Stupid moron smiling at a Pocket PC

I was caught smiling at my Pocket PC (DELL Axim x50v) at the MTR Platform at Lai Chi Kok after Sunday service when I was sitting on a chair watching an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm (a HBO comedy show). Two sister in church saw me at that sort of state, and was amused for minutes.

And since I started the habit of watching all sort of US comedy TV show on Pocket PC during my commute, so it’s very likely that looks of people saw me as an idiot starring at the tiny screen smiling like pervert.

My reponse, “So be it”, or using the Frank Sinatra song, “… I’ll do it … MY …… WAY… “ >:-}

Enjoying Curb Your Enthusiasm

I was starting to watch the HBO sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm and I totally loved it.

The show starring Seinfeld’s writer and co-creator Larry David and was basically following the tradition of Seinfeld as a reality look-alike comedy show about .. nothing. The major character Larry (played by Larry himself) was such an asshole most of the time, and yet I found myself sharing so much common with the character: we are both self-centered asshole, we are both bolding and bolding (激光[頭]中), we both worried about a lot of small things, and we both suffer from our bad deed we did at the end. Larry helped my lot commute becomes much shorter than it used to be.

A bad start for a day

Somehow I felt like I would start my day on a down note when I woke up seeing rain drops spread around the edge of bed near the opened window with rain pouring in.

Then when my walked our of my home while plug-in my inner ear headphone, I realized that the right channel of my headphone was not working, so instead of proceeding walking to the bus stop, I turned back to my home and grabbed my spare white inner-ear headphone. I did all these while I was still tangling with the long extension cord of my headphone. After I got all settled, I was standing in front of the traffic light in red while seeing the bus I needed to take to walk getting reading to zoom away. Of course, I was not stupid enough to rush into to traffic just so that I can catch the bus. So eventually I saw this bus ran away, and later found out that the bus was the last bus for today (the bus only serves everyday from early morning till 9:20 pm). Yeah all these are mainly my fault. At the end I arrived office at 10:35 am. Boss was not in the office. All was well :-P.

Oh, and regarding to the headphone, the right channel was indeed broken, probably caused by pulling the end of the cord too hard sometime yesterday (even though I didn’t really remember that). It’s good that I have a spare one though.

I was giving the monthly household expense money to my mom, and since I got gratuity at the end of my last contract, I cut a partition from it and gave mom additional $1000. Mom didn’t say a thing about it, and it for some strange reason bothered me. Don’t get me wrong. I was not looking forward to words of appreciation like “oh thank you” and stuff like that. In fact, I was a bit worry that maybe it’s the exact opposite. Maybe she actually thought that I didn’t give enough to pay off the household expense. I thought of that because last night while I was having my haircut at my younger brother’s salon, he told me that my younger sister, my mom’s important source of income besides me, was not doing too well financially and sort of in semi-unemployment stage. So maybe my mom was really tight at finance, but didn’t want to tell me that. Or that I was so busy of doing my own shit all the time that gave her an impression that I was not ready to talk to her at all.

Anyway, I think I should chat with her tonight or something like that.

psychic power

A strange day that I had today. In fact, I might just discovered that I have psychic power.

It all happened this afternoon. I was practice for a dance competition 2 weeks later, and I was pretty sure that I got enough warm up before. However, just when I started practicing a little bit on the dance routine, my left elbow suddenly felt break pain within the tendon. Seems like I accidentally hurt my tendon by waving my left arm too hard during a move in the dance. It was actually all my fault for putting too much force on the arm, and this problem actually happened before. Nevertheless it was painful like hell, and it almost rendered my left to dysfunction. I had to continue the practice since my teacher insisted us to finish the practice.

After the practice in the afternoon, there was supposed to be class at night. But my left elbow was so painful that I had to skip today's class. And then I suddenly had an idea of having a haircut (knowing that if I didn't do it today I might not do it for the coming several weeks!) As the result, I had a pretty nice hair cut, and my head doesn't look like a lawn being left alone for a year.

And then later that night, my dance classmate told me that the night dance class was not going too well.

So, I was wondering if my body, with some strange animal instinct sensing something terrible happened at night intentionally HURT ITSELF to keep me from going to the night class.

..... Just a strange thought :-P.

Two events happened which potentially check my life (well, so does all others)

I experienced two things which may potentially change my life forever. Of course, based on idea of Butterfly Effect, almost every single that happened in this world can potentially change my life forever. But at least two events are interesting.

First, I figured out that I can somehow lead a practice session for a dance piece which I DID NOT KNOW how to dance. It happened during a performance practice for a Catholic Youth event later this month. I was agreed to help out during the event, even though I had completely no idea what role I was going to play.

At the second scene of the performance there was sort of a group a-go-go dance. Since someone was missing at the practice, this director asked me to fill the gap. I was like "what the ***k" but followed the instruction anyway.

After the rehearsal for that session ended, we though were dismissed. But instead the director asked me to PRACTICE the dance with them. And I was like "MAJOR WHAT THE ***K" because I still couldn't remember most of the steps. Being such passive aggressive person, I once again accepted the task. So thought our the coming 30 minutes, I acted like I knew stuff, asking some students to do a little bit demonstration, and then simply based on that demonstration to practice. Luckily, these secondary school student were kind enough to not majorly challenge me (but then I will let the one who challenge me to take over the practice session anyway).

But do you know what was the best part? During the end of the practice today, we had a final rehearsal. Being acted like an instruction for more than 30 minutes, I STILL COULDN'T dance that piece correctly at the final rehearsal.

Ironic isn't it?

The second thing that made an impact on my life today (it actually happened more like a physical comedy punch): I learned that if a can of Coke dropped from 6 feet above to the floor, the splash it generated could spread over an area as big as 64 square feet (that's the size of my room).

I made that happened after I got home form the dance practice, then tried to move several cans of Coke from the closet of my room to the refrigerator. A can of Coke silted out of the the fragile paper box. The next thing I know, my room was spilt with sticky Coke.

I took me 15 minutes to clean them up. Not too bad, but .... Still anonying, considered that I was soaked with my own sweat after a whole afternoon dance practice.

That's it for now. More fun stuff later.

The CASIO keyboard was broken, thanks to my nephew

I don't know who actually broke the CASIO LK-50 keyboard I borrowed from my friend several years ago (and funny how she never meant to ask me to return it). Based on the way how my nephew constantly slamming on the keyboard almost daily, I am be pretty sured that he contributed to much of the broken down of that keyboard.

Basically 5 white key and 3 black key at the same section was totally dysfunctioanl. They all located at the left side of the keyboard. So if I ignored them, and transpose an octave. I still have 4 full octave out of this 5 octave keyboard. Not the end of the world in certain way.

This is yet another reason why not to have a kid, since I will not giving up buying expansive computer and musical gear.

And hot damn it the 4 year old hyperactive kid keeps yelling and yepping and running around in my room.

Problem child in the making

I still remembered that last year I was talking about how my nephew was able to take advantage of both his mom and my mom being too easy on him. Well, in the last several month, I saw something gradually happening among my brother's family. These days, I actually felt sorry to my nephew.

Usually I don't want to get involved into the marriage my elder brother, but something I just couldn't help but over heard what they argue about. Basically there was a tension between my brother and his wife, sometime about money (who spend on what using who's money), sometimes about time management (like you spend too much time on what with whom) and then sometimes about something that I don't know.

And things got ugly when the kid, my nephew, was involved in between.

Like today, after a verbal argument with my elder brother about spending, my tired and grumble sister-in-law wanted to grab the kid and went to sleep. Too bad the kid was still hyperactive, and running around happily. The kid's happiness ended when his mom yelled at him, calling him crazy, and then slapped at him. He cried, and ran to his grandma for revenge. "Punish mom" he asked my mom. Of course my mom wouldn't, and couldn't, do a thing.

So here we go. A kid being slapped (on the butt I guess) for no good reason. Honestly, if I were the kid, I would be confused too. I got punished when I shouldn't be, and I didn't get penalized when I should have been.

Sigh. If you haven't had a marriage, think twice. If you are already married, be a good couple before getting a baby. And if you already got a kid and you have some serious trouble with your spouse, get some counseling.