An impromptu late night geography lesson.

For those who know me well enough, i can be rather impatient and having to wait 5 full days to find out WHERE exactly MonorailTim is from would not only bug me but my imagination will run wild to the breaking point of craziness.

So last night i texted him to confirm the time and place [seeing that he did ask that i SMS him the exact location]. And i took the opportunity to try my luck in asking him where he got his accent from since it was a little hard for me to understand him earlier.

After much coaxing and dozens of messages later, i eventually asked him if he could tell me his full name, that way i could at least get a gist of which ethnic background he belonged to. And with much help from google i managed to type in key words that i dissected from the conversation. [Hey, i like to do a bit of research, just so i know what i'm getting myself into].

Eventually he came out with Central Asia. And my first guess was Kazakhstan. And when i told AnBloodyMum this morning, she laughed and said, "You probably only knew about that place from Borat". Which i admit, the country is NOT exactly one of the top places on my Places to Visit list and it's not exactly an area that i know anything about.

So anyway back to the informal interrogation, he finally came out with I'm from Kyrgyzstan. And with the instant help from google and wikepedia, i was able to get a short geography lesson. Which probably explains the accent and his mixed features.


I also found out that;

• Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked country in Central Asia, bordering Kazakhstan, China, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
  
• The mountainous region of the Tian Shan covers over 80% of the country.
• "According to July 2005 estimates, the population was 5,264,000, the large majority (76.1 percent) being Muslims." Which gives me a 23.9% chance that he's of another religion.
  

And that was when he asked the question "tell me about yourself" my answer was...

Well... im a graphic designer. i've been working in malaysia since 2003. I drink and i smoke. I'm open minded, blunt & a non-practicing Catholic. What about u?

[Images stolen from various people on Technorati]

So far i have managed to gather the following info;

• He is a 24 year old foreign student studying to be a public administrator.
• Is originally from Central Asia, more specifically Kyrgyzstan.
• Is learning English whilst finishing his degree. Example "... of cause, we have lot of friends, but sometime we feel along..." TRANSLATES TO "... of course we have a lot of friends but sometimes we feel ALONE..."
  
• Was quite apologetic when he left a large time gap between messages.
• His birthday is 1st of May, which makes him a Taurus.
  

Monorail Tim: So... Maybe after chatting, you won't meet? ;")
Tattoo Girl: No i was just curious about ur accent since u didn't tell me where ur from. of course we'll meet. it's not every day i get a stranger passing me his number.

Moronic POSSIBLE scenarios of WHY he's in this country;

• He's escaped from his semi-nomadic lifestyle because herding goat/sheep were too troublesome and he needed to do better for the community.
• He is in fact scared of horses because as a young child he fell off one whilst riding up one of the mountains tending to sheep and yaks.
• He isn't really a student but is in the country to find his 4th wife and figures my tattooed arm would bring good luck and i'll bear him his 1st son.
• He is able to make alcohol from fermented yaks milk and has been drinking since the age of 10. He is an alcoholic trying to mend his past.
  
• He is actually running for President or some high ranking official in his town and wants to know more about the Government hence getting an education in ummm... this country.