In the past few months, i've often found myself wondering whether the older generation is hiding anything from us. upon hitting a certain age, they seem to get special powers or a license that makes them sound wise and enables them to give good, solid advice when they're speaking to their juniors. my suspicion is that this minimum age is 30...or maybe even 40. it sure as hell isn't 20, because i've tried doing the same thing, but with limited success. perhaps calling it a power or a license isn't the best description...a more common-sensical name for it would probably be "accumulated life experience".
anyway, the reason i brought this topic up is because my dad just called for a family meeting (which is a rare occurrence in itself), and proceeded to do the whole "sound wise" thing mentioned earlier. it was kind of unexpected, seeing as my dad isn't the most vocal person even on the best of days. come to think of it, i think today's the first time he's done something like this. to give a better idea of how unexpected this was, consider this: when he asked whether we could spare some time for a meeting, my initial thought was that he was inviting someone over and he wanted us to vacate the living room. the realization that we were the attendees only came to me when he asked us to gather round and sit down.
i won't go into the details about the meeting itself, but the gist of it is that it's typical parent-y stuff. you know...feedback, reassurance, votes of confidence, general life advice, the works. hearing his little speech sort of reaffirmed the stuff we kids normally take for granted. i mean, we all know deep down that our parents will be there to help us through any problem that we may face. we just don't think about it all that much, until something screws up somewhere. to hear it actually being said out loud was...heartwarming.
since today is national day, i decided to give all my kids (and myself) the day off and pushed everything to tomorrow. in retrospect, i think i should have went ahead with tuition today. spent the day in bed, watching naruto episodes on a nice website which provided free subtitled videos. it's interesting to follow how the storyline develops, and to get to know each of the individual characters. as a side benefit, i'm getting more exposure to the structure of the japanese language. for all i know, i may end up taking a japanese language module in a future semester.
on a slightly related topic, i'm also starting to (re-)listen to some anime opening/ending theme songs. in spite of the fact that some of the songs are over 10 years old, they're still good listening material. it takes me back to my secondary school days, where i was a bit more anime-crazy than your typical cat high boy. interesting memories. strangely enough, i've been feeling a little more emo recently. as in, "i'm all out of love, i'm so lost without you"-kind of emo. not a good sign. i wonder whether these are linked in any way? or perhaps it has to do with me reading naruto fanfiction. yes...i'm going to go with the fanfiction as the main cause for my increased emo-ness. can't be helped though...some of them are really interesting reads.
look everybody, it'sa rocket ship! already close to mid-august! university starts in approximately 36 hours. arrgh. to think it used to be 36 weeks. better learn to sleep early again, starting tonight. even more so because i have tuition tomorrow.
anyway, the reason i brought this topic up is because my dad just called for a family meeting (which is a rare occurrence in itself), and proceeded to do the whole "sound wise" thing mentioned earlier. it was kind of unexpected, seeing as my dad isn't the most vocal person even on the best of days. come to think of it, i think today's the first time he's done something like this. to give a better idea of how unexpected this was, consider this: when he asked whether we could spare some time for a meeting, my initial thought was that he was inviting someone over and he wanted us to vacate the living room. the realization that we were the attendees only came to me when he asked us to gather round and sit down.
i won't go into the details about the meeting itself, but the gist of it is that it's typical parent-y stuff. you know...feedback, reassurance, votes of confidence, general life advice, the works. hearing his little speech sort of reaffirmed the stuff we kids normally take for granted. i mean, we all know deep down that our parents will be there to help us through any problem that we may face. we just don't think about it all that much, until something screws up somewhere. to hear it actually being said out loud was...heartwarming.
since today is national day, i decided to give all my kids (and myself) the day off and pushed everything to tomorrow. in retrospect, i think i should have went ahead with tuition today. spent the day in bed, watching naruto episodes on a nice website which provided free subtitled videos. it's interesting to follow how the storyline develops, and to get to know each of the individual characters. as a side benefit, i'm getting more exposure to the structure of the japanese language. for all i know, i may end up taking a japanese language module in a future semester.
on a slightly related topic, i'm also starting to (re-)listen to some anime opening/ending theme songs. in spite of the fact that some of the songs are over 10 years old, they're still good listening material. it takes me back to my secondary school days, where i was a bit more anime-crazy than your typical cat high boy. interesting memories. strangely enough, i've been feeling a little more emo recently. as in, "i'm all out of love, i'm so lost without you"-kind of emo. not a good sign. i wonder whether these are linked in any way? or perhaps it has to do with me reading naruto fanfiction. yes...i'm going to go with the fanfiction as the main cause for my increased emo-ness. can't be helped though...some of them are really interesting reads.
look everybody, it's
-random thought of the day: Lethargy isn't good.-
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