PTFO

While I wait at the airport to go home for Christmas, I'm reminded of a great story. This last summer was a very fun one for me, and it was no secret. Hong woke up to me passed out on the kitchen floor after a night of "studying". Instead of playing the role of overbearing father and ending my life then and there, he took pictures. You've got to love the progress he's made.

Territory

Hey guys, I know it's been way too long, but I'm away at college and don't have as much interaction with Hong as I normally would. Anyway, I just got a call from my sister who was fairly adamant about me sharing this story.

So a few years back, probably around 2002, we had a bit of a problem involving coyotes who kept coming into our backyard and chewing up my mother's beautiful foliage. Hong, being the resourceful foreigner he is, rounds up me and my brother to go around the backyard to pee all over each entry point to "mark our territory" in a way the coyotes would understand.

There's no real quote that should go here, but I think it's safe to say that the story's fine without one.

Let's Make This A Catch Phrase

It occurred to me (with the help of my cousin Rebecca) that I'm forgetting the Hongisms that tend to repeat themselves. This is only one of many catchphrase-Hongisms that I'll be adding to the blog.

Rebecca was driving 6 of us cousins (I think) and Hong to the movies and on top of running late and hitting traffic, we could not find any parking spaces in the parking lot.

"This is sucks!"

Yeah, he says it a lot.

Booger

My good friend Braeden just reminded me of quite possibly one of the greatest Hong moments of all time. This was maybe 5 or 6 years ago, before the "Shave Your Balls" story. I was in a band with Braeden, my brother, and a couple other dudes (and a chick). It was pretty regular for everyone to sleep at my house on weekends, to the point where they were (overly) comfortable in my house. One of the guys, Stephen, had a Led Zeppelin t-shirt on (I can only explain it as the one with the guy farming). While Stephen was brushing his teeth, he dropped a bit of toothpaste right on the guy's face as Hong was walking by. Hong stopped, pointed at Stephen's shirt, and said:

"Led Zeppelin has a booger!"

Which sounded more like:

"Lesssepplinhassaboooooogah!"

Now whenever Braeden sees Hong, he shouts the aforementioned phrase. Thanks, dad.

Hong's A Financial Miracle

My cousin David sent me a message today with a Hong story and I asked him if he wanted to write a guest entry. He gladly obliged:

So I was on the phone with your dad, this was sometime in 2007. I think it may have been fire season because my dad asked me to call and see how everything was going to make sure you guys weren't homeless and at that time, I had orders in to trade some oil so I'm on the phone with your dad, and he goes, "Let me tell you something...." and as he's telling his story the price of oil is collapsing and all my orders to buy keep getting filled and I'm going "Uh huh, uh huh" as I'm watching my position get slammed. He keeps telling the story and then the price starts reversing and I'm wondering when he's going to get off the phone so I can call my broker and tell him to sell. So he's still telling his story, and suddenly I'm back to even. He keeps telling the story and I'm up $500. By the time I got off the phone with him, I think I was up like three grand. That's when I realized your dad is pretty cool.

Moral of the story: If Hong won't stop talking, then something good will happen to you to make up for it. He's a luck charm in the shape of a chatterbox.

Magnet

Not only does Hong get a kick out of embarrassing me, he loves to embarrass my friends as well. You see, I have this friend Allan. Allan doesn't have much luck when it comes to women. Hong knows this and, well....

"Allan some guys have magnet which attract girls. Tell me this, why you have no magnet?"

Sorry Allan, it's not personal. It's just the truth.

Back When

Hey guys, since starting this blog (last night), I have received a huge amount of quotes from my friends and family that deserve to be on here. I'm not gonna post them all at once, but here's one to start.

This was in the car with my dad and three other friends. He was driving us somewhere and he began to talk about me shaving (I was 14 at the time). He says:

Hong: "Andrew, you shave today?"

Me: "Yeah."

Hong: "Andrew, you shave your balls?"

Of course, my three friends told everyone, and that quote followed me all the way through high school.