Random Musings

After reading some of the blogs on here, I've come to realize just how boring my life is. Well, I already knew it was already quite boring, but seeing stuff you've never experienced in your life happen to real people (not T.V.) just brings that fact home. Sure, I should be happy with my boring, yet healthy and normal life, but it's boring; sometimes, I wished something life-changing would happen to me. Maybe I've been watching too much anime; this may be why I'm thinking this way…

So, I thought I'd just waste cyberspace and ramble for a bit. It's not like I'm paying to blog here anyway! Yes, I do fit the stereotypical mold of an Asian; I'm stingy with my own money, I love taking shortcuts, and I'll probably be a bad driver when I get my licence. I get fairly good grades (not to make myself look better, although I must admit, inflating one's ego is a natural thing to do; if there was a person who didn't like their ego being inflated, I'd be scared), I waste my life on 'Japanese cartoons', play two instruments, and isn't doing so shabby in math (contrary to popular belief, most Asians I know don't like math, they're just good at it).

Wow, I like to go off topic, don't I? *looks back at what I've written so far*

Anyway, I went 'yum cha' (if you're Chinese, and you don't do this sometimes, you're a shame! *is obviously joking*) with my grandparents today. It's always the same: you have to play the perfect grandchild in front of them. Me? I just use the old trick of 'smiling and nodding'. Just agree with everything they say, and be extremely polite. I envy non-Asians (or people that don't have traditional families) sometimes; they don't have to deal with such formalities. With my family, it's always about 'saving face'; don't act stupid in front of your grandparents, watch what you tell them etc. It must be worse for Koreans and Japanese people though; from what I've heard, they're even more formal than Chinese people.

But sometimes, I respect that formality. These days, some annoying kid can, and will, walk up to you and swear at you for no apparent reason. It's a true story! Back in elementary school, I had a kindergartener swear at me for no apparent reason. Like, what the hell? Where do they learn these things? I wish kids would respect their elders more; somehow, the 'senpai kohai' system they have in Japan doesn't sound so bad after all. Everyone's got to learn their place in society someday; why not start now?

Now that I think about it, I never got why smoking is still considered 'cool' in high school. If you think about it (wow, I just repeated myself a bit), smoking is just basically slowly killing yourself (y'know, the usual lung cancer crap they shove up your face all through high school); isn't that suicide, long-term? Last time I checked, suicide definitely wasn't 'cool'. Isn't there some sort of inconsistency here? Am I missing something? Human stupidity is infinite, isn't it?

Some wise person once said (well, since I don't know who they were/are, so logically, I can't come to the conclusion that they are wise, but the following words are pretty wise to me…):

Well, the quote itself isn't exact, but you get the meaning, right? Even I tend to baffle myself at how stupid I can get. Have you ever tried walking up to the fridge to get something and when you open the fridge, you forget what you wanted to get? I find myself doing that a lot. Sometimes, I wonder if I'm losing my memory. I tend to forget things that are important, and remember the weirdest trivia. Did you know that J.S. Bach had twenty kids? And yet, I often find myself telling something I found interesting to the same person twice. They often have to remind me that I've already told them that. You know how embarrassing that is?

I think that's all the random crap from me today; wow, this actually tired me out quite a bit. Would that be interesting, or just plain pathetic?

Until next time,
Taelin

P.S.: An e-cookie for whoever actually bothered to read all that crap.