June 30 – July 9

I spent a lot of time with my family.

My grandma was buried on the 4th of July. Her service was on the 3rd. There were crazy pyrotechnics. It was hard not to laugh at some of the acrobatics the guy was doing. Luckily I was warned by my cousins.

When we buried grandma it was pouring. Rest in peace.

I’ve been guilt tripped by my cousins into caring more about my family, specifically my parents’ feelings about me moving out. Also into thinking about my financial future. One of my cousins is a mother, and taught me a lot about Chinese culture and how hurt a mother can feel when she has no idea whether her son is lost, hurt, or safe. I learned that, to deal with this, I can try to provide more information to my mom to relieve her, such as where I’m going, when I’m coming back, who will I be with, et cetera. It sounds like overkill, but if that’s what I have to do to ease my mom then that’s what I’ll do. I just hope it’s not going to be forever.

My writing is going down the shitter, but at least I’m keeping a lot of my adventures. I hope everyone can still follow along.

My Hong Kong trip has made me think of my goals. Here they are:
1. Finance – figure out an source of income that I can be happy with.
2. Family – keep bonds strong with family. Try to make them understand my choices, improve communication. Let my parents know what I’m doing, and find out more about my brother. Keep in contact with family around the world.
3. Pickup – identity scripts – talk more about myself. Find out more about the girl.
4. Aggression – push push push. Call the damn girls. Don’t eject. Physically escalate. Push the interaction forward. Stop worrying about losing the girl.

I’m surprised I actually like Hong Kong. Well, not that surprised. It’s like New York, but… not. Some disadvantages: humidity, language barrier, and lack of hot girls. The humidity is actually the biggest drawback. I feel like I’m sweating glue every minute I’m not in a shower or air conditioned space.

The language barrier isn’t that bad. I could probably learn how to eat and travel well enough.

The lack of hot girls is probably just ignorance on my part. I haven’t spent much time gaming, there are probably hot girls hidden somewhere. I’ve seen them around, just not in high quantity. I need to go to the mall more often.