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times helped seeing just how much things had changed since i d been gone it helped to see that to make me fully accept just how much time has passed time i spent regretting coming here wishing i could go back but things change places change people change i changed and my hometown changed home wasn t home anymore that s because this is my home here where my family is not the family that raised me but the family that i m raising i like my job now for the first time in many many years i m enjoying what i m doing my supervisor is probably the toughest boss in my office but i like her and i like what i m doing i haven t taken anywhere near the sick days that i used to take and it s not just because i ve got a tough boss i just don t wake up mondays or every other day for that matter thinking fuck gotta go to work fuck i will admit there are a few days where i ll think man i d really rather stay home today but where i would have called in sick now i kick myself out of bed and force myself to get ready and go to work i actually had sick hours left over last year most of what they gave me in fact that s a good thing i like my job i like my life i like where i m at and i ve embraced my aznness admittedly i m only half asian on my wife s side but due to a combination of the way i was raised and my own personality and traits i m really only white on the outside i m not 100 australian any more and i m not 100 american either if anything i m actually more asian in a lot of what i do and thanks to the fung brothers i ve embraced my asian ness which for someone living in the sgv is a pretty important step to being happy with your lot in life this is my life and i m happy with it i don t need to write anymore because i m happy with where i m at and where my life is going i m not living the bobalife but i am happy wherever you re at i hope you re happy too 2 comments labels journal the end tuesday may 07 2013 sharing a laugh over a prank watching punk d and other pranking tv shows i wondered how we went from candid camera to bam margera and punk d how did pranking evolve from fooling people to hurting people yes sometimes candid camera made people think they d messed up and gave them a scare but it s far short from the lengths punk d goes to where the objective seems to be to terrify the victim reduce them to tears or royally piss them off there are countless pranking channels on youtube some are funny while others are little more than the players hurting each other and i ll admit i laugh at both because there is something funny to me about watching a guy run into a room skid across the waxed linoleum floor and run face first into a wall of plastic wrap i m sure if i were the guy lying flat on my back with a knot rising up on the back of my head where it bounced off the floor i d not be quite so amused but being the viewer we re removed from the pain nut shots however are far too real i ll laugh my arse off at jackass but when the guys take the inevitable nut shot it always makes me wince what happened to pranking where nobody got hurt and folks could laugh it off it was my senior year at high school and i was in the senior s common room getting ready for math class my friend tim took his math book out of his locker sat it on the table behind him then started chatting to another classmate i walked past tim picked up his math book and walked to the other side of the common room when tim finished his conversation he locked his locker turned around to get his math book and found an empty table he knew he d just taken his math book out and yet it wasn t there doubt set in as he turned back around to unlock his locker i stepped up set his math book back down on the table then moved away tim opened his locker and peered in no math book he turned around puzzled and there it was on the table behind him right where he d left it knowing he was being pranked he looked around and found the culprit with a stupid grin on his face i knew i d taken it out he said laughing 2 comments tuesday march 05 2013 when you least expect it it doesn t come from the drug dealers you re minding your business they re minding theirs it s all good it s not the crazy guy talking to himself or yelling and throwing punches at thin air he s minding his own business too he s just a little loud that s all it s not even the quiet ones who look the other way as they pass by you think it might be them but it never is it s when you least expect it it s the guy on the bmx bike who cuts off two cars as he veers across three lanes of traffic to make a beeline for your corner where you stand waiting for the light to change it seems like he plans to ride up onto the sidewalk what does he want to do does he want to go in front of you or behind you you don t know and can t tell if you move it s a 50 50 chance you ll move into his path so you stand your ground and let him make the decision it s not until he s riding up onto the sidewalk and is just a few feet away that you realize he s riding straight at you you make a split second decision and take a quick step back he swerves but not away from you he swerves toward you and almost hits you was he playing chicken and you both tried to dodge the same way did he think you would jump out of the way a lot sooner than what you did or was he deliberately trying to run into you as he rode past he did lean toward you as if he was trying to shoulder block you but he didn t hit you and you need to get to work so you don t give it any more thought but as you start to cross the road out of the corner of your eye you see him skidding his bike to a stop still you don t think anything about it not consciously at least but just as the sound of beating wings behind your head many years ago caused you to drop to your knees and avoid the pecking beak of the swooping magpie the sound of rapid footsteps alerts you so when you re hit from behind your body is somehow ready it s a hard hit your back is still a little sore even now so you have to take a couple of quick steps forward to catch yourself but you don t trip or stumble fight flight or freeze it s not a conscious decision fight you spin to face your attacker and of course it s the angry bmx rider you take a step forward your hands move up and your feet slide into position it s been twenty years since you studied karate but the basics are still embedded deep within your muscle memory you slide into kokutsu dachi back stance as easy as you slide into bed at night flight not expecting this reaction this response bmx guy turns and runs towards the bike he dropped in the middle of the crosswalk big dog chases little dog again not a conscious decision you run after bmx guy and as he stoops to grab his bike you act without thinking again and return his shove he trips over his bike he gets back to his feet and turns to glare at you you slide back into kokutsu dachi feet apart body balanced hands up relaxed ready waiting freeze he stops you re both about the same age you ve got a couple of inches on him while he outweighs you but not by much it would probably be a fair fight if he wasn t carrying a weapon is he his hands go to his pockets you tell yourself that if he had a weapon he wouldn t have just hit you in the back and if he does have a weapon at this distance your best course of action right now is still fight you slide forward a step maintaining kokutsu dachi and his hands come out empty flight he takes a step back he s intimidated he doesn t want to fight you now he s pissed off that you beat him at whatever game he was trying to play but he doesn t want to fight you you re not the victim he was expecting you weren t supposed to react like this his hands return to his pockets does he have a weapon or does he want you to think he has one he attacked you from behind but he didn t knock you down then you stood up to him and when he ran you knocked him down you humiliated him so now he wants you to think he has a weapon he wants to scare you to restore his ego you think all this without really thinking it and so you also still think your best course of action right now is fight again you slide forward and again his hands come out still empty no weapon just like you thought like you hoped and then he makes a gun with his left hand like a kid on the playground and he points his finger gun at you cocks his thumb then shoots you when a little kid does this it s funny from this man in this situation it s a chilling sight he wants to scare you he wants to make you think he has a gun but if he did he would have pulled it by now he would have used it he hasn t so he doesn t have a gun does he fight you slide forward one more step flight he bends grabs his bike jumps on and takes off you were right he didn t have a gun but what if he did 7 comments labels journal monday january 28 2013 snow play with the bunny this weekend i took my daughter snowboarding at mountain high ski resort with a few families from my son s boy scout troop i enrolled the bunny in an all day beginner s snowboarding class heh heh now she s a snow bunny while i signed up for two beginners skiing classes one in the morning and one in the early afternoon at the morning class the head instructor asked us if we d been skiing before the two young ladies standing next to me both said no i said yes so the ladies went with one instructor while i went with another my group lesson was almost a private lesson until a teenager turned up late and when he said he had skiing experience he was assigned to my group so there were two of us plus alex the instructor which is almost the same as a private lesson by the end of that morning s lesson alex had us working on hockey stops and parallel turns which are basically hockey stops but where you don t actually stop so not really beginner stuff any more the bunny s class included lunch so i didn t see her during the middle of the day i had a break between the morning and afternoon s class so i scarfed my lunch down then got a quick run where i worked on my hockey stops and parallel turns i finished my run at the class meeting spot where the students and instructors had already gathered and yes i pulled up with a hockey stop when the instructor looked up at me before he could even ask i announced not my first time as if my showboat entrance hadn t announced that already once again i got bumped up to the advanced beginners class and when i saw alex standing with the other instructors i waited for her to look our way then waved and called out to her she came over and we chatted briefly and i asked if she was going to be our instructor her again she said she was working on it and i think it helped that her dad was one of the head instructors because she did get assigned to my group again for me that was good because she was able to continue my instructions from where we d left off before lunch by now i was getting pretty cocky and my over confidence resulted in a couple of spills although all four of us in the afternoon class would take a tumble i was the first one of us to go down when my snow plow didn t plow enough snow and i wasn t able to stop in time fortunately the others managed to sidestep and leave me a gap to wipe out into and i literally fell down at their feet alex laughed and made a comment about this being the true test of a skier s athleticism i got one ski under me stabbed my poles into the snow and heaved myself up alex laughed again and said that i d defied the laws of physics by getting back up the wrong way while somehow making it look easy you did say it was a test of my athleticism i replied i had to rise to the challenge near the bottom of the mountain we stopped next to where i knew the snow bunny s class was being held and there was her red and black jacket there she is i exclaimed eagerly like a proud father there s my daughter i watched as she took a turn on her snowboard one of the intructors held her hand holding her in place then when it was her turn he gave her a gentle shove to get her going and she was snowboarding my snow bunny was riding her board just like a real snowboarder she rode it down down down all the way to the bottom of the children s run before running out of slope stopping then sitting down as casual as anything was i a proud papa you bet your arse i was d when i finally finished my class i made my over to where i d seen her earlier and there she was with her instructor when she comes back next time he told me she can go to level 3 from novice to level 3 in one day definitely a proud papa moment i asked her if she was done or if she wanted to keep going keep going she exclaimed i took her across to the chairlift which took us up to the easiest of the runs and as we waited in line i instructed her on how to get on without falling over and then up the mountain we rode daddy and daughter on the ski lift it s a good thing mama wasn t there to see us because there were no safety rails on this ski lift she avoided getting cleaned up by the chair when we got off but she did take a spill down the exit ramp but after strapping her rear boot back in sop for boarders is to unbuckle your rear boot while riding the chair lifts we were off down the mountain the bunny in the front me following keeping an eye on her when she started to go too fast she bailed and sat down and she did that a few times i d pull up next to her and wait as she stood back up got her balance and back down the mountain we went and then she didn t sit down as she built up a little too much speed and she didn t fall over either i watched incredulously as she spun her board 90 degrees dumped some speed then continued to spin the board essentially doing a 180 with a brief pause in the middle and when she was done she continued riding as if it was nothing as if she hadn t just learned to ride a snowboard that very day proud papa absolutely that s my snow bunny unfortunately i m not sure how often we can get up to the snow she obviously had fun and she picked up snowboarding fast so it would be something the two of us could have fun doing together at least until she surpasses her old man and starts boarding down double black diamonds as if they re a walk in the park which would probably be on her third or fourth lesson 4 comments labels journal sports thursday january 17 2013 coffee politics i m not in charge of the office coffee club any more and haven t been for a couple of years we don t have the k cup machine any more now either we just have a drip pot if you re a frequent coffee drinker you can pay 10 per month and drink all the coffee you want if you re an infrequent drinker you can pay 1 per cup either way it s a good deal instead of joing the office coffee club the ladies in the next aisle over started their own coffee club they brought in a drip pot of their own and set it up in an empty cubicle and they all chip in and buy their own supplies and this morning they ran out of coffee they re pretty...