A short little video of the Big Yam's Cantonese in action. He says the numbers 8 and 9 and his intonation is actually pretty good! He doesn't actually know what they mean - it's rote memorization.
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my name is karl lagerfeld. i'm a lucky button, buckshot shorty, and an industrious pig. i write about food, popular culture, film, books, politics, theory, and the ephemera of my life. a can of chinotto once ruined my night. the rest, as they say, is history.
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