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Saw this little quiz on blogthings.com and I couldn't help trying it out. :) 8/10 isn't too bad, I guess...
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Saw the comic strip below, and so I decided to check out dilbertfiles.com
So, my dad (who usually is one of the most politically inactive people I've known in my life) had been absolutely determined today to go cast his vote in the Bangkok's governor election today.
Why? For some odd reason, he's absolutely dreading the possibility that one of them may actually win the race and become the next governor. (I don't think I should reveal which one...)
So, being the cynic that I have become, I just told him that there's no way that his ONE vote would actually be the deciding vote. One thing led to another, and now I have a standing bet with my dad: IF the person he votes for today wins or loses by just ONE vote, I'll have to pay him 10k.
(Okay, the probability of THAT happening is VERY small--zero, for all intents and purposes. I was actually thinking about betting a million, but then again, I thought back about how fate is not always on my side, and who knows what twisted joke fate has in mind for me IF I had decided to bet an amount that I don't have and would never be able to pay... >.<)
In any case though, this was a very one-sided bet. I made it way too early in the morning before my brain woke up enough to realize that I won't be able to profit from this at all.
Oh well, at least I'm pretty sure I would not lose...!
I heard a quotation somewhere, and it goes:
There're three sides to every story: Yours, Mine, and the Truth
There're three sides to every story: Yellow side, Red side, and the Truth
and not just how "OLD" as in the age, but also how "OLD-fashioned" and how conservative I've become.
I always thought that I was a part of a newer generation (not the newest, no doubt) and that I would be tolerant for most things. Apparently, however, there's still a BIG generation gap between my cousin (the 16-year old generation) and me (I reserved the right to not disclose my age in its entirety!)
OKAY, maybe my cousin is JUST TOO COMPLEX a person for me to grasp.
On the one hand... she's a HELLO KITTY-loving person who spices up my room with pinknesand adores SpongeBob SquarePants!! (But okay, a LOT of 16-year-olds still do that. Heck, my 19-year old cousin's room is still filled with Disney Princes and all the different shades of pinks in the world!)
On the 2nd hand (lol, is there such a phrase?), my cousin's also an expert with make-ups and adores all the teenage girlish stuff (like nail-painting, etc). She spends 2 hours each morning putting on "her face", even though it only took her a couple of minutes to be at the cosmetic counter and perfectly beautifully put on eyeliner and mascara. (But okay, I know a LOT of 16-year-olds do that as well.)
But on the other hand, my cousin's also the type to go into a body piercing shop to ask for some size-16 ring for her ear (in case you don't know, that's a hole big enough to fit at least one and a half pen through), some body-piercing pins, and a few other tools that I could seriously imagine on a tray in a surgery room! At one point, even the salesperson joked that maybe she should just buy a tattoo gun and some tattoo ink! (To which, my cousin's reply was: but I'm a bad artist and I can't draw on my back!!!!)
Oh, did I forget to mention that besides that huge size-16 hole in her left ear, she also has a piercing on her cheek, one in between the 2 holes of her nose, at least one on her tongue, and a couple on her belly -- some of those were her on piercing, btw. I have not counted the holes in her ears, because, frankly, everything else kinda distracted my eyes from the ears.
She also can't wait to be 18 to get a tattoo of her name -- in 8-bit binary code!!! -- running down her spine... and a sleeve of tattoo of SpongeBob SquarePants on her arm!!!!
__deep breathe__
I seriously do love my cousin to death. I really really do, and I truly wish for her happiness. I DO love hanging out with her. She's a VERY smart and bright kid with a million different interesting thoughts and views, and not one least bit afraid to voice them. Talking to her is always a pleasure.
But being with her just makes me feel really old... it makes me feel like there's at least 3 generation gaps between a 16-year old girl and me. AT least 3...
My brain and emotions are racing to trying to understand my cousin. I'm trying to remind myself how I was when I was back in HS. I'm actually on a very, very, VERY conservative side... a nerd/geek, if you will, without a shred of fashion sense nor even an nano-layer of make-up.
And yet, there was times when I had bright red highlights on my hair (one of my college friend's first impression of me: is she a punk?), when I spelled out my name on my ears (luckily my name is just 3-character long), and when I put my HS senior pin ON MY EAR instead of on the collar like everyone else. (BUT SEE! the keyword was on... not "in"... not "through"...)
So yes... maybe this is just another phase that my cousin just has to go through... But whatever it is, I really do hope that she won't go through with her "SpongeBob SquarePants" tattoo sleeve idea... Imagine how she'd feel being a 30-year old with that visibly on her arm...
Okay, should I feel a bit ashamed that I have let the first page of my blog filled with nothing but summaries of my daily tweet?
Well, to be honest, I haven't given much thought to new year's resolution this year. Why? Because I already knew a long while ago which forms my resolutions would be.
