Happy New Year!

The holiday is finally over as the leftovers are gone, and I have made couple new year's resolutions which I will not publish here just in case I fail, however I have learned a new trick in the new year and I will share that instead. See, sometimes I forget that I have left the stove on and the smoke detector goes off as food is burnt, and this is very annoying because it keeps beeping for a long time even after the accident is taken care of, as smoke doesn't dissipate all that fast even with good ventilation. The new trick I have learnt is to simply take the batteries out of the smoke detector, and this will render it inactive, no more annoying beeping sounds. The human nose is at least as good as the smoke detector anyway, this is proven by the fact that in the past I have noticed the smoking scent everytime before the smoke detector actually went off, including this afternoon, so the smoke detector is very much useless. I hope this trick will help whoever reads my blogs. Also I feel it is necessary to warn those who intend to use this trick, for some smoke detectors are connected to house power supply directly in addition to the batteries, and might electricute whoever tinker with them if they don't know what they are doing. Happy new year everyone!

A Father's Day Poem

This one I have titled "A Peaceful Sunday Afternoon," happy father's day everyone!

Daddy's snoring though he denies,
his glasses thick and heavy.
liberated them I have,
optical magic bright and shiny.

Superman's eyes can shoot laser,
daddy's glasses are ants killer.
still a little bright, still a little shiny,
but dragging them thru the mud makes them dirty.

Oh daddy you are my hero,
though you can't cook or sew.
A little revenge for your snoring,
now your glasses need cleaning.

Just another Sunday afternoon,
from a memory so many years ago,
like looking thru old glasses,
blurry.

Earth Day

Today is earth day, so I am going to save the planet by "Reduce Recycle & Renew," or was that "Reduce, Reuse & Recycle" or "Recycle, Reuse, & Renew?" Actually I am pretty sure reduce and recycle are in there somewhere, so the last one is incorrect, but then, is it really? Apparently there are a lot of misinformation out there about the earth day, and this has confused and incapacitated me and many likes of me to do anything to save the planet. I guess I will just have to celebrate the earth day when someone has sorted out this whole mess. Meanwhile I will just perform the common denominator -- "Recycle." Well, I always take the trash out, so I am a hero just like captain planet himself, and this makes me feel very good about the earth day.

Pills

My mother had a knee surgery last week, and the doctor prescribed her some very powerful anesthetic pills. They are so potent that just one pill puts her under sleep for over 10 hours straight. I was thinking about trading these pills for some nice stuffs, but according to my mom these pills didn't give her a high, only some dizziness, so I had to throw that idea out of the window. Oh well, one day I will discover some uses for these pills.

Frozen Pizza Treatment

I've decided to upgrade my diet recently, so instead of eating top ramen all the time I now occasionally have frozen pizzas. The problem with frozen pizza is that you can't just microwave them, they have to be baked in an oven, which is not a problem for most people except I can't be bothered with the oven. My solution is a simple one: microwave it anyway.

Here comes the second problem: most microwaves are not big enough to fit a whole frozen pizza. What I do is to take a frozen pizza still in its plastic wrapping, set it on the floor vertically and step on it to break it into two halves, then fold and repeat so it's broken about evenly into four pieces. This part is a bit tricky and may be difficult for the novice, however it can done after just a little practice. Now the pizza is microwave size, remove the wrapping and place pizza on a plate, time for 10 minutes and you will have a nice hot pizza. The crust will be floppy, but that's okay for me and it should be okay for everyone else too.

Eye Examination

Today I had an eye examination. The optometrist, Jim, gave me some eye drops that dilated my pupils for a few hours to check for cataract, which turned out to be completely unnecessary since I had none, but as a result I could barely see on my way home. Good thing I often practice driving without glasses and sometimes with one eye closed, so it presented very little challenge for me.

New Computer Mice

My computer mice kept breaking one after another, so I finally ordered 10 of them online. This way I would get a volume discount, all 10 for just 30 bucks total, and the shipment just arrived today. The problem is that they are marked "No warranty Sold as is," and all the part numbers are crossed out with a permanent mark for some unknown and obviously sinister reason. Now I am thinking maybe half of them don't work? Perhaps I should resell them to other people before I undo the packing. I have a new motto now, "if you think something doesn't work, sell it to other people."