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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
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11:14 am - T-7
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Just got back from TPE. An uneventful trip (again), but I guess that's better than dealing with problems. With the AC flights being reduced, and Japan being especially busy I ended up flying EVA for the first time at an odd hour. It wasn't busy actually, but I wasn't used to the economy seats on the way back. :p The service was good - better than AC. I swear, the asian flights all have seats that are lower than AC seats, so it was quite comfortable. Basically spent 3 days waiting for work to start or for my flight, and 3 days of actual work. I was itching to get back, it was like a timeless prison in the hotel room waiting. Should have brought my xbox, but instead I zone out on HBO, Discovery Channel, National Geographic and 2012 (horribly, horribly wrong). Note to self - learn Chinese characters for floor, seat, row to read the movie tickets next time.
Injecting two cups of coffee in the morning so far to get over the jet lag. Need to double check itinerary and start to get ready. I'm going to try and get Friday off to get some time before we leave. This should be an interesting week.
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| Friday, November 6th, 2009
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6:44 pm
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Nothing extreme to report since last time. Married life is more homey, which I expected, which I like. :p
We're just getting ready for our honeymoon finally. Only 3 weeks left to organize and prep. Just have to finalize travel insurance and organize what to take to make sure it'll all fit in 2x 20kg bags. We went to Queensborrow Outlet last night. I scored $6 Quiksilver shorts and another pair of shorts. I have to try on my swimming trunks to make sure they still fit too. We'll do a dryrun of the packing this weekend too and then shop for the rest of the stuff we need.
One work trip for one week left. The airfare for HKG connections are fucking stupid, so I'm going direct business class for one way at least instead. Going a day early so I get one day's rest before working onsite. Then back on 20-Nov to get situated and final packing for our trip.
Sachio said she wanted photos of her family. First time EVER being asked for photos. Super stoked that some people think my photography is that good, lol. We'll see how that goes. :p Gotta keep it fun!
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| Friday, September 18th, 2009
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9:33 pm
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Shaw speed-boost on the new Motorola cable modem == 6.9mbps. Before == 2.5mbps
Off to Taiwan for a week. Ciao.
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| Thursday, September 17th, 2009
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5:57 pm - Now
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It's been more settled now that it's been about D-day+1 month. Been trying to get into a new routine, too busy to post stuff. :p
Random thoughts:- The wife snores. Nothing bad, but when I wake up I can hear it. I have video proof.
- My back used to be sore from worrying not to crush wife. Now is better. Now is sleep wherever on the bed I want.
- Wife cooks good dinners. Luckily she gets off of work before I do, so it is like the 60's where the man works his ass off and comes home to a scotch and dinner, w00t! More like she likes my oven, and her new Jamie Oliver chef cookingware set.
- there IS enough room here. It's just too much of her clothes. :p
- The electric bill went from $18 to $65. Before: Cook twice a week, laundry once every 10 days, no oven use. Now: Cook every day, oven use twice per week, laundry twice per week, and hair blow dryer. Is ok then.
- Bank of Montreal sucks ass. She is trying to switch over to Scotia.
- Australia bookings are underway. Can't decide whether to splurge on Sydney hotel for the "Sydney" escape experience or to ghetto it on the outskirts of the business district. Probably splurge. :p
- New Shaw phone and Motorolla modem = 6.5mbps, but the guy forgot that the old filter in the util closet wasn't compatible, so 0.5 days of no Internet.
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| Monday, August 31st, 2009
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10:00 pm
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After ~7 years with the Logitech MX-700, I finally retired it and got a MX-400 wired mouse. The MX-700 was originally for gaming and stuff. It lasted well with lots of wear marks on the buttons and rubber. Do you know how many bad guys I've killed with that thing? It started getting flaky with the tracking. Some douche stole the mouse rechargeable batteries at the garage sale too. The batteries only hold a charge for like half a day though, so I hope you're happy with your shitty batteries, fucktard.
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| Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
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4:57 pm - D-Day
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D-Day, or should I say W-Day???
Last Thursday and Friday was probably one of the most hectic days of my life. - Picking up relatives at the airport, last tuxedo fittings, etc, etc. Not even a time to sit down and eat a proper dinner and drink a few beers. It was worth it though. I got to see my relatives and everyone else together on Saturday night. Karen pre-shed her tears at the rehearsal dinner, so D-day was actually smooth. Everything went by the book, if not earlier than scheduled. All of the planning, stressing and aahhhhck fuck.... moments were worth it.
Even after Saturday things are as hectic - seeing relatives off, errands to clean things up. I just got Karen's Macbook sorted with everything transferred over. it's kinda stupid now as she msn's me next to me, asking what I'm doing and I pretend to not notice her next to me and ignore her reply for fun, lol.
Married life is good so far. Carpooling lots, pre-organizing before we go out to hit up everything we need to. Karen keeps saying she'll pay for shit, but it's really our budgetting now... YVR airport parking has been pissing me off too. I hate that fucking place. I told Karen about an experiment where she gets to get tanked (since she doesn't have to drive home anymore) so I could see how she really is like when she's fucked upupuuuup! lol.
I'm relieved it's all over. I remember most of it. my car got fucked up pretty good Saturday too... more on that later.
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| Monday, August 10th, 2009
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3:45 pm - T-5
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I have been micro managing the fucking manager today at the dress shop to get the last dress in for the bride side. His name is fucking Lloyd. He's more of a bitchass than Llyod off of Entourage. Actually, Lloyd from Entourage is cool. I feel like Ari (without the insults so far) every time I have to spell out to him to get something done.
Llyod: "They keep telling me they don't know yet"
Me: Well get a goddamn estimate from someone when the thing is going to fedex out. Don't sit on it and wait for them to call you back.
And then he starts talking about how he has to charge us if the skirt has to be shortened or lengthened. I cut him off and told him to worry about getting the goddamn thing in his hands first. Then we'll talk.
I fucking hate Lloyd from Tiffany's Bridal. Why the fuck is every wedding dress store called Tiffany's... Fuck 'em.
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| Saturday, August 1st, 2009
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2:53 pm - T-14
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| Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
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7:37 pm
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My birthday was uneventful. I actually wanted it that way, 'cept a nice dinner. I didn't know they built a friggin' building at kits beach with an upper-restaurant. That was pretty good service right there. Turning 32 is probably the first birhtday where I truely didn't give a fuck. it was either age, or just being wrapped up in wedding/co-habitation stuff. Carpets are all done, and everything I can think of to get rid of is gone.
It's mufugginhot... like you already know that. 31.1C with my PC on, or 30.7C without it on, take your pick. So hot, I can't think of anything to do besides have beer to cool down. Contemplating to cook chicken, flatpees and rice or not. Going to Whitespot yesterday to escape the heat for dinner was ok, but super busy, and the service was ultra shitty, and had to squeeze behind an oversized lady. It's super comfy at work with the HVAC compared to the no-wind-heat at home.
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| Friday, July 17th, 2009
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9:23 am
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You're turn signal lights are awesome when they aren't being reflected by a proper cover... that is all.
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| Monday, July 13th, 2009
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9:27 pm
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I thought there was a homicide or something when I drove back to my place after work. cruiser was blocking the street. I had to show ID to get passed to get to my place. Looked out from the balcony later and the other end of the loop is closed off too. People are still playing tennis at the courts and people walking by. So I said fuckit and had my shower. Come out, and they're still there. Cops are standing there doing nothing. Then some sirens, and now Kingsway is blocked off with cruisers. Either the Global or ghettobird was flying overhead too. Then these black cars start turning out of my loop onto Kingsway and there's crowd of (crazy-japanese) people along Kingsway. I thought the emperor left already, but I guess not. He didn't even leave me a sixer for my inconvenience... :p
This is what 300mm gets you. Come to think of it, a sniper in my tower or the other one would have been a prime spot, but no spotters on the rooftop. Did they bring those black sedan's from Japan? Lexus/Toyota/Nissan?
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| Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
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6:40 pm
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I'm going to try to do some lame-ass blog'ing from now 'til wedding day just for fun. At least it's raining and cool. The fucking Goodyear F1's still feel sketchy, even though they get a better rating than the Bridgestone RE-070 "slicks". It's probably just the oil on the road from no rain in the past few weeks.
Need to finish this beer, filter through some more photos, upload, and then watch Samurai Champloo before bed. I did install a new 35ft network cable between the xbox and router so it'll actually be long enough with the new office configuration. That is all for a Tuesday night.
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| Monday, July 6th, 2009
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10:05 pm - my place redeux
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7:19 pm - Stuff... and more stuff, stuffed in pre-6 weeks 'til the day
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Either it's some "reflection" bullshit, countdown 'til wedding day (T-6 weeks), or the nostalgic Top Gear soundtrack (Eluviam - Perfect Neglect...) I'm listening to, I've decided to post a rambling post about the last 6-12 mos... no, it's probably the shitty (left over stag camping) beer... :p
I forget when it was, but a few months ago I guess I had kicked it into higher-gear with the wedding preparations. All was good, because Karen was doing an excellent job all year with the preparations since day 1. She's that kind of gal, with making sure that everyone's needs would be taken care of, and then hers. I was always like, fuk'em and just plan it how YOU desire. That was how I was going to do my part at least, haha.
The major stuff was taken care of. I had simple input. I like to think I'm a simple kind of guy. I admit this planning has gotten to me to a point. There's an Internet pic on there somewhere, captioned: "Fuuuuuuughhk!K!". It's quite ugly, and probably done in Microsoft Paint.
Anyways, somehow it's gotten down to the last 6-weeks. I think it was the stag last week that finally chimed in that, holy-shit, i'm getting married... (no exclamation point, because you know how i'm not THAT vibrant.. online at least!). I would say the major planning was easy, thanks to K, but the follow-thru stuff has been utter bullshit which I'm having to put effort into seeing it through. Nevertheless, it's been an experience. At least Michael Jackson won't die on my wedding day or some other shit.
I'll post some pics with the transformation my place has taken in the last few weeks - steamcleaning, re-arranging new furniture, boxed up old 'junk'. Thrown out quite a bit of crap from 10-yrs ago, and some fucked up shit from ex-gf's that they gave me instead of saying, 'hey, here's this gift you can figure out, instead of taking 1 min to tell you... you know the rest'. Was that quite funny? It sounded quite funny when I typed it.
I am truly terrified about my wedding day. it's only actually 10-min of the ceremony where I have to make sure I don't fuck up, and about 3-min during the reception to make sure I don't say any fucked up shit and maybe 2 min while I'm dressed up or cutting the cake. Other than that, I'm truly looking forward to spending roughly 16hrs experiencing a once in a life time moment with my family and friends!
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| Saturday, July 4th, 2009
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2:23 pm
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 I invested in a Hoover Steamvac F5912-900 to do the carpets. I haven't done the carpets since I bought the place. I've just been using my Hoover Windtunnel and it's kept the carpets pretty clean. I dry-vac'd first, then steam cleaned. hardly any big particles - just dirty water. I bought a Steamvac instead of renting a Rug Doctor since my brother did make a good point that there'd be all sorts of shit on the rental machine rollers. People steam cleaning dog shit, piss, puke, stains, etc. This way, I can use it in case of a big spill too.
So far so good. It's quite loud, but no louder than a rental i'd say. It has multiple spin brushes to hit the carpet from all sides to get the dirt out. Separate clean and collection tank. You can see how dirty the water gets from a 4x10 ft patch that I've been sticking to. 4x10 ft takes about half a tank of water and 2.5oz of solution. Then I refill the tank with just hot, almost boiling water and rinse out the carpet in case there's solution residue.
Gets rid of old food stains good. I have some stains from my old wooden bed frame. It must be the wood glue or something. Or something oil based maybe. That won't come out. My lamp stand has a rubber/plastic base. It must have out-gassed from the temperature. There's a slight yellow tinge it's left, but the Steamvac has taken care of that one.
Definitely worth it to spend > $200 on a vacuum or Steamvac. I had a Bissel spot cleaner, but that crapped out pretty quick. My Hoover Windtunnel cost around $400 but it's been running strong since I got it. That's about 5 years at least, and it still picks up everything on the floor. We'll see how long the Steamvac lasts.
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| Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
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11:06 pm
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I was finishing pumping my gas at Chevron when some older guy starts asking if my car is really fast as it looks... I say, it's as fast as the amount of gas it sucks. A little something he could relate to maybe. He asks me how high it tops out. I told him i've never topped it out before. He asks again, no really? He starts going off about how he has a souped up MR2 with nitrous, blah, blah, blah. And that was it... :unamused: are you trying to have a conversation, or just bragging about how big your cock is? Why don't you go brag to some chick that might actually be convinced how awesome you are.What a stupid fag. That was the dumbest car guy I've ever had to talk to.
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| Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
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7:42 pm
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my excite email account isn't working. Either someone hacked it, or they just expired it because I don't send outgoing email from it. In any case, if you've received shady email from my excite email, let me know or just ignore it because it's not from me... :unamused:
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| Monday, June 15th, 2009
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6:52 pm - Yukikaze
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| Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
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9:58 pm - Epic!
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This is one of the most awesome things I've seen! :p 1:1 scale of the RX-78. Odaiba is where they have the Japan Motorsports event every year.
Credits to: http://punynari.wordpress.com/
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| Thursday, June 4th, 2009
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10:10 pm - which one
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I was wondering which engagement photos to choose from. Thanks to my photo buddies and self picks, these are my two picks. Cherry blossoms are awesome, blur is awesome, and the b&w and bling tell me they're awesome! lol.... I think I like #1 more.
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