Michelle's Birthday Dim Sum

Kyoko and Nancy wait for others to arrive.

A bunch of us met at the Pearl this morning to A) celebrate Michelle's Birthday, B) socialize, C) to eat dim sum. I was the first to arrive. Eventually others would show up. No one was late. I hate waiting around for late people.

The are two groups or categories for why people are late.

Category one: There are people that are late because they're on a bus that gets delayed, got into an accident or someone close to them got into an emergency situation and needed assistance. In other words they are late because of things they cannot control.

Then there's category two: The people that are just time challenged and have no concept of how long things really take or how to schedule anything with regards to time. They underestimate the time it takes to get from point A to B, the time it takes to get something done. In the end they arwe usually always late with some feeble excuse. Usually an excuse that involves an outside action from a third party so as to make it not entirely their fault. Traffic was bad. The line up was long. The train took a long time compared to usual. Excuses that may seem valid to a person that has just met the tardy person but to a long term "friend" the excuse falls flat.

I was told once that category two people are late because they A) Don't care, B) are self centred, C) both. If we won a gazzilion dollars but in order to actually receive the money we had to be at a place on time chances are we'd be there whether we belong to group 2 or not. They show up on time because it's important. So it begs the question why do we wait around for these people that we know are in category two?

I used to be driven crazy by people that would make you wait. There would be days that I'd sit around waiting for people only to find out later that it's now too late in the day to do anything (in their mind) so they wouldn't show up at all. Thanks for nothing. I suppose the lesson here is that if you're waiting and the person you're waiting for is in category 2 and you know they're category 2 then it's your own fault for waiting.


Michaela looks to the future.

Getting back to the the actual dim sum event you'll notice that there's a lot of pictures of Michaela. It seems nobody cares if you take pictures of babies. The more the better. That is of course as long as you know who the parents are. The same people that used to say "enough already with the pictures" when they were the subject now pose the baby for you.


Michaela with Zee holding tomato over the lens.

Kids as subjects are very entertaining. I'm not sure why. Perhaps it's because they're still trying to figure out the way things work while a gob or bubble of spit hangs from their mouth. If you saw an adult doing that... well actually that might make for some interesting pictures as well. Kids attention spans are pretty demanding. If they are uninterested in you there's no getting an eye line from them with the camera. Luckily Renata had brought some small tomatoes. Just like a cat watching a mouse, Michaela's eye's followed the almost red tomato. If I put it on the camera lens or someones head she would be looking in that direction. It was like magic.


Michelle and Chris