Heh. So I finally caved in and got me a notebook. I think I went overboard a bit but I couldn't take the peer pressure anymore. This thing is pretty nice and perfect timing for the up coming LAN party. It's a Toshiba P15 S479. I was thinking about getting the 17 inch monitor but that was way too big to lug around and there are any bags that can fit that sucker. So I got the 15.4 inch one which is still wide screen. Suffering a bit from slight stretchy horizontalness but getting use to it. So, as far as my deskstop, I guess it's gonna be just a storage box now for pr0n and other good stuff. This could actually replace my desktop but I still love my box. Now I'm mobile! I guess all left to do now is to give in and get me a cell phone. Ah, the joys of peer pressure. I guess I'm a sheep after all.
Today I got to go to SF with Father and Grandma. Yay sarcastically pretty much sums it up. My Grandma can be at a market sifting through dry goods for hours picking out the one suitable for her special brew of soup. Soup is a really common thing among the Chinese. My father makes this one soup almost every week called Sai Yeung Choi Tong. I think there are different variants of it depending on ingredients. This stuff is suppose to help clean out your system. I remember the days when went out to play and came home about to pour myself a nice cup of water and then my father would say to me, "Mo yum sui! Yum woon tong seen!" And I would be like, "Fuck!", in my head of course. But then it was not just the way said it but how he said it. He wouldn't be looking at me but still he would know that I would be reaching for that water. I was thirsty. After playing outside on a nice afternoon all I wanted was some water but to my father, that would ruin my appetite for the soup so I had to drink the soup. Yep, nuthin' like drinking a hot bowl of heavy broth brewed with pork shoulder bones, vegetable, and some other herbal stuff included that created a nice mucky green dark colored liquid. Yum!
Uh....I guess most of you are saying, "WTF?!" It's a Chinese thing.
But yeah, SF was alright. All we ever do is go to Chinatown anyway if I go there with my folks. I like the other places but that's cause I'm born in the US. I just don't feel like I fit in Chinatown. Well, unless maybe if I was surrounded by a whole bunch of gwai lo's then I guess I would feel like a part of it. Ah, such is the fate of an A.B.C. Well, SJSU is offering Chinese. Might take that opportunity and learn some of it so I can talk to my Grandma. She was talking to me today while sifting through dried mushrooms at this one herbal shop. I think she was pissed and was talking about a few of our relatives. Somewhere along the line I got something about buying chickens and killing them and about my father's plight trying to get out of China durning that time cause China sucked cause of the communists and how hard he worked to escaped and how he saved money to buy stuff and took care of serveral other people in the process trying to move them out of China as well and how she didn't like someone cause that person didn't "giu" her when she came to visit which kinda ties in that time when I when on the hell trip to LA with my uncle. "Giu" is a big thing. Whenever I visited relatives I always had to "giu" them. It's the first thing I always do. If I don't "giu" then I'm fucked and my parents will whoop my ass. Heck, I still "giu" today. It's always, "Giu a po," or "Giu tai tai," or "Giu biu sook." Parents are always on my case about that. Dad will always ask me, " Nai yo mo giu a po?" And if I haven't I would quickly giu a po. I swear that sometimes my father will purposely ask me quickly before I can giu anyone else.
Hmmmm. Quite a tangent we got there. I should do that more often though and embrace it. Hang out with Grandma regardless of the language barrier. It's funny, despite the language barrier all my relatives still come to me with open arms. If I went to some place where I had relatives I would automatically have a place to stay. But mostly I think it's cause my father did a lotta stuff for them back when they were trying to get out of Red China. Yeah, free brownie points! I think I should go down to LA to see some of my aunts, uncles and cousins. That'd be nice. Especially with Chinese New Years around the corner. Yeah, $$$! Heh.
So now I'm transferring files to my notebook backing them up cause my mother used the internet the other day and used IE and installed adware on my system. Meh, needed to format anyway. This thing is so kewl! Can't wait to bring it over to the LAN party and show Jon the pretty blue lights and watch him orgasm. Jon loves blue lights.
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