Yesterday I was bored and couldn't sleep due to my whacky sleep schedule so I stayed online to browse some more before taking a bath.

My parents are originally born from China, in Hoisan (Taishan for Mandarin and Toisan for Cantonese pronunciations) to be exact. I've known for all my life while growing up that my Chinese was different from what my relatives here in the U.S. spoke. They either spoke Hong Kong Cantonese, Mandarin or both. What I speak is a subdialect of Cantonese called...

Anyone who was around two years ago may be familiar with my blog entry on my having surgery for a pilonidal cyst.

Since I had quit coming to ggftw a few months after that surgery I didn't specify how long it took to fully heal.

The projected healing time was 2 months.
The actual healing time was 10 months...

I've accomplished a fair bit after I healed up though, I've gotten a new job doing a mix of things such as Engineering, Inventory Management/Procurement...