The Black Swan
I went for a mile jog today. Again, I didn't want to, and thought about giving my knee a rest, but in the end I felt overridden with guilt.
Leaving at 6:30am, I saw nurse lady. I didn't time myself again, but felt I struggled a bit this time. I had two stops - once because I stepped on a pin that went through the sole of my shoe, and another time due to traffic.
On my walk back, I was looking at the wall on my left, and then for some reason turned to my right to look across the street, and there was a girl out exercising, who was looking at me but turned her head when she saw me look. I remember I have seen her before do the same walk, but she was ahead of me that time. Hmmm.
After the run I had a nap again, before calling up to see how much I still owed on the car ($10,000!!), and calling my uni about the testamur. Apparently the lady who's handling it won't be back until 14th of this month, grrr.
Thinking about the debt for the car and my credit card debt, I owe about $15,000, so I really need to start getting sensible if I wanna make some serious progress. Factor in my need for a knee operation and you're looking at $22,000.
I got a group email from Ele, just some purportedly funny thing. I wonder if it's her way to tell people she's back from China. Oh well, who cares.
I washed my car, and then headed out to the city to check out a magic store. I thought it'd be a good idea to learn some simple card tricks to impress friends (read: girls), and bought this DVD and four card set for $40, and then realised I maybe should've started with youtube or something.
I bought some chips and returned home to watch Rockets vs Lakers. On my bus trip back, I was startled to find there was a mentally ill lady on the bus. She was saying some stuff, rocking back and forth on the chair, and even banging her head on the window. I thought she was by herself, but when the bus driver stopped to tell her she was being a danger, it turned out there were two carers there, and another mentally ill guy who kept saying "thank you".
The driver said he couldn't go on if she kept acting like that, and she started to bang her head more and harder against the window. The female carer took the male guy off the bus, and the male carer tried to get the girl off the bus but she wouldn't budge. Some guy behind me said "she has to get off" and made a move, but the driver said he couldn't touch her. When the male carer walked off the bus, the girl eventually followed. I felt so sorry for the carers, they were probably just volunteers, and they were embarassed for their plight.
The Rockets stayed in the game throughout and only lost in the last few minutes. If they hit their friggin' free throws it would've been much closer. I haven't been following the NBA lately, so I feared I may not have been very interested, but quite to the contrary, it motivated me to resume my own basketball career, but for this damn knee.
After that I went on the net, namely the online dating site. I added this white girl, who, it seemed only realised I was Asian after adding me. Upon realisation she suggested that her friend was a better match for me because, amongst other things, her friend was Asian.
What the??
I actually put that to her, and then indicated I added her, not her friend. She then deleted me.
I got a little depressed after that, because it was sad to realise that after all this time, all this talk about multi-culturalism, that the majority of people still saw race as a major barrier.
I felt the a black swan who had grown up with the white swans, thinking I was one of them, and it was only now, someone gave me a mirror to show how different I was from them.
I guess NTM and CLE were the exceptions.
Leaving at 6:30am, I saw nurse lady. I didn't time myself again, but felt I struggled a bit this time. I had two stops - once because I stepped on a pin that went through the sole of my shoe, and another time due to traffic.
On my walk back, I was looking at the wall on my left, and then for some reason turned to my right to look across the street, and there was a girl out exercising, who was looking at me but turned her head when she saw me look. I remember I have seen her before do the same walk, but she was ahead of me that time. Hmmm.
After the run I had a nap again, before calling up to see how much I still owed on the car ($10,000!!), and calling my uni about the testamur. Apparently the lady who's handling it won't be back until 14th of this month, grrr.
Thinking about the debt for the car and my credit card debt, I owe about $15,000, so I really need to start getting sensible if I wanna make some serious progress. Factor in my need for a knee operation and you're looking at $22,000.
I got a group email from Ele, just some purportedly funny thing. I wonder if it's her way to tell people she's back from China. Oh well, who cares.
I washed my car, and then headed out to the city to check out a magic store. I thought it'd be a good idea to learn some simple card tricks to impress friends (read: girls), and bought this DVD and four card set for $40, and then realised I maybe should've started with youtube or something.
I bought some chips and returned home to watch Rockets vs Lakers. On my bus trip back, I was startled to find there was a mentally ill lady on the bus. She was saying some stuff, rocking back and forth on the chair, and even banging her head on the window. I thought she was by herself, but when the bus driver stopped to tell her she was being a danger, it turned out there were two carers there, and another mentally ill guy who kept saying "thank you".
The driver said he couldn't go on if she kept acting like that, and she started to bang her head more and harder against the window. The female carer took the male guy off the bus, and the male carer tried to get the girl off the bus but she wouldn't budge. Some guy behind me said "she has to get off" and made a move, but the driver said he couldn't touch her. When the male carer walked off the bus, the girl eventually followed. I felt so sorry for the carers, they were probably just volunteers, and they were embarassed for their plight.
The Rockets stayed in the game throughout and only lost in the last few minutes. If they hit their friggin' free throws it would've been much closer. I haven't been following the NBA lately, so I feared I may not have been very interested, but quite to the contrary, it motivated me to resume my own basketball career, but for this damn knee.
After that I went on the net, namely the online dating site. I added this white girl, who, it seemed only realised I was Asian after adding me. Upon realisation she suggested that her friend was a better match for me because, amongst other things, her friend was Asian.
What the??
I actually put that to her, and then indicated I added her, not her friend. She then deleted me.
I got a little depressed after that, because it was sad to realise that after all this time, all this talk about multi-culturalism, that the majority of people still saw race as a major barrier.
I felt the a black swan who had grown up with the white swans, thinking I was one of them, and it was only now, someone gave me a mirror to show how different I was from them.
I guess NTM and CLE were the exceptions.
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