It's day 1 of my NaBloPoMo entry for July. It's a good thing that I have writing prompts to guide me. It was a struggle for me at first to come up with a favorite joke - not because I have the absence of one, it's more of I have a number of them.
Laughter has been infused to me by my family as a means of going through life's ups and downs. I guess it's also why I ended up choosing someone who can make me laugh as a partner. Life isn't easy, so I need a laughing company to go through it.
Laughter has been infused to me by my family as a means of going through life's ups and downs. I guess it's also why I ended up choosing someone who can make me laugh as a partner. Life isn't easy, so I need a laughing company to go through it.
Looking back through life, I could say that I've been equipped with stories that have been good conversation pieces. Take my dad, for example. He's my main mentor in the fields of science and math being a mechanical engineer by profession. My first gadgets were Speak N' Math and Speak N' Spell.
(photos from ebay)
He even used video games, that my brother has so been into all these years, to improve our mental math skills. It was an SOP to play Donkey Kong Jr. Math first before we could play any other video game. This is done everyday and my dad supervises us as we play the game. He tried to make the whole thing into a Math Olympiad - Home Edition gig by having my siblings and I compete against each other. After that, he leaves us be.
Of course, he had to take it to the next level with me. One summer in the 6th grade, he pointed out this horse-betting bookie to me:
(original conversation was in Tagalog)
dad: you see that guy?
me: yes?
daddy: do you know what he does?
me: he takes bets for those who are gambling on horse racing
daddy: do you notice that he doesn't use a pen and paper to compute how much a person can win if he/she bets a certain amount?
me: not really
daddy: i want you to learn how he does that.
me: how will i do that?
daddy: i've already talked to him to teach you how he does it. you're going to spend your whole summer learning with him. just remember to learn the math, not how to gamble
Like that was easy to do. I ended up learning both, of course!
That story's one of my favorite ones. I even told my dad that when he was still with us. Effective as my special "summer camp" was, I don't think I would recommend the same thing to my kid =)
(original conversation was in Tagalog)
dad: you see that guy?
me: yes?
daddy: do you know what he does?
me: he takes bets for those who are gambling on horse racing
daddy: do you notice that he doesn't use a pen and paper to compute how much a person can win if he/she bets a certain amount?
me: not really
daddy: i want you to learn how he does that.
me: how will i do that?
daddy: i've already talked to him to teach you how he does it. you're going to spend your whole summer learning with him. just remember to learn the math, not how to gamble
Like that was easy to do. I ended up learning both, of course!
That story's one of my favorite ones. I even told my dad that when he was still with us. Effective as my special "summer camp" was, I don't think I would recommend the same thing to my kid =)
