*glee*

A co-worker helped me get my care package from Superstore today. Yay!

I made a cheesecake and brought it to work - lots of people liked it. I think I know what I did wrong with the crust, which was totally crumbly.

This weekend, I've got to figure out what to make for James' potluck, and it's James' birthday today, happy birthday James!

I got some actual writing done on Sunday with James and John, which was really nice. Better yet, the stuff I produced didn't sound like they sucked!

I need to clear my little table so I can start eating on it again, and continue my costume project. The big pieces of the dress are all done - just need to do some hemming. I'll go to the Bead Pod when I can to get some chain links for the straps, and hopefully she'll also have the kind of tear-shaped pearl beads I need for the sash. I'm still wondering how to decorate the sash though =/

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My Dad is Awesome (3)

So, at a guesthouse in China (I believe it was Da Zhai), the bathrooms had water heaters powered by fuel tanks sitting at the door.

This is really neat because there're vents on the heaters, so you can look in and actually see the blue flames when they're on. :D It's also pretty old-school for someone like me, because the last time I saw a Malaysian household with something like that was in the early 90's, in Penang.

The bathrooms were next to each other, one sink in the space leading in, then a room with a squat toilet and a room for the shower. The heater was outside this shower space, next to where you stood at the sink. You wouldn't really be able to tell that each one was designated for a specific gender if there weren't these nice signs outside with all the appropriate gender cues.

Anyways, I was having trouble turning on the water heater on the women's side, so I asked my dad for help, and he tried the men's side as well. It's kinda stupid to be working on the same problem with a wall between us, so I went over to the men's side to help him gauge what was going on in the heater whenever he turned the shower knob in the shower space.

We finally figured out the water heater bit, and one of the four boys on the same tour saw what we were doing and came up to have a closer look.

And he asked me, "what are YOU doing in the boys' toilet?"

And I said, "I go wherever I want."

Had we continued on with this vein, I probably would have pointed out to him that there was virtually no difference between the two spaces, and the signs are up so that people would respect each other's privacy and under a notion that people are more comfortable using stuff that's specifically for their own gender. As I wasn't intruding on anybody's modesty or privacy by hanging around messing with the water heater, there was really no magical boundary preventing me from being there.

And my dad laughed and said, "Oh dear, you asked that question to the wrong person!"