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On the ad, it says “You’re born small and weak. You die small and weak. How you look in between is up to you.”

Ha, so true.

34” Dell Flat tv in the menu? Man, that’s why I love traveling.

As I was browsing through the net on my last night before I fly home (Illinois) for the holidays, I checked kottke.org and saw that he posted a link to nad.org about an article of how Deaf people prefer to be called deaf or hard of hearing, not deaf-mutes or hearing-impaired. His blog, Kottke.org, is one of the top blogs and is ranked at 26th for the most favorited blogs on technorati.com with 10,859 links coming from 3,795 blogs, so he receives tons of traffic to his blog. It’s always nice to see a person like him to post a link because it means more exposure to our deaf community of how we want to be viewed as.

I say kudos to the guy of kottke.org and hope that people will remember not to call us deaf mutes or hearing impaired.

So, I’m free from work and on a much needed vacation that shall last for 12 days. Gonna be coming home to spend time with my parents and grandmother—-just four of us. The rest of everybody else is either buried or a distance too far except for one relative. That relative is my uncle, my mom’s only brother. Which is one of the big disappointments that my mom has, as she and her brother were never close. You can probably link that to a communication barrier since my mom is deaf and he isn’t. But that’s still no excuse. Everybody can learn sign language—-don’t have to be equally fluent but just enough to carry a conversational mode—-so it shouldn’t matter. With that, I’m also disappointed with my uncle. Anyway, with just four of us, it reminds me of one funny movie called My Big Fat Greek Wedding. It has that scene where everybody’s at the wedding in a chapel and the aisle of the groom is all empty except for his parents and maybe some relatives. When I saw that scene, it reminded exactly of us and if I ever got married, I think we’d be like that, with the front row barely filled. In case you’re wondering about my dad’s, he is an only child just like me and we’re also born in the same digit year. He was born in 1951 and me in 1981. We graduated in the same digit year too—-1969 and 1999. So, it’s always easy to remember my dad’s age, just add thirty years.

Christmas is my mom’s favorite holiday of all and that’s because I got adopted and came abroad on December 22nd. My mom said it’s the best gift she could have and every year we get to celebrate Christmas together, it’s a bonus. I also ought know better not to ever miss this holiday because I may want to be somewhere else like snowboarding in Colorado with my buddies since Illinois only has bunny hills. My mom would be so heart broken and has said it wouldn’t be Christmas if I didn’t come. (another movie popped in my head, the movie called I’ll be home for Christmas with Jonathan Taylor Thomas, as his family demands him to be home.) Since I’m an only child, it’s true that I get all the gifts any child could dream of, even though I’ve told my parents many times that there is NO need for those but they insisted. I realize my parents wanted to show their love in the most way they can. I’m just grateful to be home with my parents and spend some quality time together. I feel that money spent on expensive gifts could be better invested toward something else like stocks, real estate or even vacation getaways for memories. I would like that very much. Maybe I should discuss this with my parents but a little uncomfortable trying to tell them what they should do with their money.

Today’s December 22nd. I’m grateful for what I have and will never to take things for granted. Indeed, I’m blessed. Mom and Dad, I’m looking forward to come home.

Damn, I wish I could be good at DDR. Also, there’s a guy who lost 60 pounds from playing DDR everyday.

Yummy..

Decided to get back into working out more diligently. Gotta stay committed.

Wow this is cool. Gotta get one in the future. :-)

What is so fascinating about DNA is that they are in every cell of your body, from your hair to semen.

Ha, my friend Joseph Davis just posted an ASL video on youtube. He’s one hell of a storyteller!

With my sidekick 2 half-functioning, this is going to be my next device. :-) Most importantly, it will have a cameraphone (1.3 mp) and no more of that non-sense thumb wheeling that’s caused thousands of thumb syndrome pains.

Here’s the specs: 1.3 megapixel camera, 5x digital zoom, media player – audio and video playback/streaming, stereo headset compatible, 64MB of memory expandable by MicroSD card, quadband EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi, speakphone and more. The new form factor will measure 6.3″ long, by 2.36″ wide, by 0.6″ slim.

Due to come out in April 2007.

Mmm, I love black. :-)

My future house is going to be one helluva state of the art, I can assure you that. I have a queer eye for cool stuffs and technology. With my Linux server that boasts more than 1.2 terabytes, I’ve got an inventory that would make Blockbuster execs blush and RIAA lawyers would love to get after my ass. My kids would have an endless supply to Disney movies and cartoons while my wife and I would never have to pay PPVs for movies not so suitable for kids. It involves a letter X. The entire house is going to be controlled by a server too, with a complete temperature monitoring, alarms, and equipped with wireless webcams so I can catch people stealing my valuables. I will also contact experts like this resource from richtek electrical site to take care of my overall electrical needs. So in case if any of us forgot to turn off lights, they will be either automatically turned off by the computer or remotely by my wireless device. Well, needless to say, I can’t wait to be a homeowner one day and a basement is a must, but at the beginning I will start with an apartment such as the canary wharf flats to rent as these are great too.

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I just ordered a few of this for my beer buddies. :-) I never thought I’d be doing christmas shopping but I am! Without friends, life is meaningless.

Some of you told me that my RSS feed wasn’t working. Now it’s fixed. :-)