Today Andew and Jimmy took me to Michelle's house warming party. We played the board game Cranium, after making and eating dumplings ( I wish Michelle had a larger pot; it took so long to boil all the dumplings we made).
Our team (Andew, Jimmy, Shohei and Michelle) didn't win the game. It was close though. We were only one question behind.
To ace the game, you really need to know a lot of the pop culture things. I think I was the weak link on that. But we had our times as well, especially when we hit the word "gullwind" and unscrambled the phrase "natural selection". That was really fun!
Now everyone is planning for their Halloween costumes. I would prefer something that doesn't even resemble a human (maybe I am just subconsciously tired of being human), e.g., an iPhone: something that everyone likes.
BTW, I had to mention Shohei, because he is quite a character. His parent sent him to UK when he was eight. Then he went to high school in Tennessee and college in Taxes. Throughout all those years, he only sees his parents in Tokyo at most once a year. He identifies with Americans and doesn't like to hang out with fellow Japanese in US.
I think this self-alienation and segregation eventually happens to everyone when he starts thinking about his own identity. Any one beyond certain level of sophistication would defy the stereotyping based on ethnic background. As Joel Osteen said in his new book <Become a Better You>, "The events of your past do not reduce your potential. How somebody has treated you, what they said about you, doesn't change your potential. ... The capability is in you. The real question is: Are you willing to break free from your self-imposed limitations and start stretching to the next level."
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