Month: September 2006

My beloved computer is being repaired by the HP folks. Someone in this house (someone short I suspect) broke my “.” key and we wanted to get it fixed while it was under warranty.

Tonight (9/8), the moon in the sky is the brightest. Mom and I drove out to find a place that we could enjoy the moon together. But just too early at this time (9:30PM), so we decided to go back to our apartment to have noodles and some white Portuguese wine (mateus) – the first wine that Mom and I shared 40 years ago. The noodles are good but the wine is not too tasty based on our later experience on other more fancy wines. But, we did really enjoy it.

After that, we will go out again to chase the moon tonight.

Jeremy is 38 today. That is *this close* to being 40. Yikes, we are in the middle of middleagedom. I chose a Barney theme for the party.

Good cake was had by all.

When I boarded a small shuttle bus at a long term parking lot of Douglas International, at Charlotte, NC to catch my fly to Las Vegas, an old man [I thought] stood up immediately and asked me to sit down on his seat. I was very thankful for his courtesy but, on the other hand, I was surprised. It rarely happened to me – I think I can manage myself all the time. I thought I wasn’t that old that this “old” gentleman needed not to yield his seat for me. Not only that, there was a lady sitting right across the aisle there and she helped me very hard to put my small luggage on the rack.

On the way back at Fort Worth International, Dallas, Texas, when I boarded one of the sky link light rail cars, there was an old lady doing exactly the same thing. I thought it wasn’t coincident. This time, I just carried a small hand bag without any check-in luggage. Not only that, there was a young man with his wife. He cleared up all his belongings on the adjacent seat to make more room for me, so I could have two seats all by myself. This time, I realized how old am I? At least in their eyes. Nobody offered anything to Mom who was right next to me. I was really surprised and immediately had a “Shrinking-Ego Attack” while everyone was looking at me to get settle down. I did and, after that, I patted that young man on his shoulder and said “I think you are pretty old too and do you like to sit down on this empty seat”. Everyone around me laughed. And I “did” too.

I guessed right now I realized I am old, old and never be able to going back, not a year, a month or even a day. But, to be truthful, I am still young in my heart. There are a lot things that I really like to do 🙂

Aries:

“You are on edge now, for it’s hard to know when to quit. You may be seeking perfection in an imperfect world, and can easily frustrate yourself if you expect too much. It’s no use looking to your friends and associates for guidance today, for they will only end up confusing you even more. As much as you want to be done so you can move on to what’s next, accept lack of forward movement with as much grace as possible.”

Hrm. dunno. I haven’t been sleeping well lately. Not sure why really… sigh.

We went to E’s house today.

This is the best picture I could coax out of the two friends – both of them don’t really like looking into cameras. Edda and E. are classmates. E. was really happy to see Edda! Vince and E’s older brother get along really well, so it’s nice to have the 4 kids wandering around and having fun.

Hrm. I’m saddened. One of my friends just asked a guy out on a date, and of course, he said yes. This was on like Thursday or Friday. They went out tonight and he mentioned that he was just being polite and all, by accepting the dinner offer. So I think she’s a bit bummed out by that. I’m sorta wondering why you go out with someone if you know it’s not there? Maybe it’s just hard to say no when confronted with it? i dunno…

In other relationship news, another friend of mine is in a spat with his GF. A silly argument that started over a misunderstanding. She was so mad, that she got up, left the house, got in her car, and _pretended_ to drive away. Really she just drove around the block and parked the car. He figured it out cuase they were on the phone, and he walked out to the car to talk to her. I thought that was freakin’ hilarious. I would be totally on the floor if it was my girlfriend – even if I was steaming mad at her. Hahhaha.

No silly, not Christmas, It’s the start of the 2006 NFL season and the start of my fantasy football season once again!

I can hear the snores of a thousand bored blog readers, but I don’t care.

My friend JT setup a league that I played in last year. My team did reasonable well, making the playoffs but losing in the first round. Last year I wasn’t able to attend the draft, so the computer picked my players for me, but this year, I managed to make it and without further ado, here’s my roster:

(s) for starter, 14 team league, starting 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 RB/WR, 1 TE, 1 K, 1 D, 1 DEF

QB – Drew Bledsoe, Cowboys (s)
QB – Jon Kitna, Lions
RB – Ladainian Tomlinson, Chargers (s)
RB – Willie Parker, Steelers (s)
RB – Warrick Dunn, Falcons (s)
RB – Kevan Barlow, Jets
RB – Michael Turner, Chargers
WR – T. Houshmandzadeh, Bengals (s)
WR – Derrick Mason, Ravens (s)
WR – Donte Stallworth, Eagles (s)
WR – Ernest Wilford, Jaguars
TE – Ben Troupe, Titans (s)
K – Lawrence Tynes, Chiefs (s)
D – DeAngelo Hall, Falcons (s)
DEF – Washington (s)

I had absolutely nothing planned today which ended up being perfect. Vince and Edda had a lot of videotherapy and I cleaned the study, washed some slipcovers of the couch, finished the Genesis newsletter, did a few hobby-like things and lazed around at home. It felt wonderful.

Our housekeeper comes on Tuesdays. I haven’t seen her for a while because usually I’m out dropping the kids off at school, but since there was no school today, I had a chance to chat with her. Rukia really helped me through the first half of the year when we were first grappling with Edda’s developmetal delay. Edda really likes her and Rukia has such a calmness about her and has an interesting perspective. She told me that as a Muslim, she believes that everything in our lives has been fated, already written out and planned for us. I don’t really agree exactly with that philosophy, but it was just the way Rukia said it to me that made me feel better – just that everything is going to be OK. And it’s true, I am going to make it through 2006 and we’re going to be OK!

Jeremy was always relieved when Rukia came over because both the house would be cleaner and I would not be in as much emotional dispair.

Today, Rukia brought over her youngest daughter, it’s cute because even though H. speaks mainly Malay, Vince speaks English and Edda speaks Edda – they all play together pretty well – all of them speaking their own language, each one incomprehensible to the other two.

Oh, and look at this hilarious picture of Vince.

Dude!

Well, it seems like everyone is in a mood to setup me up these days – Mom, my friend Anna, Ray, Mike. Some people just mostly encourging me to go after people, like Doris and Katherine encourging me to write back to someone… (which I have incidentally, tho it was more businessy really.)

I guess I’ll come out of the closet and say that I’ve been on match for awhile, tho I haven’t really been taking it too seriously at all, I haven’t met any one yet, but trying to be more wholehearted about it. (Ted, this is for you if you are reading this) So I’m trying to setup some lunches this week also…

Today I had a blind date with this girl that Anna set me up with – Olivia. Funny thing is that Anna and I were setup back in Feb by some mutual friends, and I suppose it says something if Anna is willing to set me up. I’ll have to thank her tomorrow.

Anyhow the date with Olivia was only okay for me. I have my reasons that probably don’t belong on a blog… The cool thing tho was that she mountain bikes, and we went on a biking first date which was kinda neat. Just up Arastradero Park, behind Stanford, where there’s a great view of the valley. Anyhow, I suppose that’s the way blind dates go. We’re having a group dinner on Friday, but honestly, I don’t think it’s there for me.

I’ll compound this with another interesting development, that I can’t quite blog about either, but if you want to email me about it, I can tell you the gory details.

P’ng and Judy are having a sorta baby shower/potluck/sleepover party on Saturday. Jocelyn will be there. It’ll be interesting to note if she listens to my request to leave me alone. I’m curious to know if she has the required control to do so. We’ll see.