If It’s Too Loud, You’re Too Old
August 20, 2011 by raz.ambat
Photo by Salvatore Vuono
I don’t know when it started to happen, but people call me “ate” now. I don’t really feel old so sometimes when people call me ate I get a little defensive inside. I end up thinking, “I don’t even look old. Wait, do I look old? I wonder how old this person thinks I am.”
Don’t get me wrong, I am happier and more secure now than I ever was (I’d be happier if I were fit and healthy but that’s another story); but it’s hard not to feel a little nostalgic about my younger days. Wait, isn’t that the very first sign of being old? When you start to get nostalgic about your teenage years instead of looking forward to the future? Ha! So I guess I am old.
Here are other proof I am getting old:
• I can’t stand showbiz news about love teams anymore.
• I roll my eyes when people change their relationship status online to “it’s complicated.”
• I can’t drink alcohol for 8 hours straight anymore. If I drink 4 shots of tequila and 2 bottles of beer in one night, I will be in bed the whole day the following day wishing I didn’t drink the night before.
• I stand up to dance when someone sings “Wannabe” on videoke.
• I think the greatest band on earth is Pearl Jam.
• I can’t write when my daughter is talking in her loud voice.
• I now drink brewed coffee at noon, in the middle of summer.
• Even if more things annoy me now, I can ignore a lot of them and not make mountains out of molehills. (Well, except when people cut in line. I tell people off and shoot my laser eyes at them.)
• I’ve had more needles stuck in me (for blood tests, pain relievers, dextrose, etc.) the past year than in all my first 30 years on earth.
• I cry about everything now.
• I think about health coverage, retirement plans, and investment opportunities more than I think about shoes.
• And when I think about shoes, I think about flats.
• I worry about the kind of boy my daughter will bring home in the future.
• I truly believe Lady Gaga has nothing on Madonna.
• When I’m with my friends we discuss our children and people who are sick or who just died.
MR.PRESIDENT:Pakitingnan po ang news na ito HAMAK na mas MAYAMAN po ang bansang KOREA kaysa sa atin…Tingnan nyo po ang FOREIGN POLICY ng kanilang bansa regarding sa travel ban.PAKILUSIN mo na ang mga nagpapa POGI mong mga KAWANI…NAGUGUTOM NA si JUAN DE LA CRUZ…MAKINIG KA MR.PRESIDENT!!!WAKE UP…WAKE UP THEM….
SOUTH KOREA LIFTS TRAVEL BAN ON LIBYA
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2011/12/05/0301000000AEN20111205009400315.HTML
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) — South Korea has lifted its travel ban on Libya due to improved security conditions in the strife-torn nation, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Monday.
Libya was placed under a travel ban in March in the wake of popular democratic uprisings that eventually led to the collapse of Moammar Gadhafi’s autocratic regime.