My favourite London restaurant is Cantonese. Good Cantonese is very good.

I haven't been for a while; I think seems it had gained one more Michelin star since I went. (It now has two.)

A Wong's, near Victoria, if anyone happens to fancy it

Yet you say the best thing to eat in Singapore is Chinese.

My point is that you're talking out your ass... again.


ETA: SE Asian cuisine is basically fusion Indian/Chinese... again... baffling.

They must have combined good ingredients. And yes indeed those se Asians use lemongrass, tumeric, a bit soy, etc etc. Their curry better than that overseasoned Indian stuff.

Look, when Michelin showed up to Japan they suddenly found hundreds of stars. If I was uber rich, it would be nonstop japanese cuisine. They are perfectionists. That's a damn good cuisine.

Chinese on the other hand is for poors. They eat dog, chicken feet, the whole damn animal. My ex's dad use to make some fatty pork she called 1,2,3 pig or some shiet. Sure it was tasty but it was all fat.

Sorry, but nobody in their right mind thinks Chinese cuisine is top5. Maybe a few think it's top10. In my travels, I think I look for it only in desperation or if I want spend a few bucks.

Living in China would be sending me to hell.

For overall variation in cuisine, Vegas is pretty damn good.

I don't get those Korean BBQ spots though. No man, I don't want to cook my own damn meat, that's why I came to a restaurant.

Just thoughts from a well traveled man, we all have different tastes. What do they eat in Eastern Europe? Sausage? Pass. Russian cuisine for sure looks like bland shiet. Germany was terrible. Italy? Oh, tellmemore, do like.

You seem to be missing the point. You are a food donk who routinely makes embarrassing comments on cuisine due to being ignorant.

If the Tex-Mex rant wasn't enough, we have this masterclass on self-delusion.

BTW Japanese cuisine is derived from Chinese and shares similarities with Korean which was also derived from Chinese. If you were self-aware enough to troll this subject, this would be a true masterpiece of performance autistry (h/t Monte). Instead these are just the ruminations of the deluded.

Sounds like you saying all asian food the same.


Similar to all Asians look alike.


Tsss tssss tsssss.

Locobro is really putting on a show. While the general take of "Chinese food bad" is laughable, there are a couple of loco observations I agree with.

1. While there is a lot of great Chinese food, there is a lot of (what I would consider) really unpalatable Chinese food also. That is just a natural function of the cuisine being so diverse. It has a lot more foods, so just by sheer numbers, it may have more "bad" foods. But generally when people are judging a cuisine they judge it by foods they would actually consume.

2. You're right about Japanese chefs being perfectionists, but I think that carries over to all of the stuff you get there. Some of the best Chinese food I ever had was in Japan. Same with Italian. When they decide to cook shiet, they don't mess around. For this reason, I find most Japanese food outside of Japan to be not nearly as good.

It also works the other way. Next time you're in Japan, go to a good Chinese restaurant. You will be blown away. One thing I noticed is that portions are kind of small, but since you eat like an ant, you should be good. 'Murica has gotten me accustomed to obesity inducing portion sizes.

I don't know, I've never been an English teacher. I taught CIE A-Levels Further Math for 2 years, 7 years of CIE A-Levels and IGCSE Economics, 1 semester as sole instructor for principals of microeconomics, and 1 semester as TA for International Economics. I'm applying to econ teaching jobs, but I'd probably do better if I started applying to more math teaching jobs. Frankly, I am not a good math teacher. As you point out (I think jokingly), most high school economics is essentially just a very specific ESL writing class with very little actual problem solving or actual economics. I'd really love to get some PE teaching experience some day...

I got one brutal ego blow of a Thai school saying they don't even want to give me an interview for the economics teaching post I applied to because I only have a British PGCE (as opposed to QTS) and have never taught in the UK, but after looking at my resume they'd love to interview me to teach little children aged 8-9 basic oral mandarin. I've only ever seen one non-native Chinese teacher in Thailand. I reckon that if even one native speaker with a pulse and any non-mainland Chinese educational credential shows up I cannot be offered this job. Interview is thursday...

It's funny you all mentioned Sinapore. I was looking at jobs there just yesterday before I ever opened my log recently. The job market there is much better than Thailand. Thailand schools are nearly all British and they have this semi-imperialist mindset of trying to "civilize" the locals by authentically recreating a British K-12 environment. I'm not in any place ot judge about whether or not this is a good or realistic goal, but I can see why some random American guy from China who's never set foot in the UK makes it hard to recreate such an environment. For Thai schools, a 26 year old English FOB who's never been to Asia with an education degree who barely knows any economics at all is probably going to get the job over me. Singapore doesn't care about that kind of stuff and is more open to other nationalities, so I'm more competitive there from having so many years of experience + graduate degree in my subject. 11-15k SGD/mo. I have no idea how far that goes in SG... peasant wages to pro gambler loco or Notthremp I'm sure.

It's probable I succumb to stockholm syndrom and just end up staying here even if I do have options to leave. The absolute BIG DICK decision I could make is to move to Thailand without even looking for a job and just import Chinese raw steroid powders, brew em up, and start wholesaling to pharmacies. I actually did talk to a few pharmacies about this in my last trip there in December 2019. This is very much "grey market" and unstable, however. And just selling gear to gymrats/users is probably not going to be a great living.

Legs
HBBS: 120kgx8, 100kgx8x3
Leg press: 3ppsx20x3
Hamstring curls: 3 sets
Glute press machine: 3 sets

Today little halloween deadlift competition but I deadlift monday so I'll just pull like 180kg.


Chinese food: Chinese food in mainland china is mostly super awful. Decades of famine set back food culture in this country and many of the things that are eaten here would arouse complete disgust in any person from anywhere else in the world. But as you are all correct about, there's a huge amount of regional variation because it's a surprisingly culturally diverse place despite not being ethnically diverse. Sichuan cuisine is definitely much better than what I'd gotten used to the first 6 years. I was in Jiangsu before and the food there is truly an abomination. Chinese food in other asian countries or HK/Macau is typically amazing and way better versions of what they serve in dirt mainland.

I love all the SEA cuisine I've had. Especially Indonesian... I was surprised they seem to have such great stews in Indonesia.

15K Singapore Dollars/month is probably around loco level, but it's been a while for me. The key is housing. A lot of these schools will give some sort of housing allowance or have some sort of subsidized housing that is available. If your housing is covered, then you're living pretty well. Even if not, you should still be OK. Way above peasant level.

You just need to get the PED situation figured out. Surely you have some connections that can give you a firm answer on that.

I dunno why I thought you taught English despite knowing you don't teach English. Prob getting old.

Back to the autism tho:

1) Chinese food != Chinese cuisine. This is an amusing thing with people neckbearding about authentic Chinese foods and then recommending a hotel restaurant for the authentic experience.
2) I think the most off putting aspect of Asian cuisine is the use of slimy textures which most Westerners (including myself) find utterly disgusting. Natto is probably the worst offender that people eat on the reg. Japanese people are freaks.

On a side derail, do all the eggs have paper thin shells in China? This is the real mark of poverty, when chickens don't have enough minerals in their feed to make a decent shell.

3) Weirdly, I find Indonesian one of the worst food places in SEA. Maybe I should revisit this as I've started to get more in Middle Eastern/North African food after I visited and probably don't think everything reminds of either mulled wine or a pumpkin spice latte or both.
4) Fermented seafood/soybean is also another thing that is ubiquitous that a lot of people dislike in the West. IE why kimchi (what we all think of) is so much more rancid than sauerkraut despite being 99% the same.
5) Jesus loco.

Also, I live like a poor person... mostly. I'd prob just go for walks and eat at hawker stalls in Singapore. Maybe get crab 1x a week.

Halloween deadlift comp was a ton of fun. Syndr0me showed up and drank beer in his one-punch man but couldn't lift because his back is all old-manned out. I dressed up as swole Jeffrey Dahmer. Maybe like 40 Chinese and 20 foreigners came out. I just pulled up to a casual 220 keys which was maybe an 87-92% weight. That's one thing I've noticed with age... As a young man 80%x5x5 would be not exceptionally taxing. Now? holy **** I'd need like 5-7 minutes rest and I'd be so burnt out by the last set. Now 68-72%x5x5 feels about right. Maybe some of that is older age, but some is probably having more tissue and more neural efficiency too.

My homie/client pulled a PR 290kg sumo weighing 121kg (I only handle his nutrition and PEDs, one of our mutual friends does his programming).

Regarding Guy's future, I'm really honestly very happy here in this moment right now and most of my waking hours, even during boring work meetings. I can't say I felt an enormous amount of distress during the recent 20 something day lockdown, either. Mostly pretty happy psychologically just felt physically unwell from inactivity. The problem is just fear about the future... I can't think of many times in a history an autocratic dictator took over a country with a low average IQ installing himself as ruler for life while systematically eliminating any room for dissent that turned out well. Maybe somebody smarter than me can give a historical example where this didn't result in decades of societal and economic progress being erased. Even when that's happened just a quick ~60-70 years ago in this very same country it costs tens of millions of lives needlessly thrown away and staggering cultural, intellectual, and economic regression along with it. If things don't get dramatically worse fast, I can totally see myself riding it out until absolutely necessary. It feels really weird to type the words but: I feel very happy and I don't want things to change.


Mostly unrelated to any of the above, but one thing I love about my current job is that I have about 6 students who are genius level 3+ standard deviations from the mean intellect. One of them named Simon wants to study microeconomic theory at the graduate level and possibly even do research in that area as a career. He's ****ing 17 years old already working through problems in the Varian master's level microeconomics book (he finished most of the intermediate varian book over the summer), he already finished the first 6 chapters of Rudin's Mathematical Analysis, and he's placed well in a few UK mathematics competitions. I wasn't covering that kind of material until I was 23/24... He's also a big bbing fan and we even trained together a few times over the summer, but lately he's mostly too busy to train at a gym at all with applications due. He watches basically every chris bumstead video within 24 hours of it coming out. He's got his oxford and cambridge interviews coming up. I really hope he gets in because he's so authentically passionate and isn't doing any of this as "prestige seeking", but on the other hand I've seen more gifted students than him get rejected from oxford/cambridge interviews before. Most of them kinda seemed like tryhard ******s who cared more about having oxford/cambridge matriculations for status/prestige and weren't as authentically interested in their respective subjects, so he has that going for him.

Another one is actually not into economics at all but does well enough. She's wants to do either physics or aeruonautical engineering. She's really into Tolkein and has read hobbit+LOTR+simarillion (sp?) several times. I find it exceptionally strange but also refreshing to see an Asian kid so fixated on something so fundamentally occidental... so much of western culture and values is communicated through Tolkein and normally it wouldn't resonate with somebody who grew up in China... it's just such a different cultural and literary reference point. But occasionally you'll have someone who is interested in western "deep culture" rather than western pop culture.

I'm in a hyperselective very small program housed in one of the best public schools in the city and if you averaged the IQs of our students it'd easily be 8-10 points higher than the teachers' honestly. It feels weird to be a role model for a group of kids who are mostly genetically more equipped for academics than I am.

I looked into it. There are no laws explicitly mentioned about possession for personal use. You won't find any examples in SG history of users being punished like you can find for other drugs. There are laws mentioning that possession with intent to sell is illegal and that presumably carries the death penalty. People get their gear by going over the border into thailand and bringing stuff back from Thai pharmacies. I would probably get "stealth shipping" from a UGL where they ship your gear in sterile glass shampoo bottles where it really just looks like it's a bottle of shampoo and you'd have no way of knowing it's a steroid oil by looking at it. I'm pretty sure they'll end up liberalizing on drugs with Thailand recently opening up on weed plus they got a lot of bad press for executing that Australian kid a few years back.

Don't take this the wrong way, but this seems totally standard to me. The smartest kids pretty much never become teachers, hence the smartest kids will probably be smarter than the teachers at the smart kids' school. The teachers will obviously know more by virtue of age, greater education, and experience, but IQ-wise it is expected that they should be behind.

My vote for Evo is Thailand, even though never been there.





Do want!!! All of it.

No one gonna fight you on Thai food being great. They do like rice over there, tho.

What is that catfish dish? Looks like some white people fusion thing.

Probably, saipin chutima has been selling out. Moved out of that dump in Sahara to a nice spot in Flamingo.

And now opening up another spot at red Rock casino.

Thai now overrated in Vegas, so many spots. But still so underrated worldwide.

Another super overrated food is French. It's like man I rather have chilies, limes, grilled or raw fish, corn, chocolate, etc etc.

Creme fraiche? Rotting cheeses? Mayonnaise? Pass. And European meat is so nasty gotta slather it up in a pool of sauce. Lol Bernaise sauce.

Point is, get to Thailand Evo. I will visit, that's fosho. Some Thai street food has been opening up over here. Also delicious.

French food I think is about as good as you can get with not a lot of heat. I feel the same way about Lebanese, for food that isn't spicy it's pretty good.

French are pretty good on seafood (especially Mediterranean French cuisine)and chocolate. At least they will give you that.

That wasn't the case at all at my previous employer; but that place was privately owned and more 'diploma mill' style. They literally had no admissions standards and kids would waltz in not being able to formulate an English sentence and cruise through to an offer at a shitty UK university after failing literally everything. I had several students that must have had learning disabilities and my "superstar" students there would be just above average here. I'm actually really grateful I worked there because that place was absolutely mercenary and tried to extract as much a possible from each employee, so seeing a 28 year old at the time male they just loaded me the **** down with classroom hours that literally would make a typical Chinese girl cry. I got much better at this job having so many hours per week and such low ability level and low motivation students. Now it's a breeze having students with actual 3 digit IQs.

My place now is a public school (public schools are considered higher prestige than private schools in China) and has some comically small admissions rate with super high threshold requirements for the zhongkao exam.

Yeah, I think the clear difference is that now you are at a smart kids school and before you were at a regular kids school (or maybe even worse). The smart kids at a smart kids school are normally wicked smart and there are many of them. In a regular one, there are probably only a very small handful in the whole school.

Teaching smart, motivated students is very rewarding. As our esteemed bro Monte might say, I definitely grok that.

Shockingly SE Asia is heavily influenced by France.

Went to Lotus of Siam pre-James Beard. Didn't realize they had a new menu. Also find it amusing that they use Thai names for actual Thai food, and all the Americanized not-actually-Thai stuff is in English.

Eating raw fish or lightly steamed seafood in Thailand is gonna be very hit or miss anywhere. Either you end up pissing out of your butt for a week or you don't. Street food curry is 100% never eat. Maybe you get used to non-pasteurized fish sauce/shrimp paste/whatever rotten fetid shellfish is in your food, maybe you don't.

I mostly eat chicken tenderloin/breast meat, flank steak, rice, potatos, oatmeal, sweet potatoes, green breens, bell peppers, oranges, fish, shrimp, and berries. It's nice to be able to eat at local restaurants when you're out and have something decent for those times when life didn't allow you to have prepped meals. HK food in HK is super underrated and less expensive than you might think. Definitely more cost effective than mainland.

Back
Deadlift: 60x12, 100x6, 140x3, 160x3, 180x3, 200x3, 180x3x4
Hamstring curls: 35x3 sets failure

Pullups: bwx13, 7, 5,5,5
Underhand rows: 60kgx10x2
Pulldowns: 35x10x4
Row machine: 40x10x4


I can't do deadlifts on same day as back. I'm just gonna go back to 5 days a week and one day is deadlift only then gtfo. Mayyybbbeee hamstring curls but don't lift more than 30-40 minutes.

Powerlifting meet on December 17. I'm going to do a proper peak for sq/dl (not bench, still can't really train the exercise). My peaking program was recommended by a friend where you work up to a difficult triple, then drop down and keep doing triples until you get tired. 4 backoff triples weeks 1-2, 3 backoff triples week 3, 2 backoff triples week 4, deload week 5, meet week 6.

I am still beltless/wrapless/strapless/sleeveless Clarence0 raw. after meet if I keep training dl I'll use straps becuase over/under definitely causing imbalance.

You could ease the pain of being too full by adding a gram or two of fat

I treat fats as a condiment mostly. Grass fed butter, guacamole, regular avocado, or cashews with my lean meat meals. Usually grass fed butter these days. Almond butter with oatmeal/cream of rice. My flank steak is also very fatty for flank.

Deadlift: 70x12, 110x4, 150x3, 170x3, 190x3, 210x3, 185x3x4

Felt good. No accessories straight home. Went to the pling gym and pulled on the dl bar.


Tonight some chest+delts and my left shoulder finally feels 100% pain free.

Seems pretty normie. Def agree on straps. BBing is a beauty pageant not a strength sport. Whatever it takes to get the boys excited when you flex your oiled hairless glutes after pulling your mankini up the crack of your ass.

But should prob just dump the DLs tbh when you return to beauty pageant training. Or maybe dramatically decrease volume/frequency? They seem absurdly high compared to other programs I've seen.

Definitely. Probably going down to an easy 5x5 at around 60-70% once a week (an 80%x5x5 means the last set is an RPE 9-9.5 for me, so ideally my final set of dls should be no higher than a 6-7) Ironic you should mention glutes; that's my main motivation for dling. It's not my favorite back exercise, but man I just can't find anything else that gets me as much of a glute pump, even if I do low reps. I completely stopped dling in contest prep this last go around and regret it. SLDLs I feel all in my lats, lower back and a little bit in hamstrings.

Chest+delts

High incline db: up to 25kgx10x4
Low incline: 25kgx10x4
Flies: 4 sets of 10
Machine press: 4x10

tri-set rear delt raises+side delt raises+ohp: 5kg and 15kg respectively for 3 rounds lotta reps.


Still rehabbing. My left shoulder/rc is feeling great after nearly a year of pain. My right bicep tendon is still a little tender but mostly okay. Next week more rehab/light training and then week after that I'll do a "real" chest workout.