Wednesday 1 August 2012

He wrote back!

Do you guys remember this post, where I talked about my friend Josh?  Last year he started his mission, which is basically him being allocated somewhere by his Church to spread the word of the Lord.

He's on his mission for two years (I think..), and at the moment he's in Ireland, or Scotland? I can't really remember (I could just go in to the other room and check his address on the letter, but I think it's better to leave a little mystery.  And I'm too lazy).
While He's on his mission, he can't go on the internet, use the telephone or have his mobile phone, so basically anything that will distract him from preaching!  (He's allowed to make two phone calls per year I think? Easter and Christmas).

So anyway, before he went we met up for a coffee and a catch up, and he told me and his friends that we should write to him seeing as we wouldn't be able to txt or ring each other, and I was more than happy too!  I wrote to him earlier this year, and he wrote back in april I think.

It took me about 15 minutes to decipher the code that is his writing!  Once I de-coded the basic words like 'The', 'Yours' & 'And', I figured the rest of the letter out.

Now this may be an extremely sexist comment, but I very rarely see a guy that has nice handwriting! From school, college and university, most of my male friends have had pretty atrocious handwriting!! Now I know this doesn't apply to all men, but is it fair to say it applies to most? Or am I just over-generalising?

Anyhoo, back to Josh.
If you've read the post I've linked above, you'll have a rough idea of the humour Josh and I share with each other.  Part of it is our 'making-people-think-Josh-is-racist-when-he-really-isn't' jokes, which he initiated!

A running joke me and Josh had before he went on his mission was whether he would convert any Muslims or not.  In his letter back to me, he talked about how he came across a few pakistani people, and handed out some leaflets about his message in urdu!
It made me laugh so much, so in return, I drew him a little comic in my responding letter!









Et Voila!

I look forward to his response now :D

On another note, I ate out on Monday and Tuesday, spending time with my lovelies Tee and M-Dawg.
Since Ramadan started and I've been fasting, I've been craving steak! So I got to satisfy my craving last night at a nice place called Zouks.  It was soooo good, but the service was terrible :/

The day before that, Tee and I went to Franky and Benny's, and i got some tiger prawns and a calzone :D What better way to open an 18 hour fast eh?

Yummy Tiger Prawns
Bloggers being inconsistent and stupid again.  In my last post I had to upload pics via flickr, but today it's being ok and letting me upload pics normally without any weird notices!? How bizarre :(


Oh and thanks for ze feedback on the last post.  Not enough people have commented for there to be a clear winner in the iPad sticker battle, but I'm hoping if I leave it for a bit I might get more responses! If not, cookie monster is the current fav!


xo

19 comments:

  1. Hehe I loved the comic, especially how you specifically stated it was a pirate sword you were chasing him with :D I didn't know they still had missionaries actually, and they sent them to Scotland and Ireland still? Didn't that cause a wee bit of trouble even just a few decades ago? Still, I'm glad you still get to talk to him, even with all those restrictions :) My dad has very fancy hand writing, but it's so fancy and good looking it's hard to read :P My handwriting is a bit scrawly too, but I read somewhere that bad handwriting can be a sign of intelligence because you care more about what you have to say, than how you say it.

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    1. Ohh I don't know about any missionary troubles! He's a good lad so hopefully he'ss keep himself safe ;)

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  2. I love Scotland it it one seriously cool plce (OK cold place too). People in Scotland are not ones for changing religion not when they alreadt have the best sweetie shops and deep fried anything they fancy to eat

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    1. I have still yet to try a deep fried mars bar

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  3. nice letter
    nice pic of tiger pawns

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  4. Hmmm...handwriting is a big thing for me, even for guys. I love the look of good penmanship and have my own unique style.

    Great comic! I have quite a few friends who are missionaries, but they have internet.

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    1. Thank you! I bet different churches have different rules

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  5. Yeah, my handwriting sucks. >< Anyway, awesome that you heard back from him. Those mission things are crazy.

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  6. It's kind of ironic that Josh is banned from using the technology because it distracts from preaching... but actually it takes more time to write a letter than sending a text... so actually he is losing time it would seem? Oh well, I will blame you Aysh for distracting him off the righteous path. Just kidding, of course. He must be very dedicated to be willing to endure all those confinements. The letter was hilarious. It must be nice to have friends with such a great sense of humor. Almost no one I know in person has any sense of humor whatsoever... or maybe they are just not that into me.

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    1. Haha that's true! It's a big thing I look for in a friend, humour! If you don;t have a sense of humour, then we probably wont be friends :D

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  7. Mysterious laziness is a rare yet interesting form. Soon, everyone wiLL want some.

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    1. I will have to bottle and patent it, then sell the stuff and become a millionaire!

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  8. Handwriting: Have I ever told you that I have veRy pretty left handed writing? I am not naturaLLy left handed, just something I work on from time to time.

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    1. That's great! I have not attempted to write with my left hand since high school, and it was atrocious!

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  9. My handwriting looks like chicken scratch so I guess it's messy?

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  10. Thats FAB he wrote back...it's nice to receive a handwritten letter rather than a text or e-mail!
    those tiger praws look sooo goood! X

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