I am Thompson Boy

I have been going around, talking about this and that about blogs with my son of late and it seems quite funny that one of the things that connected us together at the beginning were our blogs. We have spent years of our lives in the same circle but never actually having met each another. Till now that is. But the question remains, why do we like to write? Why is it as gay men, we have this desire in all of us to express ourselves be it love, hate, happiness, sadness, hopes and fears, ambitions and heart-ache? Do we secretly hope that somewhere out there, someone will read it and connect to us? Is it because it helps and make the hard times better once expressed out in words and paragraphs? Or is it because that's the only we know how? Whatever it is, writing certainly makes good reading materials esp when you look back and cringe at the stuff expressed and go - ugh!

One day as I glanced around the room where I have my weekly German language class, I couldn’t help but wondered why this group of people is learning arguably one of the hardest languages on earth. I don’t think it’s that difficult anymore but people make jokes about how life is too short to learn German. Today is week 10 and by now I already know most of my classmates and either they are married to Germans or Austrians or currently dating one or the other. This brings me back to when first I registered for the class, one of the question asked was ‘Warum lernen Sie Deutsch?’ I joked – ‘Für Spaß!’ and the teacher laughed.  What’s not to believe? After all I can’t be one of the many people here learning out of love now, can I? But I did and not too long ago. This goes back to one and half years ago when I decided to take one year off traveling the world. Like many Asians before me, I was scheduled to visit München and skip on Berlin when fate decides to mess around with me a li...

My goal for this year 1. Do well in my job, seize the day 2. Continue to learn and promote my content 3. Go back to class 4. Join the gym 5. Come out to my parents - the final frontier 6. Continue to learn about everything and be patient, be kind and be understanding