July 27, 2017

I was playing an online skirmish in the new remastered Starcraft. It was a 2v1 match where I was playing as the Protoss and my opponents were the Terran and Zerg. My movements were slow and awkward as it had not touched the game in a long time. I thought I would rush Dragoons when the enemies’ units appeared in my base. In a panic I spawned some Mutalisks and summoned some High Templars.

I turned to my brother to admit that I didn’t remember when I got my first Drone that allowed me to build Zerg units. He told me that “they [didn’t] want [me] to.”

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I was on a vacation with my family and we decided to take a walk in the woods before breakfast. The ground around the house we were staying at was covered with freshly fallen snow. I asked what we were going to eat later; we were going to have wonton soup. “So we’re eating at home then?” I asked. I clutched my green pillow based on the assumption that we would soon be indoors again.

After stepping out for a brief moment, my dad turned around and led us to the other exit. He said that it would be closer to the path even though the house wasn’t even that big for it to make much of a difference.

We sat on some benches outside of the house when my brother said it was strange how his daughter was old enough to “get sick like a real person now”. My sister-in-law wanted to ask where the watermelon was in Mandarin but accidentally said " 水果 " instead of " 西瓜". “See I’m not the only one [who mixes words up],” my mother teased. I told her it was probably because watermelon in Japanese is すいか which sounds kind of close to “fruit” in Chinese.

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We had adopted a white kitten and it was walking from each person in the room to the next for petting while we watched TV. My mom asked my brother if there were any good Australian restaurants opened by Taiwanese people nearby.