Monday Morning Not Mourning

It was started actually on 19th of August Sunday when somebody on the archery people posted how to swear in Germans but since it was already late at night and this conversation continue until Monday morning the 20th of August. Usually every Monday at precise exact German 12:00 noon time Tim will post an announcement so that we can register for the archery game on Sunday the following week, but since it was Xiaker’s race so there was no sign up and this is when it happened!

It was started with Thorben explained quote: “the beauty of German language is that we can concatenate as many nouns as we wish and it still makes sense!”

Followed by Luxembourgish guy Raoul wrote a sentence Donaudampfschifffahrtskapitansmutzenhaterung. (yes it has 3 f and its correct).

And  Aggy challenged Thorben to add 1 more word after Raoul’s…..and here it goes: Donaudampfschifffahrtskapitansmutzenhalterungbefestigungsschraube. (Look how long it is!)

and the updated one to: Donaudampfschifffahrtskapitansmutzenhalterungbefestigungsschraubengewindeschneider.

and if that’s not enough, here is the final words: Donaudampfschifffahrtskapitansmutzenhalterungbefestigungsschraubengewindeschneiderfertigungsanlagenbediener.

and the translation will be: the person using a machine that produces devices to cut the thread on the screw that you use to mount the holding a captain of a steam boat on the river Donau uses to store his hat!

UNBELIEVABLE! and I know it will be so hard to picture it so our dear German friend-Andy made a picture of it:

I need to took a very deep breath to read this sentence:

I will have to ask Thorben to record this video and will update it again! So far, I only have a voice record of him reading this sentence. But both of us need to write the sentence first on paper and then read it.

I was laughing so hard when I read all this messages so that particular Monday morning was not mourning at all! These guys genuinely have a funny heart! Sometimes some random things goes to this Hungover Games group chat and that random things makes this group chat one of the group chat that I don’t want to skip reading it.

 

Sports…. sports….. and burp

6 days more to the Xiaker’s Competition!

I was actually preparing myself for more than a month, I don’t like running before (not that I like running now) but now is I can run, I usually only go to the gym to have my Mindarts and Zumba class, I never step on the treadmill but because I will go to this Xiaker’s then I will have to train myself to run at the treadmill. I did improved a bit, until I was sick a month ago then I had vertigo for about 3 weeks so I didn’t really exercise….until…. 18th of August!

It was me, Thorben and Yves. Yves wasn’t so sure he will join us, so at first me and Thorben “planned” to run for 7K and then work out at Airpark. All 3 of us was super ontime, mostly because Thorben is Germans so he will always ontime, we met at Jingan Temple Station at 8:30.

I really f&%*ed up with their running pace, because I was so slow and I could’t run as fast as they could. I did 900meters for 11 minutes haha! and I was super exhausted already! I kept drinking Vita Coco while running but Thorben took it away.

At some point, I was so afraid that I will faint, and I felt like I want to puke and I had to sit down infront of idk maybe its a hotel or so but then it was only a burp 😛 and I’m totally fine haha

We finally arrived at Hushan Park, Yves and Thorben did 5K, while me…… idk maybe only 1K haha and then we biked to Airpark while Yves ran.

I have no idea how I can ran 7K with 30 obstacles in between, but one thing that I know and Thorben advise is QUITTING IS NOT AN OPTION. I also want to finish this race, but seriously I can’t catch up with your speed!

Look at what a motivation from Yves 🙂

And this is just when we started to run from Jingan to Airpark to put our bag there so I was still not that far behind haha