I'm really not sure what posessed me to look this video up, but here it is. Maybe it was the reminiscing of those days... back in the early 90s when life was so much simpler. We had great hits like Run DMC - Down With the King, Naughty By Nature - Uptown Anthem, Public Enemy - 911's a joke... the list goes on.
I remember going out to the video store with my cousins... we had all our clothes backwards and wacked out hair as well... we put a little balloon hat on our baby cousin :D good stuff :P. I also remember having my hair in braids at one point... wth, eh? This coming froma Chinaman O.o
Today wasn't such a great day for me. I woke up feeling not-so-good. Chatted w/ Jacq for a bit, then had to go back to bed because I felt like crap :( sorry Jacq <3 One thing that was worrying me was whether I would be well enough to make it downtown for the fireworks tonight!
Thankfully, I did! (tho, again, things didn't all pan out)
I managed to acquire my tripod from my buddy KL... he lives on Burrard near Nelson and my tripod was at his place. I grabbed it and then started making my way down to the beach to catch up with x. Before I got there he had called and let me know where they were located. 'By the Mens washroom' Simple enough :) because I knew exactly where that was... what I wasn't expecting was the even bigger crowd that was there today. I neglected to factor in the weekend and the fact that people don't have to go to work the next day.
I slowly made my way down to the men's washroom and started rubbernecking to try to find x and his group of friends. By that time it was already dark so it wasn't an easy task... apart from that, there was a wall of people in front of me. I tried calling his phone... and someone from his house answered (?)... nice... good job, x... :p nedless to say, I ended up watching the show by myself... probably within 10 meters of him... AND I didn't get to setup the tripod because I was with the standing crowd.
I am working on compressing / uploading the footage at the moment :) be patient! it's worth the wait ;) China's show is going to be hard to beat!
Video has been compressed and uploaded. Pending verification :)
*** UPDATE ***
Google is pissing me off as their verification process take sooo long... I've uploaded chunks to YouTube again:
X decided that he wanted to play pool w/ me today :) yeee haw! For those of you who don't know, I used to work @ Starlite Billiards recently reopened as Cue Club.
I've been playing pool since I was about 8 yrs old, but only began playing seriously in my late teens. When I was on top of my game I was playing on average 5 hrs a day, about 5 days a week. That was when I could run roughly 5/9 racks. Now, I'm not so good :p I have some good days, and some not-so-good days :)
X and I decided to film some footage, here's our final game :P the sound seems to be out of synch... and ignore our commenets ^o)
That horrendous noise in the background is the huge fan that was blowing beside us :(
Woo.. .sorry for the lack of updates, but I've been busy trying to get everything in working order over the last few days...
As you may have guessed I've acquired a new RIG :D Weeeeeeeeee!
What has transpired since the last post?... hmm. Let's see on Friday, the 21st ASoo and I went out Downtown. That day I was looking to purchase a new Keyboard, I was planning on using my laptop as a closed PC so I needed a keyboard to plug in. I tried using the extra one that we had kicking around. Just a generic keyboard... not even a brand. Unfortunately, the connector was a PS/2 and not USB... most new laptops don't come with PS/2 ports.
We ended up eating in the Pacific Center Mall foodcourt. ASoo just grabbed a Julius and I ordered some Pho (IMO the best fastfood pho in Vancouver). While we were enjoying our food and chatting a couple came and sat beside us. They were both Asian but the girl was FREAKING tall. She was eating something strange out of a can... I managed to take a shot of her, but not a nice one :p I was talking to ASoo and just turned to camera in her general direction, tried to make it inconspicuous :D I still haven't figured out what was in that can... fruits perhaps?
After that we went for a walk down Robson to the Glico store :) I showed ASoo the CalorieMate hehe. Today was SL 500 / SLK / z4 day... there were so many we lost track. We also stumbled upon something very peculiar while in the Glico store... they were selling stuff off at rock bottom prices... reasoning, expiry date past. This is common in some stores... but... this one took the cake. You'd think that the items had only been expired by days, right? Wrong... Have a gander at these...
Expired: 6/25
you think that's bad? Check out this next picture...
wtf... that's more than 2 months ago!!!... Uh... someone call the health department? There has to be some law against that.
Anyway, we left the store and headed back towards the car. ASoo was amused at all the bums that we saw downtown. Vancouver is notorious for our less fortunate roaming the strip asking for cash. I was thinking of going on an outing just to take pictures of all the bums that we have down there... most of them are regulars that you will see EVERYDAY you're down there... and some of them pop up every-so-often. Seriously, there are enough of them down there that you could put together a bubblegum card collection.
There are regulars like the "please, sir, ma'am" guy, the crazy guy with the puppets... the not so regulars like the one-arm push-up guy, and the no-shoes guy... and the rares like harmonica guy, and even the guy that takes your money but makes it look like a charity... :P
That's just the tip of the iceberg too :/
Before I forget :) Here's an example of how our bums are getting lazier and lazier.
By Far, this one takes the cake :D it's not even a real person lmao. Classic.
ASoo and I stopped off at FutureShop.. That's where I was hoping to pick up the new Keyboard. We ended up purchasing a couple of spindles of dual layer DVD-R at one-day-sale price :) instead. They didn't really have what I was looking for (more-bang-for-my-buck keyboard). ASoo also mentioned that there is a decent Benq wireless keyboard & mouse combination that I could get at NCIX (roughly $25)... how could I go wrong with that? :D We should have gone to NCIX today instead :/ Haha... We also went to one of the arcades (MovieLand) and kicked his ass in some classic games :P. OkOk... ASoo beat me a couple of times too... in 1 particular game... I shall not reveal my weakness :D.
We left DownTown and headed back to my house... on the way out we saw a strange sight...
That was something new to me... I wasn't aware that there was yet another reality TV show in Vancouver... but I'm sure I'll be seeing lots more of it in the future (assuming it airs) because my mum is a Reality TV freak :/ As you can see the lineup is around the corner. They also blocked off the rest of the street as well. We eventually made it out of downtown and back on the way home. It was decided that we were going to head over to the Richmond Night Market this evening. That's right, we have a Pasar Malam here, Two in fact.
Vancouver Night Market began as a small affair in Vancouver's Historic Chinatown. That event occupied 2 streets last I went (probably over 5 years ago). The vendors sold the typical Night market goods... the most popular being pirated digital media, of course... wait, maybe it was the 'hawker' food :) you'll notice that I put quotes around the word 'hawker' ya? that's because IMO the food vendors here do not compare to those of S'pore / M'sia.
Richmond's Night Market came a few years after Chinatown's. It began in the parking lot of Lansdowne mall and from the get go was larger than the original. Eventually it outgrew that parking lot (amusement rides, and too many stalls) and moved over to a large lot by Bridgeport Rd. & 3 Rd. The new location allowed for about double the stalls that they had in the old location... and then it moved again. This time to the Industrial area just off the Knight St. / Bridgeport Rd. exit. The new locations provides more than just shopping. It has a stage setup for live entertainment as well :p I have yet to see a performance tho, I never go early enough... wait, I think I have seen ONE performance, some live band. Anyway, I'm sure you can do a search on Youtube / google video and find footage. In fact, I found footage of some Chinese Michael Jackson impersonator :D... and no, it's not the Malaysian Idol guy :D.
The following is an excerpt from Wikipedia:
In Vancouver, night markets take place on summer weekends in Chinatown and also in an industrial area near suburban Richmond's Golden Village; the latter attracts in excess of 12,000 people per night.
-Wikipedia (on: Night market)
On with the story. The main reasons that I wanted to go to Night Market was 1) I hadn't been there in awhile & 2) I NEEDED to find a keyboard for my laptop. Guess what? No Dice... the closest thing that they had was the Flexible USB keyboard. I wasn't about to pick that up... it's not like I'm going to be taking my laptop anywhere anytime soon... not with the busted monitor.
This year Night Market is full of garbage... it was quite a disappointment. Normally I'll come across something, anything that I'll pick up because it's useful / neat & cheap. Nope NADA. I even forgot to get my favorite Curried Fish Balls :o. By the end of the night, we left as we came, empty-handed. Grr... with the amount of people that we had wade through, I was almost willing to buy some random item... just to make it feel like it was worthwhile :@.
Here's a short clip of the crowd.. just to give you an idea:
The next day ASoo called me in the afternoon. He was stranded at Costco and wanted to hook up and head over to NCIX in Richmond.
Finally, I had a chance to go w/ him to a comptuer store. ASoo is planning on setting up a new server so he wanted to go check parts. Me, I was only planning on getting a keyboard, and a quote no how much damage my wallet was going to take. The reason we were in Richmond NCIX is because ASoo is like a crack addict and Richmond NCIX is his dope dealer. Yup, it was pretty much first-name-basis for him. I was hoping that I could get him to help me pick components for my PC, I ended up telling the NCIX guy "What would you recommend?". I told him that I wanted a machine that was decent for gaming as well as working with graphics.
Here is the quote:
Tonight I folded and ended up calling Microsoft Product Activation line so that I could activate my Windows XP (pro 32bit) on my new machine :( I didn't want to. I was actually trying to install Windows Vista Beta 2 64bit but the activation period of 14 days had already expired so I couln't login after installing... in short... I wasted over an hour of my time trying to install Windows Vista Beta 2. Ghey.
After that I tried to do an install of my Windows XP Pro... but for some reason I ended up getting some wierd error. I did some research and it looked like some people were getting this error as a result of HW failure (?) umm... I was not happy to hear that, but I was also pretty sure that that was not the case for me. This was a brand spanking new HD.
Eventually I had to startup in recovery mode and use the console to manually format the C Drive. Everytime I tried to format it using the Windows XP install process it wouldn't wipe out the old Windows (Vista) install.
Some of you already know that my trusty laptop's monitor decided to crap out on me not long ago. I'm not sure how... but I seem to have a gift for destroying electronics (that I own). When I was in the British Columbia Institue of Technology (BCIT) I was in the laptop program. This required that we lease an IBM Thinkpad from the school. Apparently, we all got a bad bunch of laptops so there were 10/13 (if memory serves me correctly) that were sent back for servicing... as if that's not bad enough. My laptop happened to be the LEMON of the whole bunch... hehe, I just remembered that I wrote about it earlier... read about it here.
So anyway... I was came into my room one day and had the laptop on my bed when I accidentally knocked the screen forward. Those of you who have owned a Toshiba Satellite can attest that the monitor's hinges are pretty flimsy. If you get the monitor at a 90 degree angle you can rock it back-and-forth. My hinge (over 3 years old now) is loose as hell so when I bumped it and caused it to shift more than 35-40 degrees it slammed shut :( I opened up the laptop thinking all was well. No... all was not well. The screen was flickering and occassionally it would jump. fek.
I rode it out hoping that this was just some freak thing and that it would go away... surprise, surprise... nope. Eventually, the next day, I got to witness the screen flicker out. I wasn't even using the laptop at that time, I was using my dad's as he's out of town for the week.
I figured that the rest of the laptop was in perfect order cuz I pressed the cPad button to light it up... and the power button to light up the top console, they both worked. Then I plugged the Toshiba into my TV and switched it. It came on with no issue. No flickering, no jumping. So it appears that the back lighting for the screen has decided to give out. Upon closer inspection I confirmed my suspicions. You can see the crystals changing to draw the screen, but there is no lighting from behind. I just looks like a ghost of an image.
Now I use this laptop as my primary computer so it looks like I'll have to purchase a new one. This time I think I'll go for my first PC. Suggestions anyone? It's as if I have a PC but no monitor, wtf. Seeing as I'm going to need a monitor for my fancy new PC I went online and researched as well as got some advice from AS then headed out with AK in search of a new monitor. Futureshop was useless, they had one 20" monitor on display and the one time that I wanted a rep to help me, they were nowhere to be found. NCIX had what I was looking for... but not in stock at the location that we were at. grrr. I paid for the product at that location and AK taxied us over to their other location, in rush hour, none-the-less. Here's the route we took: gmaps. If you're wondering, gmaps lies... it took far more than 23 minutes to get there :P
After finally acquiring the package I went home but didn't have a chance to get it working until after I came back from my jog w/ my cousin.
Even while trying to get things working between the laptop and the monitor, the laptop put up a fight :@. I tried plugging the monitor in and switching the output. No luck. I tried installing the driver and switching the output. No luck. Then I tested it with my dad's laptop... wth, that was fine. I tried again and again until I finally got fed up and rammed the connector into the socket as far as it could go... OMG!!! The angels in Heav'n did sing! The monitor flickered to life... and with the image from my laptop :'( *sniff*. I felt like an addict suffering from withdrawal about to take a dose... wooo, liberation!
Excuse the ghetto setup :p see? it works! :D and 0 (zero) dead pixels!
My parents had wanted to take me out for dinner during the week but we decided to move the dinner to Saturday so that's when we went out. Bird Day outing #3 was at Coast restaurant in YaleTown (Hamilton St).
I've been to Coast Restaurant a couple of times before and each time was a great experience. One of the things that drew me back was their attention to detail. I filled out one of the surveys after a meal and within a week I received a card thanking me for taking the time to fill out the survey. The card was written and signed by our waiter :p. On my Birthday I recieved another letter from Coast, this time offering Birthday wishes and inviting us to enjoy a complimentary dessert for 2 upon presentation of said letter :) They know how to make you feel special :p
Coast restaurant is a loft setup with a patio outside, Communal table in the middle tables all around and more seating upstairs. Unfortunately for us, this time we were seated in the booth right next to the stairs... which is not such a bad thing, save for the A/C blowing down on us.
For dinner my Dad ordered the Australian Lamb Rack and Baja Scallops, Mum ordered the Grilled Seafood Brochette (?) and I had the Carpaccio of Beef Tenderloin followed by the Alaskan King Crab Gnocchi.
Dad's Lamb was very nice, not too strong, and very tender. The scallops... mmm. Mum's I couldn't really tell what it tasted like O.O she ruined all the flavor by dumping tabasco all over it :P. My carpaccio was delicious, thinly sliced, served with Head Cheese, figs and some greens. The Alaskan King Crab Gnocchi was very nice as well. I'm a big fan of gnocchi and crab so the combination intrigued me :) It was very nice. The gnocci was prepared nicely not too soft, not too hard, and the King Crab was full of flavor, very juicy.
For Dessert we shared the dessert for two :p We didn't order anything else because we had to meet up with my cousin that night (True confections). It's her BirdDay too ;) The Dessert for two was a little dinky but still... wow. I was surprised. There were two items: Coast's version of an Oreo cookie (outstanding) and Coast's version of a Reese's Peanutbutter cup (also nice) tho I'm not a big fan of Peanutbutter.
After dinner we walked on down to the car and headed down to Denman street and True Confections!
When we arrived My cousins and friend were already there. They were waiting for us and two more. Wow... I hadn't been there in awile... mainly because I'm not too much of a desert person and alternatively because the portions are huge and not cheap :P shh.
I ordered a RootBeer Float to drink and everyone else ordered their own.. some water, and some coffee. When everyone else arrived they ordered their dessert: I have pictures but don't know what they are :D sorry... all I can say is that those wedges are freakin' HUGE!!! O.O They couldn't finish the layered one and ended up taking half of it home :D
Our night ended at the Cue Club, a poolhall that just opened nearby my house. It was formerly another poolhall ,Starlite Billiards, where I worked before. We all shot a couple of games of pool and then went home... another nice BirdDay outing!
On Saturday we spent 5 hours clearing out the garbage in my Grampa / Grama's old house. Aunt Sally just sold it and has moved over to the Brentwood area. The new family has already come in and started renovating the home. While our family was cleaning out the house we found stashes of money all over the house... it appears that Grampa liked to hide cash just-in-case. I believe that after the cleaning was done, all the cash amounted to over $20k! :o ya... crazy eh? Who knows what you have hidden around your OWN house :p
We had rented one of those small(er) sized disposal bins so we could throw out all the stuff in the garage, I believe the dimensions were 14ft long x 8ft wide x 5 ft deep.
I didn't know what I had gotten myself into. I ended up having to climb up into the rafters in the garage. That was pretty nasty stuff... I couldn't stand up, or sit up for that matter, because the single nails were sticking through. I really didn't feel like getting poked with a rusty nail -_-; On top of that, there were mouse/rat droppings all over the place again... this time I wasn't prepared and was not wearing a mask... big mistake. When I blew my nose later... everything was brown... yuck.
We also found a couple of items that Grampa had made to make life easier... he was a jack-of-all-trades.
left: dustpan and brush. right: fish mallet and scaler.
Five hours and alot of climbing, breaking, arguing, throwing, carrying, arranging later... we had our finished 'product'. Since we didn't meet the 3 O'clock deadline for that day we had to wait until Monday until we could call the company up and have them remove the bin. Hopefully, before then, no one comes and dumps stuff in there :@ As you can see the dumpster is full, right to the top.
When all was said and done, my uncle and I decided to use the Driver that we found to whack a few apples down the alley :D I remember my cousin used to do this in our backyard years back :P This time I ended up with a piece of apple in my eye O_O hehe... it was well worth the explosion and the laughs :) below is my Uncle taking a whack at it ;)
Oh ya... I went home and had a look at myself in the mirror... wth, filthy!
The day after my birthday AS and Miguel decided they wanted to take me out for a Bird Day outing :) I hadn't seen them in ages so I accepted their offer.
That night was all-you-can-eat Japanese food night for us... our destination: E Bei Sushi on Granville and 41st.
I've been there a couple of times and the all-you-can-eat menu is actually pretty good compared to other places. What I didn't realize was that it's $22.95 per person... I'm used to the other places that charge $15... mind you, their AYCE menus are very limited, and they're stingy with the portions.
I guess the prices of the food weren't too bad considering the ludicrous amount of food that we consumed... wow! It was actually pretty disghusting now that I think about it. :D Miguel and AS slowed down waaaaaay before I did... but they still did a very good job :) We cleaned off the table, minus a scallop roll, and that was because the scallops were not fresh... they had a fishy taste to them, eew.
By the end of the meal, Miguel felt like vomiting.. and AS couldn't even stand straight... he looked like he was going to pass out :p
We made it back to his Honger-Mobile and ended up at Cue Club where we met up with another old collegue / college mate of mine. Thanks for the entertaining even guys ;)
Hehe.. I had an AYCE receipt 3 or 4 times as long before :p Wonder if I can find that one :D
Last night I went to watch Superman Returns 3D :) Since there has been so much hype surrounding Superman I was afraid that I would be disappointed with my experience... Thankfully, I was wrong!
We went to SilverCity Riverport, one of the 2 places showing Superman Returns in 3D. I was surprised at the number of people watching movies that night... it was a Thursday and we still had to park on the lower parking lot. It's summer I guess :p
We purchased our tickets and then proceeded on over to New York Fries... I was a bit hungry and my choices were limited... I should have gone out to eat before making our way to the cinema. My choices: Pizza Hut, Burger King, New York Fries... or junk from the food stand that sells popcorn. I chose New York Fries because they sold hotdogs... they were the closest thing to healthy as I was going to get in SilverCity.
"2 Hotdogs and 2 waters please." "Umm... the person before me forgot to thaw out the hotdog buns so there are no buns for the hotdogs."
Nice... anyway, I ended up buying a poutine. So much for eating 'healthy'.
We managed to get a decent seat towards the back and in the middle of the row. The only drawback was the retard sitting beside me. The dumbass insisted on answering his calls during the movie... phone was on vibe, but mouth was on max volume.
The IMAX 3D experience was nice :) I hadn't been to a 3D movie in years. One cool thing was that the movie trailers were all in 3D... for some reason, AK's favorite trailer was the one for Happy Feet
Don't get me wrong.. it's a cute trailer.. but ya, lol, he went off on it :p AK thought it was the funniest thing.
Here's how the 3D movie worked... at the beginning of the movie they explain to you: when you see the 3 GREEN glasses flashing in front of you, then put ON your glasses... When you see the RED flashing glasses then take them OFF.
4 scenes were selected and digitally enhanced for 3D viewing... I'm not sure who chose the scenes, but I hope someone got fired over the last choice... what a rip-off. They chose the final 30 seconds before the credit roll, why? There were a few other action scenes that they could have chosen to convert.
The movie itself was not too bad. In my opinion Bryan Singer stayed true to the Superman of the 80s and there were a couple of moments in the movie I was thrown back by the Reeve-esq crooked smile that Brandon Routh offered. I'm not sure how I feel about Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane but IMO Kevin Spacey was a little hit-and-miss as Lex Luther. Meh... and having Kumar as a villain kinda threw me off as well :p
Overall... good stuff :) Go watch it! If not for the movie, then just to look hawt in the 3D glasses :p
Heh... I finally got to open my Bird-day gift from Jacq today :D The best thing about that whole event was the fact that Jacq was more excited for me to open the gift than I was :D I was very excited, but she wanted me to tear into it before it hit midnight :D
oo... what's inside? :D well.. actually, I already know it's a watch cuz it says so on the package :P... but we all wanna see what it looks like :D and Jacq wants to see if it looks ok on me :)
Inside the envelope was another envelope with my Bird Day card, and a neat little box with a ribbon :)
Inside that box was another box, this time wrapped beautifully, bound with a fancy silver ribbon ;) Getting closer :D
Unwrapping the second box revealed: Solvil et Titus... a beautiful silver analog watch with a gunmetal gray face and analog stopwatch :D... wow!
As expected the watch was a little large :p I could slide it on without undoing the latch...
AK and I went downtown today so I brought my new watch along to get it sized :) I first went to a jeweller but left soon after because they were too busy... then up to the watch shop... who apparently couldn't do it because the links were not standard... then we went to the Bay department store and had the watch repair guy do it... Perfect! :D
Today I was sitting @ home and mum called me. An old friend was in town and she was going to have dinner w/ him and his mum. I haven't seen him in ages, and I heard that he was in a terrible accident just recently.
I'm glad I took the time to go out and have lunch with the 3 of them. It was nice to see my friend and his mom. He's looking pretty good and you can't really tell that he was in a life-changing / threatening accident just a couple of short months ago. The only REALL tell-tale signs for me were the small scar on his forehead, and the fact that he's lost 40 pounds since then. He's now roughly 200 lbs.
As the story goes he was riding an ATV w/ his friend and they ended up flipping it. His buddy ended up breaking a leg, and the ATV ended up on top of my friend roll bar crushing him. They ended up righting the ATV and riding back to the house where he lays down... here's where I lose the details, but I know they were rushed to the hospital. He was there for a couple of days getting fixed up and had tests run to see if there was anything else wrong... they couldn't figure anything out so he was trying to convince the docs to let him walk out. No dice... which was probably good, because apparently after a couple of days his stomach began bloating up to a ridiculous size and he slipped into a coma.
I'm not sure what the extent of the internal injuries are but I know that he had to have a Colostomy. Fortunately, it seems that his is not permanent so he will be able to go back and get the procedure reversed. His appetite has come back and he's trying to gain back the lost weight as well. On top of that he has a massive hernia as well. The operation to correct that will take place at a later date as well. For him there were 2 options: a mesh (non-dissolving) to hold everything in, or use the existing stomach walls to overlap and secure. It wasn't a hard choice as he doesn't want a plastic mesh inside, plus, apparently there is a higher risk of infection with the first procedure.
He's going to be in town for the rest of the month (on Bowen island) so we're going to try to get together and catch up... definitely nice to see him again :) and even better to see that he's recovering well!
Yesterday morning my mother and I accompanied my sis and her husband to the airport. They're going to S'pore / M'sia / Thailand, etc... for 6 weeks (again, refer to the crying video below). It seems that the Spirit Bears are REALLY all over Vancouver... I found another one in the airport.
After our outing to the airport I decided to rearrange my room and sort things... hopefully this will help get my mind in order too. I'm slowly going through my old spindles of anime and discovering that I have multiple copies of the same episodes... wth...
Yesterday afternoon while I was crashed out as a result of that stupid hangover a package arrived at our door...
Since I was passed out in my room, my dad received it for me and paid the postage due. He then woke me up (thought I was awake already) and gave it to me. I'm so happy :D It's a bird-day gift from Jacq :D What a sweetheart!
It's not even my bird-day yet! O.O So that means that I'm going to keep it closed until that day comes ;) She wants me to open it now :p but I'll wait, hehe!
I mentioned to Jacq that we had to pay postage due upon receipt and she seemed pretty shocked. I guess it's more common here than it is in S'pore? Or... maybe I'm just wierd? Anyway, here's the breakdown:
It's all a little bit ridiculous as our portion almost added up to the amount she paid to post it in the first place... wth. She also mentioned that Canada is not on S'pore's list of insurable destinations... wth??? Are we both not Commonwealth countries? (ya, that last fact doesn't really have to do with anything but... come on... we're brethren :p)
Today was sorta 'hit & miss' for me... well, more miss than hit, but ya ;)
I woke up this morning thinking that it would be another typical day. I had planned to go to get a haircut, go for a jog / workout etc. You can probably guess that none of those things happened :$ haiz.
Last night my family and I went out for dinner with some family friends. We went to the Keg Steak House in New Westminster. The reason I didn't blog about it is: 1) I'm not a big fan of the Keg. & 2) I didn't have my camera. That being said, the pictures you'll see in this post are not taken by me and are just here for the purpose of illustrating my story.
Dinner was nice although it seemed a little dark where we were sitting. The parents needed assistance in reading the menus because the room was so dimly lit.
For dinner I ordered the Steak and Half Lobster. The steak was a Tender Sirloin Steak cooked medium rare and the lobster was... well, a half lobster. Along with my dinner I had 2 cans of Guinness Draft. Why cans? Because I didn't have a choice :( They didn't have Guinness on tap. The Steak was done nicely, the rice (wild rice) was a nice change from the everyday Chinese white rice that we usually eat. The Lobster was as lobster usually is RICH AND DELICIOUS! I don't know if it's actually the Lobster taste itself that gets me or if it's the melted butter that I bathe the lobster in. I don't know about other Chinese families, but THIS Chinese family almost never has butter in the fridge :(
Dinner seemed to go off w/o a hitch... the bill was $300+ which is not too bad considering there were eight of us.
Anyway, the whole purpose of this story is to tell you how much I suck. It hasn't even been 1 month before the last time that I had consumed beer and this time... I woke up with a splitting headache :( how embarassing. I only had 2 beer and end up with a hangover... psh... yes, I am WEAKSAUCE...
The result? I chatted with Jacq for less than 2 hours... then had to crash again because I felt like my head was going to explode... grrr. No haircut, no jog, no workout, no nothing... just one collosal waste of a day.
