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IHADAV8 Playground / Re: What is Jim doing and who cares...

« on: November 12 2011, 03:26:59 AM »

yep still alive and kicking, maybe a little hung over, it is it still drunk. lol not sure yet.

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IHADAV8 Playground / Re: What is Jim doing and who cares...

« on: November 12 2011, 03:25:47 AM »

Who is Jim......











Glad you are still alive and kicking

don't know how that Jim guy is either sure as heck don't care. lol

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IHADAV8 Playground / Re: What is Jim doing and who cares...

« on: November 12 2011, 03:24:44 AM »

Have a good time and remember not to get married there. I can just see you dressed up like Elvis with some poor chicas on your arm.

Dang smileys aint working again.

you forgot drunk chicas lol

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IHADAV8 Playground / What is Jim doing and who cares...

« on: November 11 2011, 07:13:42 AM »

Well still working in Abu Dhabi, weather has gotten cooler and almost need a light jacket at night...gettin g down to a very cool 23C now.
I'll be heading off for sometime off 30 Nov for 1 week, going to see my sister in Vegas.....
Hmm me in Vegas. 


Back under my rock.

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IHADAV8 Playground / Re: Losing My Mind

« on: November 11 2011, 04:14:14 AM »

It's called not_being_30_a nymore.

What's 30...I don't remember anymore

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IHADAV8 Playground / Re: 2nd trip to Jilin China

« on: September 16 2011, 03:21:12 AM »

ok last one for now, and I thought this should be by it's self. I know I have talked about the driving here before, but out of all the countries Ihave been/driven in. This is by far the most strange.
She picked me up for lunch today and how did we get back out on the street......


WE DROVE ON THE SIDEWALK, until she found a place to get back out on to the street.
Just beep your horn and they move out of the way 

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IHADAV8 Playground / Re: 2nd trip to Jilin China

« on: September 16 2011, 03:15:58 AM »

The happy couple out for pizza...hmm not like in the states.







Younger brther and wife waiting for pizza...can they be any father apart..lol. This was after he was making fun of her be fat.
I thought for sure he was going to get a chopstick in the eye.









SO HOT

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IHADAV8 Playground / Re: 2nd trip to Jilin China

« on: September 16 2011, 03:10:54 AM »

some more pics


BBQ on the river







The city at night







The sun coming up at 5am, I stopped on the bridge during my morning walk.







another dinner, her mother is in the corner.

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IHADAV8 Playground / 2nd trip to Jilin China

« on: September 16 2011, 03:00:21 AM »

And can say I love this place.
This trip will be here for 12 days, on my 6th day now.
She took me to the movies and watched The Smurf movie, of course it was in Chinese, but I could follow along pretty good.

I got my first terror ride in a cab yesterday...da ng that took a while, thought I would have gotten it on the first trip or with-in the first couple of days.

I was showing her younger brother some pictures and he saw one on my office back in America were I had put up a sign in Chinese. He got a real kick out of it (ok maybe it was some bad words  ) He has been telling the rest of the family about it and asked his sister if she was the one that teach me this.  hehe.
She said NO!, he teach himself.

Since I have been here she has worried that I will get lost, even going back to the room from eating breakfast 
I go out for walks everyday and if I buy something, she starts asking me how I buy this???
Did you get lost? You call me and I will send a taxi to pick you up. (I'm thinking that I'm lost, how is that taxi going to find me, haha)
I get a real kick out of this, she knows that I work in many different countries(even China), but that doesn't seem to matter when I'm in China with her. 

Did I say before that I get stared at a lot....
I do get a few brave souls that will come up to me and ask where I'm from.
Most will just ask her younger brother or the GF.
Had a couple of young girls let me in their shop when I got caught out in a heavy rain storm.
Tonight after dinner was finish I was waiting for the GF with her mother by the front door, and a bunch of guys started yaking away at me to come drink beer, before I could even finish saying No. Her mother shoved me out the door  guess no beer drinking for Jim when out with mother.



Already have my next trip planned for Oct, but only for a couple of days. Her other older brother is getting married. GF and family want me to come, so all ready have it cleared thru work. One good thing about my job is I can go anywhere I want for time off as long as it doesn't cost them any more money. It's actually cheaper for me to come here for my time off, then to send me back to America...LOL. Works out great for me, and makes her happy I'm not spending money to fly here.
Well off to get lost and stared at like I just fell out of the mothership. Take care round eye is on the move.
here's some pics.
She picked me up at the airport this time, and yes I sat in the front seat. I couldn't think of anything to get out of it 



my B-day cake she got me


Younger brother and wife having cake with us. Note to self...no stupid grins when taking pics



Dinner with older brother, his wife and younger brother...In the typical fashion they keep putting food in front of me saying eat, eat ,eat.
It was all foods from Jilin that they wanted me to try. Crap I'm getting FAT....

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IHADAV8 Playground / Re: The begining of my trip to Jilin, China

« on: June 05 2011, 11:17:58 PM »

Yes the are still here and driving with out their lights on, but it appears that they have upgraded to 60 era trunks for half of them. I think that other half ended up the the accident that I saw on the first day.

Just so everyone knows, that's not my girlfriend in the picture, it's one of her friends that has been helping play tour guide and to translate for her little brother.
She couldn't get off work for the first 2 days and I could change my dates for coming.
So she made plays on keeping me busy everyday.  And I can say that they have done a great job of that. Every time they bring me back to the hotel they walk me to my room. maybe they think I'll get lost :rofl;
He only knows one sentence..."You ok?" I think he learned this just to ask after every road trip we take   :rofl;

Sitting in the lobby now waiting on GF and mother Today is Dragon boat festival

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IHADAV8 Playground / Re: The begining of my trip to Jilin, China

« on: June 05 2011, 11:40:15 AM »

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IHADAV8 Playground / Re: The begining of my trip to Jilin, China

« on: June 05 2011, 11:36:32 AM »

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IHADAV8 Playground / Re: The begining of my trip to Jilin, China

« on: June 05 2011, 11:32:57 AM »

After a good nights sleep, I woke up at 3:30am and took a walk down the river
Got a couple of strange looks from the locals that where up having a walk too. Guess they are not use to seeing a American.I did say good morning in Chinese to the men on my morning walk and got a double take.  





Today her little brother and a friend took me site seeing around town while she worked. So it's easier to say how many lights he did not run.... 1

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IHADAV8 Playground / The begining of my trip to Jilin, China

« on: June 05 2011, 11:29:47 AM »

Well after many plans and having to cancel all of them, I finilly made it to girlfriends home town of Jilin, China yesterday.

She had to work, so could not meet me at the airport. I told her no problem as her boss already let her have 2 holidays to go to Korea and Hongkong to meet me.

She had her younger brother meet me at the airport (Changchun) to give me a ride to the hotel in Jilin. It's about a 45 minute drive that he managed to do in about 30 minutes. lol. With in the first 3 minutes he was passing cars on the shoulder. When we got into town he was passing on shoulder, across the centerline onto on coming traffic, lost count on the number of red lights that he ran....He spoke no english expect on thing, "You OK?"
Once in the hotel he gave me about 30 minutes to take a shower and off to a early dinner.
He had ditched the car and was back with a taxi and his girlfriend. I guess he thought I would like American, so take me to a place that had American food too.
I guess he didn't know of all the things I have already eatten, lol.

My plane from Beijing to Changchun





Dinner with her little brother and his girlfriend

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IHADAV8 Playground / osama bin laden

« on: May 13 2011, 04:56:46 PM »

where would we try him?