Alright . . . first off, on the family fronts:
My dad is looking a lot better, has most of his strength back and is now just waiting on his face to heal. His surgery was good; being that the bone was broken, his eye was sinking down a bit, so that's all filled in and his eye is sitting back up where it should be. Still got a bit of a shiner and some healing cuts around his eye, but otherwise he's looking better and better; I reckon he'll be discharged probably in the next few days.
Heard from my little brother about half an hour ago (it's about noon right now). He says he's getting better too, though yesterday he already didn't sound too bad for someone with pneumonia - he said he had just gotten home from work yesterday, so go fig. He's a tough guy, though, so I'm sure he'll be fine.
My cousin is probably nothing to worry about. He's about as undamaged as someone getting t-boned can hope for, and my uncle was saying he was fine. So okay.
Stepdad has been doing a daily intravenous antibiotic drip the past couple weeks and had to travel out to the hospital in Surrey (city across the river from the ancestral home) every morning. He's since been transferred to getting it from a hospital in New Westminster, which is closer and easier for him. So good.
Myself, my nose is still kinda plugged up and I'll probably start coughing sooner or later. But also, no worse for wear.
So that's those guys.
Yesterday I had a bunch of people over. We made hot pot, watched Robogeisha (AMAZING movie, probably one of the best things I'll see all year, no lie), and played Rock Band 'til 12:30am. Hopefully I didn't piss off my neighbours too much . . . there was an alleged knock on the door around midnight, so that worried me. I guess we'll see . . .
So other than that . . . funny Chinese language thingy for you guys because it came up in conversation the other day!
Y'know how everyone has these little phrases for threatening others from doing something stupid, right? Things like . . . "You got a death wish?" or "Hey! You wanna die?!"
In Cantonese, the phrase is "Lei mei sei gor?"
Literally, means "You never died before?"
Elegantly, the idea of "Have you never tried dying?" or something. Y'know, basically asking a person if they realize what they're doing/saying is going to end very badly for them. Myself, I think it's one of the funnier phrases out there.
That, and the fact that telling someone to fall down in the street is like, the absolute bottom-line worst thing you can say to someone in Cantonese. I don't really get that myself, but I still find it hilarious.
Anyway, meeting my mom and brother for Vietnamese in about 15 minutes. I need to jet.
I'll do captions and podcast when I get back, I swear!
