What’s a-happening

I have only been in Vietnam for less than two weeks, and already I have achieved:

· Driving lessons including reverse parking (all done with the new car)*
· Experimenting with a new type of car that doesn’t need any finite resources such as gas, petrol, and nor does it need solar energy. It moves from when you move the steering wheel. Frigging awesome, but only comes in small sizes so far. Hope to remedy that one day.*
· Taught my three year old cousin how to drive*
· Jumped off a bridge into a river
· Floated on a piece of HUGE foam, as big as a single bed. Possibly stolen
· Saw a really crap re-enactment of A-dam and Ev-a and the rest of the bible (it was bloody sexist so I didn’t stick around)
· Went to some traditional weddings
· Filmed almost the entire thing (I had a toilet break and lunch)
· Saw a photo mafiya (paparazzi) *
· Someone calling the grooms phone right in the middle of several important ceremonies with her face all covered up.
· Was in several car crashes with the new model car (kind of like bumper cars except one ran into my head while I was stargazing. OUCH!)
· Aforementioned stargazing
· Made muc which is basically just coconut cooked with sugar
· Babysat heaps of kids (lost count)*
· Helped build a house*
· Learnt about flower, fruit and bread arrangements (yeah, there’s an actual art to bread arranging. All for a wedding)
· Saw LOTS of DRUNK PEOPLE
· Experimented with insomniac (I’ve been normally sleeping nine hours, now I’m clocking seven, stay up to eleven when my curfew is ten, as said by The Midnight Beast. I’m sleeping less because there is so much chores to do)
· Growing a type of mushroom (that’s fun, except they dry so easily)
· Went riding on a motorbike without a helmet.
· Saw one of the best movies ever made, a bloody brilliant one called Inception.
· Made a totem (If you’ve watched Inception, you’ll know what I am talking about, if you don’t then google it. Or watch Inception)
· Got bitten by mozzies
· Went up and down an elevator for no apparent reason at Can Tho International Airport (look it up)
· Started learning two new languages and an old one (I will be one of those people who know five languages if I could be bothered)

Of course, the ones asteric marked are exaggerated or hiding some of the truth. There’s more but I can’t be bothered remembering them and writing them down here.

My eyebrows must have abs…

What do you make of this sentence?
Stupid? Idiotic? Bimbo? Dumb? Good enough to be sent into the ‘Overheard’ section of the mX?

But before you jump to conclusions, I need to set the scene.

Someone is complaining of a cramp in her eyebrow. Cramps only happen to anything with muscles, so this is a cramp of muscle. Therefore, it is justifiable that her eyebrows have “abs” which really mean muscles.

This is a good lesson (or is it moral?) not to judge people by what they say if you don’t know them. Because we all have said stupid things, and not all of us can be stupid because stupidity is the state of being less intelligent to others. If we were all stupid, then there wouldn’t be any stupidity because that is the normal state of intelligence.

It is also a good point to actually think before you say. Because you might end up saying something like ‘My eyebrows have abs’, and reputations take a lifetime to build; but only seconds to destroy.

And in case you’re wondering, it takes me two seconds to say that statement.