two topics i need to write about, one for now and one for later: 1. hogging the middle of the road; 2. the fear that a person will walk in the bathroom and choose the stall next to you when you're in the stall going poo.

this scene should be all too familiar to my fellow dorks and nerds: in high school, you are walking down the hall and there is someone walking towards you. if you both continue on the straight path, you will bump shoulders. do you move out of the way, or stand proud and see if the other person moves?

now in this situation, there are three different types of people: those who are oblivious (talking to a friend or cramming for a test), those who moved out of the way (me), and those who didn't move out of the way (jerks). the question i always asked myself was, should i stand my ground and face potential hostility or just move out of the way and let life go by? considering that i was, and still am, highly conflict averse, i was afraid of the jerks, and just moved out of the way.

now that high school is long over, it now spills on to the road. there are those drivers who, on a two-way local road, refuse to stay in their right-hand lane forcing the other car to either swerve out of the way or just stop completely. it annoys me to no end, and lately, i've been cutting it pretty close. sometimes, i leave just enough distance to get by, hopefully sending a message to the other driver that he/she can't be hogging the entire road. but i know all this does is piss the driver off, which is also fine with me. other times, i think about not moving at all. let the cars scrape, and collect my insurance money. if the driver is hogging the road, leaving almost no room for me to squeak by, then i can argue that it's his/her fault. just take a quick picture with my camera phone and voila! cash money. i know that's insanely stupid for me to do, so it will likely never happen, but you never know. maybe it'll just happen one day by itself, and i will finally be able to get a new car.

i just hope that the lawyers never find this blog.

(sorry for the vague post before.)

native asians living in the US has always been a hot topic for me. in china, pushing, shoving, and cutting in line is the norm. but in the states, most people understand the concept of waiting in line... and if you're in the south, embrace the concept. it has been a long time since i've seen asian people trying to cut in line all the time, and being in vegas the past weekend, a very big international tourist trap, it reminded me of my life in california and how mad i would get at times.

in any case, when we went to see cirque du soleil, the doors were not open yet so a line started to form. a few moments later, in comes an asian couple, they cut straight to the beginning of the line, and just proceed to walk in. the young hostess, who was guarding the line, was a little shocked and didn't really know what to do. so she just let them in. the rest of us who were in line were a little shocked as well, and followed the asian couple in through the doors. whether we were supposed to go in or not, who knows.

but the question is, are asians just oblivious to lines? i saw it almost everywhere i went, and even for the most insignificant events. to get on the escalator, to go first into the revolving door, to pay for a drink, etc. so again i ask, do they know the line is there, but just don't care? or do they just not understand the concept of a line?

(sidenote: i know i'm stereotyping here, but stereotypes don't come out of thin air...)

it's amazing how quickly the crappiest week in your career can become the best week of your career with the turn of a single event.

time to enjoy the weekend... vegas, baby, vegas!!!!