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Neglect

My poor website is being neglected. I’m a horrible parent. I hope isn’t some weird forshadowing.

So here are some excuses:

• Work has been way too busy that I’ve been pretty much chained to my desks and sleeping in the work bathroom stalls
• I’ve been trying to disconnect as much as I can from the Internet, this means no iphone, surfing and emails
• My assistant has been on vacation and I’ve been transcribing my blog posts to my notebook and pencil but they’re not moving when I speak
• It’s too painful to blog from a netbook/iphone
• The person I’ve actually been writing about in the blog got hit by a bus and is dead, so I don’t have much content besides Edward Cullen blog posts
• My mom has started acting normal therefore less blog content

Enough excuses, back to your regular blogging schedule.

2:05 pm 0 Comments

Can you guess which one is true?

I have to admit that 31 years on this earth has got me into a lot of trouble. Other than doing a boring recap post, I thought it would be nice to hold a quick contest. Here’s the deal I have set up a few “categories” and cited 3 facts for each one. Here’s the kicker: one of the three is false.

Childhood:

1. My first ever program was written in Basic in Grade School. I was in a college-level art appreciation class when I was 8 years old and took piano lessons from 4 to 12 years old.
2. I was part of my grade school’s choir. I screwed up on national TV and thanked the Lord that all of the resulting footage was in Beta format – never to be played again.
3. I never knew what wearing jeans to school felt like until Grade 7 because in the all-boys school I went to the uniforms were different progressions of khaki. (shorts, long pants, then dark long pants)

High-school:

1. I was generally a school nerd. Chess and Physics clubs, Dungeons and Dragons, as well as Robotech role playing games were all part of the lunch past time.
2. I was a hard core Asian gangstah. Wore baggy cross-color jeans (3 times my size), listened to rap music, banned from stores because of shoplifting, fights and was considered by the principal as a “pretty violent teenager”.
3. I was a competitive basketball player and was recruited by Richmond High to join their varsity basketball ‘A’ team. I stole the provincials from Steveston High with a last minute 3 pointer in the finals.

Work:

1. I *technically* have 3 jobs. One is a team lead at ICBC, the other is teaching design at VFS and the other is my own business.
2. I was one of the first people in my college graduating class to get a job.
3. I believe that there are a lot of reasonable people and generally intelligence and logic prevail.

This blog:

1. I’ve been blogging for more than 5 years and each year has been more interesting than the last.
2. I’ve actually gotten myself into trouble professionally with my blog. Which prompted me to create my own 403 blocker page.
3. I make it a point never to censor myself or delete/re-edit a blog post.

My Personal Life:

1. I make it a point to own the latest and greatest in technology all the time.
2. I got married last year to the most awesome person who out styles me and will continue to out style me (but let’s not fuel her ego here)
3. I love to cook, but loving, effectively executing and not poisoning people are three very different things.

Can you guess which ones are false? First one to guess all of the facts correctly in the comments gets something!

6:55 am 1 Comment

Tweenage girls are not made out of sugar and spice

Since this is a venting avenue, I need to to vent or I think I might just go and murder all tweenage girls.

I went with a group of friends to go watch Confessions of a Shopaholic (what can I say I’m an Isla Fisher fan). Within a span of 1 and a half hours I developed an intense hatred for tweenage girls. They kept talking and kicking the back of our chairs throughout the whole movie! We weren’t being the passive aggressive Asians either. We told them to try and be quiet (politely), we told them to shut up (not so politely), we told them that we’d ship them to an island, give them a sack of randomly selected weapons and have them fight each other for 3 days until 1 is left standing while broadcasting the whole thing as a reality show (pure evil and japanese awesomeness). We even called the old dude that manages the theaters and still no luck!

They just continued to keep talking, giggling and kicking our seats. It would’ve been a tiny bit bearable if they were intelligently critiquing the movie (ok, THAT was a long shot) but they were talking about “Dear God, what am I going to do with my spare block?” I know! Shove it up your ass and take a special needs etiquette course on “Living and Functioning in a Society 101″ or maybe go to a movie worthy of your attention span and intelligence? Let me make a suggestion: Blues Clues: The Movie

When confronted with: “Do you know you’re being rude to everyone around you?” by a few different people. They answered, “Yes, and sorry but my friend has ADHD.” I can’t believe that they had the gall to insult people with ADHD! You don’t have ADHD; what you have requires padded rooms and bibs when eating.

Natural selection is definitely not doing a good job.

I propose that the next time kids decide to do this,  we immediately stop the movie, turn the lights on, hogtie them, drag them out by the hair Chris Brown/Rihanna style, call their parents, and make them refund everyone’s cash.

9:46 am 0 Comments

I’m soo sorry!

Oh my, it’s been that long? Ok, let me do a bit of explanin’. It’s been really hard to blog lately, especially with some of the events happening around me. I had one of those small freak-out moments that made me question about keeping this blog running and crawl into a drama queen filled hole of “GOAWAY”. I suppose it wasn’t enough of a freak out since I’m still writing. Yes, I’m intentionally being very vague about it.

Let’s move on to funnier stupid randomness (because really, that’s the point of my blog: being pointless).

I bought a Dell Mini 9. The keyboard too small or my fingers are too fat. Carpal tunnel is now settling in. Computer is hella cute though, and it makes me feel like a giant! A giant with a laptop.

I’ve been limiting the amount of TV that I’ve been consuming. It seems like my pattern lately have been Anime, cancelled Brian Fuller series (Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies) and The Guild. I’m getting annoyed at all my other regular shows. For example, my annoyance with EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER in Grey’s Anatomy and my disinterest in 24 was something I never thought was possible.

I’ve promised myself that I won’t be upgrading my phone this year. If you know me well enough, this is a very unlikely thing to happen. I usually have a new phone every year and two in some years. However, new phones are creeping themselves into my life and I’m starting to get gadget lust again. It’s only February for God’s sake!!

Cheryl and I saw a movie this last weekend. We saw a pregnant lady whip out an empty moldy popcorn bag, turn to her friend and said, “Hey! Want some popcorn?” She then went out, got a “refill” of popcorn, ate it before the previews finished, went back to get another refill and proceeded to empty the bag into their bellies. Yum! Yuck!

6:36 am 1 Comment

25 random facts meme

So I got tagged to do this meme through facebook (is that even a “legal” tag). I tend to pick and choose which meme’s I give in to and this sounded like an interesting challenge.

Here is how it works:

Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged (which I am not going to do).

So in no particular order.

1. I don’t like watching UFC. In my head, it’s pretty pointless but I watch anyway because I like hanging out with the guys, actually in reality this goes for most sports like Hockey, Basketball, and Football. Exceptions to the rules? Soccer and tennis.
2. A small part of me wishes that I had the skills to cosplay. Not so much making the costumes but wearing the cool gear!
3. I’m easily annoyed but I won’t show it unless you were a really good friend. Office politics and condescending attitudes get me heated every time. The good thing is, my annoyance diffuses within a few hours/days.
4. [edited - 'cause I care too much about Karry's (my manager's) sanity] Here’s a new one. This is the first time I’ve ever edited a post’s content. Technically I could’ve kept it up but really the hassle isn’t worth it. I kinda feel a little dirty.
   
5. I’m not a big sleeper. I like giving my body enough time to rest but anything more than that feels like I’m wasting life. Yea, I’m one of those people.
6. I’m obsessed with long-ish hair. I wish I had the head to pull it off without looking like a girl or a cross-dresser with a bad wig. I obsessed about Tom Cruise’s hair in Mission Impossible 2 for a long time. Maybe way too much for a heterosexual male.
7. I have a weird habit with pillow corners that I’ve apparently had since I was a baby. I chew them (or at least, it looks like I chew them).
8. I still watch Anime. Sometimes I watch the kind with robots, ninjas and magic but mostly I’m obsessed with the high school drama types. That being said, I loath soap operas in general.
9. I like fashion. Men’s fashion in particular. Paul Smith to be more specific, but I like fashion in general. When I have cash and I’m not obsessing over technology; I obsess over what clothes to buy and/or lust for. It’s a direct wife influence.
10. I would only live in a few cities around the world: Vancouver, Edmonton, San Francisco and Paris. Why? Family, Friends, Technology, Fashion and Weather.
11. I can install linux, configure a mail server, code using a crap load of languages, run a web server, build a 1 Terabyte raid just for fun and yet, I still don’t consider myself a geek.
12. I get insane headaches when I go without caffeine for 3 days straight. I’m talking “Hulk Smash” headaches without the turning green and the super strength. So I’m left with just a a really bad headache. Lame super power!
13. Contrary to popular belief, Book learnin’ was never my forte. I just put in a tonne of extra hours of work in there to read, re-read, memorize and understand. I’m more of a “do” kind of learner.
14. I’m an incredibly slow writer. It takes me a lot of time to compose blog posts and emails. Not that I don’t have much to say, I have to filter out a lot of internal dialogue like, “zomg are you really that dumb?”
15. Music helps me concentrate. It has to be very specific music, either instrumentals or k-pop or j-pop. Why? because not understanding the words won’t distract me from the task at hand while filtering out outside noise.
16. I don’t like going to sleep with things in my inbox. I’m OCD about processing my mail to inbox zero. There will be the occasional time when I will leave one or two emails in there but during those times I won’t sleep well.
17. This post is apparently longer than my usual post size. I tend to try and keep my posts down to less than 400 words because that is my own limit with reading.
18. I’ve recently learned that driving stick isn’t all its cracked up to be. Sure, you look fast and furious cool with the shifting but when you drive an ’04 passat wagon the image doesn’t quite fit. Plus, it’s pretty tiring.
19. It seems that everytime I look at the clock it reads 4:44. This scared the crap out of me since 444 is apparently an omen for death. This is the reason why I’ve switched to military time. I’ve pwned you clocks!
20. My favorite part of a song is usually the bridge. Cause that’s when they slow things down and you do your “cool move” in the club.
21. I have a “cool move” but since my clubbing days are over, no one will ever see it.
22. I was a trekkie back then. I collected the trading cards, owned an ensign costume, had the pin communicator (that makes sounds when you push it down) and went to convetions. That makes me a geek.
23. I don’t mind the rain. There is a relaxing quality about it. I like the sound that it makes. I actually prefer rain to snow, and I might even prefer rain to sunshine (might).
24. I really don’t like scary movies. I get nightmares and end up doing stupid things like turning my TV to face the wall (true story: right after I saw the ring).
25. I love the fact that I wear glasses. I had perfect vision when I was young and wished/prayed that I’d get prescribed glasses. Some say I like hiding behind them, others would say it’s a fashion accessory. I just like burning ants in my spare time.

Damn, that was a long post. I hope this makes up for the fact that I haven’t updated things in a while.

5:01 pm 2 Comments