uhm... ok, here's a recent story. you all probably have not noticed, but i recently switched from wearing those tiny tiny tiny soccer shorts to wearing those baggy and long basketball shorts.
it started when i noticed that everyone (males) wore long shorts. gene? black and grey shorts, knee length. roger? yellow shiny shorts, knee length. bernie? orange shiny shorts, knee length. mike? below the knee...and so on. i would look around the room and notice i was the only dude showing acres of my white-as-butt thighs b/c i wore these puny little soccer shorts. (back in college, in didn't really matter b/c i hung out with guys who played some soccer, so we all showed our thighs and didn't think anything of it.)
so in the past month, i went out and collected some basketball shorts. i like them lots. to be honest, i kinda consider myself a modest fellow. i don't like people seeing my bare feet (hence a sharp sock tan line). i don't like taking my shirt off (hence my massive farmers tan). and i will *never* wear a button-down shirt and unbuttoned top two or three buttons without a t-shirt beneath, hence showing tons of chest. these long basketball shorts now provide me with the extra-modesty and coverage i have long wanted. buying long shorts does not signify any move away from my current style. this move was purely practical. so don't be thinking i am going to be wearing black or anything like that anytime soon.
posted by Dan Chu at 2:55 PM
ok, apologies. i just read my post and that's kinda gross. you probably didn't want to learn that about me. i promise my next post will be more pleasant.
posted by Dan Chu at 1:11 PM
no thanks to rog for getting me sick. i caught his stupid broke illness (for details, check out his blogs from last week). now i have all the same symptoms and am feeling sick. boooooo. but i had chicken soup for lunch and will likely go home early today from work (translation: leave at a normal time) and rest up.
anyway, any of you all ever have an illness that is permanently scarring? mine occurred the summer between my freshman and sophomore year in HS. i basically caught a parasite at the beginning of the summer. (if you have a weak stomach, stop reading here). the primary symptom of parasites? diarrhea. everyday for nearly 1.5 months, i would have the runs. sometime twice, three times a day. most folks that age look forward to a summer of romping, playing, and frolicking but i found it terribily disruptive to be constantly interrupted by a trip to the toilet.
dan's friend: "hey dan, do you want to come out and frolick?"
dan: "are we gonna be frolicking near a toilet? i got mad runs."
dan's ex-friend: "nah. oh, i don't want to hang out with you anymore."
fortunately, the parasites went away and everything returned to normal. yay.
posted by Dan Chu at 1:09 PM
yay. i can now throw another piece of evidence onto the massive heap of things that prove i am a spineless sheep following yet another fad. some other fads i've followed? reebok pumps. trying to grow a quasi-mullet (3-5th grade, it was in style on long island. fortunately, my mom didn't like the look and the mullet never had an opportunity to develop. so i got stuck with the typical asian-bowl cut up until junior high. then puberty hit and i realized the bowl cut was not helping me get attention from girls so i started parting my hair. but now that i think about, i don't think i have gotten any more female attention in the 13 some odd years of the post-bowl era than in the pre-bowl era. why do i feel like i should be making some conclusions about my life from this realization? ). anyway... oh, and wearing hyper-color t-shirts.
so, folks, welcome to my stinkin blog. the purpose of this blog? i think its three-fold:
1) tell stories from my childhood
2) tell stories from the present
3) fit in with the cool crowd b/c they all have blogs
ok, its lunch time. i will officially post something at a later time.
posted by Dan Chu at 12:20 PM
Testing testing testing. stinkin.
posted by Dan Chu at 12:05 PM 