Life As I Know It.

The purpose of this blog is to relate tvtropes to my life. That's the only reason.

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Token Minority

Within in our heavily Asian-populated group, even we have token characters.

Played straight with Tim. The white guy in a group, and a hockey fanatic. Whenever he's with his other hockey fanatic friend, Tylor, they become the two white guys.

Subverted with Cassandra. Everything about her looks white, except she's half Filipino. The other half is french.

Also subverted with Reyes, who we jokingly call our black token friend. It's even funnier when people innocently mistaken him to be black. He's just Filipino.

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Insects are scary

Terence was talking about his fear of spiders and tries to imagine what a spider scream would sound like. He then brings up that myth about spiders crawling down our throats during our slumber. I personally don't believe in this, but Kevin brings this up to me.

Kevin: Did I tell you the bloody centipede story?

Me: No I don't think so...

Kevin: I woke up one day with a bloody nose and I felt there was something inside. I pulled it out and it was a centipede covered in blood.

While I mentally freak out as I repeat the scene in my head, Terence and Kevin are talking casually to each other. LIKE IT WAS NO BIG DEAL..

Terence: Are you sure it was a centipede? Or a millipede?

Me:OH. MY. GAWD. OH. MY. GAWD.

Kevin: Yeah I think so... It had all of those legs

Terence: You sure? Centipedes are poisonous..

Me: OHMYGAWD..OHMYGAWD....

Kevin: I don't know, I was like 7 years old at the time. Maybe it was a millipede

I turn to Kevin.

Me: OH. MY. GOD!!!

Names have been changed to protect the identity of these people. But you know who you are.

Picture is from High School Boys and Ghost Stories.

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That one player

My non-gamer friend, Claire, told me about this event which happened at Nico's place.

((This conversation happened a long time ago so these are by all means not the exact words. I, however, am not exaggerating anything.))

Claire: Everyone was scaring me when I was going to go against Anthony. They were saying, "OH, WATCH OUT CLAIRE. This guy knows all the combos! He spends his whole life playing this game! After school, in the weekends and holidays, he's playing this game! Whenever he's complaining about procrastinating... HE'S PLAYING THIS GAME!"

Me: That didn't make him sound cool at all.

Claire: The point is, HE'S AWESOME AT THIS GAME! I was scared!

Me: So, did you win?

Claire: HELL YEAH!!

Names have been changed to protect the identity of these people. But you know who you are.