Category Archives: Family

Rats!!!

It’s the year of the Rat, according to the Chinese zodiac. It’s the year of the Rat in my house, literally.
Early in the year, as Chinese New Year was approaching, we saw a rat scampering about our home. Set the rat trap, caught it after a couple of days, and was taken care of. (Don’t [...]

A Single Life Looks More Attractive From This Point of View

There is talk of marriage in the house. Some people want to get married. Other people do not want some people to get married. So soon, at least. Among the questions thrown into this issue by several people are:
1. Does the future son/daughter-in-law make you feel proud for entering the family?
2. What has he/she to [...]

Why does it have to come to this?

It is fucking incomprehensible how a pre-senile father with irritating habits and admittedly terrible idiosyncrasies can evoke so much hatred in a son that he tells his own father fuck you, several times along with other choice profanities, for locking the gate by mistake because he forgot that he is not back home yet.
Dee, we [...]

Who gets more pleasure from the blog, the blogger or the readers?

The blogger’s argument: Readers, obviously
1. They are the audience of the blog, so the blogger is responsible for entertaining them. Therefore the readers as the receiving end gain more pleasure.
2. Because Blogger wants to entertain Readers, he will try his best to post something that relates to Readers and prompt Readers’ responses. Readers have the [...]