My vacation started the moment I left the office today. I thought I would stay in tonight to catch up on television shows on my DVR. Around 10PM, I was utterly bored, so I went out to Chinatown to meet up with my cousin. A few beers later, I was watching a bunch of Chinamen, who got paid today, gather around a table to play Pai Gow. I had nary a clue what was going on but continued to watch.
Holy shit! These folks were flinging around $20s, $50s and $100s. It reminded me of an incident from college during freshmen year. My roommate was taking Sociology 101 and showed me an article that said "It is more natural for a Cantonese to gamble than it is for a baby to drink milk."
DOH!
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Tornado!!!
Yup, that's right. A tornado touched within 100 yards of my building early this morning. Here are some pictures from my window.
There's no train service so it looks like I'll be working from home.
Saturday, August 04, 2007
Over-protective mom
Yesterday, I had dim-sum lunch with a friend who recently came back from a project in Florida. He told me a wonderfully funny story that I thought I'd share with you.
First, the background stuff for context. I was telling my friend about the difficulties that my 14 year old nephew was experiencing growing up as his mom is so crazy that she follows him everywhere. She walks him to and from school. She'll watch him play handball all day at the park. She's employing a whole bunch of counter-sneaky measures against him. The thing is that he's a good kid.
My friend then says that folks he met in Florida said that moms have an affinity for their sons and dads for their daughters. A neighbor/friend of his host in Florida is very over-protective of her 13 year old son and almost indifferent towards her recently born daughter. She'll come over to the host's place throwing down cocktails while toting the baby. Once, she even left the baby in front of the fake fireplace to go smoke pot upstairs. Not that she doesn't love her daughter, she's crazy about her son.
So crazy that she goes through his stuff, his myspace page and deploys various intelligence-gathering schemes. She once asked her son if he had sex to which he answered no. She pushed on the matter by saying that she could have him tested to find out if he had indeed had sex. A blatant lie by an overzealous and loving mother. At the point, he stammered and said that he's done other things but did not have sex. Again, she pushed for the truth and insisted that there are tests that can prove if he's a virgin or not. That's when he blurted out that he "beats his meat".
The mother wanted to laugh and puke but didn't. When the son walked away, she was gagging.
If my friend reads this, please feel free to correct my recollection of this awesomely funny story.
First, the background stuff for context. I was telling my friend about the difficulties that my 14 year old nephew was experiencing growing up as his mom is so crazy that she follows him everywhere. She walks him to and from school. She'll watch him play handball all day at the park. She's employing a whole bunch of counter-sneaky measures against him. The thing is that he's a good kid.
My friend then says that folks he met in Florida said that moms have an affinity for their sons and dads for their daughters. A neighbor/friend of his host in Florida is very over-protective of her 13 year old son and almost indifferent towards her recently born daughter. She'll come over to the host's place throwing down cocktails while toting the baby. Once, she even left the baby in front of the fake fireplace to go smoke pot upstairs. Not that she doesn't love her daughter, she's crazy about her son.
So crazy that she goes through his stuff, his myspace page and deploys various intelligence-gathering schemes. She once asked her son if he had sex to which he answered no. She pushed on the matter by saying that she could have him tested to find out if he had indeed had sex. A blatant lie by an overzealous and loving mother. At the point, he stammered and said that he's done other things but did not have sex. Again, she pushed for the truth and insisted that there are tests that can prove if he's a virgin or not. That's when he blurted out that he "beats his meat".
The mother wanted to laugh and puke but didn't. When the son walked away, she was gagging.
If my friend reads this, please feel free to correct my recollection of this awesomely funny story.
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