Having things mean responsibilities. I like our dormitory but the thing I always bemoan is the common restroom and shower. It would have been great to live in the studio type of rooms with their own bathroom and kitchenette. However, the lazybones that I am, I keep thinking how I would have to clean the bathroom if it were inside our room. Then there was a time that I was coveting my brother’s car. I thought how convenient it would be not to commute to go anywhere. Then I thought of the limited parking space in our apartment back home. Of course a car requires regular maintenance and clean up. Just thinking of having to wash a car makes me feel tired already. But one can always take it to the car wash where they have pressure washers that can have it cleaned in a jiffy, for a fee of course. Sometimes it is really nice to just have the things you really need so that you would not be encumbered by a lot responsibility for some things that you do not really need at all.
Now that it is the information age, all companies want to reach out to their clients to know their needs and serve them better. It is no longer just the product that is being bought but also the after services being offered. This is the reason why majority of the companies offer twenty four hour customer services. Usually, these call center services are outsourced from other companies providing these services. It is very interesting how information technology has made it possible for a company from the United States to have customer services in the Philippines or India or Singapore. Two decades ago people would have thought this impossible.
While we were having lunch earlier today, we watched the movie “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?†Actually, we were not able to start it. It was already in middle part when we tuned in. Almost at the end of the movie, there was this scene where Gilbert’s very obese mother died and they decided to burn their house down with her body in it. They did this because they did not want their mother to be the butt of the jokes because she was so big that it would have been very hard to bring her corpse down from upstairs. While I was watching them burn their house down, the oddest thought came to my mind, “What about their home insurance? I am sure they would not be able to claim anything.†It was such a weird consideration to think about when it was just a movie and a work of fiction. Sometimes weird things just really pop into our heads during odd moments.
Summer is here once again. Unless I am on the beach, I do not think I like the summer season very much. Of course, I am still getting used to summer in July and August instead of March and April, like in the Philippines. It is so hot outside and climbing the hill to the dorm is really a sacrifice. If we did not need to save our money for the trip to Japan, I would have asked my friends to go to the East Sea and spend some days in a cottage near the beach. I wish I were one of those people who own Myrtle beach vacation rentals so that I can spend some part of the summer on the beach and when I get tired of the heat, I can have it rented and earn some money to travel to a colder place. It would be like having the best of both worlds.
I am so full again. A friend treated us to Todai’s, a Japanese restaurant in Myeongdong. Wendy and I were “casing†out CGV and Lotte Cinema for the Chungmuro International Film Festival so that we would know where to go when we will watch the film entries. The first time we ate at Todai’s was in the COEX branch. It is really hard to resist eating when you are in a buffet restaurant. I ate a lot again because the food was great and we had to get Bob’s money’s worth (it was a treat, as usual). Unfortunately, I was not able to get the crème brulee dessert but at least I was able to taste Wendy’s share. After tasting it, I missed leche flan. Waaahhh! Now I really need appetite suppressants. I just love to eat. It is really bad for the figure.
There are so many weight loss products nowadays that it is hard to keep track of them. Proliferation of these products can be seen as an effect of the increasingly sedentary lifestyle of people nowadays. People are so caught up with their jobs where they sit in front of their computers or desks for eight hours or more then so tired when they get home that they do not have the energy to exercise. Moreover, because of the abundance of transportation alternatives, walking is the least attractive option. So people no longer want to walk and get a little bit of exercise when there is the option of riding the car, bus or train to get to their destinations faster and with least minimum effort.
