where have i been and what have i been doing?
At home. Cooking and cleaning. I'm a maid! I'm a housewife.
This sucks. I'm going to get out of the house tomorrow and go for a walk. Thank goodness it's saturday tomorrow. I don't have to cook as we'll be going over to my grandmother’s (paternal) place for dinner.

But i'm afraid i'll be quite tied to the home until my maid comes back. my poor grandmother (mother's side) has been having problems with her legs and can't do housework. plus she has to make the new year goodies.

I've been cooped up so long in the house that i think i've quite forgotten how to talk. i don't talk much to people at home. to prevent my brain from rotting i've been working on various pieces of rubbish writing and "art". and of course, doing push ups to release pent up energy.

I tried to persuade my mother to let me go backpacking again. but, again, i failed.
I truly believe that i am wasting my youth. my mother is the type who likes to sit on her ass all the time. very placid and domesticated with no sense of adventure
whatsoever. She thinks i should stay put in this city. maybe learn to drive, bake, sew. Damn! she's been bugging me to learn to drive but i really don't want to. I'm carsick, Hello!

I need to travel. there could be some truth in horoscopes after all. every article i've read about Sagittarius has mentioned this need to travel. Argh, I feel so tied down.

My mother says that when I start working i shall have my own money and can then go on all the tours i like. That's not what I want! I don't want a cushy vacation where you stay in classy hotels and rush from place to place and have meals included. what I want is to wander about in a foreign land, damn the risks. live on a budget. I don't mind sleeping in the streets.

alright, enough about the teenage angst stuff. let's hear about more interesting stuff.

found a few viruses in my computer. rewind to yesterday night.
steven, my father(really? i still can't believe it!) asked me about an attachment.

steven: how come i can't read this attachment? I open the file but the computer can't read it

me: really? what kind of file is it?

steven: don't know

me: who is it from?

steven: dunno. I don't know this sender.

me: damn! it's a virus you abysmally stupid man!

yes, no kidding. all this from the man who claims to be my father. the man who nags me not to download stuff from the internet in case i get a virus.

but there were some other viruses that didn't come from email attachments. once again, i tracked them down to steven's user account. and when i peered into his temporary internet folder, bloody#$!@$! my eyes almost popped out. and that's saying a lot as i see the naked female body everyday in the shower. PURE UNADULTERATED PORN!!! (with these keywords, i bet this site will be getting lotsa hits from guys searching for porno)

Now don't get me wrong. I am not against his being a depraved man. I'm just shocked at how stupid he is. (stupidity is a sin) What's the No. 1 way to download viruses? opening attachments from unknown senders! what's the best way of getting viruses that run automatically when you visit a website? go to a porn site! Who is stupid enough to do both of these things? the man i am supposed to have inherited genes from!

I could have kept quiet. I'm not the big mouth sort. but i really hate stupidity. so when my mother came home this evening.

me: mummy, the computer has been infected with viruses
mum: oh dear!
me: yah. it's the kind that runs itself when you go to some websites
mum: really. that's terrible
me: you know, there's only one kind of website that almost always has this virus
mum: what kind?
me: PORN sites!

and i proceeded to show my mummy all the lurid, HOT WET SEXY AMAZING SHOCKING FF MF MM BDSM KINKY SUCK *&^* F%^& HORNY GIRLS pictures from steven's folder.
evil i am. pure evil.
but when my father came home. my mother didn't talk about the porn at all. just told him the computer had some viruses and that he shouldn't open attachments from people he didn't know. i was too preoccupied with a BBC radio programme to add fuel to the fire, salt to the wound. However, don't start thinking that i'm being nice and sensitive. I might just be saving it for tomorrow when we go to my granny's where all over GOSSIPY relatives will be. Am I Evil? Yes, I am.

On a lighter note, Hubert, my brother is becoming corny. this makes me believe that he really is my brother. I was explaining to him all the names of various soy products.
this one is called tau gua
the one in the soup is tau ki
the one that's like a sponge is tua pok
the kind in sweet syrup is tau huay
the white soft kind is tau hu
the one in the cup is tau huay
and boy was i impressed when he said:
and the one that sings is Taufik!

ahhh.. it is so heartening to see such a feat of corniness from one so young.

* amusing stories from down under

On redheads:
my sister in australia tried to chat up a redhead girl today. (i have a thing for blonds, she goes for the auburn).
here's an excerpt from her email to me:
"tried to chat a redhead up today but she got so shocked that i could
speak english that she ran away"

On fashion:
"haha, one jap has a weird fashion taste. you watch kongfu hustle yet?
he pull down the jeans until can see top part of buttock. obi quack
got scolded by vice principal."

on having small feet:
"today i went to buy a better shoe
shoe price range was $14 or $100-$500 haha, mummy will faint
went to a big store, they don't have my size. miss by 5 inches
went to a mens store...don't have
went to a womens store...don't have
....
finally got it at a kiddie store.. Stupid 5yr white kid keep coming up
to compare feet size."

being a good sister:
"my teacher adviser is a blondie want me to matchmake?"

ahhh.. my disciples are coming along nicely.