Fast food is actually pretty expensive...to get full takes about $6 to $7...jus' as expensive as some of the eating places around here...but i guess it's still cheaper than a sit-in restaurant...and it's interesting...it seems that over the years...hamburgers seem to have been shrinking...i remember the Big Mac was actually big once upon a time...but now its like miniscule...wat a misnomer...but at least the McDonald's apple pies are pretty good...two for $1...wat a bargain...
So life is full of opportunity costs...you aren't able to do everything...if you're doing this...then you can't do that...it's almost sad if you think of all the different paths not taken...because you have chosen to go down this path...it automatically precludes you from all the other paths...sometimes i wonder if i make the right choices...but in the end...it's not about me is it...it's about God's sovereignty...and what He wants...and who are we to think we know better than God what's best for us...as you can see from a brief excerpt of Job...if you have time...read Job Ch.38 to 42...then you will see how man compares to God...
Job 38:1-18 "Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now your loins like a mighty man; for I will ask of you, and you shall inform Me. Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. Who set its measurements - if you know? Or who stretched the measuring line over it? Onto what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? And who hedged in the sea with doors when it burst forth, issuing from the womb, when I made clouds its clothing and deep darkness its swaddling clothes, and I broke out My boundaries for it and set up bars and doors, and I said, To here you shall come and no father, and here shall your proud waves be stopped? Have you ever commanded the morning since your days began? Have you ever caused the dawn to know its place, so that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked might be shaken out of it? The earth is changed like clay under a seal, and all things on it stand forth like a garment. And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm is broken. Have you entered into the spring of the sea, or have you walked in the recesses of the deep? Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death? Have you comprehended the full expanse of the earth? Declare it, if you know it all."
Job 40:2 "Shall one who finds fault contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God answer it."
Aaargh...internships...where to even begin to apply?...this is so depressing...im spending time doing stuff now so that i can do more of the same stuff later...its like a cycle of pain you voluntarily inflict on yourself...what if i dun even end up taking a job in the future...then i wouldn't have to go through all this trouble...but the caveat is that i don't know what i'll be doing in the future so i have to plan for all contingencies...such assymetrical information creates such an inefficient allocation of resources...its assymetrical because Somebody knows whats gonna happen when i don't...
But i guess even if i don't end up taking a job...going through this process is like some sort of training...or sumtin'...i dunnos...i'd still rather spend my time doing other stuff than trying to snatch an internship...
It's a new semester...and I got a new housemate...cool huh...his name is Stanley...everyone say "hi Stanley!"...
Something must be wrong with me...i got at least 8 hours of sleep last night...and had only two classes today...yet i somehow still managed to doze off in the second class...and that was all before 12:30 pm...thatz sad...i have a theory that im in a Pavlov experiment...and everytime i see foldable desks and a chalkboard...something in my brain triggers a sleep function...even if i have had enough sleep...
I need quarters so i can do my laundry...
I got myself some food poisoning this past tuesday night...but i didn't feel it till 5 o'clock in the morning of the next day...when i felt it...i felt it...within two hours i think i threw up at least 10 times...that's like once every twelve minutes...man...when it got to the end when there was barely anything left...it was literally gut-wrenching painful...i felt like a rag...and my body was pretty muching squeezing every bit of bad food out of me...i felt it squeeze stuff from pretty much every part of my digestive system...it hurt...a lot...at that point...tryin' to put new food back in your stomach isn't a good idea...it jus' comes out too...and then there's the fever that comes along with it...which is in itself a major nuisance as well...being as sick as that made me feel as helpless as a little baby...especially when i could only eat plain rice porridge...and i only had a few bites...so the whole day...i only had 4 boxes of apple juice and a few spoonfuls of rice porridge...
But now that i don't have a fever anymore and don't have the urge the puke up everything i eat...what do i get? the runs...yea...not fun either...
I love night markets...they have such tasty food at such low prices...i need to learn those secret ingredients they use in their sauces so i can replicate them in the US...then i would be master chef...or at least in my imagination...and then i will take over the world with my master chefness...yes indeed...fear me and my secret sauce that i have yet to steal and yet to duplicate...yes...but it will be done...and when it is done then all cows legs will quaver with despair...and all chickens feathers will quiver with fear...because they realize that their day has drawn near to be...sauced...oh yes...they know it...and their hope has fled them...yea...see them tremble...tremble before my master chefness...
Silly Jon...master chefness delusions are for kids...now go along and play with your little briefcase and corporate strategies...
So this is the first entry of the new year...I guess I never ended up continuing my last entry...but it's okay i guess, since...i dunnos...so a new year...in a few more weeks...a new semester...a lotta new things...makes you almost want to start and be a completely brand new person...but as they taught us in marketing...you can reposition yourself...but you can't credibly jump from being a sweet and crunchy type cereal to a nutritious and mushy type...in normal wording...you can only credibly move in a direction of change...no leaps and bounds and long jumps sort of thing allowed...
I've met a lot of people in Taiwan...i doubt i'll remember most of their names...some people for sure i'll remember...but some will jus' fade away in memory as the days go on...it'd be nice to remember every detail you've experienced...but then on the other hand...people will think you're creepy if they don't remember the same things...for example...and an entirely fictitious example...you meet someone briefly...and then don't see them for like 3 years...then you meet them again...you're like..."hi [insert name here]...remember me? im Jon" and their like..."uh...ok"...and im like "you wanna go grab some Thai food and catch up? cause i remembered that's what you like..." and they'd be like..."umm...no"...all the while their thinking..."what a freak...who the heck is he and how does he know i like Thai food...maybe he's a stalker...where's my pepper spray?"...so in this way...good memory is a bad thing...people always complain they don't remember things well...but when someone does...they're like..."freak!"...the irony of the world...