10.30.07
Posted by Varies at 1:11 pm in Helsinki
I’m too busy and too unfocused to sit down and write anything, but I’m scheduled to post something anyway. In the future, I’ll probably ask one of my friends to contribute something, but for today’s post, I’ll put up the essay I had to write on Sunday night. Admittedly, the essay sucks. It has no flow, no cohesion, and I had no fun writing it. But whatever, I post it because it is convenient to do so at this time. The only part that was remotely interesting was near the end when I talked about how Asian parents of the my generation have doomed their kids to an upper-middle class existence, but even that part was mostly BS on my part. It might be worth revisiting in a future article, but for now I gotta split. Find the essay after the break. Read the rest of this entry »
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10.28.07
Posted by Varies at 7:21 am in Helsinki
Good morning everyone, I want to keep today’s post short. I spent almost 3 hours writing yesterday’s post (kept getting interrupted by calls), so I didn’t get to play my DS at all. I guess I’ll talk a little about Love and Rock and that’ll be it for today.
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10.27.07
Posted by Varies at 9:40 am in Helsinki
It’s not that we were intimidated by him. The five of us could have taken him for sure, but, to me at least, it wouldn’t have been worth the trouble. For one, I really had no desire to seize the controller and play the game. Even as a child, I enjoyed the art of observation. The others, though, were a different story. Their growing impatience was palpable, and as the oldest one in the room, I felt a certain responsibility in keeping the peace. What I used to do in those situations was make suggestions. I’d suggest that the person playing could give someone else a chance. That was usually enough, and sharing would commence without need for further intervention. This guy was different though, and we all knew it. No one wanted to say it, but we all could have told you that he was selfish – super selfish. With him, a suggestion was a cue for others to jump in. It was permission to demand what perhaps should have been theirs naturally.
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10.22.07
Posted by Varies at 3:13 pm in Helsinki
I once promised intermittent bonus content, so here’s how it goes. When it rains, it pours, and a bonus post will be yours. So let’s get the show rolling, shall we?
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10.21.07
Posted by leelee at 10:56 pm in and college, rock, Marine Life, Giant Squids, Helsinki, Cake
Hello world!!!
Oh my gosh, it’s soooo exciting to be alive and enjoying a evening. Too bad I’m not on the 99th floor of a tall building with the lovely night breeze whipping my hair back as I stare nonchalantly at the speeding cars down on the street below me. Of course, the picture wouldn’t be complete without jazz in the background! I suppose sitting in front of a laptop at my cooped up desk is alright surrounded by yellowed dorm walls is rather fine & dandy also.
I’ve always wanted a pet, and my top three were monkey, penguin and dog. I wonder if they’d be friends? The unfair thing is all throughout my childhood, I whined and tried every trick to get my parents to buy me a pet and they never agreed. But then yesterday on a whim, my mom got my brother a fish tank, and they’re off to find kindred fish spirits at the store soon! That’s okaaay though cause I love EATING fish not PETTING them.
Too bad, tooo bad. Too bad I’m not actually a pessimist.
Oh, are you a pen & pencil type of person or an eraser & whiteout type of person? I think those happy little scented erasers smell so nice and and and I love how they come in all different shapes and sizes and oh jeeepers, I really must check up on my eraser collection. Hopefully it hasn’t melted into a puddle of rubber. Ewww, that’s what the wicked witch must have been like after Hansel and Gretel got her stuck in her oven. But pencils can quite awesome too what with the colored lead and pretty designs. Mmmmh, you be the judge.
Dum, dee dum. I’ll be back!
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Posted by Varies at 8:45 am in Helsinki
Good Sunday to you all! The title of today’s episode is quite clever, I think, but I wonder if the flavour of it is too subtle for the layman’s tongue. Allow me to explain! I am prone to the occasional bout of onomatomania, and, for the last few feverish nights, my obsession has been the whimsical “Amanita.” For those of you who don’t know, Amanita is a genus of mushroom. Some of the most toxic mushrooms known to man are amanitas, and interestingly, this genus accounts for 95% of the mushroom-related fatalities around the world. That aside, I think it’s a beautiful word, and the insidious nature of it makes her all the more intriguing. The titular agaric, amanita pantherina, is a toxic mushroom more commonly referred to as the “panther cap,” but all that is beside the point. Anita Pantherina would be an awesome name, that’s all I’m saying.
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10.20.07
Posted by Varies at 9:15 am in Helsinki
Hellooooo! It’s early here in Dallas (though it probably won’t be by the time I’m finished writing this), and I have to say that it’s looking like it’s going to be a fine day. The weekend is here, and, though your week may have been weak, let’s end things right by taking a step back to relax. Currently, I’m chilling out in the cool confines of the Contact crisis counseling center. It turns out this is the one week of the month when I wasn’t supposed to show up, but hey, I drove 40 minutes to get here, so I might as well mind the phones. I be going where the river be flowing, you feel me? This hour is brought to you by the fine folks down at the MTV — delivering fresh beats and forecasts all day and all night. We’ll be back after a short commerical interlude, folks, so stick with us!
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10.19.07
Posted by squidink at 7:13 pm in Helsinki
You may have noticed that last week’s scheduled post was cancelled, as well as this week’s. To make up for it, have a picture of a boat. See you next week!
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10.16.07
Posted by Varies at 9:17 pm in Helsinki
I’ve always wondered why there weren’t as many Asians in my grade level as there were in the class two years below. For reference, I graduated in the class of ‘05 while Dan’s class graduated in ‘07. The people in my grade were mostly born in the years 1986 and 1987 while Dan’s classmates were mainly born in 1988 and 1989. Those dates’ significance will be explained shortly. I’ve known Dan for a long time now, and back when we were both in school, I gathered that there were a lot more Asians (Chinese people specifically) in his grade than there were in mine. Thinking back to elementary school, I had only one Chinese classmate in first grade. There might have been a total of five Chinese people in my entire grade. Gradually, the number increased, but there were never enough Chinese people in elementary school to form cliques. In fact, I never had more than two Chinese friends in my grade level during those years, and the Asian daycare that I went to fit into a single tiny room in the owner’s house. Interestingly, this all changed by the time I got to third grade. There was suddenly a massive surge of Chinese children, and the daycare place had to be relocated to a much larger room in an even bigger house. Where did all the kids come from? Well, from China, obviously.
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10.14.07
Posted by Varies at 9:54 am in Helsinki
I volunteer at a phone crisis center, and I’d like to say some things about it. See, there are calls that I like working. If someone calls in looking for emergency aid — a cab ride to a domestic violence shelter, a place to stay the night, or something like that — you can give the caller some actual help, and it is rewarding in many ways. If someone calls in and has a problem that I can give referrals for, that’s also something that gives a certain amount of satisfaction. I can even enjoy the calls where it’s a helpless caller who needs you to help them with a plan to help them get through the day. These people can be helped, and it’s a good feeling when you successfully do your job. Ideally, a crisis line would only have to deal with these kinds of people and problems. Unfortunately, there are way too many people who are “frequent callers.”
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