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One of my favorite commercials currently... (including alternates)... ENJOY! :D

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McDonald's Memories :D...

The other day Jacq and I were talking about McDonald's and the different menus that they have all around the world... It reminded me of that REALLY old commercial from when I was in elementary school :p I did a search on YouTube and someone actually posted it :D

Anyway, I'm pretty sure that the Canadian version had some minor differences, but hehe, it doesn't matter :p it's such a great song :D

Big Mac,
Mc DLT,
a Quarter-Pounder with some cheese,
Filet-O-Fish,
a hamburger,
a cheeseburger,
a Happy Meal.
McNuggets,
tasty golden french fries,
regular or larger size,
and salads: chef salad or garden,
or a chicken salad oriental.
Big Big Breakfast,
Egg McMuffin,
hot hot cakes,
and sausage.
Maybe biscuits,
bacon, egg and cheese,
a sausage,
danish,
hash browns too.
And for dessert
hot apple pies,
and sundaes
three varieties,
a soft-serve cone,
three kinds of shakes,
and chocolatey chip cookies.
And to drink a Coca-Cola,
Diet Coke, and orange drink,
A Sprite and coffee, decaf too,
A lowfat milk, also an orange juice.
I love McDonald's, good time great taste,
and I get this all at one place...

Movie: Pulse...

A couple of nights ago I went to see Pulse with AK...

Synopsis:

Imagine our wireless technologies made a connection to a world beyond our own. Imagine that world used that technology as a doorway into ours. Now, imagine the connection we made can't be shut down. When you turn on your cell phone or log on to your e-mail, they'll get in, you'll be infected and they'll be able to take from you what they don't have anymore - life. Kristen Bell ("Veronica Mars"), Christina Milian ("Love Don't Cost A Thing") and Ian Somerhalder ("Lost") star in "Pulse," a bone-chilling thriller hitting theatres on July 14th.

I just recently found out that this movie is based on a Japanese original (Kairo) made in 2001. I haven't had the chance to watch the whole thing through yet, but I'm thinking that it's going to be the same deal as The Grudge (Ju On) and The Ring (Ringu). Anyway, back to my story.

This particular night was interesting because I had to get up and tell someone off. Now, it's been awhile since I last had to do that and I don't enjoy getting up and disrupting other people... but. From the beginning of the movie until about 20 minutes in, everything was alright... then out of the corner comes a sound... crinkle... crinkle... Everyone ignored it, we all thought it was going to be a one-time thing... nope. *crinkle crinkle CRINKLE CRINKLE* !!! Wtf?! So I tried to ignore it... but after 30 minutes, that's right... 30 frickin minutes he was still at it. By that time, our neighbors knew that I was extremely agitated because I had spent sometime leaning forward to get a good look at fatty sitting in the corner there. Finally I couldn't take it anymore :@ I got up and walked over to the corner, funny thing is, as soon as I got up my neighbors knew where I was going and had their legs outta my way :p.

I had to stand there for a few seconds before he noticed me staring at him, but he eventually turned his head towards me.

"Are you enjoying your food?"
"Wha..?"
"Are you enjoying your food?"
"Yea... why?"
"Cuz... I can hear you eating it FROM OVER THERE!!! :@ It's been a half-hour now!"

I wasn't planning on raising my voice quite that high, but uh... oops :p

"Why don't you just pour that shit out into your lap and quit playing with the bag?!"

The guy then proceeds to throw his food into the next seat at the same time screaming,

"Fine I've thrown it away now! Next time I'll throw it in your fucking face!"

At this time I have to stop myself from laughing because out from the other side I hear AK cracking up... I guess he heard everything I said :p I let him know that it wasn't just me that was annoyed as hell and I went back to my seat.

Just so you know I was sitting in the middle of the row and this guy was in the corner against the wall... That's how loud it was... frickin tool. I'm surprised no one else said anything to him earlier.

As you can imagine.. that didn't help make the movie a good experience for me. It was already slow going and the plot seemed pretty thin... honestly, I don't even feel like going into detail about it. Being from the IT industry... none of these things seem plausable... Ok, fine, it's just a horror movie... and if they kept it as just a horror movie then it would have been alright, I guess. Blah... I'd say wait until it comes out as a rental.

Movie: The Descent...

Tonight I watched a movie with AK... I'm pretty happy because it looks as though there is a string of horror movies coming out :D and I'm a horror movie buff :)

On with the story. Our movie was scheduled for 10:10 pm so we left my house at around 9:40pm (the theater is fairly close by). We arrived at roughly 9:50 and to our horror, the theatre was busy as hell. I was thinking that we'd have to refund our tickets and come see it another night. Then I thought... what movies have just been released? Pulse and World Trade center are the two that immediately came to mind. We were praying that everyone was going to see those ones. On the way up to the theatres there was a lineup that started going down the flight of stairs.

Usually when we purchse our tickets we just go to the machines and debit, there's almost never a line-up... tonight there was, and AK was lucky enough to have two chimps ahead of him :D We got our tickets and made our way over towards our theatre. Crap, there was a line-up there too, fortunately it looked longer than it actually was. We managed to get seats at the back of the room, right in the middle :)

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I'm not sure what I was expecting out of this movie... but, I'm still also not sure what I got out of it either :P. Here's the synopsis:

One year after a tragic accident, six girlfriends meet in a remote part of the Appalachians for their annual caving trip. Deep below the surface of the earth, disaster strikes when a rock falls and blocks their route back to the surface. The girls soon learn that Juno, the thrill-seeking leader of the expedition, has brought them to an unexplored cave and that as a result no one knows where they are to come rescue them. The group splinters and each push on, praying for another exit. But there is something else lurking under the earth - a race of monstrous humanoid creatures that are adapted perfectly to life in the dark. As the friends realize they are now prey, they are forced to unleash their most primal instincts in an all-out war against an unspeakable horror - one that attacks without warning, again and again and again.

The way the movie started out mislead me a little. I was pretty stoked because something major happens within the first 10 minutes. Then for the next 20-30 minutes, the pace slows drastically... essentially just showing the party of girls spelunking/caving. The cast is essentially a bunch of actors that no one in N. America have heard of... well... I haven't heard of any of them. There was only one that was really worth looking at (IMO) and I couldn't figure out if she was Hispanic, Asian, or a mix of some sort.

In the movie they claim that the predators (and that's what they actually sound like :P) have 'adpated perfectly to life in the dark'. I think not. They can hear people moving from far away.. but they can't feel/hear someone breathing inches away from their face? They can't feel heat, or tell the difference between stone and hair? I don't want to give anything away... but I'm sure you get the idea. Furthermore, they offer no explanation as to where they come from, what their purpose is (aside from hunting, consuming & surviving)... really, they make absolutely noooo attempt to fill in that gap. We're just supposed to accept it. t('.'t) C'mon... you've got to give us something with a little more substance. Yes, even if it's fiction... I was chuckling to myself when I first caught a glimpse of one... I was waiting for it to start whispering, "My Precious..." :p

Even the special effects were sub-par. There was a scene that had bats flying out of a tunnel in the cave... it looked like they took those bats from another movie and tried to super-impose them in... One thing that I (as well as my neighbors) enjoyed were some of the gory parts :p not so realistic, but still entertaining non-the-less :D Would I recommend this movie? That's a tough one... I've definitely seen worse, but I've also seen much better... if you're looking for something with more substance and purpose then this is not for you. If you're looking for a random, REALLY RANDOM horror movie that's just there and doesn't give you any explanation for what's going on :p this is it! :D

Celebration of Light 2006 - Grand Finale

Heh.. I almost forgot about this clip :p Here's the grand finale for the Celebration of Light 2006, Vancouver:

Celebration of Light 2006 - Mexico

Yes, yes, it's a little late, but I'm posting the celebration of light video for Mexico and the Finale :) I've already encoded and uploaded to Google, now it's just a matter of waiting until they verify and make it live ;)

ok... so it says that it's live now.. but when I click on the link it says that the vid is not available :@... grrr.

Ok.. the video is available now. Actually, it was probably available the whole time, but for some reason it's listing the wrong link. I clicked around, went to reports and found the right link. Here it is. You can hear the Chinese lady next to me (as well as others) screaming at a couple that came just before the start of the show, and stood in front of all of us. You can also hear someone else yelling at his gf to turn of 'that idiot hat' :p

The Vid is a little crooked... I didn't bother to look at my level before proceeding to film hehe.

Celebration of Light 2006 Czech Republic - Full Video

WOW... this one didn't take 4 days for google to verify and make live...

Here you go :)

Celebration of Light 2006 - Czech Republic

Today is Wednesday and therefore Celebration of lights day :). X and I had planned to go together again, but due to last-minutes changes to his job schedule, and people not responding to their MSN, I ended up attending this event on my own. Meh... it wasn't all that bad.

I didn't have to worry about losing someone in the crowd and I didn't have to wait around for people to catch up. The down-side? Well, if I wanted a REALLY nice spot, then I'd have had to go early and sit alone like a loser O.o I opted to go just before the start of the show and shove my way to the front of the standing crowd :p

On the way down to the beach I stumbled upon one of the Capoeira Schools doing a street exhibition :) These guys are great... I'd attend Capoeira lessons, but it's pretty steep, who knows, maybe in the future :p

I pushed my way down to the section in front of the speakers, same place as last time. This time I made sure that I was at the front of the standers :p well, almost in front anyway. It was a nice change to be able to setup the tripod and shoot instead of standing there holding my arms out for 25 minutes :) The resulting video is much better than the previous shaky cam ones although since it was a windless night, the smoke ended up lingering and obstructing some of the fireworks. You'll see... I'm encoding / uploading the videos, so you'll have to bear with me ;)

The aftermath:

On the way back to the car (I took Davie St) I noticed that there was a group of people causing a rukus. Naturally, I followed hoping that I would get some good footage that I could post on the net curious to see if anything would happen. Lo-and-behold...


The guy that's facing me was screaming something to his buddy, "hey *friend's name*! Make sure you get this shit and send it to me!"... then there was his friend, "This is illegal! It's against our rights!" Rights? What rights? :P The only right that was violated was your right-to-not-be-a-moron-in-a-place-crawling-with-5-0, & you gave that one up the moment you stepped out your house, dumbass.

Celebration of Lights 2006 China (Full Video)

Google Video finally decided to allow my video to go live, and here it is :)

Celebration of Light 2006 - China (Day 2)

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:

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Celebration of Light 2006 - Italy (Day 1)...

Yesterday night I had the good fortune of X reminding me that the Celebration of Light is on again!!!

Here is some footage from the affair :) I'll blog more about it later... still have to finish up the post about my PC..

******** UPDATE ********
I posted the full version on Google Video :) it only looks good if you keep it at the original size tho.

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The videos are in 3 parts because each show is about 25 minutes long and youtube only allows 10 minute vids now:

Pre show - Hare Krishnas:

Part 1 of 3:

Part 2 of 3:

Part 3 of 3:

Post Fireworks Crowd:

Accidental Summer Day Project...

I was helping my dad clean out the garage just last week and we discovered that the previous owners of this house was a packrat. Yes, that means that we've never EVER cleaned out this garage O_o Interesting innit? The garage-cleaning story can be a post all on its own, but I'll just summarize the highlights here:

While cleaning stuff out... I found that we had some fairly large spiders in there. Nasty, nasty spiders. I'm not one to kill insects (unless they're trying to inflict some sort of harm to me) so my dad kept mashing the spiders whenever we came across them. *sploosh* that's right, *sploosh* that's how big they were... eew.

While mum and dad were outside I stayed in the garage moving the boxes in the corner to the outside of the garage. The purpose of this exercise was to clear the whole floor so that we could sweep it and then use the hose to spray it down. I noticed tikus droppings ALL OVER THE PLACE... that should have been some sort of hint that MAYBE, just maybe there was a tikus hiding somewhere in the garage. Guess what? I found its home O_O. For some reason I decided to open this one particular box (styrofoam) dunno why... the giant hole in the side should have been enough of a warning to stay away from it... but noooooooooo.

The next thing that my parents heard was a muffled yell (no, I didn't scream) as a huge black rat jumped out at me from inside the box (the yell was muffled because I was wearing a mask to protect my lungs from all the dust, etc...). I'm not sure that I was scared of the rat... I was surprised as hell tho. Wish I had my camera at that moment... meh. To tell you the truth, I wasn't sure whether I should kick it, step on it, or try to catch it :p I decided to just let it run off... into the neighbor's garage :D shh.

Anyway, the purpose of this tangent was to point out the fact that there was tons of wood store along the walls of the garage. We bundled them up (sorta) and put them outside our fence in the alleyway.

Along with the wood, we threw out boxes (with wood, of course) hoping that the garbage men would simply take it away the following day.

As it turns out... garbage men don't qualify wood & wood scraps as ordinary household garbage :p it was still there when we went out to check the next day. To tell you the truth, I wasn't too surprised. So I walked over to my dad and asked him:

"hey dad, have you checked what's in that box? I mean, before you threw it out here."
"Uh, nope"
"Ooookay, why don't we have a look at what we were about to blindly thrown out"

I then proceeded to tear open the box and check the contents... wood... more wood... beveled wood... wth. It looked like pre-fab. Then I came across some assembly instructions.


Weeeeeeeeee! Instructions on how to put together a garden chair :D And so I made it my accidental project for the day :D

I opened up the box and laid out all if its contents... ok ok... they were just strewn about but whatever... The package even came complete with the galvanized nails and bolts :) The wood seemed like it was all in good condition and it looked like all the pieces where there. I ran off and grabbed our little red toolbox hehe... now I get to do some Tim Taylor stuffy stuff... tho I wasn't about to soup it up and make into some freaky Tool Time disaster project.

Time for me to put stuff together... Step 1. Nail wedges to rear legs even with slots. Space round edge seat bars evenly along rear legs. Looks simple enough :p problem was I didn't have a set square so I wasn't sure how square the pieces were... another problem... I don't have a workbench :p I had to sit on a stool and use the walkway... keke. Regardless... It seemed to turn out ok :) you'll notice it looks like there is a chunk missing from one of the slats, it's actually where a knot used to be... I didn't break it... I swear <_< >_>


Step 2. Using Two 21" pieces fit front leg support into slots on front legs. Place the two arm supports on front edge of leg and level with the top. Step 3. Join together assembly 1 & 2. Use bolts provided. Hrm... Step 2 was simple enough, come step 3 however... I discovered that the holes that were pre-drilled for the bolts didn't even come close to lining up... and NO I did not put something together backwards. :@ Weee! I got to use the drill :p

Step 4. Nail back support sections evenly along last square edge 19 1/2" piece. Umm... what last square edge 19 1/2" piece? OMGWTFBBQ... I'm missing a piece. *sigh* well, since we had so much wood kickin' around and I had already come so far, why not make my own square edge 19 1/2 piece? In that whole pile of wood I found 1 decent candidate... wow. And even that was stretching it... I had to file down one side to make it even (no I didn't have any sand paper on hand... so I have to use the file). and then I had to use that handsaw (shown below) to cut out the notches.

Step 5. Place assembly 4 in slots on rear legs and nail. As you can see, I managed to do an ok job regardless of the minor setback :p I had to cut the notches because the wood was not the right dimensions and the slats for the back would not have fit if I didn't otherwise. :) It worked out fine. The saw is just there to prop up the back ... just to match the drawing in the assembly instructions.

It's starting to look like a chair!!!

Step 6. Bolt arms to back support. Step 7. Fasten arms to front legs and arm supports. Taking care to note arms are level. Fasten back support to chair back.

TADAAAAA!!!!

I'm quite pleased with the end result, AND it really does work :p you can sit in it and it doesn't break.. hehe.

Total time spent: over 4 hrs.
I believe you can pick up a chair like this in select stores... they cost somewhere between $50 and $80. If you're looking to get the original Adirondack Chairs they come at a greater cost... for some reason O.o...

The final product was sanded and stained :) I'll post a picture of it later ;)

WiFi Hunting...

Here I am inside Blenz on Robson and Bute on their open wireless network :) It's the first time I've actually come out in search of an open wireless network with intentions of just sitting down, relaxing and... sipping coffee(?). Ya well, I'm sitting down and relaxing.. but I'm not sipping coffee. I'm actually sipping on a Bolthouse Farms (Since 1915) Strawberry Banana Fruit Smoothie with Apple Juice drink (that's a mouthful).

Earlier today, x-tension caught me on MSN...

x: hey sam.
me: w/sup
x: nothing much. trying to figure out what to do on a sunny b/ windy afternoon
me: fly kites :D
x: i got no kites.
me: blading
x: no blades.
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(about an hour later)

me: I just thought of something...
x: ?
me: if we can find somewhere with a WAP then we can go blog :P
me: hehe
x: like a coffee shop?
me: something like that
x: i'm down. LOL

And here we are :) BUT.. I forgot to bring along my Camera :'( I'll just have to steal pictures off x's Photoblog

So our adventure began on the way Downtown. Apparently today is the day where all the crappy drivers in Vancouver come out and hit the road... I had people slamming their brakes in front of me, weaving in and out.. and people who drove as if they were the only ones on the road.

I brought along my power inverter so that we could plug a laptop in while we were riding around in the car. The last thing that I wanted to do was end up walking around aimlessly (carrying our laptops around) and not find a wireless hotspot. My plan was to drive downtown and poll the area for potential WiFi hotspots before parking and getting out. This would require us to drive around looking like UberDorks (passenger) with a laptop in his lap :D Lucky for me, I was driving :p

As I suspected we were able to find an open WiFi network @ Blendz on the corner of Robson and Bute, right off the main drag.


After leaving the car at the underground parking garage in Pacific Center Shopping mall we slowly made our way back to Blenz. It was quite the walk, but it was a nice day and it was nice to see all the different people walking around downtown. It was a beautiful day, and I wish I had remembered to bring my camera... X had his... and he was even tempted to start taking random pictures of VanCity's bums (transients, not backsides) :p

As I was writing this I had a look at X's post on this day :p and funny thing. He mentions something about his Apple Laptop and Widgets... SEE X?! Even PC users can have Widgets! :D

Damn you x you're right :p I have a weather widget set for Singapore weather, but I don't have a clock set for Singapore time ;) Don't need it hehe.

Well, the day was fun, and we're definitely going to do this again hopefully sometime in the near future :) We'll have to plan a day just to do geekstuff ;)

Yea, I read over this post and realized that it's pretty mish mashed as well... sorry :(

WoW - The Internet Is For Pr0n...

On a light note ;) and this is in good taste btw... just some suggestive language.

Putting The Pieces Together...

Got called in to work a full day of overtime today, and I should probably be doing something more constructive.. but ya... enjoy ;)