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Sunday, 22 April 2012

8:33pm

My folks have arrived home safely! To those just tuning in, my parents went to China for three weeks and they came back a day early...but at teh same time, not a day too early as I could not wait to be relieved of dog duty. I'm happy they're safe and sound, and deep down, I am also happy they got to go a trip, it's not something they do often and as the cliche goes, variety is the spice of life. I worry about my folks sometimes, they're really stuck-in-a-rut people...which kinda carried over to me but hopefully, not as badly, and a little variety keeps them on their toes throughout the trip, if they enjoy thing in trips, those are bonuses, and when they look forward to coming back, that helps them stay happy too. I sound like I'm talking about two people on the verge of Alzheimer's...which so far isn't the case, but you never really know, right?

To run w that a little, I think I have noticeable, but not crippling dose of necrophobia (fear of death), sometimes for me, but more so for my parents. For the trip, I worried they won't back because they did all that got-their-affairs-in-order stuff and I dunno, I think my folks can be a lil slow because they're like hobbits, they don't go on adventures. Then again, it is China, their homeland, so language is no issue, and they're going w the AM 1480 tour group. Still, automobile accidents are a pretty high killer and I won't lie, I fear my and their safety whenever I get in a car with them, they can be pretty persistent with their right of way, if you know what I mean...

SO...how to contend with all this without going crazy? I focus on how happy I am to get my life back and be able to live in my apt. again! ^_^ Hello, drinking beer, walking around with...any dress code I want, season 2 of Sherlock being finally on Netflix, the ability to shoot pool virtually anytime I want (or w a buddy who does it clockwork every Tues night at the local bar!), a low-ass electric bill since I was at my apt. three times in the past twenty two days, and hoping I cross paths w the cute redhead neighbor who told me about scented candles over laundry! (list is inclusive but not exhaustive for reasons of appropriateness)

Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Versatile Blogger Award

7:52pm

I was honorably given this award by #aPieceOfTheSky

Thanks! From what I gather, just post seven things about myself. Here goes!

- My family's a nuclear one. Parents, sister, and myself. Sometimes that includes maternal grandma and mom's younger brother, the uncle, the last two are for holidays only, if that. We don't stay in touch with my paternal relatives, a lot of drama went down before, during and shortly after I was born. Mom attributes my introverted disposition to being born around such obnoxious and unpleasant people. May or may not be true, most days, I think I'm just born guarded and withdrawn.

- On that note, I was a quiet kid in school and won't do anything that'll put me in the spotlight like be in school performances, run for office, or play sports. I got along with teachers better than my peers because for the most part, I don't need to talk about myself (sweet irony, I am revealing this in a place where I DO talk about myself)

- I had no athletic ability when I was young. Could never catch deep passes when we played football even though I was a decent tackler for flag football and could not multi-task/coordinate for basketball though I was a decent shot when it's drills and not an actual game. Only sport I didn't completely dread was baseball, I could catch the flies, I started playing handball so I was a decent thrower, and when I swing, I at least make base and even homered twice for school gym. (I did all this without fully knowing the rules, just enough to get by.)

- On that note, I am currently a Yankee fan. I originally said I was a Yankee fan to annoy an annoying Met fan girl in summer camp and since then, I noticed and liked the logo on the hats. Fast fwd through h.s. and college to work, a college friend was following teh 2009 ALCS against the Angels. They went on to the World Series that year, and beat the Phillies (though I missed the last winning game because I was going to DC, another fairly big event for another time), their first win since 2000 when they beat the Mets. I fell off again during 2010, but in 2011, I went to my first live game, an away interleague game against the Mets. I loved going to ballgames and decided to check out a game against their rivals, the Red Sox. Since that time, I decided to read up on all I can about the Yankees and currently still very happy that baseball's back in season! I do better w memorization and history and not so well when it comes to strategy. Working on it though, CBS is currently on the background as I type this!

- To just about everyone's benefit (except maybe mine), I'm a crappy liar. Someone pointed out owning up not paying attention when a teacher calls you out on it, it's funny and it throws the teacher off. Since then, I either stay quiet, steer the conversation elsewhere or else outright state the truth. I don't get away with as much, which sucks, but it also means I don't get into very deep trouble either, which I think I could be in since my first instinct is to lie a lot.

- My love language is giving presents. Some people are just plain hard to shop for, but beyond those few, if I know you somewhat well, you stay in touch (and for me, if we're in contact, then by definition, you're cool!), I'm a good gift giver! For those are hard to shop for, I either treat them for dinner or ask their sig. others what they want/need. ~_^

- I don't want children...or really any kind of lifeform to be responsible for.(Cats are about the closest I'd come to having pets because they like to do their own thing but there's time and place to pet them and they are intelligent enough to have somewhat of a relationship. However, that's still mostly a no because I don't have money for the vet should bad things happen and I'm allergic on top of all that.) I'm dog-sitting now, and it's torture to walk him morning and night and make sure he's fed. That alone is not asking for much compared to say, a kid, but it's killing me, I cannot believe I want my folks back despite how annoying they are as well! Got no problem, and even look forward to having a sig. other and getting married, just don't want any kids...which I'm aware is probably a dealbreaker to the ladies out there.

Passing the baton to #lil_squirrel4ever

Saturday, 14 April 2012

10:47pm

So it took a whole decade before I decide to update and trick out my Xanga. And by update/trick out, I mean, find a layout I like and make that mine instead of being stuck in the time warp of 2002. Well, I think the last time I did anything w the background was in freshman year of college that's '03/'04, and the previous profile pic was changed after college. Now...I still have trouble putting a face to this profile, but a back shot of me in the batting cages is a huge step for me. =P

Why did I do it? I don't know. Pplz flaked today so I ended up watching the game alone at my place. Yankees lost so that was a downer. After that, I was bored so watched a lot of Supernatural and some Scrubs before getting back to my parent's. Sat here, got bored again, started browsing and decided, why the hell not, change up the site. Nostalgic associations and attachments have long since passed their statutory limitations, I'll make my strides to make it a Xanga of at least this current decade...again, by knocking off someone's pre-made layout.
12:06am

Today was Yankee's home opening day...they shut out the LA Angels of Anaheim 5-0. Good work. Winning streak of four, after sweeping the Orioles. Going to catch tomorrow's Saturday game at my place since it will be on public broadcast with Sam and if Katherine comes, Katherine too.

As per previous entry, I am house and dog sitting till the parental units (friend first used that phrase, it's catchy and kinda endearing so I will borrow and perhaps adopt!) return from their visit to the homeland. Housesitting is a relative piece of cake. My folks are big fans of staying home and cooking, probably a trait shared by a lot of Chinese immigrants. They left me enough vegetables to weather a storm so I do kind of have to stay home and eat the stuff. Annoying but, hey, it's a good exercise in getting into the habit of cooking my meals and planning somewhat ahead, food-wise.

It's the dog part that's a pain in the ass, and if any of you readers know me in real life, you've heard me gripe about this. I'll do it again anyway because it's still a pain and this is my blog, screw you if you're tired of it! =P
I really just don't want to be responsible. Maybe if it's a smaller dog, a better behaved dog, or I don't know...I know when you don't want to be involved with something, everything's a pain.

I didn't need a trial run dog-sitting to know I don't want a dog and I think it's about the same with wanting kids...I don't want them. There's the diapers of course. The screaming and crying. The feed them...however many times a day and whatever else you need with a child...a good school district when they get older, space in your residence, time and prospective interests...I'm getting a fucking headache even just thinking about what to rant about this. I don't want kids.

Thing is though, most women do. It's a stereotype, but far as stereotypes go, this one is one of the more accurate ones and among the less offensive. I'm still single and I'm sure, again w the ones that know me, there are a multitude of reasons why that's the case...don't really want to get into it. I started to and...I was heading to a bad place.

It was of some comfort that a close friend of mine didn't find anything wrong or missing with me, I just need to meet more new people. That's among the many reasons he's a long time close friend of mine.

Wednesday, 11 April 2012

11:54pm

A can't-complain season for the Yankees so far, they lost their first games against Tampa, but s 2-0 against the Orioles. Ibanez scored the fifth point and Mariano got his groove back saving the game after blowing it in their team's first game.

So for those that don't know, became a bit of a born-again Yankee fan since late summer of 2011. It was a combination of wanting to learn more before going to a Yankees/Boston game and then finding out a famous record was broken on my birthday. Rest was history.

Anyway, I was at the doctor's today. Without going into detail...I was fine. Thing with being fine is that the news takes....less than five seconds to deliver. Even with follow up questions, the whole ordeal took...thirty seconds. Yeah, I'm looking for an in to bitch about that, go me and my New Yorker mentality.

That got me thinking, why do we care so much more about bad news than good news? It reminds me of a quote from the movie Moneyball: "I hate losing more than I even wanna win."

It's true for other areas of life. We celebrate briefly, if that, if we have a good day of work, we quickly think about how we have to do it all over again the next day. I suppose it's part of human nature to expect things to turn out fine, and it disappoints if things don't? I don't really have a thought out, backed up answer. Me personally, if I'm hitting a low point and everyone's doing fine, I instinctively think I'm screwing up somewhere. It was like that when I was finding work. Oh jeez, it's been five months, why do I not have a job...(list of reasons, both valid and not here) Short of...finding a job, thing next best thing was hearing abt the mess ups that others had and are working through. I didn't want to good news really. That might be why newspapers pay so much more attention to disasters than success stories.

Those are the thoughts of the moment. Otherwise, standard check into the few Xangan readers I have, life's fine. Folks are in China, have been since the first, they return the 23rd. Prayer for their safety would be cool. I got the honor and glorious tasks of house and dog sitting....it's going to be a long three weeks. I'm not a dog person and my parents, great people that they are, don't know a thing about having dog, much less disciplining one. It's an exhausting fight for good behavior each time I have the walk the guy. Besides that detail, life is good here. I get a gas stove to use and with folks not around to cook...many lunchboxes worth of extra food for me to bring to work and my place, I had to figure out what to do. They left me a lot of vegetables. I'm not a creative guy so I decided to do a 3:1 ratio of veggies to meats and make a lot of stirfry. I'm Asian so...eat with rice, and viola, meals without going out all the time. I hope, and this probably may, carry this method of making food over to my life once my folks return.

Night's getting late, should have been in bed. That won't change in my life. Ever.

Night, y'all!