Drank a glass of fresh snake blood in China
Half a glass, actually. I was in Guilin with my dad. We were in a kind of snake restaurant. This guy sliced open a snake and drained the blood into a glass. Then he added some alcohol. The people there kept asking if we wanted it, like they couldn't wait to snatch it from us. My dad turned his back for a moment and was shocked when he found I had gulped it all down! Hahaha! Could only taste the alcohol, though.
Ate "balut" in Manila
Balut is duck egg, boiled just before the duckling hatches. You peel off the shell at the top of the egg and add a bit of sauce. Then you sorta suck the contents out, feathers and all!Ate monitor lizard in Medan
Guy on a bicycle sold pieces of lizard hot in banana leaf. A bit tough but tastes like chicken. :)Spent a night outside a girl's apartment trying to impress her
Not exactly like in the cartoon - I didn't have a guitar and I didn't sing! I tried to sleep in the car but it was hot and I got eaten alive by mosquitoes! She rejected me just the same! Said she'll call the police if I didn't get lost! :)Cried for a week after attending a girl's wedding dinner
Met her after she was registered to another guy. We got along fantastic. She looked so beautiful in her wedding dress. Broke my heart into pieces. Such is life.Nearly drowned when I got sucked under a waterfall
Never swim under a waterfall. The force of the plunging water pushes you downwards. Fortunately I managed to kick my way up. Swimming lessons are GOOD for you!Lost a few toe nails after a run through the jungle
I was wearing a cheap pair of track shoes when I participated in this Hash House cross-country run through some secondary forest. The jungle floor is uneven and full of roots. I managed to twist my ankle somewhere near the end and had to limp the rest of the way. When I took my shoes off, three of the toenails had turned black. The entire nails came off after a week or two!Visited a Mormon temple all by my lonesome
That was during my Christian phase. I was very enthusiastic about saving these cultists from burning in hell, you see? I even had a long discussion with a Hare Krishna fellow once. The Mormon temple is very much like an old-fashioned church. They sing hymns!On the left is a photo of a godly Mormon guy with his many wives and lovely brood of kids. Mormons also believe God hates black people and had marked them with dark skin.
Visited a mosque with my two kids
No big deal if you're a Muslim but non-Muslims will award you with a Badge of Courage for doing this! :)Handed out Christian literature to prostitutes in Sydney!
Probably the maddest thing I will ever do in my life and I did it all alone, driven by the conviction that God loved these ladies of the night. I took a bus from my house in the Eastern Suburbs to Kingscross in Sydney with a bag full of little New Testaments. You bet I was nervous. The girls were standing along the street waiting for customers. I tried giving a copy to a pretty girl who looked Chinese but she rejected me. That hurt. I approached a blond girl and she said, "Do you wanna go?" I said no and handed her a Bible. She said "Ta" and turned away. After that one success I chickened out completely and took off for home. Unfortunatedly the buses had already stopped running by that time - around 11pm, I guess. I called a Christian guy who came to pick me up. He was mighty impressed as you can imagine!
