JYSim for jobless-yokel Sim

I had the idea of this post for a few days but I never really structure it out, till now. And as I’m writing this the contents I chewed on for so long is gradually evaporating. So if this post turns out to be in the usual ‘miscellaneous’ category it’s not 100% my fault.
Well, what I’m trying to express is that you could never underestimate the power of the question ‘how had you been?’ It is, to me, a very potent and heart-warming question, whether the person you’re seeing had been gone for a long long time or just for 10 minutes (but logic tells us if he was just away for less than 1 day we’d instead ask ‘how are you?’). Of all the questions I was asked when I was back home I find ‘how had you been?’ both most difficult to talk on as well as easiest to elaborate. I was ok. I was good. It wasn’t a good semester. I don’t care much anyway, since I’m already back home.
Almost once every week a phone call will ring abruptly at around 10 to 11pm. And I’ll see ‘+60164099000′ in the caller ID column. I pick up the phone and the first question would always be ‘how had you been?’ It would always be ‘I’m ok, very good these few days.’ And in fact I had been in good condition all these while. I had deliberately taught myself not to think too much these days and I had been contented for the past month. I have friends, and I’m brave enough to tear myself from our O. Chem textbook to play badminton or read an Amy Tan novel. I found solace in choir, and indeed our Bach song was getting better and better. I’d really like to listen to the recorded version soon.
I’m fine, I sleep like a log of wood every day (except occasional days when my roommate decided it’s better to play guitar at 2am. But generally he won’t go into that so often I felt like killing him). I ate and overspend on food. I listen to Josh Groban and Jacky Cheung and Ronan Keating. I went out to parks with my friend(s). I had idle afternoons doing nothing except reading, surfing the net and sleep. I played badminton, and whacked the girls real hard, but was whacked back by the boys after that. I study a little, not exceeding 2 hours every day, and I’m going places in the next few weeks. I’m great, in general.
Of course, there are things that sucked sometimes, like every Monday morning when you see the teacher writing HTML codes so easily and his pictures and words moved like magic but yours just stood there paralysed or Mars language appeared when you click your button, you thought - how will program writing be useful in a doctor’s career in the future? I might as well hire a program writer to do this for me instead of scratching all my hair off doing this.
Similarly, every Thursday morning is challenging to me and a girl from Taipei. We’re both physics dummies. Give us F=ma and we might end up with ’shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ And after 2 hours of lessons we will have to invest a further few hours (not exceeding 5 per week) to dissect what the teacher was teaching. I’m not gifted in physics, as I wasn’t in HTML as well as Trigonometry. I guess I’ll just let the current sweep me to whatever marks I’m fated to (the teacher never failed anyone before).
I watched ‘Babel’ and ‘American Beauty’ lately and found them both to be two of the best movies in recent years. I especially liked Babel, though when I watched it the subtitles didn’t come out (cos I forgot to download an extension program attached to the player), and I spent 5/6 of the 2.5 hours during the movie deducing what was happening based on the actors’ and actresses’ facial expressions, and my almost-buried Japanese and kindergarten-level Spanish. It was a normal plot but an amazing movie, not until you watched it yourself.
So, my days had been somewhat great in a sense. And how about yours? How had you been?

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