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A really really practical superpower I'd love to have is faster typing
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that would be really good right now love the name dexter
ahah yes especially with the little contest going on right now! I think everybody would like faster typing. Thanks! Its a fun name! haha I'm guessing Z is not your real name?
well I can't say anything! but I cannot deny that
A super power that I have would probably be to fly. I think that would be awesome because then I could basically go wherever I want!
is this your first round?
I played the last round, but I didn't win. so here we are again? did you play last round?
yeah flying would be a go to, but as I get older, I think of all the crazy unwanted attention I'd get...plus all the regulations they'd pass to prevent me from flying as I ple please
I think I got entered into the raffle though, so hopefully I'll have a shot at the macbook!
I've been typing from the begiining haha it's turned into a side hobby of mine I always make sure to land top 5 or something then I get lazy
Oh nice!
yeah!
Yeah its hard, some of these people a religiously on here! I don't get how they do it, its like having a part time job to get that many points.
I'm guessing you were 3rd or fourth? right I talked to the top two a lot really awesome people one of them is not even a student haha, she's waiting for her mission the other one really wanted to win for his wife I think
Yea I feel like you would get so much unwanted attention if you could fly everywhere!
yeah!! A lot of childhood dreams get shot down when you think about how practical it is
What the heck, I thought you were only allowed to chat on here if you are a student at BYU? Oh...maybe she's just helping out with the chatting? Yeah I'd actually have two super powers after thinking about what you said! I'd choose invisibility and then flying that way I could turn invisible and no could see you fly that way you could avoid all the unwanted attention and regulations they would put on you! Oh that's really awesome of the guy that wants to win it for his wife! I'd like to win it so I could use it in school!
she got special permission haha but she still ended up second the other guy was super determined chitchatter23 yeah for me I've always struggled to decide between invisibility and the ability to go through things
That is an awesome name! Perfect for this little website! Oh that would be really cool, what would you go through though?
invisibility is cool, but you'll still show up on infared cameras, and forensic science can track you down I would go through hard surfaces so I can sleep comfortably anywhere sorry I'm a super practical person....
Oh dang you really think of everything. Think of how weird that be if a heat source popped up on one of those radars and they couldn't see anything...
I'm the type to shoot tooth fairy and santa down immediately yeah that would be so funny haha but yeah, that's my main concern a super power has to be somewhat resilient you know??
Yes you are. I guess you could skip walking down the stairs and just go straight to the bottom that would be practical.
yeah that tooo or just be able to get to anywhere in a straight line but I'm assuming that I won't go through my clothes....
I'm with ya there tooth fairy and santa just don't make any sense at all. Ever since I was  a little kid I had a hard time believing.
ahh like minded person!! yeah that's how I feel too. I'd never tell my kids about them
Yeah I don't think that would be very practical going through your own clothes.
I'll just replace it with a better tradition thinking of superpowers is hard work!
I think it would be fun to tell kids about to give them something fun to look forward to or make their christmas more magical. But me personally I would stay up so late and see my parents putting stuff under the tree and then I was I knew it couldn't be real.
hahahah wow that's terrible I believed until I was about 13 it was heartbreaking. And it really messed with me
Oh man, how did you feel when you found out? Dang thats sad, sorry to hear that.
Ever since, I've been skeptical of everything well it's done wonders for critical thinking and I can churn out essays for college easily
I was the kind of kid that if you said santa was real and he only comes when you're asleep I would stay up the whole night to see if he actually came.
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Seriously...who knew a silly prompt from a chatting website could bring up such a long conversation.
I just trusted what my parents said
That is really good quality to have. So how is school coming along this semester?
good! It's my first semester back since the mission I really really really love school everything about it
Oh thats awesome! Where did you go on a mission?
studying, lectures, homework everything Brisbane
Yeah it transfers over nicely all the personal studies and things like that. I feel like school helps you keep up all those good habits. That or you just get overwhelmed and flop! Oh nice! That is in Australia right? Did you speak a language?
yeah ahaha yep australian really really tough language to be honest
What the?? I didn't even know that was a language...
but the mission was really perfect for me! As you can maybe tell, I wasn't the biggest fan of theology or religion or anything when I first left
Or are you referring to like the accent being hard to understand?
hahha it's a complete different version of english
Really?! What caused the big change?
yeah it's english ahha I'm just joking
I can imagine... I have a hard enough time understanding some of the foreign people with accent
but it feels like a different language
hhahahahaha
so the big change came from just humbling aaaand the church culture there love love love it
I mean I would believe the accent thing, but I was like...man where have I been I didn't even know australia had its own language!
so Australia is very...working class? with their values at least it used to be a penal colony, so there has been much development in the way of aristrocracy or things like that
That's awesome. I feel like its awesome to go see the culture in all the different parts of the world.
yeah but the culture is just amazing it's completely first-world, like it is here
Oh cool. Didn't know that. Any crazy stories from there?
so much less judgement, all kinds of people show up at church
nice. Thats how it should be honestly.
my first bishop used to be a gangster and he had a massive tattoo on his face no one bats an eye if someone has to leave the chapel for a smoke break yeah lots of crazy stories! there was this less active guy who used to come some sundays to church he'd drive his massive harley onto the grass and right next to the entrance
Dude thats freaking awesome! What are your thoughts on tattoos? I think they are super cool.
I'm not a fan of anything that goes on my body to be honest like jewelry, rings all that can't stand it!!! but I think they're cool, as long as people realize that it's not all 100 percent safe
haha I don't like wearing dangling things!
there is a risk of cancer and things going wrong. But for the most part, it's probably as harmless as a second piercing
Yeah thats true there is always risk of infection and things like that. Hm thats an interesting way to think about it, never thought about it like that.
I think the church culture here is still carrying a lot of baggage from the civil rights movement when the honor code started getting a lot more external etc like the beards and that
I have a couple friend back home that are tatto artists so I think they are super fun.
that's how it all started! The leaders wanted the byu students to not be associated with the hippie movement but yeah, I went to australia
haha that was fun!
and a lot cultural issues I saw in the church just kind of went away and I was like "oh wow this is kind of nice"
All that came from asking where you went on your mission!
and people are definitely way chill down there maybe sometimes too much, but hey I really looked forward to church and it did wonders for testimony yeah haah! Did you go anywhere
Thats awesome man! Glad you had that experience. Yeah I went to Taiwan.
oh no waaaay I'm part taiwanese
NO WAY! Like half?
quarter I'm a mess japanese, hong kong, taiwanese Ni Zai Tai Wan Na Er ?
Oh thats awesome! So where are your parents from? Because I'm full chinese?
oh cool mum- okinawa dad - half taiwanese half hong kong We're from tainan, gaoxiong area well, I have family that is
Oh thats awesome, I can't type chinese on my computer but I was in Taipei!
you know elder Taulepa?
So your dad would have been in the other mission. DUDE YEAH!
that's the bishop that was a gangster his dad I'm really close with CJ
Oh no way thats so cool! Yeah CJ and I bumped into each other a couple times during like some activities we had but I was never really close with him! Hes a great guy though!
so are you american chinese or an international student?? yeah he's a legend
Closest I ever got to the south was Hualian and Taidong if you know where that is?
love that guy ahh yep taidong has gotten huge!
I'm American Chinese. My mom is from Singapore and my dad is from Malaysia.
oh siiiick I have so many friends from there I went to an international school in hong kong
I grew up in the states though so I'm basically a banana. Oh thats awesome! How long were you there for?
13 years I'm really not from the states aye I feel like a foreigner here
wow thats a long time! sweet man do you like it here in the states or do you like the culture there better? I feel like the asian culture does a really good job at taking care of each other and family especially.
I do like the states I like the freedom and the space here
Like there would be times I would be like walking around all sweaty and hot and some random person would buy me a drink
but there's a lot of freedom in hong kong too yeah?? Awesome. We got water, when we asked for it at the door too
Yeah they treat everybody over there like family. Thats awesome.
I was never treated nicer than when I was missionary I think my favorite thing about being here is just being able to do anything I want as in
I went back this past may and stayed at a bed and breakfast, but I didn't want to pay for the extra breakfast and the dude was like won't you be hungry in the morning?
if there's something I want to pursue, I feel like I can find everything I need to get there here
He was like I'll make you breakfast anyway don't worry about paying.
oh coooool yeah Taiwanese people are legendary hong kong not so nice
Yeah? What kind of things could you not do over in Honk Kong?
but I get the nice asians from Japan hahaha We lived in tokyo too
hahaha thats awesome. Does your Dad' dads work move around alot?
Well in Hong Kong, there's a lot of financial constraints, I'd say law for business is one of the lightest in the world but you can't move out because rent is like 2k a month for a tiny room and it costs all sorts of money to do things so it
Yeah thats true real estate over there is SO expensive.
it's restrictive in that sense yeah my parents have moved here and there
Darn. Well thats pretty annoying, I guess its nice having all the room and freedom here then.
So I was born here, when they met in UNI
What is UNI?
but then they moved to Tokyo , then LA then HK university sorry that's an australian thing to say haha
Ohh gotcha. haha I've never heard that before! Dude, I remember when I went to Singapore my mom's family had a tiny little house that was like 3 stories, nothing crazy. But it was about $1,000,000 in US money.
yeah
Like you could seriously buy a mansion over here with that kind of money.
sounds about right so your mum still lives over there? do you ever regret not growing up in Asia at all?
No so my family is all here in the states. Texas. That is where I grew up. No I actually really loved growing up here.
I'm just in this weird limbo, where I'm technically ABC, but I don't understand a lot of the things that come with that?? you know
yeah I feel ya, probably because you've moved around so much and spent so much time out of country.
I was born here, and that's about it with my association with the States
But I mean thats an experience that most people won't get in their entire life. Like you've probably lived in more places than some people will ever visit in their life. Thats awesome. haha I loved growing up here in the states. I've been in Taiwan and seen how the students life is over there and its just not something I'd want to do. They wake up go to school, after school go to cram school and tutoring and then come home eat, sleep and do it all over again. Anyways, bro I gotta head out now. Thanks for chatting and being fun to talk to! Good luck with everything, maybe I'll run into you again!