"But I decided then and there, 'Mine.' " I once stole a completely functional smartphone. This happened when I just started middle school. I was a sixth grader. I was in a theater extracurricular and one day, I think we were cleaning the prop room, I found this phone. Charged it. Was -- Powered it on. It worked. The lock screen I think was a photo of what either was a current student in like 7th or 8th grade or someone who had just gone up to high school. But it was definitely someone's phone, not just a prop. But I decided then and there, "Mine." Yoinked that thing. Looked up how to factory reset it, wiped it, and repurposed it as, well, not even like a fully fun-- like a phone that most people would used to call or text. Because I didn't tell my parents about it, so I couldn't get a phone plan for it. I don't think they know to this day. I don't remember if I ever used in front of them. But my brother might have known about it. He probably did. And my friends definitely knew about it. But yeah, I stole a phone. And, you know what, yeah, I probably would do it again, if I saw a phone that was seemingly abandoned. Finders keepers.

"We just kept talking and talking and doing other things, and next thing we knew it was 6 a.m." So first semester of college, I was really worried about making friends. I was like, "Okay, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna attend some club meetings and hopefully I'll find some people there." So I did. And I actually very quickly found people. First meeting of this one club, I found -- what, it's a group of six people, and we all would hang out every meeting and we were getting pretty close. We had hung out like a few times outside of the club, but not very much. But two of the group had never seen The Lord of the Rings and so we were like, "Okay, obviously we need to do that. We need to all do a watch-through." So we picked out a day, and we all went over to one person's dorm hall. It was just -- we were just out in the open and one of us like brought down an Xbox. We set it up with the TV and we just sat there watching The Lord of the Rings. This hangout started at like, I think 5 p.m. And we got through I think two of the movies -- which, this was the extended edition, so like, that was pretty long. And then we just kind of ended up talking for a long time after that. Which was very nice and very fun except we lost track of the time. And we just kept talking and talking and doing other things, and next thing we knew it was 6 a.m. We had been hanging out for like 13 hours straight. And so at that point we all, kind of a little like delirious after that long, we all left, except for the person who lived at that dorm hall. And we all went home. And I just like, whatever stage of friendship it is that you hang out for 13 hours straight, I think we just speedran that. Because after that it's like I've known them my whole life. We like to, we like to joke that we're like pair-bonded cats. Like we're just all very inseparable. But evidently I had nothing to fear about finding friends in college.

"And I was a little bit hesitant, but I prepared the potatoes, I prepared all the stuff in kind of an order, and it went so much better." So, today I made baked potato soup, and it went much better than last time. The last time I made potato soup, it -- I was so rushed, and it was late at night, so I was so hungry. And I didn't have all of the necessary spices and things, so I just -- It wasn't the best experience. And I made a lot of it, like I did this time as well. But it just wasn't the best. But this time, I kind of learned from that previous experience. And I was a little bit hesitant, but I prepared the potatoes, I prepared all the stuff in kind of an order, and it went so much better. And I also got to snack on some carrots and dip while I was doing it, so I wasn't hungry, which was really nice. And when I was done, it was so good. I loved it. I don't know. I think I will definitely make this again.

"And so that's how I got my first cat." It was during Covid, going into my senior year where I felt really, really lonely. Like how everyone else really felt during that time. And so, I was really hoping to get a pet. And I was begging my mom to please just let me get like a guinea pig or a hamster. Like I promise I'll take good care of it. Like I have all the time in the world right now. So she finally gave in, and took me to, I think just like Petco, or PetPlus. Was it? It's like a store, a pet store. And when we first went, it was moreso I was gonna get a guinea pig or something, but when we went there, they actually had cats. They had rescued cats there. They usually don't. They don't always have like cats or dogs or animals like that. But because like coincidentally the day that we went they had cats, my mom saw the cat that was in the little, like, their area, and she also fell in love with -- actually it was only one cat remaining out of like four. And he was also sleeping, and so we couldn't like take a look at his face. But like, I mean, it was set and done. Like I was like, "Pleeeease let us," like, "let me get this cat, Mom." Yeah. She was also like, "Yeah, okay." And so that's how I got my first cat. His name is Theo.

"We end up having a big, big, big, big simba." Yeah, I've been thinking for the past few days, "What can I share with the group?" And it is hard sometimes, when you are thinking of the best topic to share with people, then you end up finding a lot of stories. So today I pick a story from simba. Simba is a common word for dogs in Africa. It is rude sometimes to call, for instance, dog as Mofart. Where I come from the culture does not allow. Probably people will be thinking, "Why call somebody Mofart?" "Why call a dog Mofart?" I mean. So, simba. I want to share a story about simba. So, sometime back probably 15 years ago, my mom wanted a dog. And of course, my mom and my elder brother, they love dog. The other group is my sister and I, probably we are not fond of pets. So we were debating, then my dad decides, "Hey, a friend of mine, who is a serviceman, has a German Shepherd puppy." Then my mom convinced my dad, "Hey, probably, we should go and take a puppy." That's how we ended up having a simba. It is not easy, a dog growing. I remember it was young, taking care of the bro, it was not easy. Especially my mom telling us, "Hey, you have to cook." Especially when our -- the person who was helping us in the house chores was not available. Then simba is growing every day now and then, and we end up having a big, big, big, big simba. So, I remember when we were coming from school sometime -- that is during the half terms when the school, it is out like half of the term -- we could go with the simba, with my brother, to train him how to hunt. Yeah, that's all I wanted to share about simba.