duo

I was lining up with groceries with my mom earlier at Walmart while something odd happened. I think, although not completely sure, that some teenage boy hit on me. Below are the conversation pieces that I can recall:

boy: can you grab me the stick please? (referring to the separator)

me: *grabbed the stick and placed it after my groceries*

boy: thank you

me: *nodded slightly*

boy: do you speak english?

me: err yea?

boy: well because usually when someone says thank you, you say you’re welcome.

me: oh I nodded. *looked away thinking this guy is rude*

boy: heh I guess that works as well

me: *no expression, still looking away*

Following a period of waiting/lining up, mom noticed that I kept on rubbing my back so she asked me, in Chinese, if I have bad posture during work.

me: blah blah blah explaining why in Chinese and then ended with one English word “tension” to sum it up

boy: so you have back problems eh?

mom: aiya you should watch out for these things (in Chinese)

me: *nodded* (I was more nodding to my mom than to the boy)

That’s all that I can recall.. but do realize that the boy is NOT Chinese. Mom and I both think he’s mixed between White and Black. My mom said at first she thought the boy was messing with me, but then she noticed he put too much attention on me so she thinks he’s just trying to catch my attention.

mom: he’s not bad looking, too bad you’re taken.

me: mom, he’s probably still in high school.

mom: oh well

me: -_-b

This has got to be my weirdest Walmart encounters.

The difference between .width and .get_width().. is.. ginormous.

This is why I hate linux. This is why I hate coding. Why isn’t there a standardized way to write everything..

I’m so pissed off. Not a single reference online telling me that it should be get_width(). Take a look:

[extremely vague, doesn’t even tell me what members it has]: http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/class-gtkwidget.html#method-gtkwidget–get-allocation

[tells me it returns the size, doesn’t tell me anything that’s actually useful]: http://www.phpreg.com/php-gtk-manual/gtk/gtk.gtkwidget.method.get_allocation.html

[finally something useful, but gives me the wrong impression!]: http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Gtk%3A%3AAllocation

In fact, try google “get_allocation() width”, it’ll return a page of get_allocation().width or get_allocation().width()s..

I hate gtk. I hate linux. I hate coding.

So um yea, it should be get_allocation().get_width().. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Appearance

1. Parts of my hair appear to be reddish brown, especially around the forehead area.
2. I actually have 3 piercings on my left ear and 2 piercing on my right ear. But the third one on my left ear closed up by itself because I didn’t wear anything for a while, while one of the two on my right ear was a mistake. So really, I only have 2 on my left and 1 on my right.
3. My eyes have double eyelid when the seasons change or if there’s a sudden jump in temperature. For instance, my left eye became double the day before yesterday and today. So I look like this right now: O_o
4. I’m double jointed. I can bend my right hand’s index finger to an angle that will usually freak people out.
5. I always have bruises on me as results of my clumsiness. They are quite obvious in summer because they’ll be all over my legs.

Behavior

6. I sing Chinese kiddish songs when I’m hyper.
7. I know way too many Chinese kiddish songs and MaoZeDong songs. And the sad part is I like to sing them.
8. I can’t remember lyrics for any popular culture songs. In fact, the only songs that I can remember lyrics for are some Chinese kiddish songs. And if I don’t, I sing them while making up stuff.
9. When I’m in a daze or thinking intensely (actually, it doesn’t have to be that intense), I tend to do something random without noticing it. Like this one time Lu and I were swimming and he caught me “chopping” water with my two hands right after I asked him a question and I was stuck in my train of thoughts. He had a good laugh and till this day he still wouldn’t let go of that.
10. Because of the fact that I have bad eye sight and never wear glasses when I’m out, I tend to squint a lot when I try to recognize people’s faces and street names. And the reason I need to squint at street names is because when I’m lost, I need to call people and describe my location. I was told that describing trees, buildings, and bicycles doesn’t quite work out.

Preference

11. I get really disappointed when plans don’t work out the way I thought they would. But I get extremely happy when plans turn out better than expected.
12. I don’t like to carry a lot of things with me because I have spinal problems and my neck and back always hurts if I give them a little stress. But if I don’t have that problem, I can easily see myself carrying an oversized purse with me everywhere.
13. I eat everything except bitter melon and raw onion. But having said that I like a lot of flavors but I might not eat them. Like I don’t mind having parsley, garlic, coconut, ginger and various other flavors in my food, but I wouldn’t eat them. An extreme example would be I love the flavor of onion, but I don’t like to eat big chunks of it. I would eat them if I can’t identify them (ie. In soup or stew or sauces).
14. I like to plan ahead and organize events.
15. I’m pretty lazy so I like to walk slow and Jeremy complains about that a lot. But if I’m cold, I tend to walk super fast and I get super annoyed when people who I’m working with are slow or the sidewalk is narrow and the person in front of me is slow. For times like those, I repetitively yell out TAOYAN in my head.
16. I like having gathers of people. The reason I like playing card/board games is because I have a legit reason to sit at a table with lots of people around me. But huge crowds of strangers scare me.
17. I sleep a lot because I like it.. but also because I might have S.A.D… or maybe I think I have that because I want an excuse to sleep.
18. I used to be scared of dark. I can’t sleep in darkness. When I was living in China, my grandma leaves the lights on until I’m asleep. When I was living in Vancouver, I have a night light turned on throughout the night. But now, I need to sleep in pitch black and I hate it when I can still see things after I turn off my bedroom light.

Animals and Pets

19. I love animals. I don’t approve the kind of liking that people claim they do when they’ve never actually took care of any or established any bond with them. It’s pretty much like saying I like CS without having experience in coding.
20. I’ve always wanted a deviruchi as a pet (both in RO and in real life). Having said that, I’ve never actually earned a deviruchi in RO unless it was a high rate server or low rate server and friends with GM. I’m a little ashamed of myself for the latter, just a little though.
21. I want a BaiNiangNiang, but unfortunately Lu hates snakes, so that will never be fulfilled. Fortunately, Lu said I can have up to 8 dogs and unlimited cats. Oh and unlimited babies.
22. When I was living in Vancouver, I had a wolf and husky hybrid who I named Lucy.
23. No matter what kind of bad things I tell others about Benben, he’s still the best in my mind. I have a feeling that’s how I would feel when I have a kid.

Future

24. I want to have twins. But I realize it’s not really up to me. So I will settle for one of the following in order of preference: 1 boy and 1 girl, 2 girls, 2 boys and 1 girl, 3 boys. I think two would be enough, unless the first two are both boys, I won’t consider giving birth to the third one. Because I heard it’s painful. If it’s not, then I will consider to have more.
25. My goal is to have a big happy family. Life is meaningless without the people who you want to enjoy it with.