Confessions

(photo) My mother and me 1989

In 1985, my mother emigrated with my 公公 (Gong-Gong) from Taiwan to the United States. Three years later, going to a base party in Austin, she met my father and, there, my story begins.

One of the first in my mother’s family to be born in the U.S., I burst onto the scene in 1989. I spent my early years in the suburbs of Houston, where I indulged in drooling, Cheetos and visiting our beach house in Galveston; I later moved to Hot Springs, with my grandparents, where I attended and graduated from Bismarck High. I have a passion for music and an addiction to reading.

My passion for music spawned from my dependency as a young child; I couldn’t sleep alone and eventually my grandmother convinced me that the radio was like someone being there. So trading one dependency for another, I would sleep soundly listening to classic rock, 90s pop, country western and—my favorite—Ranchera. The music must have touched my soul because I have always enjoyed listening and dissecting music. Junior high spawned my appreciation for heavy metal and old school punk; Senior high, I developed my taste for indie rock, blue-eyed soul and alternative. During my enrollment at UALR, if I wasn’t in class, I was listening to hip-hop and techno. I no longer sleep to music (I have this fear of losing my hearing too early), but I do enjoy the low hum of light traffic or the light snoring of my boyfriend when a alcohol pulls him into that comfortable deep sleep.

My addiction to reading is probably due to the fact that I’d much rather fantasize about someone else’s story than my own. I am a huge fan of young adult fantasy. My most recent reads have been Seth Grahame-Smith’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and a collaborative piece by Robert Kirkman (Creator of Graphic Novel and AMC series The Walking Dead) and Jay Bonansinga, The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor. 

(Drastic topic change/transition) I am studying Business/Technology Education at Henderson State. My transition from UALR to HSU was surprisingly smooth since many of my remaining high school friends are attending.

As you can see, they are of the masculine type. I had always found it difficult to remain friends with other girls my entire life. I was always treated different; I wasn’t like the girls at Bismarck so I didn’t bother trying to be friends with them to avoid any divergences. I found that girls, in general, will be kind to you face-to-face and will act like they would be your best friend by agreeing with everything but are actually just using the casual conversation as Intel to use at a later time. I think every girl has experienced this at one point in their lives and girls fight a very different way than boys. Boys will get mad and roll around in the dirt and use their fists to dispute their issues. Girls will get mad and smile and act as if nothing has happened to later plot your emotional/social demise. Boys fight and it’s over while girls dig their claws in and scar your psyche for life (Why do you think they call it a cat fight?). I am not alone and I am not prejudice of my own kind but I know how the general young female populous works and, at the time, I didn’t want any part of it. I may have bore the scarlet letter or been labeled the “L-word” but I enjoyed high school in the company of my boys much more than I cared about those nasty rumors (because that’s all they were). Riddle me this Batman, why live your life within the walls of what other people say?

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