Syncing

As I sit here and wait for my new iPhone to sync, I can't help but remember about our encounters at the wireless store where I bought the iPhones from.

Last Sunday I suddenly decided that it was time to upgrade to the most recent iPhone.

We went to the wireless store and talked to the young Mr. J about upgrading. Mr. J was a very friendly and knowledgeable person, and he worked with us for a good hour. At the end, we bought two iPhones instead of one. White/silver for me, black/grey for Jack.

As we walked out of the store, I asked Jack: "Hmm, I wonder why he only talked to you?"

Jack said: "I was wondering about it myself. Even though you're the one that's buying the phones and asking the questions... It's kind of weird."

Feel-good movies

We watched two movies. The first one was "The Confession of A High School Drama Queen." It was cute and entertaining. Entertaining aside, one can only watch that much high school drama queen movie.

Then we watched "Under the Tuscan Sun." This one was the feel-good movie. "It stays with you like a heavy meal." This is a quote from "The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer.

Inspiration or the lack of

When you are not inspired, is it because the lacking of blog-able ideas, or is it because you are holding back?

I know when I'm not feeling well, I don't like to write to amuse myself or anyone else.

When I am sitting in front of the TV, I forget all the blogging topics that came to me during the day. Today, most of my ideas came when I went swimming, and when I talked to Jack in the car.

Sometime if you just start writing something, which may not seem like much, your ideas may come back, or you may have some new ideas.

Just smile and take it easy.

Non-power food

Here is my definition of non-power food. It is something you eat, you intake calories and sugar, etc, but it is not filling. So you ended up putting a lot of stuff into yourself yet cannot get the fulfilled sensation or they may be filling but you end up regretting. Don't get me wrong, the food can be very delicious, but you just can't get the right nutrient eating it.

They are something like popcorn, French fries, and the petite palmeries I got from Costco.

Snack with a twist

Let me willingly do an advertisement for this app called "MyFitnessPal", because it helped Jack lost 30 lbs in 4 months, and we're very happy with it. It's a calorie counter for daily food intake and exercise.

In the effort of calorie counting, Jack figured out that a peanut is 5 calories, and 17 low fat mini pretzels are 110 calories. Now he counts his peanuts and pretzels when he snacks. I usually don't touch his snacks, because it's a little dry for me.

One day, Jack came into the office with a small bowl in his hand. I asked what was in the bowl, and he showed me.

He mixed peanuts and pretzels in the bowl, and it looked especially appetizing to me. So this is a snack with a tiny twist.

Thankful

Jack and I enjoyed watching "The Big Bang Theory", especially the first few seasons, which we thought were authentic and different. However, I was not impressed with the newer seasons, and I thought they really ran out of good ideas.

The debut of the first show in the 7th season was especially contrived. Oh well, it's still our first choice for sitcom until a better one comes along. Honestly at this point, I would prefer they end the show and start something new.

I am thankful that they didn't try to poke fun of Chinese nerds the way they did Jewish and Indian. Because the Chinese will actually be offended ... I would be mildly annoyed.

Meet The Croods

We watched "The Croods" last week night, and I liked it. It's an animation about cavemen and I always found human anthropology intriguing.

"The Croods" is a very creative movie as far as cavemen movie is concerned, we decided.

At first I was annoyed by the father Crood, because he was afraid of everything and was very protective of his family. He was afraid of anything new, different, and he was afraid of curiosity and adventures. That's how he kept the family, all 6 of them, alive, while the neighbors were all killed by different causes.

Then he and the family met this guy:Guy, who was one stage more evolved then them. Guy went on a journey with the family and helped them ran away from the earth's eruption and found safe grounds.

There were fantastic creatures and encounters along the journey.

I think the movie teaches us a simple yet powerful evolutionary lesson. Sometimes you may survive by hiding in a cave or stick your head in the sand, whatever, but if you do so, you stop growing and discovering, and may be forced into extinction.