I'm at my parents' house surrounded by friends & family. My dad wants to watch some home videos and starts up the TV. I grab the video camera and head to the bathroom to watch some of the porn I've shot. In the bathroom, I can't get the camera to work and I hear my dad outside the door yelling for me. He's shouting about the camera or TV not having batteries and wants me to run out & get some more. He's yelling and cursing at me and I ignore him.

I walk out of the bathroom and into his bedroom where I find him sitting with my mom. I go off on him in Chinese, telling him that he's never been a good father to me. Outside the window, it's night and rain is falling hard. A few young Chinese women walk up to the outside window and I yell at them, saying, "This is none of your fucking business!"

Later, I'm walking up a ramp on the waterfront to my friend's floating house. It 's a sprawling complex built on a waterfront. As I greet my friend, he picks up an infant. I immediately take the baby, noticing that he's covered with drool (the baby's dark and looks Indian or Sri Lankan while tht father is white). I tease my friend, "What, you see drool on his face and decide that you should wait a few days before cleaning it up?"

I take the baby and get set to wak up a few steps into another part of the house. The bamboo steps to the next level are broken and I can't get up. I joke to my friend, "What, you think this baby can get up there?"

In the kitchen, there are lots of South East Asian women working. One of them hands me a piece of warm roti. I walk over to another group of women talking to my friend. He's checking on the progress of the crab fishing operation. They're looking into the water at a hugecatch of giant crabs. Among the catch are strange bug-like creatures crawling out of their shells. I ask one of the women what they are and she calls other women over to try to explain. It sounds like they're speaking Vietnamese or Thai. I marvel at what a large operation this is.