What are you doing today?
I need to call a mechanic and book in for a car service…
(Smirk)
Not everything is a dirty metaphor! I really do need to book my literal car in for a service for 2025!
(Laughing)
And then, I was thinking of looking up a piano tuner…
Oh?
Yeah. I wanna play piano again. Instead of writing all the time, I wanna play piano. It’s just sat there for years. I need to get it tuned…
Do you still remember how to play?
Yes… of course I’ll need some warm-ups but yes, I’m pretty confident I can still play.
Do you want a new car?
(LOL) What?! I thought you would ask me more about the piano?
Nah. You can play piano, you can get that tuned. That seems really simple to me. It’s your personal hobby. It’s like telling me you’re going to brush your teeth. I don’t need to ask you too many questions about piano. I want to know if you want a new car…
Not… from… you…?!
Why not?
Didn’t we just have a conversation the other day about sugar babies? And how I’m NOT one?!!?
(Devilish grin) Do you wanna be my sugar baby?
Stop!!! NO!!! (Laughing)
I wanna be your Sugar Daddy (smirk)
Nooooooo….
Let me buy you a new car!
No!!! It’s NOT. Necessary!!! Why does it matter to you anyway?
Well, so far you’ve only asked me to buy you a $150 Barbie phone. It’s like we’re just walking together on the street and you’re asking me to throw a homeless person five cents out of my own pocket. It’s not much. I could do MORE… I want to do more for you.
Well since you just brought up homeless people — go donate more money to those charities that are helping them!
Hmm… okay, I’ll do both. I’ll go donate some money to help homeless people, but I also want to buy you a new car.
I’m not… going to accept it?
Why not?!
Why do you want to like, “own me” with a car?!
It’s not like that.
It’s not?
No… it’s more like… I want to show your parents that I’m capable of taking care of you. And if I buy you a car — they can see — “Oh, this guy can take care of our daughter, we can relax about him.”
They’re already relaxed about you. You don’t need to prove anything. It’s honestly a little too much for a “boyfriend” to buy me a car. Okay? Maybe… a fiancΓ© fine… after we’re actually engaged… then… buy me a car, for my birthday or Christmas present? Something like that? Don’t just buy me a car randomly as a random surprise for no reason.
Aren’t we already engaged?! I should be able to buy you a car any time of any day!
Ummm… please don’t… okay… I’ll compromise with birthdays and Christmas. Not even Valentine’s Day — it doesn’t feel romantic. It’s like such a practical gift.
(Bursts out laughing) Nobody thinks like you. I don’t know any woman who’s not going to appreciate a CAR as a gift?! Even if for Valentines’ Day?!?!
(Eye rolling)… I already received MY car as my GIFT from my FATHER.
There ya go. I was wondering…
(LOLOLOLOLOL) Yeah… so… the car is from literal Daddy. NOT “Sugar” Daddy — literal, biological Daddy.
(Bursts out laughing) And you see?! Now I need to prove to HIM that I can also BUY A CAR for “his little Princess” — I want to buy you a car!
I’ll be a 40-year old princess this year. It doesn’t even matter.
You’re MY 40-year old princess. It DOES matter… to ME.
Okay, fine, buy me a car as a birthday or Christmas present. That means it’s not happening in the first half of 2025…
What car do you want?
(LOL)…
I wanna know your rankings.
Okay, fine… car rankings…
No. 1 is still BYD Dolphin. A pink one. I think that’ll be cool. I’ll still even keep my current car. Because the BYD is fully electric. I don’t know when or what circumstances I’ll drive it?! Just for catching up with friends? Maybe even let Mum drive it if she wants to? But then I’ll keep that car in the garage, and my current car can just be on the street. Street parking. And I’ll still drive my current car to work and class. It feels wasteful to drive a new car to those places.
It does?
Yes, because there’s no undercover car park… the Australian sun is so HOT. It burns through the roof linings. And the glue melts them off, so you have to constantly replace the roof lining… and like, I just don’t want to leave an electrical car in the hot sun for too long.
I’m sure they’ve tested the temperatures…?
Not in the AUSTRALIAN. SUN. Or at least, I haven’t seen those reports.
Okay, so BYD Dolphin, what else?
Well… I don’t know?! I haven’t thought too much about other cars.
What car do you want when you are a Mum with kids?
Hmmm… maybe a Volvo hybrid…?
Volvo hybrid? Not fully electric?
NO. I don’t trust fully electric… as like… a “full time” car? Does that make sense? Fully electric is like, the hobby car… it’s not the “full time” car. You still need fuel. Petrol. In case of emergencies. Also there’s theories that electrical cars cause cancer. (Oops! Don’t quote me! Sure you can say it’s kooky quirky organic hippie conspiracy theories!) But anyways… I don’t want to drive fully electric cars full time. It’s just a hobby car…
Okay?! (Shrugs shoulders)
Maybe the Volvo XC40? It looks like a Soccer Mom kind of car. Let’s go with that for now. Of course, it could change…
(Chuckles) What else?
Are you collecting cars?!?!? Do you have like a GARAGE SPACE of like 20 or 30 car slots?!?! Why do you want me to list more CARS?!?!?!?
(Laughing) Maybe I do… maybe I don’t… I’m just curious! What kind of cars do YOU like?! (Giggles)
Okay, if it’s just us. Married couple out on the town. Driving to… Brisbane? Or wherever… a nice “town car” then… perhaps… a Lexus?
Lexus?
You don’t want Bentley… or Porsche — ?
DON’T GET ME STARTED ON WHY I HATE PORSCHE.
What?! (Chuckles in bewilderment)
Okay. That is something I have to tell you. FACE TO FACE. IN PERSON!!! I can’t write about it on the blog!!!
(LOLOLOLOLOLOL)
Seriously!!! We will talk about PORSCHE-HATRED later. IN REAL LIFE. OMG.
(Laughing) Okay… I will wait for the Porsche stories… (Laugh-crying)
But yeah, no… I think Lexus… hybrid… Sedan… that’s nice…
We don’t need to draw attention to ourselves with a fuckin’ BENTLEY?!?! What the FUCK?!?! That’s just ASKING for robbers to STALK you and try to ROB YOU!!!
Oh… so you’re worried about stuff like that…
Who wouldn’t be?! I don’t want a Bentley. Lexus is fine. Lexus is demure. Lexus is classy…
Your parents like Lexus?
Yes. They like Lexus. And the Taiwanese Aunties and Uncles all like Lexus. Lexus has a good reputation in the Taiwanese community.
(Nodding) (Smiling)
I think that’s enough car talk for now, right?! I honestly can’t think of anything else!!! (LOL)

