Us.

Ta-da!!!

Cheers to the beginning of a wonderful blog and tons of fun blog entries to come!!

JM and I, the two BRICs RT Leaders, seem to find each other either online every day or at least every other day,

and we’ve been having many many delightfully charming and fun Skype/Gmail-chat conversations. (as you can probably see from JM’s previous entry)

I guess I’ll further the introductions of ourselves that JM began in the previous entry by sharing with you a little bit more of our craziness.

I’d like to make 2 points about ourselves today

(I’m a debater in my life outside of JASC… once a debater, we’re cursed with the spell of often needing to clarify what points we’re trying to make)

1. We think up of (random/crazy/weird/amazing… insert adjective of choice) things… and make them happen

2. We have a bit of friendly competition going between us

But unlike debate, I don’t think I’ll need to add on many words or further explanation….

Our conversation log basically speaks for itself.

So here we go:

POINT 1. Team JMD=YT makes things happen.

JM messages me with what was supposed to be a serious, and short, 3 line confirmation about a JASC project we’re working on…

Let me just say that it turned out to be neither.

Somehow, the conversation turns to “Waltzing Matilda,”

the national song of Australia.

(Oh wait, oh yeah it wasn’t even the flow of the conversation - JM just suddenly started singing it.)

Jon-Michael: Once a jolly swagman set beside a billabong
under the shade of a koolibah tree
and he sang as he sat and rested while his billy boiled
Yuri: waltzing matilda!
Jon-Michael: Will you come a-waltzing matilda with me?
I'm surprised you recognized.
Yuri: walzing matilda, waltzing matilda, you'll come a waltzing matilda with meeee... that song could have a lot of different uses

Jon-Michael: Indeed.
Yuri: it could be slowed down and sung in a whispering kind of voice and used in a horror
it would be scary
Jon-Michael: ... WTF.

5 minutes later,

JM messages me again… with this.

Walzing Matilda

Yuri：　whoa dude this is creepy
Jon-Michael: Hey, you came up with it.
I just made it happen
Yuri: ewwwww it reminds me of THE RING ahhhhhhh
Jon-Michael: You're gonna die in WALTZING MATILDA!

POINT 2. WE’RE COMPETITIVE.

Yuri: i havent seen movies in forevahhh

Jon-Michael: PS, we should have movie night in Osaka.
Yuri: PPS, or in Tokyo.
Jon-Michael: PPPS, no, Osaka.
Yuri: PPPPS, bet Tokyo has more movie rental places
Jon-Michael: PPPPPS, I know of a rental place on my walk home

Yuri: PPPPPPS, as do i. PPPPPPPS, ITS ON

Jon-Michael: PPPPPPPPS, Wait, what?
Yuri: PPPPPPPPPS, we are dorks
Jon-Michael: Always have been, my dear

Jon-Michael: I am pretty postive that I got the best RT partner.
Yuri：　pretty?
Jon-Michael: pretty meaning, absolutely sure of it.
Yuri: I am 150% positive that Ive got the best RT partner
hows THAT
Jon-Michael: Not as good as the 300% that I am.
Yuri: --> 450%
Jon-Michael: tcha, my assuredness is OVER 9000!!!(%)

Yuri: hahahahaha WELL MINE is like zimbabwe's inflation rate
Jon-Michael: (or America's)
Yuri: haha well zimbabwes is like 250million(%) i wonder what life would be like...youd have like a room full of money and it wouldnt mean anything

Jon-Michael: Oh, you want a bowl of rice? That's $5,000,000

... In case you're wondering...

Of course, as RT leaders, we also talk about the course of our RT too.

Jon-Michael: (we should probably just start a separate blog NOT about RT... but about our craziness...)

I'm pretty sure we would have plenty of entries
Yuri: if we keep on going like this on our RT blog one of 2 things will happen
1. noone will apply for the BRICs RT
2. BRICs RT will be the most popular RT in history
Jon-Michael: (in the case of 2, all we will do is talk about crazy stuff and final forum will be a slowed down horror movie about zimbabwean inflation and waltzing matilda)
(and onigiri filling)

... horror movie? walzing matilda? zimbabwe?

... BRICs???

maybe our RT will be all of the above.

In any case, I know for sure,

that it will be absolutely amazing.