Wipe That Smile off Your Face!

This is one of my favorite cartoon scenes: CLICK 

It's when Daffy Duck tells Porky Pig to wipe his smile off--and so Porky does. lol!

My Favorite Happa Celebrities

A lot of people tend to have a fascination with happas. A happa is basically a person of half one race and half another. The typical combination my community thinks of as hapa is Japanese or any kind of Asian + any kind of white (it could be any combination though such as Korean and Chinese). The stereotype is that they are good-looking, which is often true in my opinion.

I realized recently that some of my favorite celebrities are hapa. Here's my current list:

(1) Kristin Kreuk (Canadian Chinese & Dutch actress from Smallville, Streetfighter, Eurotrip, Ben Hur, Edgemont, Partition, Chuck, & the upcoming show, Beauty & the Beast on the CW)

Photo source: Fanpop

(2) Lana McKissack (American Japanese & Irish Youtube celeb from her own channel, the first season of Internet Icon, a David Choi music video, etc. Singer, actress, vlogger, Youtuber.)

Photo source: IMDB

(3) Kina Grannis (American Japanese & European Youtube star/singer: Kina's channel...Interview on Ellen...Singing with David Choi)

Photo source: AOL Music Blog

(4) Chester See (American Filipino & ??? Youtube star/singer/actor: Chester's channel...also the host of Internet Icon

 

 

(5) Dean Cain (American Japanese & French Canadian, Irish, Welsh actor from Lois & Clark, Smallville, Beverly Hills, 90210, etc.)

Photo source: Geek Nation

Hisami, Hitomi, etc.

I've always found Japanese names that sound like English words to be pretty amusing. A guest reverend at my church once told a joke that went something like this:

Question: "What did the man say when he dropped his axe on his foot?"
Answer: "Ajinomoto."

Get it? Like "Aw, gee. No more toe." It's also a Japanese food seasoning company that makes things like MSG...not that that as anything to do with it.

My cousin and I used to say that "Hisami" sounds like "He saw me."

The other week, my other younger cousin was trying to tell me her middle name, but here's how our conversation went:

Cousin: "Hitomi."
Me: "Who told you?"
Cousin: "Hitomi!"
Me: "What did he tell you?"
Cousin: "Hitomi!"

Ohhh. And then I remembered her middle name and that I had been misunderstanding the entire time.

A Kinder's View of Princess Leia's Custume

There's no way this is going to be as funny as my experience seeing this little guy (picture an adorable blonde smaller-than-average kindergarten student) explain who Princess Leia was, but somehow he mentioned Jaba, and then he continued, saying that "Jaba has Princess Leia, who wears a swimsuit." Then he made swimming gestures with his hands. SO CUTE.

EWWW!!

I lead three kindergarten intervention groups every Thursday, and a bunch of things make me laugh (and almost cry--not in a good way), but this stood out from last week:

Girl: "It's because you love us!"
Me: "I do love you guys."
Boys: "EEWWWWW!"

Oh, sheesh, boys. Unfortunately, you will never grow up. Kidding. Guys are awesome.

Old and New Kids

Six-year-old: "Can you come to my house today and give me a birthday present?"

Oh, kids. I'm so happy I'm always around them! This year I'll be at elementary schools and a high school, so I'll have a bit more variety, although last year I was at elementary schools, a middle school, and a preschool. I guess I just love being in schools. I'm keeping a list of all of the schools at which I've done work, and it makes me happy.

I wish I could capture in words my exact experience of certain facial expressions and voices I've encountered with kids. Hilarious. Like these preschoolers' exclamations. Or every detail about this conversation. Or this one that made me burst out laughing uncontrollably when I probably should have immediately told him not to use that word. This "I love you" story is a classic in my brain too. I miss those kids SO much. If I'm ever sad, all I have to do is think about them.

Oops! I mean--

Hilarious when people say things they don't mean and end up being unintentionally offensive.

Example 1:
Brother: "I made that one mistake and I felt so bad...but I tried so hard!"
Me: "Nooobody cares."
[I was responding to the first part about him making one mistake]

Example 2:
Me: "If anyone wants some entertainment, be confused, or feel better about themselves, all they have to do is talk to me."
Blake: "Yep."