yesterday it took me 10 min to figure out what i can eat for lunch

this morning i had to measure my cereal

i feel guilty if i eat randomly because i have scheduled eating

and i’m hungry all the time

ALL THE TIME

this is going last 8 weeks, (most of) our company are doing it, some people are excited, some people are not (me), some people complains (me), some people are doing it for just cause even though they’re already healthy, either way it’s supposed to be a healthier life style, then it’s life changing, is it? is it really!? i want to go for wings and beer RIGHT NOW, all you can eat hot pot or ninkazu! sigh

to take my mind of it i have to play more starcraft 2, but last night i had one of the most messed up dream, for some f’ed up reason my bottom teeth all fell off and i got some new crazy teeth inside my mouth instead, and it freaked me out when i woke up, and i still get goose bumps when i think about it, maybe i was turning into a zerg in my dream, maybe i played too much starcraft, or i was actually playing starcraft while i was sleeping

on a totally unrelated topic (and to take my mind off this f’ed up dream), went to the michael buble concert on sat with gf and eric/jen, and he’s such a comedian, and he can do michael jackson dance, and along with the rest you know, awesome singing/voice, looking sexy in his suit, who wouldn’t want him?

over 1000 km driven

2 kegs of heinekens, 2 nights of awesomeness and uber coldness

1 box of energy bars and 1 bag of cheesy lost to raccoons

1 unopened bottle of mayo

hit “one in a million chance” of throwing a grape in the eric’s mouth

but nothing will beat having the trip as one of the most important day of my best friend, congratulations eric and jen =)

achievements unlocked:

hit 120000 km on my mazda

hit 3000 km on my gps

hit over 450 km/h max speed on my gps (wtf?)

but it’s not all bad, ive been running (or rubbing) quite often with ian, i did actually beat about 4-5 games (final fantasy 13, no more heroes 2, super mario galaxy 2, red dead redemption, and today puzzle quest 2) which probably ate up 200+ hrs of my life and i would not be able to achieve this feat without my days off – gamers have an awesome yet somewhat sad life

who knows what’s gonna happen, find something new? maybe i’ll go to germany or wherever if racquelle gets a job in europe? i just *kinda* hope there’s gonna be a real estate market crash so i can still afford something at the end of the year

actually the trip was quite long and i actually dont really remember what i did on day 4 – 8, they say people usually remember the first and last thing of … things you do, so i remember day 9, but ya, for now i’ll refer to my google cal to refresh my memory…

looks like i kinda left of at end of day 2, SO, day 3, i’m pretty sure we didn’t do what we originally planned to do on monday which is go to Top of the Rock, MoMA (museum of modern art) and Grand Central station, i think we actually switched with wednesday’s schedule, so let’s stick with that

monday – day 3, we went to the American History Museum in the morning, walked in from the space museum entrance actually, and watched a space show starring whoopi goldberg first thing, then walked around this massive 5 floor animal/dinosaur museum, this is where they filmed a night in the museum movie with ben stiller, and this museum is pretty awesome, super cool animals models, giant dino bones, we took like 5 hrs to walk through this place, which is a lot longer than originally scheduled, and… i actually have no idea what we did after this wow, i’ll have to come back to this day in the next post

tuesday – day 4, we woke up earlier because we wanted to go take the cruise to go see statue of liberty and ellis island, first boat leaves at 830 so we tried to wake up at 730, of course that didn’t happen and we got there at 930 instead, and there was a huge line up already (just like every other touristy thing in NYC), good thing for our city pass we get to skip most of the line ups and go straight to security line up – they check your like you’re going on the plane, xray, metal detector, belts off, everything, and then you go on a boat! the statue was actually smaller than i expected, got to go inside and look at the history of building the statue, and… that’s pretty much it, what else am i gonna say, it’s a giant green statue, go look at my flickr pics later. Next off to ellis island, this is the immigrants first stop before go into US back in the days, now it’s another museum, showing how people get into the US, most came in, some did not, either they were sick or not fit to work etc, and gets shipped back to where they came from, also ate pretzel with mustard for the first time, because apparently it’s the thing to do, and it wasn’t very tasty, especially the pretzel was like the saltiest pretzel ever made in life. After the tour (btw statue and ellis island tour takes about 4 – 5 hrs depending how long you stay at each spot), we went to look for the famous bull statue in wall street since we were already downtown/financial district (?), we took the subway up for 1 stop to go to wall st, and ended up walking back to where we got on the subway b/c that’s where the bull statue is! sigh, and there’s 349832 people waiting to take pics, so i also took pic of them until i took a pic of racquelle lol. We watched lion king that night, our first broadway show, and it was awesome, i totally recommend everyone to go watch it when it’s here in vancouver in july

at least that’s what i think what we did in day 4… btw i totally recommend the city pass to anyone’s first time visit to NYC, totally save money and line skipping is the freaking best thing, pair it with 1 week subway pass, you’re all set for being a tourist

we left friday night around 1030 pm, and flight was only 4.5 hours surprisingly, so it was good and bad, we had to try to sleep because we got a city tour at 10am est, and we were arriving at 6:30am est, and it worked out somewhat, though i thought it was kinda odd they were serving hot meals on such a short flight, at like 12 or 1am

we took the taxi cause i wasn’t sure how to take the subway to time square yet and ended up paying like $55 for the ride ;/ we dropped off our luggage at the big apple hostel right in time square, ate breakfast, and head off to the 6 hr city tour (been up for since 330 am vancouver time), long story short, way too many things to see, too much walking lol, but the tour was definitely a good start for the trip, and treated ourselves for anniv dinner fancy steak at del friscos at 945pm cause the wait was like an hr plus at 830 still, ppl like to eat their steak late

2nd time, not wasting any valuable time, we went to b&h in the morning to get my camera stuff, this camera/electronic store is freakin huge and amazing, i mean, it uses a conveyor belt system! and there’s so much stuff in store there’s only products on shelves and no stock! you look, choose what you want, and go to like a counter and order your stuff in store, then you take your order form and go pay, and pick up your stuff before you leave by the exit! what a crazy awesome shopping system, i picked up my r-strap (rs7), giotto blower (large), and domke camera bag (black f8 small bag), i had this salesperson telling me, if you have too much money to throw away, get domke, otherwise, get crumpler, because “crumpler is about half the price as domke”, what a liar, my domke bag was just like 10 bux more than the 4 mil dollar bag (which is what i originally wanted if they had the green in stock)

man the park is closing and i cant finish this, so we went on a food tour after, ate lots of cool food, faicco’s has some super awesome deep fried risotto ball, joe’s pizza has the best new york pizza in the city (so they say), murrays cheese shop has too many kinds of cheese, and lots more,

soho is super shopping area, i love uniqlo it’s the best store, and today we went to see statue of liberty and ellis island, the statue was smaller than i expected, i dunno why maybe in the movies it always supersized, and century 21 is a crazy 6 floor winner with even better stuff, like a giant nordstrom rack, with a million people in it

and i can’t stop sniffing

*HIGH FIVE*

i always told myself this, since i haven’t touch on my blog for a while, i will do up a new design whenever i get a slr (of course i was sorta cheating because if i ended up with a macbook pro i’d probably won’t update this for a long time hahah), now that i got a new toy, a whole new shopping and deal hunting game has begun also, first of all the camera was a pretty good deal, 599 for the xsi kit + lowepro bag, extra battery, uv lens filter (basically the canon accessory kit), but i think i might try to sell them because i want to get my own stuff anyway, but still they’re good to have to we’ll see

first things to buy – a bag and the R strap, i hate these default strap that comes with the cam, having the camera around your neck and sticking on in front of your chest is a fail

cant do a post w/o talking about what i’ve been playing – ff13 non stop, it’s so awesome, not ff6 and 7 awesome but at least ff10 awesome, paradigm system is so awesome, it trumps starcraft 2 even though i got in the beta, but at least i gave romo invite and he’s playing it to death, mr top 3 in gold league whateva, also been playing lots fat princess because now errbody got ps3s, yay, now the game-to-play list just grows longer and longer

it will be back, with a new groove, soon? my march is kinda empty, but i also gotta play heavy rain, ff13, and sc2, and more

there are tons new pics on my flickr from the olympics though

• 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