Ok, here's the situation. Perhaps I've a few of you this story already but anyway:
I'm at work, serving this nice lady and I'm trying my best to have some little chit-chat.
"Hot day outside today yeah?"
"Oh yeah, horrible. Thank goodness for air-conditioned shopping centres" She replies.
In the meantime, I'm scanning her items one by one.
"At least the bushfires around the area this year weren't so bad" I said.
She nods in agreement.
I continue: "Like those ones about three years ago, I couldn't even breathe, there was so much smoke. And my eyes, they were stinging..."
"Oh yes" She interrupts. "My brother died in that fire. A tree fell on him while he was fighting the fires"
Oh my. What do I say? I was caught off guard. How are you supposed to respond in that situation? Do I give my condolences? I think in those type it would be best to give a little "I'm sorry to hear that". And I should've.
But I didn't.
Here's what I said:
"Oh, really (five minute pause while looking at her thinking what to say)...
...(longer, getting more awkward every second)...
..."ok, cool. Here's your bag, your receipts inside. Thank you, I'll see you later."
I had nothing to say. I said nothing.
I'm a horrible, horrible person.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Juan's Pointless Anthropological Studies
Chapter One: Stunners and Mingers
In my line of work, and in general I like to people watch. I like to sit back and observe the general characteristics of human behaviour. In other words, yes, I am a perve. LOL
Anyway, on many of my observations, I seem to notice that good looking people always stick around and flock with other good looking people while other who are 'facially enept' seem to hang around with others who aren't as blessed facially. Why is this?
Now, as you read this think about your group of friends. Are they as a whole good looking - or otherwise? Now, think of how you guys met. Did you actively scan these people in the first place and think "Oh this person is good looking, they HAVE to be my friend" or "Geez, this persons uuugly, he/she MUST have a nice personality, I think I'll talk to them"? I'm pretty sure you probably did neither. If you did, shame on you! Saying that, why do people attract other people who are as visually similar as eachother? It's hard to see why this is the case with groups of friends, but this isn't such the case with couples.
In my line of work, and in general I like to people watch. I like to sit back and observe the general characteristics of human behaviour. In other words, yes, I am a perve. LOL
Anyway, on many of my observations, I seem to notice that good looking people always stick around and flock with other good looking people while other who are 'facially enept' seem to hang around with others who aren't as blessed facially. Why is this?
Now, as you read this think about your group of friends. Are they as a whole good looking - or otherwise? Now, think of how you guys met. Did you actively scan these people in the first place and think "Oh this person is good looking, they HAVE to be my friend" or "Geez, this persons uuugly, he/she MUST have a nice personality, I think I'll talk to them"? I'm pretty sure you probably did neither. If you did, shame on you! Saying that, why do people attract other people who are as visually similar as eachother? It's hard to see why this is the case with groups of friends, but this isn't such the case with couples.
Angelina Jolie. She has nice lips...
At least he has a house with a fireplace
Now, here's the deal that applies with couples. Good looking people KNOW that they can bag a stunner, others THINK that they can't even breathe the same air as a stunner so they go for something right up their alley, they THINK they have a better chance. Perhaps it is a self-conscious/confidence issue which is sad. Yes, there are strange instances where one might mix with the other (Beyonce and Jay Z) and in those instances I'm happy for them - but for the most part this is usually not the case. For some, those instances above may be a conscientious decision by one (or both) parties but I think for the most part, it's something that most don't really think about and it just happens.
Why am I writing this? I have no idea. Am I a bitter minger? LOL perhaps. Actually, I'm probably just writing this out of boredom...
... I think I'll go downstairs and watch some TV
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Yay!
So I get my first good news of the year, I've got myself a place in the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales studying a Computer Science/Digital Media degree which I'm pretty happy about. I've been wanting to study there for a quite a while and since I got my diploma last year, it was pretty easy for me to get in. Best thing, I'm not going alone as I got my mates Paul and Mohammed coming along.
Hopefully because of my past student history, I hope I will be exempt for a whole lot of stuff. Last thing I want to do is complete another 3 years of study. I'll be a friggin old codger before I get to go out there in the workforce. I'm pretty advanced (age-wise) as it is, last thing I wan't is to be a perpetual student who keeps on studying until he's 30 or so. That'll be bad. And embarrassing.
Hopefully this degree will bring me closer to my dream career. That's all I ever want out of this venture. But OMG how exciting!
Just a few random work stuff
Well the holiday season is over so things are winding down at work. So we're getting a bit more loose and are starting to be just a little bit more silly again. Gone are the queues that seemed like that went forever, here are the quiet days where it seems like we're not getting any customers at all. LOL
This is Parrish, as you can see he is standing up beside a wall filled with PC games. I took this picture straight after he completed fixing up that wall you see there. It is NEVER that clean, ever. And more amazingly, they're all in alphabetical order - which is what it is supposed to be. So instead of spending minutes trying to find one game, just look where it's supposed to be and voila! the game's there!
They call me the "Wall King" at work, mainly because I'm one of the only people that can fix a wall this good. Look at that, perfect lines, no gaps, nothing. Actually they probably call me the Wall King just to flatter me. So that someone would actually fix up the walls by the end of the day. Bastards.
This is Parrish, as you can see he is standing up beside a wall filled with PC games. I took this picture straight after he completed fixing up that wall you see there. It is NEVER that clean, ever. And more amazingly, they're all in alphabetical order - which is what it is supposed to be. So instead of spending minutes trying to find one game, just look where it's supposed to be and voila! the game's there!
They call me the "Wall King" at work, mainly because I'm one of the only people that can fix a wall this good. Look at that, perfect lines, no gaps, nothing. Actually they probably call me the Wall King just to flatter me. So that someone would actually fix up the walls by the end of the day. Bastards.
First Blog of the Year
Hey, hey, hey! It's been a while since I decided to do a blog for this site. No, I haven't abandoned it. It's just that I haven't had the time to even breathe yet alone do any blogging. But I'm here waiting for my car to get serviced and decided to bring my macbook along and do some little catch up blogging. Mostly because someone (not naming any names (hi Nat! Go Rafa! Lol) has been begging me to write a new entry. Well, here it goes:
Another year over, a new one just begun
So its 2007, A whole brand new year. Where the fuck did 2006 go in the first place? Just when I was getting used to writing '06' at the end of my dates, here comes 2007 saying 'nup, fuck off, I'm here now, get used to it, bitch'.
Wow, I'm swearing a lot today, wtf?
I wonder what this new year will bring, firstly on a personal level. I don't know why, but I have a feeling that something rather bad will happen this year. I know it's a bad thing to think about but yeah, I'm just feeling a little uncertainty in regards to, I don’t know, something happening perhaps in my family. It could just be me being a little paranoid, but I just want to prepare myself just in case. But yeah, it is a terrible, terrible thing to think about. Hopefully, it is just me being paranoid. I don't want to be blogging about something horrible sometime this year. If something does though, I am so quoting this here blog entry.
On a world level, hopefully only good things will happen. We can all dream of world peace, rain and um, boobs? Um, yeah…
Wa Wa Wii!!
Omg! I got me a Nintendo Wii for myself for Xmas. Only because I knew I wasn't going to get anything from anyone (which was pretty true, more details to come). I came into work launch day thinking to myself that I was not going to buy one. So I get through work, selling the damn things by the bucket loads not even thinking of getting my own one and right at the end of my shift my boss comes up to me:
"You buying one?"
"Yeah, and give me Zelda as well" Without any hesitation at the same time thinking WTF did I just say?
So yeah, I bought one. I got into my car and I realised that I hadn't even paid the monthly repayment for my car, so I was in majorly deep shit because I had hardly any money left in my bank account. Yes, I'm that poor.
But the damn thing is awesome, I play Wii Sports, I love playing tennis and go majorly hard in baseball. I'm just so scared that the remote would slip and fly straight towards the television. As you can see, people can just get a little carried away.
My family has gotten into the thing as well. My mum OWNs in boxing, she can knock out the motherfucker like it was nothing, she goes majorly hardcore and looks so funny in the process. Just goes to show not to mess with the woman, she can open a can of whoop-ass on you if need be. My nephews love the thing too, even though they're a bit too small to do anything. I give my two year-old nephew the TV remote and he thinks he's playing. So bloody cute, I feel like eating him. LOL
Christmas!
Christmas eve was spent with the family, like it always has been for my last 24 years. It was pretty fun actually, the whole family in the one place. Which, in my opinion is an amazing feat in itself since right now all of us combined would be a good, say 60 or so people? Don't know the exact number but there's a whole heap of us. A house full of us brown people, and we're all legit migrants! Amazing! Oh, and we are LOUD . That's a bit of un understatement, seriously all of us would probably be equivalent to a jet plane taking off.
There is a lot of kanta (singing) and sayaw (dancing) going on, oh and the karaoke machine is in full effect. Food would be in abundance including a full lechon (spit roast, whole pig). Man, you gotta love big Filipino parties, best food ever!
We're one of the families that wait until midnight Christmas morning and give out presents then. As expected, the little kids got the most presents, toys, videogames and so on. The young adults, on the other hand get pretty much jack shit.
Again, as expected I got undies. This time, in boxer short form, not briefs. Which is actually pretty good, because I'm running out of shorts anyway.
But I'm not too fussed, I'm not too picky when it comes to that stuff anyway. It was good to be with the family and their company is a lot more important than all the little things that you would (or wouldn’t) get during Christmas. I hope you guys all had a good Christmas with those you love as well.
New Year
The family headed off to the harbour to watch the fireworks this year. It's the first time I actually went to see the fireworks. Probably would be the last. It's not because it was bad, in fact it was really good. It was more so the fact that despite all the effort we made getting there, queuing, waiting, getting sunburnt and so on. The fireworks went for just a few minutes combined, and despite being an amazing audio and visual spectacle, it just makes you question if it was all worth it. In my honest opinion, it wasn't. But it is definitely one of the things that you MUST do at least once.
Another year over, a new one just begun
So its 2007, A whole brand new year. Where the fuck did 2006 go in the first place? Just when I was getting used to writing '06' at the end of my dates, here comes 2007 saying 'nup, fuck off, I'm here now, get used to it, bitch'.
Wow, I'm swearing a lot today, wtf?
I wonder what this new year will bring, firstly on a personal level. I don't know why, but I have a feeling that something rather bad will happen this year. I know it's a bad thing to think about but yeah, I'm just feeling a little uncertainty in regards to, I don’t know, something happening perhaps in my family. It could just be me being a little paranoid, but I just want to prepare myself just in case. But yeah, it is a terrible, terrible thing to think about. Hopefully, it is just me being paranoid. I don't want to be blogging about something horrible sometime this year. If something does though, I am so quoting this here blog entry.
On a world level, hopefully only good things will happen. We can all dream of world peace, rain and um, boobs? Um, yeah…
Wa Wa Wii!!
Omg! I got me a Nintendo Wii for myself for Xmas. Only because I knew I wasn't going to get anything from anyone (which was pretty true, more details to come). I came into work launch day thinking to myself that I was not going to buy one. So I get through work, selling the damn things by the bucket loads not even thinking of getting my own one and right at the end of my shift my boss comes up to me:
"You buying one?"
"Yeah, and give me Zelda as well" Without any hesitation at the same time thinking WTF did I just say?
So yeah, I bought one. I got into my car and I realised that I hadn't even paid the monthly repayment for my car, so I was in majorly deep shit because I had hardly any money left in my bank account. Yes, I'm that poor.
But the damn thing is awesome, I play Wii Sports, I love playing tennis and go majorly hard in baseball. I'm just so scared that the remote would slip and fly straight towards the television. As you can see, people can just get a little carried away.
My family has gotten into the thing as well. My mum OWNs in boxing, she can knock out the motherfucker like it was nothing, she goes majorly hardcore and looks so funny in the process. Just goes to show not to mess with the woman, she can open a can of whoop-ass on you if need be. My nephews love the thing too, even though they're a bit too small to do anything. I give my two year-old nephew the TV remote and he thinks he's playing. So bloody cute, I feel like eating him. LOL
Christmas!
Christmas eve was spent with the family, like it always has been for my last 24 years. It was pretty fun actually, the whole family in the one place. Which, in my opinion is an amazing feat in itself since right now all of us combined would be a good, say 60 or so people? Don't know the exact number but there's a whole heap of us. A house full of us brown people, and we're all legit migrants! Amazing! Oh, and we are LOUD . That's a bit of un understatement, seriously all of us would probably be equivalent to a jet plane taking off.
There is a lot of kanta (singing) and sayaw (dancing) going on, oh and the karaoke machine is in full effect. Food would be in abundance including a full lechon (spit roast, whole pig). Man, you gotta love big Filipino parties, best food ever!
We're one of the families that wait until midnight Christmas morning and give out presents then. As expected, the little kids got the most presents, toys, videogames and so on. The young adults, on the other hand get pretty much jack shit.
Again, as expected I got undies. This time, in boxer short form, not briefs. Which is actually pretty good, because I'm running out of shorts anyway.
But I'm not too fussed, I'm not too picky when it comes to that stuff anyway. It was good to be with the family and their company is a lot more important than all the little things that you would (or wouldn’t) get during Christmas. I hope you guys all had a good Christmas with those you love as well.
New Year
The family headed off to the harbour to watch the fireworks this year. It's the first time I actually went to see the fireworks. Probably would be the last. It's not because it was bad, in fact it was really good. It was more so the fact that despite all the effort we made getting there, queuing, waiting, getting sunburnt and so on. The fireworks went for just a few minutes combined, and despite being an amazing audio and visual spectacle, it just makes you question if it was all worth it. In my honest opinion, it wasn't. But it is definitely one of the things that you MUST do at least once.
My nephew Ruiz infront of the queue. The line went all the way from the art gallery to St. Marys Cathedral. True
Bring on Times Square, New York USA next year.
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