Story of My Life
Source: xkcd.com
Past and Songs
I find it amazing for how certain songs instantly bring up memories from certain points in my past, such as:
Grade 6-8: “Megaman Techno” by Unknown Artist and “Misery” by Moffatts
Grade 9: “Irrestiblement (DDR Mix)” by Sylvie Vartan
Grade 10-12: “Heartbreak Lullaby” by A-Teens
My Greece/Italy Trip: “Ballad” by Twins and “Tarzan and Jane” by Aqua (?)
First-Year University: “So Deep (Perfect Sphere Remix) by Silvertear and “Colors of the Heart” by UVERworld
Various Weddings: “Lady in Red” by Chris De Burgh
If Life Gives You Lemons…
So, I think best when I’m in the shower, and I randomly came up with an idea totally unrelated to my exam on Friday.
BC – 0: If life gives you lemons, bash them open with a rock
0 – 1500: If life gives you lemons, slash away at them (too lazy to go into detail through each era)
1500 – 1700: If life gives you lemons, bring them with you on your ship to prevent scurvy
1700 – 1900: If life gives you lemons, invent a machine to make lemonade
1900 – 1920: If life gives you lemons, talk about it over the radio (not too sure when the radio was invented, but close enough!)
1920 – 1945: If life gives you lemons, blow them up
1945 – 1970: If life gives you lemons, write a guitar melody about it and paint lemons all over your peace bus
1970 – 1990: If life gives you lemons, create a lemonade stand and commercialize your lemonade immediately
1990 – 1999: If life gives you lemons, create a website on them using Microsoft FrontPage (complete with counters, animated page background images and Comic Sans MS font)
1999 – 2005: If life gives you lemons, post about them on AsianAvenue/MySpace
2005 – Present: If life gives you lemons, tweet/blog about them and/or post them on Facebook
A side-note: I lost my student card that has a really faded-out picture of me. Some lucky asian guy could very well be pretending to be me. Update: I found it in my jacket pocket AFTER I had paid $30 to get a new one with a new non-faded picture.
TV Commercials
I’ve always had fun watching TV commercials to try to guess who the TV station thinks watches their shows. For example, I was just watching the History Channel (The Mummy was on) and a commercial for health insurance came on (for like a whole minute).
“Your loved ones will get 5 times the benefits if you die!”
I’m guessing they think they have a lot of middle-aged/elderly viewers.
“Mmmankuuu”
Just rescued this from my deactivated account so I have some personal record of it 
Today, as I was walking east on Sheppard to go to the Bayview subway station, I saw a man in a motorized wheelchair continuously going and stopping. It was raining, so I decided to walk beside him and share my umbrella with him. We both went inside the station and there I asked him if he needed help, and he, being unable to talk properly took out a notebook which had various instructions on different pages (e.g. “Hi, my name is ___ ____, and I need to go to *location*”, “TTC: I need to buy 20 tokens for this month”). He ended up on a page that said the latter, so I decided to make sure he got the 20 tokens.
Aside from not being able to talk properly, he had a physical disability. So I went down the elevator to the fare station with him and told the attendant that I’d need 20 tokens for the man. I asked the man where his money was, and he mumbled and pointed to a bag that was slung over the armrest of the motorized wheelchair. I got $45 out of the wallet that was in the bag and got the 20 tokens for him and put his wallet and the 20 tokens back in the bag. The attendant then was like, “I’ve never seen anything like this. You’re number one; I should get your name down so I can tell my family.” (I ended up not giving the attendant my name 
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I told the impaired man that I had to go now since I was already late to meet a friend, and he managed to smile and mumble: “Mmmankuuu” (“Thank You”).
The point of this note is not to boast “Oh, I’m so nice and generous”; it’s just one of the few moments in my life where my scope on the world is widened. If I wasn’t already thinking of my future enough, this made me see the difficulties that come with old age and/or disabilities, and just imagining it was me in that motorized wheelchair instead of that man raises some questions for me. Would there be kind strangers who would help me? Or would there be mean people who point and laugh at me, or run away with my money/possessions? The level of dependency on others scares me.
This made me realize how I take my mobility and speech for granted. An important thing to take into account is that regardless of physical appearance and behavior, people are still human beings, with the same desire to love and be loved (excluding the psychopathic ones of course). It’s inevitable that my parents will age and that I’ll have to take care of them. Looking further into the future (I always seem to be thinking about the future), my future wife’s parents will also age and require care. I would also see them as being my parents, and so I’d provide them the same love and care I’d show my parents.
After all, it’s only fair because parents dedicate almost their whole lives toward our well-being. It’s an act of reciprocity.