From: Kiev.Lo@p0.f49.n134.z1.fidonet.org (Kiev Lo)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.senior
Subject: Yo J
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 14:56:00 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:134/49.0 - The Student Exchang, Calgary Alta

 On 25 Aug 92  12:12:00, Jason Wong 
 was mumbling something to Kiev Lo 

 KL> Did I tell you that I was going to go down to DisneyWorld cuz my
 KL> friend in Vancouver brought some cheap tickets from Seattle to
 KL> Florida?  And that we were planning to go windsurfing at West Palm
 KL> Beach?  But now, I'm totally grounded for the rest of the summer
 JW> Well, I don't know exactly what happened, but all I can say is that,
 JW> don't  blame them for being too strict. I think it's just that they
 JW> care very much about you. Also, if you continue to show them that you
 JW> can be trusted and responsible, and show them that you're willing to do
 JW> what they want even if you wanted to do something else, may be they'll
 JW> ease up. Well, at least that's what I found to work.

 Emmm... in a way, I am glad that I didn't head for Florida cuz otherwise I'd
 be entrapped by Hurricane Andrew.  Maybe they (my parents) saved me from
 this or whatever, but anyway I started to think about what you said and it
 seems to make a whole lot of sense after all...
 
 JW> Well, if you plan to go to pubs at U of C, be careful, those people
 JW> can get pretty wild. I don't think your parents will appreciate you
 JW> coming home  drunk! :] Besides, all that alcohol is not good for your
 JW> liver! :]

 You're probably right... but right now, I don't think I'll get into the
 booze stuff anymore for a while... Maybe I'll drink a beer once in a while
 but I'll smarten up and try to stay sober.  After all, beers are crude stuff
 and I don't really like its taste anyway.

 JW> Yep, I'm allergic to wine and right now, I think I'm allergic to
 JW> Ragweed  pollen...aaaaCHEWWWWW......eyes are ichy too!! Argggghhh! Well
 JW> lucky for you that you don't have any allergies yet. I didn't develop
 JW> my allergy to  pollen until after I was here for about 12 yrs....so
 JW> look out!

 Ichy eyes?!  Ouch!  Do they give needle shots to prevent allergies when a
 child is born in Canada?  (well never mind, I guess not since they come in
 so many different favours)

 KL> I remember seeing a message written by you saying that you have an
 KL> 8088 CPU?  Did you just buy your PC with the VGA card?
 JW> Actually, I USED to have a 8088, without even a hard drive! I have a
 JW> 386  now, what a difference! I got the 386 back in Nov. of last year. I
 JW> upgraded to an ATI Wonder just this past April, and I've had to return
 JW> the card  twice already!! The first time was because of bad memory on
 JW> the card (so he said) and he gave me another card. Then this second
 JW> card fries!!! I've been waiting for them to fix this one!!

 So what was his (the salesman) excuse?
 
 JW> Well what I did before the first day of classes was to find all my
 JW> lecture halls first. That way, I won't be looking at a map during the
 JW> first day. I didn't want to look like a frosh!
 KL> That's an idea  I'll probably do that first thing Monday morning.
 JW> Well, how did it go? Did you find all the lecture halls? Remember, the
 JW> secret  is to NOT look like a frosh! :]

 Yeah I went last Friday and I got myself totally oriented... it took me
 almost an hour  I'm glad that I won't have to do this on the first day
 
 KL> Actually, I think my biggest class is over 400 people  I guess it'll
 KL> take me a while to get to know all of them
 JW> Get to know them ALL?!? Good luck! :] But I'm sure you'll get a chance
 JW> to   meet a lot of them. That was part of the fun of University! I
 JW> really enjoyed meeting new people. And once you specialize in an area.
 JW> Then you'll get to know those around you even more 'cause you'll have
 JW> many classes together, and struggle through the same assignments and
 JW> deadlines together. I still keep  in touch with my "group" even though
 JW> they're not living in my city. It's great!

 I'm looking forward to it.
 
 JW> Talking about messages, I started a discussion about why the BBS that
 JW> I'm on shuts down the games area at around 11:00pm. The guy who I was
 JW> discussing this with got all upset because I said that I agreed with
 JW> the SysOp in  shutting the games down at that hour. Well....he started
 JW> swearing and every- thing. I had to ask the SysOp for some background
 JW> on this person just to see why he was responding the way he was! I
 JW> actually thought that he may have some kind of mental/emotional
 JW> difficulties. Well it turned out that he was in his mid-teens...that
 JW> explained everything! :] His last message really ticked me
 JW> off..especially when I had been trying to be curteous....well I blew my
 JW> top! I lowered myself to his level and resorted to Name-Calling. I
 JW> won't tell you what he called me since I'm sure the moderator would
 JW> not allow it. Anyways. I've ended that discussion. I was kinda
 JW> surprised because I've never really had that happened to me
 JW> before....well except that one time in this echo where Mindee Hunter
 JW> may not have understanded my joke. But we resolved that and there's no
 JW> hard feelings. Oh well, I'll just be more careful from now on! And to
 JW> avoid boys that are in their Mid-Teens! :]

 I had a similar experience when I called this new BBS and it was operated
 by a pre-mature teen.  He jumped in for a chat while I was online DLing my
 mail packet and asked me to hangup because he wanted to play Leisure Suit
 Larry V or something.  It didn't just happen once, then this other time,
 he decided to cut me off while I was in the middle of replying a message
 I got SO mad that I paged him and tried to straighten it out.  I couldn't
 talk to him for a long time because he has an ego bigger than NOSEY  Not
 only he curses constantly in his lines but he also harassed me and saying
 that I'll be banned from all BBS if I don't co-operate with him (yeah
 right)  So I just ended up sending him a whole bunch of BREAK signals
 and hung up.  Talk about maturity!

 JW> Yeah, I heard that Edmonton got snow!! Several times even!! So did you
 JW> go skiing?! :]

 I wish!  There were as much snow in Calgary so they can't generate adeqeute
 artifical snow on ths slopes in Banff resorts.  I wouldn't even if there is
 cuz I'll probably be skiing on slushes and splashes everywhere!
 
 JW> I don't really like Toronto either. Especially the China town area.
 JW> It's  really dirty and the people have very bad attitudes. I especially
 JW> dislike some of the oriental teenagers there...you know the rich
 JW> kind...they've got this bad attitude like the whole world belongs to
 JW> them and they can do  whatever they what. Well....I have a problem
 JW> dealing with those types of  people. I think I should feel sorry for
 JW> them since they're probably living  in a fantasy world and if anything
 JW> "realistic" should happen to them, I doubt they would know what to do
 JW> and how to handle it.

 They'd probably be still holding onto their credit cards... <grin>

 JW> Well, it turned out okay. The first doctor that I saw just graduated
 JW> from Mac about 2 yrs ago. She seemed really friendly and easy to talk
 JW> to. She  kinda laughed in a friendly way when I started interviewing
 JW> her. She answered the question carefully and didn't make me feel
 JW> uncomfortable. She's starting the practice with her husband who's also
 JW> a doctor. She mentioned that I  should also meet her husband 'cause
 JW> "he's a really nice guy"....I quote. I also interviewed another doctor.
 JW> She graduated from a University in Czechoslovakia back in '77. Well,
 JW> the interview didn't go so well. She got kinda upset when I started
 JW> asking her questions...so I didn't bother  continuing. When I left her
 JW> office, I met a friend who worked at a pharmacy next door to the
 JW> office. She said that a lot of people complain about this doctor.
 JW> Well....I guess you know which doctor I'll be going to! :]

 I never had any trouble with the docs since I don't get sick to much. <grin>

 I know this is a LAZY reply but please write back.

 Later...

 Kiev

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