Cat situation....

I guess I am just gonna have cat troubles till I get back to states in April....Katty just wrote me and told me that she won't be able to take care of my cats....yeah...great time to tell me....few days before my trip....but what can I say when her sister's health condition is unknown and she is sick herself? I am gonna ask Sherry to come and give the cats food since supposedly she lives the closest....but the problem is....even though she lives on the same floor and the same building as us, she doesn't really live here all the time....

Even if Sherry is super nice and comes back here everyday to look over the cats, I don't think she will have enough time to spend with them at night....I am not too worried about Mintie since she doesn't like it when people get too close...but then for Hades I am just worried he will get depressed when he finds out we left him at home and nobody is around to stay with him....sighs...Now I am really worried for the trip....ai yo....

My poor Mintie....

Hades started fighting with Mintie around 7 this morning. The fight went on for a while and then Mintie just came up to bed to sleep with me. I think it must be very frustrating for Mintie to like Hades so much cuz Hades doesn't really want her close still. I was trying to hold Mintie around noon just to pet her and then she was crying just like she always does whenever we try to grab her. I felt bad and decided to just let her go. I dropped her from the air thinking she would just be like any other cats and land safely....but she didn't....

When Mintie was landing, I think she hurt her left rare leg. Right after that she started limping a little when she walks. I feel worse for her now since Hades does not want to play with her, and I hurt her leg by dropping her. I hope this limping would go away very soon or else I am not sure how I can make it up to her....sighs....

Maybe all of us are tired....

Billy was saying yesterday was a weird day, and I think TODAY is kinda weird too....1st of all, even though Mintie and Hades woke up around 4 and went through their "bugging our owner" stage, they didn't fight much in the morning. After I settled them with some food and cleaned up their sand boxes I went back to sleep around 5 or so. I kept on dreaming some weird stuff, and Nicole Kidman was actually in my dream. I think there were other actresses but then I really don't remember who and what happened.

I kept on dreaming, and at the same time thinking and wondering why it was really bright early in the morning. Before I went to bed last night I remember it's gonna be a cloudy day today...so I kept on thinking the weather report sucks while I was feeling the brightness in my sleep. Finally Billy started waking up and I looked at him....He grabbed his phone to check the time, and was really shocked cuz it was 9:40 already!!!!!

Apparently the phone alarm either didn't go off, or neither one of us heard any sound. I think the alarm just didn't work cuz I have no recollection of hearing anything, and usually I am pretty sensitive to sound. What is weird was.....the cats didn't wake up on time either. Usually Mintie would start coming up to the bed and rub around me in the morning, and Hades would start scratching places if he doesn't see Billy going to work on time. I wonder if all of us got drugged by someone during the night? Why would ALL OF US forgot to wake up on time? hum...maybe Billy used too much energy getting annoyed by the stupid drivers last night that he didn't have energy to wake up on time? I guess all of us are tired somehow....

Drinking vs. Self control....

I was watching TV today, and a psychiatrist said "you can find out how much self control a person has by watching their reactions after drinking." Apparently, when people talk and act funny after they drink.....it's a good indication of weak self control....Kinda interesting I thought....cuz I certainly know some people who cannot act normal after a little bit of drinking. I think I have to agree with that psychiatrist on the statement. 1st of all...people with self control should know when to stop before they start acting funny...2nd of all....People who cannot drink at all....are just a little weak anyway...

Why am I writing this? I have no idea...I guess I do like people who can drink a little and stay with a sound mind compared to those who cannot handle alcohol at all....Oh man...some names of the people who annoy me just came up...and guess what? They act funny after a little sip...lol...

p.s. I forgot to mention....on average....People who can drink (of course not the alcoholics) earns around 50 % more compared to those cannot drink/control themselves after they drink...I guess that is something encouraging but not yet happening to me...:p

eh...not much to say....

It's less than 2 weeks till I go home. I guess that feels a little weird cuz time seemed so slow for the past few weeks and yet the departure date is so close...Life is strange that way....Time seems to have its own pace and we have no way of watching or controlling it....

I guess I am really running out of stuff to write about since nothing that dramatic happened during the weekend. Buying things with good deals + wandering around the streets to see if there are any open houses seem to be what we do during weekends nowadays. It's weird how that can make us tired too....and time just seems to move faster during weekends....I guess that is what happens when we are not dreading specific days...Again...time is all relative...

Relationship between Hades and Mintie is still weird...Sometimes you see them licking each other and sleeping together, but most of the time they just chase after each other and fight + bite each other...I wonder if they enjoy each other's companionship much...or maybe it's just a good distraction from their own lives...since both them seem to have some emotional issues...hum....

Woke up early to teach 2 kids this morning. I guess getting some work done in the morning is good, only if I don't have to go and teach another one around 5...I wonder if I would rather work in the morning so I get the rest of day to myself, or have better sleep in the morning and just work in the afternoon? Well...not like I really have the choice unless when the kids don't have school....I wonder if an 8-5 work would suit me well....but I will probably never find out anyway...

I think I should just quit writing meaningless stuff and stop the cats from fighting each other...I think I am missing them already even though I am not leaving until 2 weeks later....sighs...

My little cousin becoming Canadian.....

I accidentally saw a message my little cousin Xiao-Re left on my bro's blog and visited her blog. It's funny how kids grow up so fast nowadays. I don't recall myself really talking much to her since she was always the youngest kid when I was still in TW. I guess she is going to Canada in a month or so, and pretty much stressed out about it. She kinda wants to get out of TW and study in a brand new place, but then is already feeling lonely being apart from her friends....

Whenever I have a cousin who goes to study in a foregin country, I kinda think back and review my years back in high school again. Most of the time I wonder why I didn't really struggle all that much back in high school....at least not emotionally.....I guess I was really at a place where I had a lot of fun just absorbing everything, and the place was interlectually stimulating I didn't really have much time to have emotional problems....It's amazing how after so many years I still think my high school years were the best time of my life, even though I lived in this remote little town up in Michigan with snow more than half of the year....

I am not even sure if I was worried about school much. I guess my competitive nature kept me going. I was concentrated to get the best grades I could, even with my limited Eng. I don't remember myself talking much through the years, but I guess whatever I was talking about seemed to leave impressions on people around me since they can still remember how I was back in high school even today. I guess life was just much easier when I had goals to achieve and next stage of life to go to....everything else just kinda got irrelavant....

So I guess it's understandable my life kinda goes downhills after graduate school. I really didn't have a plan for my life after graduate school. I didn't want to get a phd in music performance cuz it's just stupid, and didn't really know what one can do just having the skills playing violin decently. Everything after graduate school kinda just came to me unexpected. Got a job offer a year before I graduated so I guess my visa was none of my concern. The job turned out to be fun, but with a very corrupted boss who was eating the company's money....

My 2nd job came while I was ready to pack up after my leave from the 1st job. There were beautiful visions described and I got into the job with a hope that it was gonna be diff. from the 1st. I guess young people are indeed easy to cheat on no matter how much they have seen during their short lives. The 2nd job also turned out to be a joke, with a boss who cannot deliver whatever he presents most of the time. A lot of rainchecks never came to reality....and then I found out from others that the same story has been going on for 10 years....oh well....I guess you have to pay the price to see the truth sometimes...

Right when I was ready to pack up once again after all those stupid appeals on my visa, I got my 3rd job offered....which is to be what I am right now....a wife...I am not quite sure how this is going. So far there is no real job description in it, and I am not sure not having a goal is exactly good for my life. I guess I am just "going with the flow" at this point, but really not enjoying whenever unexpected + unpleasant surprises come along. I guess I am a person who would rather be able to plan out and take care of myself so I would have spared energy to help others a little. I don't like to be put into situations where I feel I am obliged to help, cuz it just feels stupid...I guess people in this world are just mostly not responsible enough to watch over their own lives that well.....and then that is when people around get to suffer.....anyway....

Back to my little cousin going to Canada....I wonder what is in store for her since she is the same age as I was when I came to the states. I only hope if she is scared and feeling bad right now, things will get better and better at the end. I think if I have a choice I would always prefer to go through the crappy stuff 1st so at the end I can relax and breath. I left her a little note, and hopefully that will be a little bit encouraging even though I don't know her that well.....

Wahle watching weekend....

Over the weekend we went whale watching. The weather was quite nice, but then the wind while the boat was cruising got me freezing cold for the whole ride. The whole thing took us the whole day on Sat, and then I got home finding out that Hades now has infection on his left eye....I guess it's infected from his right eye which was having problem last week. It may also be the stress he was feeling since I was punishing him for fighting with Mintie...and then of course added stress from my pissed off mood Fri night....anyway....hopefully the eye gets recovered in a day or 2...sighs....Here are the photos from Sat....

Not exactly a good background....but that was taken at the pier...and Billy's face looked way too rounded with the hat...

While we were waiting for our ride I got really bored and took pictures of those ducks/birds...

This was our ride...

Jack and Irene went with us...but we had no photo of Jack since he is not into having photos of himself...

Rich people have houses on the beach and own their own boats....

Sunny day....

My jacket apparently didn't keep me warm much...

There were actually 2 whales that we saw....and they were so damn hard to catch with camera from where we were. The best photo I got was the one with the tail....the most clear one basically....

Those seals were having a sunbath....

Set of photos Jack took for us...just look at Billy's hair....lol....


This set of pictures turned out better than I expected...took them on the way back to the pier...


Some people know how to kill time....speaking of waiting in life....

Pretty good shots huh? hehehehehehe.....yeah....we weren't that lucky to get SOOOOO close or else I think I can get those too.....:p

Very random picture...I saw the dogs outside of a shop. They looked tired and cold...

Two photos Billy took when we were walking to the parking lot. The moon was actually up since like 3 something but I was not able to take it with the distance and also the bright sun. I think the airplane is Southwest...very red...

Good looking actors is a must I think...

Since the Chinese channel on TV always plays dramas from CHINA nowadays, I have noticed something from the stuff I have been watching and it really makes wonder....Ok...what I noticed is that most of their male actors are UGLY....It seems like they don't really care about how good a guy looks like over there.....Maybe they just care about how good the male actors act? but then why would audiences like those good looking actors from other places like Hong Kong, Taiwan, even Malaysia, Singapore?

Hum....I wonder...or is it that women in China don't really care about what kinda guys they look at? I personally think eye pleasing actors is a must otherwise entertainments are not too entertaining to me....

Dude I figured it out!!!!!!!

I think now I am officially liking my iphone. The only thing I really hated about the iphone was the ringtone limitations Apple applied on the itune. The 1st week after I got the phone I downloaded a track from itune because I could not stand the preset sound on the phone. (I can't even remember when was the last time I ever used any sound that other people use on a phone...) This week when I was checking the credit card bill I found out that Itune charged 99 cents for the mp3 (which I already have but didn't purchase from Apple) and then charged another 99 cents for making "30 seconds" of that mp3 into a ringtone. I thought that was just super lame for Apple to be tricky on the charge, cuz without purchasing the track you could not make it into ringtone....and paying 99 cents for something you already had was already stupid, on top of being charged twice for 30 sec worth of sound was doubly stupid I guess....

So I didn't feel like being stupid for too long. I started research on softwares which can let people convert any mp3 they have into iphone ringtone. After reading various stuff for 30 min or so, I just bumped into this article stating the secret of making a normal mp3 into a ringtone on the Itune version I have can be as simple as changing the file type. I am glad that now I can use whatever music I want as long as I crop it under 30 sec and turn them into the kinda file I need on Itune. I guess I am just not gonna update the itune much since they may come up with new ways to prevent people from having their own ringtones. After all, everyone is going after money nowadays....

Anyway...point of this whole story is....I guess sometimes we do have to face difficulties in life so we can come up with ways to solve them. The end result may be more beneficial for us when we bump inot walls...like how now I am getting all the ringtones from my music FREE....thanks to Itune's ripped off charge on their 30 sec sounds...:p

The art of accepting secrets?

I have quite a few friends who have been through a lot. Most of them would tell me their secrets, and sometimes I wonder why I get to hear all types of secrets. I guess many times people tell me their secrets because they think I stay indifferent even after I know their dark sides. I guess there is some truth to that, but to me it's more like....there is not much I can do other than just listen...

I guess God puts all sorts of people around me just so I learn how to accept the differences in people through the years. I guess I may be more tolerant than a lot of people think I am, and yet I don't really change my point of view on certain things that easily... even when I am friends with all sorts of people. Many times I would also wonder how God would deal with situations...but really all that is not for me to decide anyway....

A friend of mine told us a big secret last night. I am not sure how we can help, but then I guess being there for the friend is imp. I pray that God will strengthen him and walk with him each step of his life. I also hope we can be some sort of emotional support when he needs it...Life....is really difficult at times....and we can't always feel all the pain people are going through since we are not really in the same shoe....We certainly live in an imperfect world....sighs....