{"id":318,"date":"2004-03-20T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-20T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=318"},"modified":"2006-10-08T06:04:44","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T06:04:44","slug":"316-of-st-patrick-and-southeast-asian-community-in-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"[316] Of St. Patrick and Southeast Asian community in Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, on St. Patrick Day, the town of Ann Arbor was covered in snow.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/A2\/StPatrickLorch.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/div>\n<p>But a few days later, the Sun came out and joy came to the world. Or at least to the town of Ann Arbor. Delighted, a person decided to take a walk. He visited the Law Quad.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/A2\/SEANightsLawQuad.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/div>\n<p>And the West Hall.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/A2\/SEANightsWestHall.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Before a Javanese humanoid came.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/A2\/SEANightsId.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/div>\n<p>And kidnapped him. The Javanese kidnapper brought him to a Southeast Asian students&#8217; sort-of-food-party.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/A2\/SEANight.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Luckily for that person, his kidnapper ate too much Nasi Lemak. And so, he managed to slip away. While running, he saw a recycle bin.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/A2\/SEANightsRecycle.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Too tired to run, he hide in the bin. And Lo and behold! He saved himself.p\/s &#8211; I never knew Indonesians chicks are so hot!<br \/>\npp\/s &#8211; 2004 Malaysian general election is under way!<br \/>\nppp\/s &#8211; There seems to be big trouble in Taiwan. The winner won the election with 50.1% majority &#8211; even worse than Al-Gore vs Bush back in 2001. Riot is currently underway. Though Taiwan seems to be in turmoil, at least the world could take a nap knowing China is smiling.<br \/>\nNo war. No referendum. It&#8217;s better to have a rioting Taiwan than a war that will drag the US into it while at the same time disrupt international shipping lanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, on St. Patrick Day, the town of Ann Arbor was covered in snow. But a few days later, the Sun came out and joy came to the world. Or at least to the town of Ann Arbor. Delighted, a person decided to take a walk. He visited the Law Quad. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-politics-government","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}