• a deadline on nye so i had to work some more
• multi hot potting + drinking
• 6 hrs of shopping and multi movies watching!
• 1 item bought on boxing day
• packing
• a crappy phone
• big visa bill

2010 started with

• more deadlines so i have to work even though i’m sick
• headache + multi dim sum ing
• 5 hrs of karaoke!
• 1 item off my super unrealistic shopping
• packing and moving
• still a crappy phone, hopefully not for long
• another big visa bill =(

AND, i got 2 resolutions made – read a book, play some bball (simple and achievable… right)

in the last few months, i feel like i haven’t been drinking much at all, other than a beer here and there, or weekly awesome beer o clock at thirdi, heck i haven’t had beer in my fridge since summer and that used to be one of the very few things i’d have, so about last last weekends, me kei and eric went to see will, then we drank some for pre bday celebration, and i was out at 6am, i think i had a good amount, not lots but it was good (but apparently i went super pale, and i slept sitting up with my head laying on my couch), then over the weekend we had our work xmas party, and i failed, i was at the awesome fun limit after like 3 or 4 drinks – which means anymore could be bad news – and we barely started to eat, btw it was an awesome party i never realized i work with like 20+ ppl (so it seems) not 6-8 like everyday at work

i wonder, not being able to drink lots, should be a good thing, right? less spending on buying drinks, less drinks in your body, less peeing break… but i feel like, i lost something lol, i lost one of my ability, i used to boast about it, and now i have to re-learn how to drink

oh i also went to see lady gaga last weds, it was very awesome, glad i got tix in the end to see it, few pics in a bit

24 day shopping/deep frying count down to xmas

1. mass effect $5 / deep fried pork chop – tonkatsu (this is tonight!)
2. cross edge ps3
3. muramasa wii / prawns
4. sketch book
5. netbook / spring rolls
6. wireless kb/mouse
7. whiteboard / wings
8. slr
9. sandisk 8gb extreme III sd card / ice cream
10. retention plan
11. xperia x10/ fries
12. ikea hepburn painting
13. 46″ tv/ calamari/ lumpia
14. 13″ macbook pro
15. wacom tablet/ onion rings
16. nixon rubber player
17. hard drive enclosure / dry ribs
18. carcassonne city
19. backpack / tofu
20. fancy jeans
21. new glasses / sushi
22. ff13 mana potions
23. mini cooper / samosas
24. xenosaga 3

coming up with 24 things to buy was actually REALLY hard, good thing only day 1 of 24 will happen for sure, rest… we’ll see how broke i want to be

this is something i’ve been wanting to do for years, why? i dont know, i just think drawing would be fun, would help me be more creative, i feel like i used to be creative, then i coded for a few years, then i’m not really creative, but it’s slowly coming back, i registered for 2 classes at emily carr

CEDR-160-S002 (13977) Drawing Fundamentals I

CEDR-263-S002 (13987) Introduction to Life Drawing

actually the only class i wanted to take was life drawing (cause dbd said it’s the best thing ever) but it’s a stupid 200 lvl course with a stupid pre req, but it’s ok, it’ll be good, i dont know crap about drawing

i also dont know if i want to start drawing web comics with willius either, there’s no time, because there’s mw2 + dragon age, stop playing so much mw2 will

second, i forgot my breakfast at home, and most of you should know breakfast is my favorite meal of the day, fook

and now my boss is throwing me crazy ideas on how leasing is better than buying and it somehow makes sense to me right now – even though you don’t own it, at one (or the right) point the amount of depreciation is like the same as the amount you spent, and that’s only if you sell the car, if you don’t you’re still down the other x amount of car loan, where leasing = new car

but then you don’t own the car

but then… so what if you don’t own the car

but leasing is like… losing money cause you don’t own the car

but buying a car itself is a lost investment already, it loses value every day, unless you want to keep it for 10 yrs

and then me confooze… this sorta leads me to think that i could still get my mini in a way, esp when i’m probably moving back home next yr

just another manic monday, i wish it was fun day

atleast i fixed the broken image url on the previous post

saturday me and kei went to the Lights concert, never been to a concert at the commodore, man it’s small and i was so close on the floor even though i’m probably not close at all, and you know why i hate floor? because i’m not tall, tall ppl owned you, like there’s this GIANT dood who just randomly squeeze through and stood RIGHT IN FRONT of us before the concert is about to start, and everyone was just like WTF DOOD, and he’s like don’t worry man i’m trying to get to the front, follow me and you’ll get to the very front too (and he does in the end, wtf), in the end i wish i had a table and i can sit and watch, and also i wish i didn’t buy that one bottle of sleeman so i could’ve cash to buy a her record as concert goodie, i have to/always do, buy a concert goodie for every concert i go, soooo lame, stupid beer screwd me over

lights concert 1

lights concert 2

Lights is pretty awesome though, she was rocking it with her keytar, she had many cool songs, after going to her concert, i’ve just been listening to her cd non stop, maybe she’s bringing me back to the eng music world

i also got owned by my memory card, because when i was recording some hd vids, my camera told me recording had to be stopped because the memory card speed was too slow, fooook, time to get a sandisk extreme III sdhc, and maybe a better camera because i couldn’t get any non-blurred shots either… sigh ;/

and man i dunno why the image thumb shows up fine, and i see the photo when i ftp connect, but if i click to see fullsize image i get error, gaaahhh

i lost some pics i’ll have to go find them

and coconutjelly is MIA

and i still don’t have borderlames

and i got owned on rogers trade deal stupid quantum of solace

but atleast i’m almost done getting platinum trophy for uncharted 2, my first plat!

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(at queensborough best buy) “do you guys have any copies of borderlands?” “is that the game everyone’s been calling for? we’re completely sold out… (checks stocks) there’s no stock in all the best buy, but got some in transit” “i heard people getting rainchecks for the game, can i get a raincheck?” “i’m not sure i’ll have to ask another person”

(sales assoc #2) “oooh maybe … but i can only give it to you for the current price” “… but… what if you can price match walmart” “hmm actually that might work … just go line up at customer service and see if they can do it for you”

20 min in line up later

“can i help you with something?” “ya i like to get a rain check on this, [sale assoc #2] said there’s no stock but it’s coming … so you guys might be able to do one for me” “ok… let me check the system”

2 min later

“we usually don’t do this but there’s too many people in line up so i’m just gonna do it for you, here’s your raincheck for borderlands for 360 [for $37]”

*EDIT oct 27*

i called bb and they got a shipment in last night, BUT they didn’t have any for me, and said you’ll have a wait a few more days, FAIL

best buy +0, futureshop -2

that is, if i decided to work on the site at all lol, i’ve been playing lots beating almost all the games i want to beat before i get my hands on uncharted 2 (the only one left unfinished is professor layton and the diabolical box something), i even started to play zelda twilight princess on wii (again) cause i beat most of the ones i wanted to finish – naruto ultimate ninja storm, final fantasy crisis core, shadow complex

i went to a van 2010 volunteer get together thing on fri, i didn’t know ANYONE except 1 person, so that was pretty… adequate, i think i left in about 30 min, then i went to my olympic volunteer session on sat, saw a few of ppl from the world cup and that made up for it, the same group sorta getting back together, found out what the olympic uniform looks like, look pretty sweet

2010 is gonna be soooo awesome, except for the transit crap, because i can only take the bus up to cypress from capilano college or lonsdale quay (45 min?), which means i’ll have to bus skytrain from richmond to waterfront (25-35 min?), take seabus (?? min), then take bus up mountain, THEN walk from bus stop on mtn to village/volunteer tent (15 – 30 min?), it’s gonna take like 2.5 hrs EACH WAY, gg

yesterday went to wings #2 at wings daves where everybody get together, yay dave for hosting, he’s home alone for a month, board game marathon time! but ya, wings night is basically errbody bring a flavor, and deep fry/bake 200+ wings, there were salt&pepper/hot/lemon pepper/honey something/soy sauce/sweet thai/terriyaki, AND some random flavors like lemon honey/orange ginger, and my lemon pepper garlic aka albino wings, which sucked, cause i baked it, but then i deep fried it after, and turned awesome, i call it the double cooked blackened albino wings, something like that, doesn’t matter, it turned awesome at the end, but ian didn’t take his big bertha wing back, what a jerk

i think that was the first time i had a wings night w/o beer

and romo has a fart button on his side, when you poke it’ll go *fart*

there’s a few things i have to do now after this has been accomplished:

1. finish/clean up design, add a color scheme, and get the widgets back in
2. take a drawing class
3. make a photo blog design (for the dslr in near future)
4. beat shadow complex and get uncharted 2

i’m looking fwd to the last one the most lol, i’ve now moved my 360 into my own room and hooked it up to my comp/monitor, good thing my lcd takes in component input (yay for ultrasharp), sound goes to the line in of my comp, with my speakers and sub i probably get a better sound out of this than playing in the living room, the only thing that crappy is that last night i was playing, my comp went to sleep after being inactive for x amount of time, and i lost my net connection and dc’d from odst with dee and will ;/

atleast the xbox will become a mini heater while i play in my room

last random thought, hot pot season has started!