Sad City

Recently, I moved into a neighborhood known as the sad city. The reason it's called that is because the people are poor. I always hated to live here, but here I am now, and I'll have to accept it. Tonight, as I was doing pullups in the children playground, I looked up and saw bright stars in the sky. This, along with the night view, are two of the things I enjoy about this neighborhood. I guess life isn't that bad after all.

Drop-Dead Gorgeous Dance Instructor

Today, I attended an audition for Disney Character Performers. After the signup procedures, the candidates headed up to another floor for height measurement. I was happy to fit under the height requirement of Chip 'n Dale, my favorite Disney duo. Then we went into a large dance room. All the candidates stood along the edge of the room, anxious to know what's to come. A lone female was reading a book at corner of the room, not saying a word. She wore a conservative black blazer and black pants. For a minute, I thought she was actually a secretary. That all changed, when the other Disney staff came into the room. Suddenly, she stood up, faced the audience, and took off her blazer gently. She had a white tanktop, which could barely cover her perky bosoms. They were literally saying hello to the candidates. Teamed up with her gorgeous face, the visual image caused a chain reaction inside of me. My God, life is good.

Date Proposal?

On Wednesday, a woman that I've been chatting with online, asked if I was comfortable to have dinner with her. Without thinking much, I said sure, but I regret it now. I guess the major deterring factor is that her looks aren't that good. I don't want to sound shallow here, but I saw her Twitter pictures and I just can't stand her long finger nails and weird smile. I try to tell myself that the reason I'm not seeing her is because I don't want to hurt her feelings by only seeing her once. But who am I trying to fool? I know the main reason is because I don't want to see her, and gag as a result. I know I may sound shallow here, but what human can survive without breathing?

Engine

I recently watched another Japanese TV drama, called Engine, on the internet. It was after watching Good Luck!! and Pride, all by the same actor, Kimura Takuya. The TV show is about a car racer who got fired in the first 10 minutes of the first episode. He decided to go back to his old racing team to beg for a racing position. The problem is that he's already 32, presumably past the peak 20's as a racer. Despite endless persuasion by his drop-dead gorgeous ex-girlfriend to quit his dream, he continued to pursue it. He even managed to win the current team's racer, but was only offered a position of car mechanic. The story goes on, but the majority of the drama is actually about the orphanage started by his foster dad and sister. Again, there's at least 2 hot chicks in the orphanage. You just gotta watch the TV drama to know what I mean.

Paper Airplanes

As a part of my goal to learn more about aviation, I looked up a few paper airplane designs and folded the good-looking ones myself. The one at the back is the easiest to fold, looks the coolest, but doesn't fly too far (best used to impress kids). The one on the right has 2 collapse folds, doesn't look too cool, but flies the farthest (best used for competitions). The one on the left is in between.

I'll try to fold an F-15 fighter jet next time.

War Against Mars (Operation W.A.M.)

Last Wednesday, I did something very special for myself, a 2nd Toastmasters presentation. I basically took Colonel Quaritch's speech from Avatar and changed it around a bit. Here's the speech:

"All right, soldiers! You all know why you're here. We're at war with the aliens from Mars. I am General T2O of the United States Marine Corps. We've been sent here under the direct command of President Obama, ordered to rescue the Hong Kong people from the aliens. Here's the situation. 4 hours ago at 1530, the planet Mars collided with the Earth's surface. The 2 planets are now interconnected at Tai Mo Shan, 9 miles north of where I'm standing. The aliens have jumped off their planet and parachuted into Sha Tin and Tsuen Wan, killing everything in their path. So far, 9000 people have been killed. 1 hour later, the Marine Corps sent out 2800 soldiers to fight these aliens. Their weapons included 12 SA-2 Samson VTOL rotorcraft, 24 M777 towed howitzers, 48 M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks, and 192 fifty-cal machine guns. However, all the weapons are gone and all the 2800 soldiers are dead. That's how powerful our enemy is. This is a picture of the aliens we're dealing with. (Hold up picture of StarCraft lurker.) Outside this building, these aliens are waiting to kill you and to eat your brains for ice-cream dessert. As the head of security, it is my job to keep you alive. If you wish to live, you must obey my rules. W.A.M. rules. Rule number 1; you must have a leader. (Walk up to an audience member.) Stand up soldier! Congratulations, you've just been promoted to Captain. Now it is your job to lead the soldiers out into the battlefield. Sit down. (Audience member sits down.) Rule number 2; everyone needs to fight. Even women, children, or anyone who can hold up a gun is going to fight. Everyone in this room, everyone of you, are fighting for survival. That's a fact. We will fight terror with terror. We will show the aliens that they cannot and shall not take whatever they want. And the way we'll show them is by killing them. Now everyone repeat after me. We will kill the aliens! We will show them who is the boss! Oorah!"

I followed Quaritch's commanding voice and pulled through with the 5:30 minute presentation. Even I couldn't believe I did it. At first I was quite nervous, but after speaking loudly for the first couple of seconds, I was okay. I should be able to enjoy going to Toastmasters from now on, especially when I'll be doing a military speech.

Flight Attendant Interview

Yesterday, I went to an interview for flight attendants. There were more than 300 interviewees spread into 3 time slots (0915, 1000, and 1045). My god, the last time I've been surrounded with so many beautiful women was back in 2005 at Toronto BR! I was in the 1000 time slot (100+ interviewees), whether there were more groups of women was beyond me.

The first round consisted of a short video and arm reach test. You had to be able to reach 208 cm with one arm without shoes. Standing on tip toes was allowed. Only one person was disqualified in my time slot. The second round consisted of 3 parts. The first part was a 1-minute introduction of the person beside you. The second part was a small group discussion and presentation of for some stupid 5-star hotel. The third part was a large group discussion about the same lame topic.

I was knocked-out after the third part of the second round, as was 90-95% of the others. But it was all right, I talked with 4 women during the interview, 3 women while waiting for the bus, and 1 woman on the bus ride. A total of 8 pretty flight attendant wannabes and I initiated conversation with 5 them. What a record. Now if I keep that up with 2 of the women down at my clubhouse, that'll be sweet.

In My Mind

Yesterday, I made a bold move. After watching a movie with a friend, I was riding the elevator up to the podium of my apartment. When the elevator opened, I literally bumped into a female clubhouse worker, the one I had a crush on for about half a year. Her co-workers just stared at us for a couple of seconds. I just stood there too, not knowing what to say to her cool facial expression. Then she went into the elevator by herself and the door started to close. Before it could close all the way though, I stuck my forearm into the gap and the elevator jammed open. I couldn't believe I did that, but I used the momentum to walk inside and to close the door. Now it was her turn to drop her jaw. It was always tough talking with her. Knowing that this was pretty much the best chance available, I tried my best. I told her to smile more from now on if she sees me in the clubhouse because that'll make it easier for me to talk to her. I said I was attracted to her, but that I wanted to know her more too. Then she smiled and kissed me. I slid my tongue over. She didn't reject it. So I stuck it down her throat. Of course, that whole event happened in my mind.

Taking The Plunge

Almost three months of blogging and I still haven't went anywhere, with women or anything. But I have realized two important things: always have a positive mental attitude (PMA) and use the low threshold approach (LTA). What's LTA? The LTA states that you should never compare today's performance regarding women with yesterday's performance. In fact, you should state an easily achievable goal. For example, if you talked with 3 random women yesterday, don't push yourself to talk with 5 today. Not only is it too much stress, but more importantly, you'll feel bad if you can't achieve the threshold. This will lower your PMA, which will directly lower your success or confidence with women. So, whenever you approach women, don't expect anything good to come out of it, always stay positive, and be ready to take the plunge, like marines who jump out of the V-22 Osprey (pictured).

I Wanna Ride Like A Silver Dove

I've been watching another Japanese television show every Saturday night at 11pm. Aren't there a lot of those lately? It's called Good Luck!! and it shows the adventures of a new co-pilot on All Nippon Airways, the up's and down's of being a pilot on-the-job. After some research, I think I'll probably book a Trial Introductory Flight aboard the C152 for $2471. Not bad for one hour of flying experience. At least I can see if I want to pilot or be a passenger of a plane. Now, the only downside of this is that the C152 can only carry two people, the flight instructor and I. There's no room for female guests.