(Not so) Rainy Days

After a chaotic night's sleep, I woke up to a dreary morning. My body ached, my family informed me of my failure to pay parking tickets (which is now resulting in my mother's credit rating being threatened, which is ridiculous, but sorry!), and the weather was miserable. Gray, rainy, and gloomy. Most devastatingly, that meant no outdoor training.
However, in spite of the circumstances, I was determined not to let a good Friday be spent in the dumps. Fortunately, the world threw me a couple bones.

First of all, congyoubing lady (who doesn't actually sell congyoubing, apparently) was still out today. I needed one badly, and she didn't let me down.

Secondly, A-wei has been diligently working on translating some parkour video interviews into Chinese recently. This is important to us because there is little to no parkour material in Chinese, so it is hard for those who train to learn, and those who are ignorant to know. Anyway, today he kicked off a new website to help with the translating project. I spent a good portion of my day helping to get that going and worked on some of the translation work. My chinese is not good enough to do direct translations, so I help translate some of the English material into language that A-wei can more easily understand and translate. The site can be here.


Thirdly, upon checking my email, I learned that I was to receive a free copy of Borderlands, a recently released PC game that I had been anticipating, but couldn't afford to shell out the 50 bucks for. For those who don't know, Borderlands is a FPS/RPG hybrid, built on the simple formula of shooting bad guys and collecting the shiny loot that their corpses drop. Why would I want said game? Chaotic co-op goodness. Mmmm I love me some co-cop. Anyway, a week or so ago I learned that one of my favorite gaming websites, Co-Optimus, was having a Borderlands giveaway contest. As the rules state, you must submit an audio file of your best 'Berserker Scream'. The Berserker is the slightly psychotic, run in fists-blazing melee brawler character in the game, who apparently has an infamous battle cry (scream). Additionally, the rules say "...I don't mean any scream, it needs to be an honest to god "I'm gonna go over there and punch 20 midgets in the face" scream. Anyone can yell, but it takes talent to go berserk." Well, instead of taking a more simple approach, I decided to take their rules very literally aind included that line in my submission (see below). I tried to make my submission fit along the lines of the over-the-top humor already existing in the Borderlands universe, as was displayed by the infamous trailers for the game starring Claptrap. Anyway, apparently it was good enough to win one of two free copies...another thing to look forward to when I return home.

'Berserker Scream'


Hope everyone's day was good, till next time.