Yes, I've been away from reporting my self-deprecating experiences in life. Not that it hasn't been as random or "Joelesque" as usual, but hey, I've been busy. I have finals. I have people to see and remark about the absurdity of life. For someone else's misadventures visit this site. He also has webcomics.
First, I still would like to send out my sympathies to the Virginia Tech campus for their courage and sacrifice these past two weeks. At first, I was concerned about reprisals against the Asian-American community, and in particular the Korean-American community, because of who the gunman was - which was a concern of many of my friends at BU. But, which reassured me about humanity, most people didn't want to pay attention to the images of the gunman and instead focused on grieving the victims, helping the survivors, and how to improve the outlets of mental health resources for the college students to be able to use.
On a different tangent, I have been mistaken for a different ethnicity in three different places this weekend (Fenway, Starbucks, Bed, Bath & Beyond). And it was by people of that ethnicity - like there was a Chinese-American woman asking me about bridal registry for her daughter? at Bed, Bath & Beyond. How many languages can you say - "I am Filipino, I'm sorry I can't speak your language." ?
It doesn't work to Babelfish the sentence. I have to be able to speak it phonetically. And how surprising is it for me to be mistaken for Indian?
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