absolutum dominium

sometimes you can have a lot of fun with your parents in the following situations:

1. when your dad is packing the ironing board and he says to you:

"i'd better keep the ironing board instead. coz you're too clumsy."

...and then he bangs the board into the kitchen door, the kitchen table, the dining table and the shelf by the window, and finally the second door on the way to putting the ironing board back."

2. on the way to the chinese restaurant for dinner, your parents start going on and on about how exciting penang is and all the local delicacies tt you must try. like the gurney drive char kuay teow, mee tai mak, penang laksa, and the fantastic chendol.

all of which you have been banned from, btw.

3. when we forget to say grace before eating, such tt halfway thru the meal he launches into a variation of "the lord's prayer", but with something about "blessing the food" thrown in for good measure.

4. when he allows you to order sharks' fin soup(no i'm not a bleeding heart save-the-sharks type environmental activist. frankly if you know me you will know tt when it comes to food... i don't care. i eat anything tt moves. wahahaha), and then when it comes, you find tt the soup is served separate from the sharks' fin. oh, and the sharks' fin is in one WHOLE piece, not in strands like normal.

and then you find out tt portion is $38.00.

5. when your mom orders a steamed fish, and you look around the restaurant you are at and you see tt most of the fish are a nice small manageable size... except for 1 breed tt looks the size of a baby shark. and it so happens tt your mom happened to order from THAT variety, such tt when the fish is taken out of the tank, it apparently weighs 1 kg. and your dad tells you the fish will cost $70.00 tonight.

...because it's $7.00 per 100gms.

6. you know i've always wondered how the HELL i managed to get accepted to ubc for exchange. let's face it. my grades aren't stellar, i'm not a dean's lister, and i haven't won some prize or other. i'm not even a regular face in law school or law lib, and i bet half my teachers don't even remember me. so how on earth could i beat so many other applicants to a place like ubc???

and then it struck me... could it be because of dragonboat? coz canada seems to have a love affair with the sport, judging from the excitement of the annual international dragonboat festival in toronto.

but i guess if tt's the case, ubc is going to be disappointed, coz i'm not going to row for them! muahaha.

however, i decided to have a bit of fun with my parents. so i whispered to my dad:

"dad. what will you do if i told you tt i was going to join dragonboat over in vancouver?"

and without hesitation he replied:

"i will fly up and kill you."

7. and lastly, you *know* you have spent a lot of money on a dinner when you get complimentary fruits, without even asking for them.

training tomorrow!