The Star Wars Dilemma

Hi, my name is Wei Kwok, and I've never watched Star Wars.

Is this bad?  Seriously, this is the question I'm asking myself.  I don't know, I have no interest, I don't want to watch these movies, and by frankly it seems like I never will.  Now, honestly, does this make me a bad person because I don't want to watch this?  I feel like with all my interest and enjoyment of similar types of genre that this would be right up my ally.  Maybe it's my secret inside hipsterness that's making me not want to watch this…however I doubt that.

First of all I don't know what all the hype is about, so there's a dark side and a light side?  Is that what that is?  There's a guys that's supposedly to be someone's father.  There's a one man rebel that follows the beat of his own drum, a witty sidekick, hot princess turns out to be a sister…am I getting this right?  Everything I've learned about Star Wars I've learned from Family Guy and HIMYM.  I'm pretty sure this information is correct…correct?

I don't know, I feel like I missed the boat on this thing.  I don't want to take the time to go back and watch these movies.  I have a friend who only watched the new ones.  I have another friend who has watched them all.  I have another that's just like me and avoided the whole bit what so ever.  I feel the commitment to watch six movies to be a pain in the ass.  So yeah that's where I'm at with this movie.

Isn't there an anime version of this thing, there has to be right?  And there it is, I'm a geek, I like geeky stuff…so why don't I like Star Wars?  I'm not mystified by it, but I guess I wish I was, I'm missing out on a whole bunch of things.  Dammit Meg…dammit.

Wei Tak's Best Man Speech

Technically, it's not really a real blog post, but I really wanted this saved somewhere in case one day this thing gets deleted somehow…so here's the rough draft of this bitch…oh, and this may have started with, "If I can just say a few words…I be a better public speaker."  I don't think anyone heard it.

Best Man Speech

Good evening ladies and gentleman, to the new bride and groom, thank you so much for throwing this gracious and wonderful party. 

You know, I had a really difficult time coming up with this best man speech, heck, I keep a blog folks, and I write a bit, but this was still hard, so let’s start this off with a quote, “They say a good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really knows what goes in it.”

As you may or may not know, I’m Wei’s best-man and little brother…Wei.  Confusing, absolutely…so, you’re probably going to want to get use to that for now. 

So, me and Wei, we’ve been through a lot, for 29 years, he has groomed me into being the man that I am today.  Without him it would be quite difficult to contemplate where I would be.  We’ve gone on many adventures, from Boston to Washington and even a trip to Vegas.  Many adventures have been had. 

            Growing up with my brother was pretty awesome.  There was one experience that just bonded us forever though.  As two young kids growing up in the restaurant business, you just have to find ways to entertain yourselves.  After the previous night of watching wrestling, Wei and me decided to reenact some of the best of moves that we had saw.  Let me tell you this folks, don’t ever do reenactments near a bathroom.  As Wei was down for exhaustion sitting on the toilet, pretending to be the ropes, me, the Ultimate Warrior bounced offed the ropes to give a final clothesline…however instead of Wei going over the top rope, me and Wei may have smashed the toilet tank, and water was gushing everywhere.  While we looked in shock and awe, the only thing in my mind was, crap dad is going to see this in two seconds, and just on cue Dad comes walking in, and the next thing on my mind was…I’m out of here, and I bolted from the restaurant and hid for the next hour.  Thanks Wei for biting that bullet that day, to this day, I still don’t really know what happened after I left. 

            After that debacle, there is no man I would trust more than him, loyal to the end, trusting beyond belief.  He can smell BS, and will tell you how it is, and if you can’t deal with that, then you probably don’t really know Wei T. Kwok.  So when Wei said he was getting married, I knew that he had found the one. 

Enter the dame.  Tina Zhang.  You know that story where you’re in a crowded room, and you look up and you see the woman of your dreams, and you just know it’s love at first sight?  Well this is just like that love story, however the room is a doctor’s office, and the girl that was across the room, is the girl at the front desk, dispensing your mother’s medication.  It’s the dream folks, it’s the dream we all want, and you know what?  Tina couldn’t be any kinder and sweeter, and she makes my brother happy, which makes me happy.  Thank you so much Tina, and welcome to our happy family. 

As I look at you and Wei both tonight, I realize this is what love is, the perfect recipe, smiling, enjoying each other’s company, and becoming the best of friends.  This is how it is suppose to be, something that I wish I will achieve one day.  I said Wei was one of my greatest mentors in life, and now Tina so are you.  You have taught me what love is supposed to be like. 

And now if I can leave you with some words of wisdom from one of my favorite passage:

“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude.  It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with truth.  Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  Love never ends.”

Stuff Stuff Stuff

I finally realized, this feeling that I’ve been having lately.  Maybe it’s because it’s 2014, and moves are finally being made.  I guess it’s time right, more of that to come.  I don’t want to jinx myself before it gets here. 

Anyway, things have been the same busting my ass at work, finding things to complain about, things grinding my gears, and then the realization that Valentines Day has come and gone again, and everyone is still complaining about the commercialization of it.  I understand people it is quite commercial, but you know what, be happy, you have someone special, so everyday is a gift folks.  Obviously don’t just wait for Valentines Day, everyday should be special for that special someone.  Can you imagine only doing one thing once a year…that be pretty awesome actually. 

Oh, my brother has gotten married; I guess that’s a pretty big thing.  I’m going to tell you people this now, wedding days are great times, and fun for all, unless you’re the best man or maid of honor, you gotta keep that shit legit, and make sure you do everything to keep the best man happy.  The bride is the maid of honors problem, just kidding.  Seriously though, when you’re the best man, shit is rough, no drinking and eating, you take a crap ton of pictures and you cater to the groom’s every need.  Then again this may just be the case for Chinese weddings, and by the way, I’m not doing one of those.  I couldn’t understand the MC, and she didn’t even let me do my speech correctly fuck that shit.  God, I hate them sometimes.  Anyway, that’s my complaint for the day. 

You know what grind’s my gears, the weather this year.  No I can’t say that.  I love the snow, and I love the winter, I guess this is the first time I’m getting tired of it.  Maybe there is just a little too much of it.  Maybe because it’s killing my work flow and making my life a stressful hell, or maybe because the potholes are fucking up my car.  Seriously New Jersey, get on top of that shit, my car is getting fucked up.  I’m glad I didn’t buy a new one yet, Jebus.  Oh, and yeah, supposedly there’s another one coming our way in a couple of days.  So yes! Go Winter!