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Published: 2010-02-21 14:47:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 2265; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 21
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You know what the hard part about Chinese Wrestling is (aside from being the only girl in class)?It's taught in Chinese =_=
My level of Chinese is good enough that I can shop, haggle, give directions, make small talk, and yell "FUCK YOUR FAMILY TO THE 18TH GENERATION!" to crazy cabbies who almost turn me into road kill.
However, it's not so good that I can understand when the teacher is trying to tell me that there's an opening I can take advantage of while I'm wrestling with a classmate. I had him in such a beautiful hold today that took him forever to get out of (to the point that we both just had to stop and rest in that position since we were both getting fatigued), but I couldn't follow through. So in the end, classmate followed teacher's instructions and tossed me and won T_T
By the way, my teacher also decided that "Yapi" is not a good name, so I have now been renamed to "Xiao Ya".
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HAHA a race of asscheeks. Sweet!
I should have suspected something was wrong when two years ago, I was being introduced to my landlady and the person who was translated for me asked if I had a Chinese name. I told her to just use "Yapi" and she hesitated and said, "I'll just tell her to call you 'Anna'" (which is my birth certificate name that I have never used in my entire life). I just shrugged and went with it!
Haha you should try it sometime, even for just a week or so! It will totally level up your skills in playing Charades! It's fun learning another language too. Although since this is already language number 4 for me (5 if you count a language I used for 8 years but now forgot) it's a little hard to stuff it in my already filled-to-capacity language storage unit >_<
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Wow! Even 4 languages is super-impressive. I've got English and enough Spanish to understand stuff on the radio. Heh, and even that small bit of Spanish is ebbing as the years go by.
You are quite the Renaissance Fangirl!
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Haha, Spanish is my lost 4th language. I went to a Spanish school for 8 years, but I never really took much of an interest in it, so purged it out of my brain as soon as I graduated!
Filipino doesn't count, because I grew up with that, and most Filipinos are expected to know how to speak English anyway, so that's not really impressive either.
So Japanese is really the only language I actually "learned", and my Chinese still sucks too much to really call it my fourth language. I can only hold a conversation for ten minutes, tops!
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If you've got Japanese and Ten-Minute Chinese, in addition to the your home languages (which totally count, by the way,) you are an amazing linguist.
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Compared to Inferior, sounds like a bandname.
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It also means "Asian Fart".
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He yells instructions at you in Chinese, and he freakin RENAMES you?!? that's a crazy teacher i tell ya.
XD the look of dread on your chibi face is too cute! XD
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Well, he doesn't know any other language other than Chinese, so he doesn't really have a choice 
ALMOST THREE YEARS IN CHINA AND NOT ONE PERSON HAS BOTHERED TO TELL ME THIS????
So yes, I gladly accept my temporary name of "Xiao Ya" while I am in China =_=
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._." ... Asian Fart... wow. eh, don't feel bad. According to the Urban Dictionary, my pen name, Idene which is my name backwards missing letters, means an idiot and a moron at the same time. ._." And you either have some bad friends, or some who don't know a lot of Chinese. XD
in case you were wondering
benedict
tcideneb
tcIDENEb. :3
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Well, yes a lot of my friends are foreigners who don't know a lot of Chinese. And I think my Chinese friends were too polite to mention it. Hah.
I *did* try to figure out where that name came from when you mentioned it, hehe.
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ah, well that sucks a bit in the case of your name. XD
yeah, I was googling Idene, and that came up. D|
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Is there much difference between regular wrestling and chinese wrestling? 
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The main difference is that in Chinese wrestling, you win as soon as you get your opponent to touch the ground with any body part aside from his feet. So a lot of it is working to either flip, toss, or trip your opponent.
Also, you start the match with your heads together and with your hands on each other's arms.
I really would prefer freestyle, but for now, this is at least quenching my need to wrestle
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Sounds interesting, I didnt know there was an actual chinese style of wrestling, I knew Mongolia and Russia has their own style but not China. Good to know now
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It's called Shuai Jiao and there is actually a style of it that originated from Mongolia.
Here, I found this on YouTube so you can see what it looks like: [link]
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Cool 
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Well, I'm still a beginner, so I won't say I'm much good, but I'm also going to say that I'm doing well enough against some guys in my class. I mean, I haven't been able to down anyone yet, but I sure give them a fucking hard time downing me as well. My matches last the longest in class
Unless it's like what my friend is saying that MAYBE there's another reason why they're lasting so long, hahahah! But I dunno, I don't think they're into fat willful chicks in China XD Girls over here are generally very very VERY delicate.
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That's good, hope you expand on your skills at chinese wrestling, I've been thinking to going back to a martial art, I could use the exercise. and I dunno, personally I like fat willful chicks so I wouldn't mind being your opponent 
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Hehe thanks, although I'm only going to be doing Chinese wrestling while I'm here in China. When I get home what I really want to do is freestyle (or in a perfect world, PRO).
Haha, seems like all the guys who appreciate fat chicks are on the internet and not in real life. I've never met a single guy who's into fat chicks
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*clears throat* Pardon me, I just gotta interject.
Guys who love the butt (and the belly and the thighs...) are real. I've GOT ONE. And it's not like he's just saying because we're engaged. I've seen all the past girlfriends. None of them are tiny.
Sorry. That's all I wanted to say. Keep the faith, they EXIST.
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Haha, they're very very scarce in Asia. All the guys I dated, all had skinny girlfriends. I was the fat exception. I bet if people try to recall me to them, all they would say is "Remember when you had a fat girlfriend?"
I'd probably have a whole lot more luck in the west XD Guys who like thighs seem to be more abundant there!
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If you do pro let me know, I'd love to see that, just wrestle in Japan or Mexico, seriously WWE Divas are a joke. WWE has some push down their talent so much, its really quite sad
True, it does seem alot of guys like that are on the net. In real life, well we're there, just not conveniently in some areas we should be in
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I'll never fit in with the WWE Divas. My waistline is thrice theirs and my boobs are real. Haha.
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Aw poor you
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He said that "Yapi" doesn't sound good =_= Either that, or he meant that it translates to something bad in Chinese.. I think it's the latter XD
I looked up the characters I use for "Yapi" and the first character means "inferior" and the second means "compare to". Haha, oh crap.
So now my new name "Xiao Ya" means "Little Asian".
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Whoops, guess its a good thing then
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Nice, Xiao Ya XD
Doode, that sucks. I like your instructor, who seemed so willing to help XD
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hahahaha my highschool chinese teacher refused to give us chinese names, because when he was in the army learning chinese during the korean war by angry political refugees, they decided the closest they could come to his name was a word that translated to "Stupid boy" and took great delight in calling him by his new name as often as they could.
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Okay, so I got the characters translated and apparently, I've been writing my name as "Inferior Fart". HAH.
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lol! that sucks! not only are you noxious gas, but you're substandard noxious gas...thats really sad
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Well, in this case, it was my name that already had a bad meaning to it, which is why he gave me a new one
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there was a kid in my highschool way back when from mexico. his name was Fuckundo
they had to give him a new name
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Haha! Yeah, and over here, Japanese and Korean people named "Tae" are recommended to use a nickname, because in Filipino, "tae" means "shit" XD
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hahahahaha reminds me of Belgium in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Thats terrible they had to change your name! (I never knew how it was pronounced so I just assume its 'yappy')
For the longest time I always thought you were fluent in chinese~
Well, heres to hoping you kick some ass in the near future!
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Hehe, yup, that's who it's pronounced ^^
Well, if it means something bad in Chinese, I can understand why they'd want to change it. It's like how in the Philippines, it recommended that a Japanese or Korean person choose a different nickname if their name is "Tae", because in Filipino, "tae" means "shit", and you don't want people calling you that
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lmao, i felt the same way during yoga in french
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Nihao Simoun! XD
(Haha I had to check your profile for your name... I didn't know we shared the same surname, though! Is your family from Bulacan? And OMG I grew up in Novaliches. My family business is in the bayan!)
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Well, my family literally came from all over the country... we're a mixed-up, messed-up bunch.
And OMG Nova Bayan! Yes! That's very close to where I live, just a tricycle ride away, actually.
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Ahaha really? So you know J&F Shopping Mall (also known as the Sogo Hotel building)?? My family owns that place XD
When I'm in the Philippines we visit my lola in Novaliches every Sunday
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Holy smokes, of course! Well this is rather interesting indeed. Gimme a buzz when you're around, eh?
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Holy smokes, of course! Well this is rather interesting indeed. Gimme a buzz when you're around, eh?
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do they HAVE TO train you in chinese?
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Well, I'm in China, and my classmates and teacher can't speak English... so, yeah
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are you native to china?
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