But yeah, that was like in Middle School... so about 10 years ago.

 

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck... Quantum Leap: 1989 - 1993.

The Eighties??? Dafuq happend. Wikipedia is wrong, I'm pretty sure.

 

What about Parker Lewis? I know your ass stayed up to watch that after Fresh Prince.
Don't even play me.

 

and The FLASH...
okay so I had an early bed time...like 8 or 9...
Mom loves having her hair brushed so if I offered to do that she would let me stay up.

Going over to Grandpas also meant I'm watching Stairway to Heaven, Hawaii 5.0, Hart to Hart, Columbo, Rockford Files, 6 Million Dollar man....

shit, I had a teddy bear from when I was super young...probably 4 or 5 named Radar because M.A.S.H. was my favorite show. I still get goose bumps
if I hear the theme song.

 

I, uh, have never heard of that show actually. Just looked it up.

Sooo... in my house growing up, Fox and shows that played to, uh... "certain demographics" weren't watched. If you know what I mean. So no Fresh Prince either.

 

Whoah...
A blossom guy, I take it.

So no Warna Brotha productions, got it!

 

Your parents own a bodega that had a door chime that said ______________ when a black guy came in like in "Don't be a menace to SC while drinking your juice in the hood"?

 

Yes. You get it. Except no bodega. No chime. Just uttered under the breath the old fashioned way.

 

Looking back, I realize now it's a little fucked up. A lot.

Thankfully, generational progressiveness help change systemic issues.

 

I missed the older "do it for Worldstar" slogan over the "do it for BLM" one now...
people really used to get wild.

 

damn wtf. It’s been that long already??

 

Day.

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No school today. Because it's not 1998 anymore.

Time to get up and drag yer asses to work.

 

Or whistle all the way there..

 

work is easier than school.
but i'm less popular.

 

Were you one of those popular high school kids that then had no clue how to navigate the real world once ‘school’ was over?

 

I still have test dreams. Usually it's "I didn't drop a class in time and now I have to take an exam for a class I didn't go to and knew nothing about"

 

CLEP it, baby!

 

I love those sorts of dreams. The feeling of sheer panic right before waking up and realizing that I'm not in my shitty apartment sleeping on a shitty mattress on the dirty floor surrounded by empty beer cans.

The moment that my brain clicks and realizes that we're not in school and don't have to deal with that anymore is glorious!

 

Now, I'm a grown assman and I live in a shitty house, on a halfway shitty bed with a frame, and I'm surrounded by empty bourbon bottles. THAT is the real dream.

 

That's pretty much exactly my response, too

 

so you’re going to party like it’s 1999?!?!!?!

 

Purple One.

 

We saw his old house in Beverly Hills

 

Sup.

 

stand up paddleboard?

 

 

show us your frank and beans, Miz!

 

Twig and berries.

 

chopstick and bobas

 

more like shu mai and har gow

 

 

obligatory, "with hoisin sauce right?"

 

With hoisin sauce. Right.

 

With. Hoisin sauce rights.

 

oh geez... i just thought about what shu mai and har gow look like

 

Imagine scraping by during those college years, only to wake up from your 4+ year stupor to find out you have massive college debt.

 

That's why, as a , high grades was beat into me and I had scholarships. Then, on top of that, got hired as a TA and also moonlit as a piano teacher on my weekends.

Zero debt at time of graduation.

 

 

Most asians are raised with different mindsets, expectations, and culture. This is what I am learning defines the truly sucksessful from the mediocre.. Having smarts only takes you so far if you don’t have the inner and outer drive to achieve your goals and the goals set in front of you at an early age.

My Parents raised me to have a deep respect for most asian culture and people.