Well, I've been missing these last few weeks. Sorry everybody, it has been hectic in my world, and yes who the hell am I that anyone of you people should care. You shouldn't I'm nobody. Just some guy who's trying to make the world a little better. I don't know how. I'm just trying to, move out of the way everybody, the "Decider," is on his way through.
Anyway, Thanksgiving week is nearly over. A majority of us shall be back to work tomorrow, and I know we can all be thankful for having the jobs that we have. I guess...However what else is there for us to be thankful for? I know, I know, we shouldn't just be thankful on this one day of the year, however it's just this time of the year that makes you reflect you know.
I've been saying a lot lately that I'm looking forward to this change that is coming in my life. Lots of people are telling me, just because going somewhere different will not make things that much different now. I don't know about that though, I like that in the end, I will be forcing myself to make new friends. As of now, I got that feeling that I'm just stuck in a rut. Feels like more and more I'm going back to my alcoholic ways...well okay not really but drinking alone at a bar with no friends suck sometimes. But you really do get to meet some interesting characters at a bar when you're with no one else. So yes, I am thankful for that as well. I like the experience of drinking at a bar and people watching and talking to the locals at my local dive/watering hole.
I'm also thankful for my old company, Phelan. They gave me the push I needed to really make the choices that are quickly approaching me. I guess, these last few years I really haven't been the all I can be Wei. However, Wei's back! Hahaha...Wei's back. I'm thankful for Black Fridays where all I do is drink champagne and mimosas. I'm Thankful for cyber Mondays where I can do my shopping without the hassle of dealing with all the shoppers from Black Friday. I'm thankful as always for Family and Friends of course. I'm thankful for a ton of shit.
So why is it that I need change? Because becoming complacent will never get you anywhere in life. I want that challenge. It's the only way to grow. I don't want to fail, but at the same time I can't fear the reaper, that will eventually lead to my downfall and failure. This will eventually lead me back to everything I need to do in life. EVERYTHING...
Anywhoo...Thanksgiving, this year there was a shit ton of food. A little too much food. However, I do enjoy the challenges of cooking a great meal. I enjoyed the turkey this year. However, I think it's going to be the maple brine for my next greatest turkey. I gotta admit though, the whole cooking process this year was awesome, I had a really really good time with it. I can't wait for the next holiday...Christmas, and it looks like I'm doing a prime rib roast this year. So I'm very very excited. Not as much food as Thanksgiving, however it's going to be a lot more different and exciting.
It's slowly coming to an end everyone. On to the next holiday I guess. Bring on Stressmas, and everything that has to go with it. Time to buy some gifts I guess. Yay!
If you've been reading this thing for a while now. You know that for a fact I'm not a picky eater. I like it all. There's very little that I'm willing not to try, and there is very little that is expected of me. I think a majority of my friends know how adventurous I am. Hell...I hate spiders, but I'm willing to eat a tarantula fried and skewered on a stick. They taste like crab supposedly, I guess I should expect that...they are in the grouped in the same phylum family.
With that in mind, what is it that turns me off? There has to be something that I hate right? Something that gives me that gagging feeling when I eat it. I'm going to try and drop a top 10 list of my hated things. However, I've been thinking about his for quite some time now, and I still having a difficult time of choosing 10 items, but you know what, still willing to give it a try. So lets do this thing k? Okay. Oh and a quick thing...I've tried a majority of these items. There may be an item or two I have not tried.
10. Kimchi
I love Korean food, and everything about it. I love the little side dishes, I love the BBQ, I love the dolsot bim bim bap, I love it all. However when it comes to this one portion of the meal. Kimchi was never one of my favorites. I enjoy the spicy nature of the vegetables, however I don't know, this kimchi thing. It just never worked for me. It must be that slimy nature of the way it's made. *shivers* I don't hate it. I just don't enjoy it too much.
9. Cold Kimchi Soup
One more Korean dish. I just don't enjoy this cold soup when we get it at the restaurant. Then again I'm not a huge fan of cold soups. So, you know. If it looks good eat it. And I've had tried it. However this is just another dish I do not enjoy as well.
8. Rice Pudding
Yeah...it's sometimes too sweet, the consistency is weird to me. The way it taste...how should I explain this. Rice isn't suppose to taste like this. Rice shouldn't be like this at all...and this is just plain wrong. It's cold, wet, and icky. God dammit Wei, that's a terrible food criticism evaluation. I don't like rice pudding.
7. Sea Cucumbers
Gross...I'm getting a sense of what I really don't like, here are the patterns: slimy consistency, cold things, and a gelatinous being. I guess I know where I'm going now. Ugh...gross.
6. Rocky Mountain Oysters
This makes me extremely squeamish. Just the thought and looking at these things make me feel awful. I get a gut wrenching feel in my stomach...and well. It also makes my own feel...well not good. Uh...I'm in pain just thinking about people eating these things. Ugh...and ouch.
5. Lutefisk
Cod placed and soaked in lye. Yes that kind of lye, the thing that cleans drain and being extremely caustic. I'm definitely afraid of the fact that there is a chemical in this fish that should be killing me, and people are eating this thing like it's bloody candy. Yup, good old Minnesota. You're eating some crazy stuff. Good for you guys. Good for you guys.
4. Bread Shaped as Human Heads
I got no beef with bread, hell, I love the thing. It's so bloody delicious. I eat with everything, and it's fantastic. However, if it's shaped in the styling of a human head, the no. I don't want to eat this shit. It's creepy, scary, and no one should be buying these things. It would be an Asian that would be creating these things in Thailand. Gross, and scary. Fudge no I'm not eating this.
3. Casu Marzu
Cheese filled with maggots. Not dead maggots, still alive and disgustingly moving and wriggling around. That is gross. I hate maggots, and eating that is just plain disgusting. No thanks guys, no thanks. And I would eat anything from Italy...however this isn't one of them. Gotta pass.
2. Canned Cranberry Sauce
Yup going back to that pattern again. I remember the first time I had cranberry sauce from a can. It was freaking gross. I never wanted to eat cranberry sauce again. It was due to this gelatinous, cold, and wiggly thing. Gross. However I learned later on down the line that freshly made cranberry sauce is amazing. I love it. Especially on my Bobit sandwich. Yum-O!
1. Durian
Durian doesn't even taste that bad. It's actually pretty good. However, it's the smell of this thing. It's the smell of rotting onions in a laundry bag full of dirty socks. It's gross, and I've never been able to get pass that smell. I've tried it, and I never want to go back to it. O-M-G...gross. F*cking gross.
Today, I was going to write something on the shit I hate dealing with at work, and I've got plenty to vent about. Not about the company, but with some of the idiocy that I have to deal with from other companies...smh. However today is not the day for that. Cause you know why? It's election day, and today is all about why I would make a great president...either great or really really really bad...I would probably go with pretty bad.
First things first. My first goal would be to work on healthcare in America. Maybe some sort of Obamacare modification. I don't want it to be some sort of free for all of insurance. However I'm pretty sure people will complain about this, and blah blah blah...I don't know. Something will change, or happen. I'll figure it out when I'm president.
Okay, let's see step too. Oh yeah, welfare. If I was president, I say it be mandatory for drug tests to be taken when welfare is applied for. Yeah, that's important, cause we don't want to give our hard working tax money to people that are abusing the system and taking drugs. There's a way to stop that. Yeah, that's definitely smart.
Number 3, definitely adding a sort of contingency plan for the impending zombie apocalypse in front of us. I'm not saying to give guns to everyone, however, the CDC and military will have a plan to deal with the zombie apocalypse. Maybe a tax break for every household with a bomb shelter/bunker. Smart...you damn right. You think we'll be like England in 28 Days/28 Weeks Later? Fudge, no, hell no. We'll be smart about it, and we won't be like the Walking Dead, where America is getting screwed over. yup I said it.
Attack other countries? Maybe...I don't know, maybe just to reestablish dominance. Gotta reestablish dominance. We'll crush you, you jerks...then maybe we'll help out. Ugh...stupid national debt....I'm just kidding, I love you China. You're good to us, so we'll be good right back. (Don't worry guys, we'll take over one day...you'll see...jk jk...or am I?)
What else? Okay, lets see. Something about education, cause seriously, I think we need more of that. That's a good thing. Yeah, yeah...lets do that. Seriously though, kids in the states can't compete with other countries. Maybe we should be like Japan, have 6 day school weeks, and 13 grades before actually getting into college. I say schooling being all year round, and giving kids a month off. It's harsh, however it would be smart, and it would also create more teaching jobs...smart right? Huh...huh...huh?
Yeah, so in all honesty, I would be a terrible President, I would just want to do something that would be able to make America the great country it once was. Less getting into other countries business, and more with just staying with our own way of thinking and believing and trying to fix our own countries problems. Maybe though, that's all we really need, regulate the f*ed up shit that needs to be regulated, lower taxes, raise education, make smarter choices. Do things that will actually raise America's quota. Smart things. Lets have that. I don't care who's president, I don't care who's chosen, Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian...whatever, just make the right choices and change the country. We're having a crap ton of problems here, lets fix it huh? Please.
It was a busy weekend this last weekend. Lets start with Friday. I had a great night. Headed off to one of my new favorite bars. Dos Segundos, it seemed like a great night for some margaritas and drinks. However with me being DD, I got to watch my best friends have a great time. I kinda wish Marie was working, but oh well. It was still fun. What a great day.
Saturday was another good day. Actually I began the gun buying process. Lots of things I didn't do before, I did this time. Had my mugshot taken...I smiled the entire time. I wasn't sure if I had too or not. I just like smiling and being happy. So with that done, I thought my fingerprinting was next. I was wrong, had to set up an appointment, and I did. Friday of November 16. Pretty excited. Let's get this in huh? ^___^
Sunday was one of those lazy Sunday. Just played some games and all that jazz. Honestly. I'm actually kinda sick at the moment...watching this Eagles game, and well...it's just making me sick. More...making me agitated than sick really. Stupid Eagles, stupid team...sigh, I wish they could just win or do something. I know it's looking kinda good, but our defense sucks, and our offense can't even get 6 in the redzone. I'm pretty positive field goals isn't going to win us games. Meh...we'll see how this works out.
Looks, like I'm going to work on something tomorrow. A little something on either grinding gears...or maybe even a on my top 50 list. We'll find out tomorrow. I'm still thinking. For now I'm going to start listening to some more Lumineers...enjoy.
What a tumultuous week it has been. Sandy destroy a majority of my state, there has been no electricity for a major part of the week for millions, streets are littered with animal carcasses all over, and it feels like the 70's all over again with all the cars waiting for gas at gas stations. I'm just going to wait for them to start choosing license plates that end in even and odds and for certain cars to get gas on certain days...insanity folks, insanity. I just like to count my blessing on this situation. Lots of things could have been worse for us down here in the southern portion of my state, but it wasn't. Like I said, counting my blessing that it wasn't. I feel for the people here, well gotta remain optimistic. I've already donated about $200 in charity, it's not a lot, but every bit helps right? It has too. Also the P&S Campout for Hunger is quickly approaching, and I sure as all hell would like to donate, and contribute some of my time once again this year. Last year felt right, it felt good to help out, and I know I'm going to take a day off from the work week once again to do the same. Why not right? I have all this time, and helping the community never hurts. Something that will return us to the normalcy before all of this. I feel like we all need that. This thing we call normalcy. It's such an important word nowadays. I seriously thought Sandy was no big deal...ugh...dead wrong this time Wei...dead wrong.
I've been wondering about the #RTK. Will I participate in another 5K this year? I don't know, however, I feel like I'm right back to where I've began, I haven't ran in a long time. Ughh...not good. Well, I figure I need to get back into the swing of things. Probably a smart move in the end. I'm going to try to start collecting now. I need to start now. I feel like if I start too late, I won't make enough. Definitely want to beat my goal of last year and make at least $1,000, now that's a lot of money, but definitely going to a good cause.
You know, I have all these good intentions on my mind, however in all honesty. I don't know where I'm going to be in a few more months. Am I still going to be around? Am I going to be able to do all of this for another year? Or is this all a pipe dream of some sort? I don't know anymore...I have no clue. Is getting my gun license a bad idea? Will the paperwork be approved in a few months? Is all this planning going to be for naught? What am I waiting for? Seriously. I'm scared, where am I heading, why can't finding restaurants be more easy than this. The only definite plan that I have so far is that I know I'm going back to Boston in a couple of weeks. Maybe Dave can come this time...I know Wei Tak is. So no matter what happens, should be an interesting time. One more look before I say no, and I'm definitely staying overnight this time. Ugh...12 hours of driving in one day is just way too much.
So with everything that has been going on lately, let's have a way to get back to normalcy. And what better way to achieve that? A TOP 10 LIST OF MY FREAKIEST AND FAVORITE HORROR MOVIES...in order...(Daaavvveee...)
10. Quarantine 2: Terminal
Wanna talk about a junk food horror movie? Here it is...is it good? No, not at all...that's why it's 10, however is it a good junk food movie that will make you jump? Heck yes, that it will. It's a fun little creepy movie, and that's just it, fun.
9. Paranormal Activity
Ever since the Blair Witch...movies like these have always freaked me out. That, POV, shaky camera dealie, that's what this is, however the freaky part is, it's the safety of your own home, I don't know why, but this just takes everything that is safe and holy in your own home out. *shiver* creepy...should've never watched this on Netflix home alone...stupid Wei...stupid.
8. Dawn of the Dead
First time I've ever seen a zombie in a movie theater...first time I ever had to not scream when watching a scary movie...first time where I wasn't allowed to cover my eyes cause I was sitting next to a girl I liked...first time I've sat next to an Asian girl that I had liked and watched this movie with...I don't know what the scariest moment was...me sitting through this movie cause I wanted to act like a man...or me actually liking an Asian...first and last...done.
7. Interview with the Vampire
Is this a horror movie? I don't know if you can or can't count it as that. However back in 1994 when I was just a wee lad. This movie gave me the he bee jee bees...sorry if other people don't find it scary, but the part where Kirsten Dunst gets burnt by the sun has scarred me for life. *shivers...*
6. Bram Stroker's Dracula
Vampires freak me out...end of story. It's the neck thing too. I don't like it. I don't like it at all.
5. Poltergeist
One of the very first horror movies that I have ever watched. Little girl gets sucked up by house. Gotta find little girl, creepy medium, scary skin scene. Oh god, why was I watching this as a child. Jebus...yea...creepy
4. Amityville Horror
Based on a true story that freaked me the heck out. For the longest time I thought it was the house that possesed him, to this day I still don't know what the fudge happened, it was just plain old scary. Hearing stories about this today still freak me out. New finding and new everything. Oh geez.
3. House on Haunted Hill
This movie should've never scared me as much as it did, it was terrible. It was an awful movie. Seriously horrendously bad. It was so bad, but I had nightmares for weeks...smh. I don't know it scared me. I watched this with Anthony too...I'm an idiot.
2. Blair Witch Project
God I hated this movie, I won't go to basements by myself. This was so real to me. I watched this movie before all the hype, I watched it before everyone knew it was a fake. I got freaked the f*ck out. Oh my god I had nightmares for weeks. I hate scary movies.
1. The Exorcist
Yeah scariest movie of all time. This movie scared me to no end. I hate this movie, and everything that it brings, it freaked me out to no f*cking end. Fudge you the Exorcist...fudge you.
Lots of great movies I missed, but I could never finish a lot of them. The above I've finished.
Honorable Mentions:
Ju-On
Ringu
The Shining...No beer and No t.v. make Homer go something...something...
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