleasant conversation and I made sure to get their faces in
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this fucking video. So I posted that and that one's
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got like 41,000 views. So I think that video was
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successful I think, or it got some number of hits.
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But my other videos have like 5 views.
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I think that one got some clicks because probably because the
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caption that I put on there because I like wrote this like
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very very sarcastic rant in the caption that was like a mini
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paragraph. It wasn't just like a one liner,
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it was like super, super sarcastically done.
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So maybe I'd do more of those. There you go.
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But yeah, I want to like, brainstorm some ideas of like
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videos I can make. Because again, this doesn't
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happen by accident. That will give me some number of
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views, and I don't need a million views.
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I just want to figure out like, you know, get experience with
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how to create successful videos. They need to go like viral per
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SE. Yeah, just learn how to do
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TikTok. You have tips to give me on how
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to do Tick Tock? Please leave them the comments
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down in the YouTube description below.
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The YouTube description below. But yeah, next time next week
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when I get back I will hopefully have a report from you on my
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trip to Taiwan for pride. Until next time, bye.