Cheating on me?

If you’ve ever asked yourself this question, I don’t blame you. You don’t need evidence of anything to ask yourself this question. I’m serious. You don’t need to see a scandalous picture in order to bring the topic up. Cheating can happen to everyone and by anyone. Indeed, people have made some kind of regulations you should follow in order to prevent cheating–but how are you so sure that it’s flawless? A real lover expresses their feelings in words and actions, and so do the fake ones. As I’m writing this, even I can’t differentiate a cheater from someone who actually loves me.

Athough it is okay to test once in a while, it doesn’t mean you should abuse it. Think about it–you really love someone but they constantly doubt you. That wouldn’t feel very nice. However, even if you trust them to sincerely love you back and maybe they do, it doesn’t  mean they won’t change later. It’s happened to me, unfortunately, and my ex told me that “people change” right after he broke up with me. However, that’s another case. You can’t trust anyone, not even your closest family or friends, but we do it anyway. 

It’s because you can’t prove their love for you.

What is your poo telling you?

The things that we don’t think of much are often the most interesting things. I sure don’t think about my poo a lot but if something does happen like if it came out in a strange colour, I would panick. Of course, this can be avoided with proper equipment. I mean, my poo could be continuously deteriorating in health and I wouldn’t know it. What if two days later, my poo gets significantly pale-coloured but I had no idea because I forgot how my poo was two days ago! 

Thanks to Google Shopping and my curious search of “poo” just for fun, I stumbled across a very useful tool called the Poo Log. I would encourage people to use the Poo Log for a number of reasons, of which I’m sure you would know why. You can find it at Chronicle Books from this link. There are other titles that can be useful too, such as What’s Your Poo Telling You? and What’s Your Poo Telling You? 2009/10 Calendar. Here’s an excerpt from Chronicle Books,

Poo Log — Finally, what every bathroom has been waiting for—the Poo Log, a journal for recording and studying the wondrous uniqueness of each bowel movement. With an extensive glossary, handy reference checklists, interesting nuggets throughout, this journal makes every trip to the can an e-loo-cidating experience. Who knew one could learn so much from poo?
Anish Sheth, MD, is a gastroenterology fellow at Yale University and lives in Connecticut.

Josh Richman has an MBA from Stanford University and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

You  can also find a short but very informative and amusing video on the link I have provided above. Don’t miss out on this amazing book. There are bound to be times an emergency happens and the resources are not on your fingertips. 

Get the Poo Log and/or the corresponding book and calendar.

Driving for the very first time.

I’ve always believed that if I could drive, I would be able to accomplish more–including independence and freedom. And to accomplish those things, I thought any price, with the exception of my life, would be worth it. I still haven’t changed my mind on driving, but I feel like people are really pushing it and not taking it seriously enough. We are future drivers and without proper driver’s education, who knows what the roads will become? I’m not a fan of speed or horsepower; I’m most concerned about safety, and I don’t think I’m very well-informed as of yet.

Today was my first lesson with my driving teacher. He is a nice man and enjoys talking, probably to make me feel more comfortable. The problem is that he talks way too much–no, he asks too many questions about my family. He already knows that my mother does not like to drive and that my father extremely enjoys golfing, but why should it matter who walks the dog? Why is he constantly asking about my brothers’ careers and lives, and how my father is in his spare time? I feel like evading these questions and telling him that it is none of his business, but he is my teacher. I understand that teachers may talk about other things to make the student more comfortable but that was too much. That was an invasion of my family’s privacy, and a poor attempt at that. In fact, he never really talks about driving which begs the question whether he is there to teach me or not. He holds onto my steering wheel (I haven’t grasped the concept of my placement of the car yet) and just keeps talking about irrelevant things. Actually, I feel really discouraged whenever he holds the steering wheel a bit. I just want him to tell me what I should be doing instead of just tugging along. When he’s correcting me with his movements (at least, I think he’s correcting me), I just want to know what I’m doing wrong or how I could do better. I don’t even know how to tell him this; he’s my teacher, after all. He could possibly be a pervert too; why the heck was he looking up and down at my body when we first met?!

I was driving for about two hours today, completing one out of the five behind-the-wheel lessons. We made a stop to register for my classroom lessons. According to the Ministry of Transportation, I must complete at least 25 hours of classroom lessons and 10 hours of behind-the-wheel lessons. This is what bothers me the most: I will have to stay for at least six hours per lesson in a day. My teacher explained to me that I will attend four classroom lessons in total. 25 divided by 4 is 6.25, equivalent to 6 hours and 15 minutes. Each lesson begins at 4:00pm; thus, each lesson ends at 10:15pm. If these lessons took place in the morning where I could compensate for the lost time and meal(s), I wouldn’t mind. If everyone else had to do this, I would say it’s only fair–but it’s not. As for the behind-the-wheel lessons, I have to attend five of these. The duration of each will be approximately two hours to meet the requirements. Simply put, my brothers were required to attend 10 behind-the-wheel lessons and 10 classroom lessons. That decreases the hours within days students must sacrifice in order to complete their driver’s education. Additionally, there are no other alternatives unless you can entirely understand Mandarin. The English lessons only take place on Tuesdays and Tuesdays alone. If you can’t afford to spend 6 hours of a Tuesday, that’s really too bad. It looks like you’ll have to wait four weeks until you can attend that class. After all of this, we can all safely assume that this is for their own convenience because of the expanding population of student drivers seeking driver’s education. Many of these students probably aren’t even concerned with the rules but are forced by their parents to complete driver’s education. After all, completing driver’s education will decrease the insurance premium. I admit, driver’s education is a great idea but people are not taking it seriously.

How to keep a secret boy/girlfriend from family.

If you’ve found the person you want to be with and you are restricted from dating for unreasonable reasons, you may consider having a secret boy/girlfriend. This takes a lot of skill and dedication because keeping a secret boy/girlfriend is actually quite stressful. That’s unless, you really like them and think it’s worth it. There are benefits to keeping a secret boy/girlfriend because since it’s so hard to maintain, you know immediately when it’s not worth it. To plan a date so thoroughly and mentally painfully for someone you don’t really like, it’ll be hard to drag on your feelings for them. There are other benefits too, such as saving yourself from embarrassment if you do break up. People would’ve never guessed you two were together.