{"id":414,"date":"2002-05-15T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-15T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poagao.com\/poagao.org\/?p=414"},"modified":"2007-07-01T21:31:21","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T01:31:21","slug":"i-went-to-the-adventist-hospital-again-this-mornin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poagao.org\/2002\/i-went-to-the-adventist-hospital-again-this-mornin\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquid Brown Mixture"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to the Adventist Hospital again this morning to check up on my itises. My back is feeling better and I am walking more or less normally again, albeit* slowly. On the cold\/infection\/virus front, it seems that I was overdue for my annual opium binge<\/a>, so they gave me a couple of bottles of the concoction known by its scientific name “Liquid Brown Mixture<\/a>” today along with my huge bag o’ pills<\/a>. Consequently, I’ve been feeling rather mellow today. There was a rather large earthquake<\/a>, and I didn’t even notice. I got out of the elevator at work to find people rushing around excitedly. “Where were you during the earthquake?” one of my co-workers asked. “What earthquake?” I asked, and immediately got a look of disbelief. I’m not surprised I didn’t notice, though. I’m even feeling amicably towards the Office Vampires<\/a> today. The water’s going to be cut off at the office tomorrow, since the Xinyi District’s turn according to the rationing plan, though. I doubt I’ll be feeling very amicably towards that.<\/p>\n

After an excruciating trip<\/a> from the American midwest to our polluted, drought\/quake-stricken island, My friend Mindcrime<\/a> is now back in Taiwan, although he hasn’t made it up to Taipei yet. Perhaps he will venture up here to see Episode II when it opens this weekend. Dean <\/a>called me up last night after an evening of drunken antics at Q Bar and proposed that we should get everyone together at Jake’s on Sunday and then rush the theater. I’ve got a bad feeling….nah, actually it sounds fun.<\/p>\n

Speaking of movies, I recently watched On the Waterfront<\/a>. Is it just me, or did they accidentally lose the voice tracks and replace Marlon Brando’s voice with that of Billy Crystal and Eve Marie Saint’s with that of Andie Macdowell? Also, I had no idea that Karl Malden was such a good actor. I really only remembered him from all of those American Express commercials. With this in mind, I also recently bought Patton <\/a>on DVD. Best war movie ever, as far as I’m concerned. Much better than Saving Private Ryan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

*I once used the word “albeit” in a research report on German sports cars for my 7th-grade English class at Maitland Junior High school. Mrs. Gwinn, my teacher, refused to believe that I had come up with that word myself and accused me of having my parents write the report for me. My mother had a talk with the teacher and managed to convince her that I had written the report on my own.<\/p>\n

I liked Rosalie Gwinn, though. She was a good teacher. It’s just that this kind of thing was always happening to me in that period of my life, since I had made up my mind at some point in junior high school to begin applying myself to get better grades, actually since I was informed that they actually meant <\/em>something and could have something to do with my going to college or not. My reputation, however, was that of a rather poor student, and the sudden onset of entrances to honor societies, gifted programs and the life, confounded many an educator. Once my Civics teacher wouldn’t let me leave the classroom to attend the yearbook photography for the honor roll students. I had to show her my name on the list, which of course embarrassed her in front of the entire class. She got back at me with a none-too-subtle touche <\/em>by giving me my only C that year, kicking me off the honor roll. And now I’m getting back at her by, uh….not mentioning her name here. I’m sure she’ll be devastated. Truth is, I’ve completely forgotten her name. So there!<\/p>\n

Ah, the memories…*drinks some more Liquid Brown Mixture*.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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