  Today was a good day. In school, I got another perfect on my Calc. quiz, but that is the boring part. More interestingly I met a friend of mine who I hadn’t seen in about a year. I have known him since I was maybe…4 or 5 years old. We are friends through our parents and we got to know each other through Ramadan Iftar parties. He lives in Richmond and is now starting DVC too. It was interesting to talk to him because, though we are friends and all, we come from very different backgrounds. Also, his highschool experience can hardly relate to mine. As much as Northgate was a prison, all of us graduates are academically prepared, and all of us Aperiod people still get up at 6:00am. He went to El Ceritto high and is much less prepared for DVC then me. He is actually struggling with computer science and pre-calc. It makes me feel kinda sorry for him because I know he is not dumb, just never really had serious schooling.
So I stayed after school for about one and a half hours to help him with pre-calc. since he has a chapter test tomorrow. With any luck, he will ace it. The other part of my day, which made it a really really nice day, was that “that Asian girl” agreed to have lunch with me. She didn’t feel like walking very far because her friend keeps on hanging around, so we went to the cafeteria and got some food.
Then we went out to the duck pond and had lunch. Luckily her friend decided not to come with us this time, as I might have thrown her into the pond if she foiled my plans again. I am starting to become rather fond of, as jeff calls her, “that Asian girl”. This is sort of a problem for me because, well this may sound prejudiced, but Indian guys are often made fun of for going out with Asian girls. I believe this is because Asian chicks are WAY more like Indian girls then white girls, and the cultures are fairly close. The basic values and ideas are the same between Asians and Indians. I think this is why I tend to associate more with Asians then Whites. I understand them and they understand me better. So the thing is that it is kind of stereotypical for an Indian guy in America to go out with an Asian girl in America, because Indian guys generally don’t go after white girls.
There is a whole OTHER stereotype for that I could go into, but this isn’t the time. Anyways, my point is that going out with “that Asian girl”, that is fucking hilarious jeff, is rather…complicated. Then again, being a muslim Indian, going out with any girl is fucking complicated. When your cousins, aunts and uncles are already scouting for potential brides in another country, dating becomes very complicated very fast. I have been approached a couple of times about that whole arranged marriage thing and it went something like, “It’s not like your forced to marry a girl we pick, it is just that we are going to select a group of girls for u to choose from”.
“And if I don’t want to choose any of the girls from the group?” “You can marry whoever you want you know. We are just trying to give you guidelines.” “I get a limited choice? That’s not, ‘whoever you want’” “Don’t be so difficult, we are just trying to help” “Help what? I am fifteen.” “Exactly. You don’t have too much time left” “Are you insane? I am fifteen. I don’t want to fricking think about this yet” “All of you family members have followed their relative’s decisions and recommendations. You are a member of this colony and you will follow our traditions. So don’t go fooling around with any one here.” “There goes my fun” “Go to your room” And people sometimes wonder why I am silent or bitter when they talk about marriage and the like.
But oh well, what the hell. For the past 3 months I have expanded my “fuck it” doctrine to include that discussion, so I suppose it shouldn’t really be a problem. Hehe, the other day Kashy told me I wasn’t open enough with other people. Well, I normally don’t like talking about my problems. It has always seemed to me like a sort of a weakness. However, I haven’t exactly gotten far, have I? Let’s try out her idea of, “talking about it”. Certainly can’t hurt anything. I hope. Until the next ranting… The Maz 
