T and I went to T's old friend's birthday dinner at his house tonight. This friend guy is a typical asian nerd and his *other* friends in the group are not less nerdy than he is.
How would you accurately define the term "nerds"?
FYI: (this is my definition) they are wearing thick glasses, shirt neatly tucked under pants, and if there is an attractively hot girl trying to start an ice breaking conversation with him, he would act extremely uptight and stiff, and if she would give him enough confidence he would begin talking like a loose school professor, and God forbids, he would not exit his boring lecture unless the girl politely yawns an excuse and walks away.
For tonight's example, the whole evening, more than 4 hours to be exact, this group of friends were just sitting there sipping their wines and locking their conversations in 2 main topics: wines and restaurants. They had talked and dissected to the most elaborated details about the vineyards, american wines vs. italian wines, the ages of wines, prices, some expensive wines ranging from $1.5k per bottle to whatever a rich old man can afford, fine wine dinnings, fine wine clubs ... whatever.. anything wine.. you name it. They could write an encyclopedia about wines and wine accessories. And when they were about to switch the topic, just before I could bare a moment to thank God, I was then again trapped into another lame topic hotels, room services, from the Las vegas up scale Bellagio, the Wynn, to Nappa valley's La Residence resort etc .. and then they went back to topic #1 and to #2 and so forth. I am amazed at how much I could had tolerated the entire evening.
There was this odd looking couple. The guy was Nha^.t and the woman was My~ tra('ng. She had kept swirling her wine glass without drinking and had talked non stop about the wines and her trips to vegas with her gals, where she had stayed in the most luxurious hotels, with the tiniest details about how nice each of the rooms had been featured. Needless to say I was sitting there yawning to the bottom of my lungs.
I guess these *smart ass* guys had tried hard to show off their outstanding knowledge and their *sophistication* to outshine one another, and in that sense of competition the dinner had turned out one of the most aweful dinners i had ever been to.
After tonight's dinner, i have come to acknowledge and appreciate my friends, the *regular* folks and their companionship more. The kind of friends who would share the same mindset and speak the same language and vocabularies as mine. When we (our friends) get together and talk, we know how to flow a conversation where every body can participate and share a good laugh together. Unlike these 30 something had tried to act like intellectual 60 something dorks. Dull boring. Yawn!
Pensee
