All You Can Play

It should also be called "All-You-Can-Waste-Time"... hehehe. I think I've played probably about 7 or 8 times to date this year already. Mostly Call of Duty 4 but I also began with Counterstrike. COD4 was a lot better - better environments and weapons. Anyway, they have all-you-can-play from 10am to 6pm and I thought it was only on weekdays. My friend said it might be weekends as well and I thought that didn't make sense from a business point of view so I dismissed the idea. And then on March 30 Sunday, I went and played. And the guy working there told me it was available every day including weekends. I was so surprised. It would make sense to have it only during weekdays when most people are either at work or school. But on weekends as well?! Hmmm......

Cars

This post is actually not about cars; it's only related to cars. Two things I wanted to say.

1) I was saying to my parents that I would not want to spend so much money on cars. If I was earning, for example $50K, I would not want to buy a car worth my entire year's salary. I rather put the money to better use, such as buying property. I mean, a car that's $50K or $60K is pretty decent but it would look bad if I was still driving after like ten years. I would rather lease for about 3 years and switch to a newer car. That way, I would still be driving a nice car and be more updated. The cost may be a little higher, but at least I'm not tied down. And besides, I'm still getting myself from point A to point B. My Dad says "to get there in style" and I quickly responded, "depends on who you want to appear in style in front of". Anyway, looks is still important. Since budget is tight and not all cars that fit my budget have a look that I am satisfied with, I can get quite picky. In my situation, especially when I got my Prelude, I had to get 2nd-hand cars so I didn't have much choice. But I consider myself lucky that I got the Civic that I did. Not too many other cars that are of the same age and price that looked and performed good. I mean, my Civic was a 2000 Si-G. What else was there that looked good? I still really like the Nissan 300ZX but the last model came out in 1996. There was the Integra of the late 90's with its little twin headlights, but they tend to attract thieves I think. The newer CorollaS with spoiler actually doesn't look too bad. Or how about an American car? Mmm............. neh......

2) I also wanted to say that I like to travel around and use a car to do this. The car is a like a tool for me that brings me around. And it provides me with a great environment to listen to my music in. When I'm on the road going places, it would be just me and my car together facing the world. Although I've never tried it, I don't think I would like to drive a car with the mindframe that I'm operating a mechanical machine and that I need to somehow do something mechanically inclined with my hands such as operating gearshifts. I think I'm more happy just letting the car take me places and play my music for me.

The Life That Could Never Be Lived

Or should I say "would never be lived"...which one is more accurate?

I'm attending 9pm Mass @ SFX and the first thing I noticed were a number of unfamiliar faces of girls. And I'm thinking

People Talk (friends)

JLi:


JLo:


JT:


LY:



AA:

People Talk (co-workers)

Nothing bad, just honest opinions and thoughts that one might find interesting.

SY:


LS:



AW:



CK:

generation gap

I was attending my company's annual awards event at Eaglequest Golf Centre in Surrey (somebody gets shot and killed at the parking lot a week or two later) and the first of three guest speakers was a guy called Jeremy Conaway. He talked about parenthood and how to talk on the same level as clients who will be increasingly from the Generation X. His talk made me think of my parents. It just reminded me that it can be extra difficult for them to raise me. Not only because we weren't biologically related. Not only because I am rather stubborn, somewhat rebellious and quite adventurous. But also because we had such an age gap difference. Most people my age had parents who are boomers. My parents were older than boomers.
I just want to say that there are things my Mom & Dad and myself disagree and may always disagree and that is just a hard solid fact in our lives. But I will still always love them and I will always appreciate the fact that they loved me first. Really, they do. I may be adventurous and eager to explore things and go beyond convention despite risking being marginalized by my contemporaries. But the bravery that my parents had when they made the decision to adopt me and continued to struggle forward to see me grow up through the various stages of my life thus far is a bravery that I'm not sure I can ever have. Despite all the theory and talk I used to spin in my head about love, my Mom & Dad's exercise of love is something that I may never be able to do. As I see more suffering and death in this world, I reflect on my own personal life. I don't know who among the three of us will go first, but the time will inevitably come and that's just a fact of life. I must therefore appreciate what limited time we still have together.