Mom's are girls too.

Our family had a mother's day celebration 2 days early on friday night May 8th at my sister's place.  We had my sister's in-laws over and had a big dinner together that my sister prepared for all of us...thanks sis.  I didn't really bring anything for my mother (besides the pasta that my sister ordered that i had to pay for and bring).  Then this morning on monday, my sister calls and she's like why didn't you do anything for mom for mother's day.  And I'm like huh?  I thought the dinner was the present and it was all good.  My sister insists and says "She was moping around at home last night and she was in a bad mood this morning b/c you didn't do anything.....you know mom is a girl too."  Then I realized how insensitive I was.  She is a girl, she is human, she has feelings. Many times I think of my mother as super human with no feelings, only to satisfy my desires and love me at all times.  But now that i'm older, I should be the one that's super human for her.  I should be the one to take care of her and buy her stuff that she always wanted but couldn't afford.  I made it up to her by sending her roses and candy delivered after lunch.   I know that isn't the point, but I wanted to show her that I do care and I don't ever want to take my mother for granted.  Lesson learned, no matter how old a mother gets, they all still need/want love and care from their children.

Some things never change

I turned 29 today and I don't feel or act 29.  For example, i had a convo with my friend today and here's how it went:

Week of Sickness

I don't think I have ever been sick for a whole week in my entire life.  And I don't mean sick as in coughing and a runny nose.  I was bed ridden from tuesday night til today.  I had the flu/fever starting tuesday night til friday and my whole body was sore and with chills.  I was getting over the flu on friday, and so i decided to go eat dinner with my parents at an indian restaurant.  After dinner, I came home and I felt even more sick.  Not only did I feel like throwing up, but I started to see red hives all over my body.  I got food poisoning.  I went into my bathroom butt naked and took pictures of my hives.  I have no idea why I did that.  Anyway, the next morning I called my parents and they told me to come over to their store so they can give me medicine.  So I went over and they made me drink acid.  Yes, freaking acid.  It tasted like......acid.  Is that even safe?  I was questioning my dad for 10 minutes why they made me drink acid.  So I was reading the label of the acid bottle and the direction said, "mix acid and water and sprinkle over vegetables and plants to treat spoils."  Are you serious?  And that kind of got me worried.  I gave my dad the bottle and told him to read the label.  He's like "see it's for spoils. You got spoiled food in your body. " What can I do but look at him and laugh.  Then I showed my dad the hives all over my body.  And he took out a camera and started taking pictures of it.  And i'm like I already took pictures of them....and he's response was "good job."  I still have no idea why we took pictures of it.  Maybe for evidence if I ever died of it?  My dad wanted to go back to that restaurant and show them my hives, but I refused.  He's like if we were white, we would sue them.  I ended up going to the doctors and they gave me OTC prescriptions.  Doctors are a ripoff, cost us $60 to find out I need to go buy Claritin.  This week was not my week.

Things I want to do before I turn 30.

I will cross out the ones I've done.

1.  Skydive
2.  Learn a language
3.  Learn Piano
4.  Start an online business
5.  Make a personal website (www.jonkong.com)
6.  Pay off all my credit card debt
7.  Go to a Bears games
8.  Visit a country other than Korea or Japan
9.  Ask out a complete stranger
10.  Give a flower to a girl
11.  Moon someone
12.  Give $100 to a stranger on the street
13.  Get a six pack abs
14.  Bench press 225 lbs 10 times.
15.  Submit Eric Shin
16.  Test drive a ferrari
17.  Get Lasik eye surgery

I'll add to the list as i think of more or you guys can give me some suggestions.

David Burkes

I went to David Burke's Primehouse located inside The James Hotel tonight with my boss, a coworker, and 2 of our clients.  I ordered the Kentukey bone in prime rib and it was pretty damn good!  The food this time around was great.  I've been to David Burkes for my mom's birthday but it wasn't that great.  I think it's because we had to pay and the bill was outrageous.  It's hard to justify spending that much money on food.  But since it was free this time around, it tasted a lot better.  Something about free food makes it taste a lot better than it is.  Plus we had expensive wine.  My boss told us a story how he went to a wine auction and wrote down all the wine he wanted to buy and it came out to $22,000 dollars.  How crazy is that?  That was back in 1999.  He's still drinking the wine that he bought from then.

White people are so social.  They talk about anything and everything.  They love to talk and love to just tell you their experiences, stories, and mostly about themselves.  It doesn't matter if you're paying attention, they'll keep on talking.  It's easy to talk to them, in my case tonight, easy to listen.  When you ask them a simple question like where are you from, they'll give you every detail and you'll end up talking about something completely different than what you asked them.  It's entertaining.