triggering Action Potential

Like, you know...

Speech degeneration is like spreading rapidly among the young'uns. Like by which I mean like the ones who are from like an educated family, attend high school and like going on to college, but like can't seem to speak properly or like articulate their thoughts. Sitting in buses or like at other public location, I would often like hear "encrypted" English, where listeners have to like decipher the code by taking away the words that are like not necessary, then rearrange the words in the sentence to form a coherent and like non-annoying phrase. It like frustrates me as a passenger on the bus because I am like forced to listen to such nonsense, while humorous at times, but mind-splitting. Like where do we learn to speak like that? For one, it's not being taught in schools (at least I hope not). Like it is not humanly possible to continuously speak in such a condition without like realizing that it is a disorder. I just hope their writing style is different than their speaking manners. You know, like, oh my gosh!

Impressive. Most Impressive.

Overheard a conversation on the bus the other day between a man and a woman. They were talking about going to a Chinese New Year party and the woman asked what the man was bringing to the potluck. The man replied that he was bringing dumplings. The woman, upon hearing it, said she was impressed. But only to realize that he was going to buy the dumplings from a store and not make them himself. She was less impressed with it. The man then proceeded to comment how he doesn't know how to make them, but his mom does make the dumplings.

The moral of the story: yes, there is always a moral.

Recent article in CNN talked about how young people lacks real-life survival skills. Or at least, in my opinion, the schools don't really teach real-life skills, rather they focus on knowledge and wealth of information and trivia. Cooking food is perhaps one of the most fundamental skills (or instinct) that a person should master. In the era of fast food and processed food, we are relying heavily on pressing buttons to get our food. This is not to critic that no one knows how to cook anymore, but it shows how the art of cooking something that's a cultural heritage is beginning to die. That's what is sad.

Real-life skills are not the ability to get the "dough" (pardon the pun) but the ability to create the dough and cook it. Cooking your own food, rather than buying it from the frozen section, teaches the importance of understanding how to maintain a health lifestyle of eating. With making your food, you can control a number of variables that can affect your health, for example salt content and oil content, and the addition of preservatives. I know for a fact that we don't add preservatives when we make that tossed salad from garden veggies.

Back to the story, there is nothing impressive about the ability to make dumplings. It's no more difficult than opening a can of tuna. then again, someone might be impressed at one's ability of opening a can of tuna with a can opener...