I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

Had a pretty good couple of days.

Yesterday, I put my usual inhibitions aside and willingly went to a pre-arrranged dinner engagement. Filled with people I sort of would know, but mostly did not. Not my usual crowd – no geeks, mostly Caucasian.

Thankfully, it was around dinner. And dinner was really quite something. KF’s cousin found a great hole-in-the-wall (and this was a wall in a not so nice neighbourhood at night at that) which serves simple, elegant and inexpensive Vietnamese. They served a bunch of appetisers portioned out for the table, and a few mains, so it ended up being a fun sampling menu.

That’s pretty much the amount of social interaction I’d like for a good 6-8 weeks, unfortunately it’s holiday season and invariably there will be more. I need to remind myself to stop saying yes to these things. Yeah, it’s a dinner here, watching the kids or staying over there, but it adds up to a lot of stuff I don’t really care for. Cos if I did, I’d have kids of my own right now. Obligation – a ten letter word that’s tiring.

Today, we went to a nearby library. It’s about a ten minute walk away, but we drove, haha. We came back with a couple of books but about a dozen dvds. Movies, documentaries, travelogues – I left it to KF to pick out.

He picked out Election 2, or 黑社会：以和为贵 expecting it to be Election. It was a good movie nonetheless. There is something subtle and understated about triads that is so far superior to the regular American mafia shoot-em-ups. The chopper scene in Election 2 makes the Stuck in the Middle with You scene in Reservoir Dogs clumsy and crude.

It’s pretty impressive – how evolved and complex these triad films are. It’s like Chinese culture crash course in 2 hours. Fun.

Now I just need to brace myself for the next week.