Sunday, April 29, 2007

there was a going away party for our neighbor at our house last night. which i knew nothing about until the relatives started making LOTS of food.

party started, then there was this highschool guy i've seen in previous filipino parties who seemed to be lonely, so i chatted with him for a bit (a filipino custom, just entertain the guests).

gaack. bad move. i ended up being sooooo annoyed.

we went to where the kids were to watch them play mario bros party 7 (and also to veer away from the adults who might break into karaoke mode any moment). first, he rats off about video game consoles. while i am inclined to agree at one point (how they always get upgraded, so we end up buying more), it just irked me how he keeps downplaying the games. like he's too cool for them or something. and all i could see in front of me was 3 kids immensely enjoying the gamecube mario brothers game. i asked the kids what the heck they were doing (as a joke and really out of curiosity), he mistakes it for me looking at it as silly as he thinks he it all is.

honey, i am NEVER gonna be old or too cool for video games (besides, if you really want ugly silly, go play sponge bob squarepants the movie game).

then he moans he wants the old nintendo games back (platform games where you just needed to go to the right side of the screen and kill the enemies). i tell him, well, the games right now are more 3d. and he says, well, do you see them pop out of the screen? i'm like, whaaaat? (apparently, his version of 3d needs work). he did say he likes shooting games, such as those in arcades. and i say, well, they're first person perspective games, they're kinda real, so that makes them '3D'. hah, take that!

next, he mentions anime. he mentions he used to like pokemon (which is ok, coz i was into it during the first few seasons) and digimon (at this i just HAD to laugh! this show was pathetic!!!). so i recommend him naruto and bleach. he says he can't get past the big eyed thing. i tell him, well, it started out with astroboy, i think, the bigger the eyes meant the more innocent the character; so if the eyes are small, you get the sense that the character is mature, or lost his innocence. you could tell his eyes went blank. ye, he wasn't into it, but i was still ok with it. what he says NEXT really irritates me.

then he says, what's so special about anime anyway? (he said it in an obnonxious note) and inside i'm all, OH NO HE DIDN'T. of all things he just had to say, he said just about prolly the worst thing ever . i tell him, CALMLY, it's the plot, mostly. and he sarcastically says, plot? he wants all action. so i tell him, watch bleach. he says, no thanks, he'd rather watch LIVE action. so i say, watch 'zatouchi' or 'crying freeman' (which i heard rave reviews about). he says, no japanese.

who bloody brought up anime in the first place?! who just said he liked pokemon?!?!

FINE. so what movies have i watched, he asked? i told him the last i watched was The Departed. and i still wanted to watch 300 (he says, that was really good). then, there's spiderman3 and pirates of the carribean3.

he says, PIRATES? (again in that annoying tone). and i say, ye, it's a fun movie, it's a trilogy, i watched the first two, so i just want to finish with the third, SO? (i'm clearly exasperated at this point)

i then look at the kids playing games while eating my food.

he breaks the silence by asking if i've watched any "extreme" japanese cartoon, and adds "you know.." (japanese 'cartoon' i shudder at that word cartoon. it's anime, idiot!!!! baka baka*! *japanese for idiot idiot!* and "YOU KNOW?!?!"). of course i KNEW what that meant already, so i say, yeah, i have, so? he chuckles.

my gulay!!!! whats with that chuckle? graaaaaaaaa! bad enough he was annoying me by saying something about anime, something he knew NOTHING ABOUT in the first place (thankfully, my sister has now come to the "light" about anime, hehe. share in my obsession, te!), then he has to go make this 'chuckle'.

me imagining whipping out a HUGE MALLET out of nowhere and pounding his head with it, ranma-style.


i tell him to go eat some of the food upstairs (partly because i want him to shut up already), and he said he ate at a buffet earlier. i told him, you knew about the party and you ate at a buffet? he said, he really didn't know about the party til the previous night when his mom asked him to buy some ingredients. i told him, you're still a day ahead of me coz i just knew about the party TODAY when they started making the food. you must be on a diet. hahaha!

THEN, he changes topic (kinda). speaking of dinner, he was kinda hinting that he needs a partner for his senior ball, and while i'm prolly game enough to go (and see what american proms look like, and i still pass as a teenager anyway), his attitude just annoyed the heck outta me. i don't mind the age gap, but i KNEW i was soooo not gonna enjoy the night with him.

i tell him, sorry, i still have classes at your night. (hah, you don't get to act cool by having an older lady with you).

AND THEN (it's long, i tell you), he goes off by saying he missed canada so much, he hasn't been back there since 2006. dude, not only is canada like a 9 hour drive away, you not going there was what, just A YEAR AGO. oh you POOR BOY *SARCASTIC*. i've only been here since, what, 2004!!!!!.

instead, i say, that wasn't too long ago, you'll manage. with that, i leave. my filipino hospitality does have its limits, you know. that, and my cynicism WAS threatening to reach the surface. remember the kids; be a good model!

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i guess you reach a point in your life where you are content at where you are at now, and there's no need to prove yourself to anybody anymore. i don't know if i've reached that point, but talking to that boy made me think i was near it.


of course, he was STILL a highschool kid. must be tolerated.


and me being uber defensive about anime DOES make me act like a kid in a way. i guess i should be more understanding.


or should i?

i don't remember having that much of an 'i'm too cool' attitude. i don't mind clueless guys who just want to hear your opinion. i don't even mind obnoxious guys who just say things like that JUST BECAUSE they know it's a touchy topic with you and just want to see you riled up, so both of you STILL end up sharing a good laugh afterwards. but then there are other obnoxious guys, those "TRYING HARD" people, who need a good slap to get their senses back in place and shout, WHO THE HECK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, IDIOT?!

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i also realized that i was really being a bitch that night. but he was SUCH A LOSER! (anne curtis-style of Maging Sino Ka Man)

i have my moments :) aaaaaand, i was already stressed to begin with :)

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my next story will be about the WORST student i had EVER. stay tuned.

then prolly, a short story about how a day starts wrong, EVERYTHING GOES WRONG. again, stay tuned.

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