How to have dinner conversation with grandpa's friendS 101

It's already hard enough for a normal person to make conversation with stranger who are 10 years older then us. But today I experienced just how much harder it is to to make dinner conversation (for 2 hours min) with grandpa's FRIENDS; fyi, I never met them in my life, and they are all over age of 70, and the worse part is they are all retire Taiwanese military high rank officers.

So basically, heres what I learned how to make that 2 hours pass faster:

1) Smile. When you walk into the room, BIG FAKE SMILE, they love kids' smile
2) There will be 2-3 of them say "oh remember me?" It doesn't matter if you really remember them, just continued smiling, and say "OH OF COURSE! HOW ARE YOU DOING LATELY? SO NICE TO MEET YOU AGAIN!" This shaking hand process will take up about 10 minutes.
3) After everyone is sat down, you get up. You are now the waiter in the room. Start puring everyone's tea, making sure everyone has their utensils...etc. That will take up about 20 minutes.
4) Start Gambaing (乾杯ing). Old people love it. Start wishing them longer health, always happy, forever look young and beautiful...anything you can think of. You should Gambaing about 10 -15 times. This process will take about 30 minutes.
5) When the dishes are served, constantly stuff them. (拼命的幫他們夾菜) Because they are old, eating takes up a long time. Ignore them if they continuously say they are full. Just keep on persuading by saying "This dish is superb. You gotta have it." This will take up about 50 mintues.
6) Last but not least, say goodbye. Didnt matter how boring the dinner is, you gotta say "I had a great time today, hope we can do this again!" And start shaking everyone's hand and give fake promise about house visit. This will be the last 10 mintues of the dinner.


Conclution: If possible, try not to have dinner with old people. Because after all the fake smile my chin hurts.

First "All Male Choir"

First "All Male Choir" experience in my life.
I did not spend money to experience this. I guess all male choir were never in trend in the musical market. And of course they have hard time selling tickets. So they came to my family's church; where everyone is lovely and nice IF you support our god in some way (for them, adding an Ave Maria in their course is good enough)

My dad bought NT13,000 worth of tickets (approximately 4o0 dollars), so thats how I went. Families and friends gave us a puzzle look when we are trying to give them those tickets. Because its like junk present; you can't throw them away, because they spend good money on it. And the worst part is that this junk present required you to actually go to a place and require your 2 hours of attention.

I have to say it entertained me for like 20 minutes ( and the Ave Maria song of course) I never knew choir require so much facial expression. Everyone on the stage seems like they are VERY into the music. Some are so exaggerated that they added hand gesture and some leg movement. Its cute, i guess.

Conclusion: Not my thing. I don't know if its too feminum (wtf would bunch of guys sing a song called "what's wrong with my feeling?"), or I just don't like stiff choir period. Overall I would not attened another all male choir again.

Blog warning!!

I felt the sudden urge to start my own online blog. So yea, TADA!

However look back at my past journal blog/entry I tried to accomplish, they never last because of my laziness or fade of interest. So I give this one a year. If this blog last longer then a year, congratulate me :D

IF you ever start to read my journal, PLEASE forgive me horrible English grammar. Even though I moved to America when I was 11 years old, English was never my favorite course. I never really bothered to spend energy or time on studying basic English grammar. So please feel free to use my journal as elementry school grammar material. ("please identify all the grammar mistake in this fob's journal". )