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Title: Slight change of location
Post by: Qhimm on 2004-09-06 03:00:47: I'm currently typing this at an Internet cafÃ© at Arlanda airport, Stockholm, Sweden. It's 5 in the morning, in a few hours my flight will leave for Paris, and a few hours after that I will be on the flight towards my final destination: Tokyo, Japan.

Much of my work will be on hold until I manage to set up a laptop and an internet connection, and I might thus also be gone from here for a while. Fear not, though. I will from time to time keep an eye on you all, even without a high-speed connection. ;)

P.S. Beware of wandering the central Stockholm train station at nighttime. I was trying to find my way to the airport and ended up being escorted away by armed security guards... :oops:
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Post by: oglsmm on 2004-09-06 03:14:57: haha

Moving for good, or just visiting? I wish I could visit Europe... so expensive though.

Good Luck and Have fun, don't cause to many incidents in Train Stations :p

PS - Shouldn't this be in Completely unrelated.... I'm kidding... just being a jerk.
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Post by: Bunnie-Maru on 2004-09-06 03:35:28: Just out of curiosity..

Why did they stop you? Seems rather useless to be escorting civilians away unless you stumbled into some restricted missile testing ground or had a Kalashnakov :-?
Title: Slight change of location
Post by: halkun on 2004-09-06 04:43:57: GODDANGIT!!!!

I'm going to Japan on new years.... You could of told me and we would of met up. Blast it!
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Post by: mirex on 2004-09-06 09:31:14: i'd like to travel too ... if i had time and it would not be so expensive ...
oglsmm: if you ever come to europe then you could come visit my country Slovakia ... we have everything quite cheap here and beautifull girls ;) message me if you come by, i'll be your tour guide :)
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the offer is meant for everyone ... i'll just have to find some free time ...
Title: Slight change of location
Post by: Aaron on 2004-09-06 12:00:05: Hmm...
I've never done any traveling outside of the U.S. myself, but this May I am going to Kenya for two weeks. :D
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Post by: Borman on 2004-09-06 17:14:42: Im gunna try going to Japan after i graduate high school (><)
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Post by: sfx1999 on 2004-09-06 18:46:47: If I ever get the money to travel, here are some places I would like to visit:

England
Germany
Russia
S. Korea
Taiwan
Scotland
Spain

And maybe Ireland.
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Post by: NeoS on 2004-09-06 19:00:04: Why Germany?
Germany is the dullest country I've ever been to...

I'd like to visit Jamaica once, just to taste the atmosphere. :wink:
Title: Slight change of location
Post by: Bunnie-Maru on 2004-09-06 19:20:33: I have a rule of thumb about travelling:

If their government has had 7 presidents in the last 6 months, and their latest technological advancement is the AK-47, I tend to veer past those countries...

All the time on the History Channel in the U.S. you hear stories about Americans being held hostage on vacation, i.e. Mexico, Dominican Republic, Argentina, ect. Yeah, it happens all over the world, but Central and South America seem to be the dominant source of ransomes for the U.S.

No offense or anything, Im just saying, if you live in the U.S., make sure ya know about the countries you're traveling to :-?
Title: Slight change of location
Post by: sfx1999 on 2004-09-06 19:28:21: Tip: stay out of Mexico City.
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Post by: Bunnie-Maru on 2004-09-06 21:09:18: My father went down to Mexico on some cruise I found out while visiting him this summer. He told me about how polluted the air was, and how they wouldn't serve any American or any other beer except Mexican...

Not to mention he went on the cruise with his wife's (Notice I didnt say mother) ex-husband and his new girlfriend...

Yikes! :o
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Post by: J*** H******* on 2004-09-06 21:51:16: Message.
Title: Slight change of location
Post by: Bunnie-Maru on 2004-09-06 21:53:30: Well, besides the fact they supposedly wernt that good, nothing really.
Title: Slight change of location
Post by: NeoS on 2004-09-06 22:54:45: Hey, nothing beats a Heiney... :wink:
Sorry. :oops:
Title: Slight change of location
Post by: Qhimm on 2004-09-07 04:56:37: Quote from: halkun
GODDANGIT!!!!

I'm going to Japan on new years.... You could of told me and we would of met up. Blast it!

Heh I'm going to be here for the next 11 months, so...

NOTE: Student dormitory room has built-in free internet. Yay ^^
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Post by: halkun on 2004-09-07 05:01:13: Cool, where are you? We will meet up then! I'm going to be in Kanagawa.
Title: Slight change of location
Post by: Bunnie-Maru on 2004-09-07 05:02:55: Im guessing you're studying there? 11 months seems quite a long time for a vacation.

Quote from: Qhimm
Student dormitory room has built-in free internet.

But is it good? 11 months of going from Broadband to 56k can drive anyone mentally ill...
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Post by: halkun on 2004-09-07 05:05:50: Sounds like JET to me.... Qhimm... Jump into IRC ^_^
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Post by: Qhimm on 2004-09-07 05:17:29: Quote from: halkun
Cool, where are you? We will meet up then! I'm going to be in Kanagawa.

Heh, where in Kanagawa? I'm living in Yokohama, so looks like distance won't be a huge problem :P Dunno where I'll be specifically during new year, but I imagine I won't be far away...

Quote from: Bunnie-Maru
Im guessing you're studying there? 11 months seems quite a long time for a vacation.

Exchange student, quite right. Studying at Tokyo Kogyo Daigaku (Tokyo Institute of Technology), to be precise.

And the connection seems to have about the same downstream I usually get at home from servers like Qhimm.com... Upstream is limited though, so I'm betting it's some form of aDSL (haven't examined it closer). Anyway, it works fine for me ^^

*looks for IRC client*
Title: Slight change of location
Post by: Bunnie-Maru on 2004-09-07 05:20:31: The dormitory and student part helped :P

How exactly did you end up getting escorted by armed guards? That still puzzles me. Or are you not at liberty to discuss that..? >_>
Title: Slight change of location
Post by: Qhimm on 2004-09-07 05:34:49: It would seem my internet connection is a bit restrictive on ports, so at present I'm not getting on any IRC it seems.

Well I'm not sure what it was about myself either... something about the central being closed that time of night and I wasn't allowed to be there. Which was odd, seeing as the train stopped there and opened its doors for us to disembark...
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Post by: M0T on 2004-09-07 23:14:48: Quote from: Bunnie-Maru
Well, besides the fact they supposedly wernt that good, nothing really.

He obviously never had any

(http://beerpictures.net/corona/tt/corona-beer-pictures-05.jpg)

Out of interest what does he usually drink?
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Post by: Bunnie-Maru on 2004-09-08 00:32:50: BeerPictures.net...wow...

I usually see him with a Budweiser in his hand, but even then, he doesnt really drink often.
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Post by: J*** H******* on 2004-09-08 06:03:40: Message.
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Post by: Bunnie-Maru on 2004-09-08 06:20:09: I cant help what the man drinks :P

I am suprised, its so damn popular over here it seems for it so get such low scores (I even noticed alot of the reviews were from the U.S.). Maybe its just the commercials. It might not taste good, but those lizards are very humerous. There, a lesson to you overseas:

Americans like Iquanas.

You could be selling water at 20 dollars a bottle, you put some Iguanas in your commercial, people will rush for the stores.

And to you answer your question: American beers suck. I cant vouch for that (Dont really want to go near the stuff), but I'll take everyone else's word.
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Post by: Caddberry on 2004-09-08 18:29:58: Wow Qhimm.. I'm jealous! There is a foreign exchange student I met that is living in Tokyo.. She was very very cute.. .. Yep.. Hey Jealousy..

Not only that, but that will look mighty sweet on a resume..

Have fun in Tokyo Qhimm..
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Post by: NeoS on 2004-09-08 21:03:33: Quote from: Bunnie-Maru
I cant help what the man drinks :P

I am suprised, its so damn popular over here it seems for it so get such low scores (I even noticed alot of the reviews were from the U.S.). Maybe its just the commercials. It might not taste good, but those lizards are very humerous. There, a lesson to you overseas:

Americans like Iquanas.

You could be selling water at 20 dollars a bottle, you put some Iguanas in your commercial, people will rush for the stores.

And to you answer your question: American beers suck. I cant vouch for that (Dont really want to go near the stuff), but I'll take everyone else's word.

That's why Heineken rulez! :love: