So it was St. Patty’s day and I had a great time and met some new people. My cheekbones were hurting from the laughter. That’s prolly one of the best types of pain (if any) one can endure.
Anyway, I’m here to talk about February since I barely did last month. Not that you would care but it is the shortest month every year so I thought I’d give it some belated love. Maybe in list form. Who knows? Let’s see how it turns out…
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- • I played two separate vball tournaments… AT THE SAME TIME. Both of my teams won it all! In the finals on court 1, Andrew got injured so we had to play with only 3ppl yet we still won! It was such an amazing feeling to have the whole place cheering for us, point after point. What a day :)
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- • I was so tired one day that I dialed my credit card number instead of the phone number on the back…
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- • I finally started using the hot tub. It helped when I was sore after capoeira. Also when I work from home sometimes I use it during lunch break. Reminds me of Shizuoka :)
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- • On Valentine’s Day I came in 3rd out of 5ppl in a game of Monopoly even though I only owned one deed. Andy sucks at making deals.
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- • I went to an evening with Kevin Smith at Roy Thompson Hall. Talking about Avatar, Bruce Willis and Blair Witch was so hilarious.
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- • Conan had his last ep :(
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- • I got addicted for two weeks to that T.I. track, “Whatever You Like“
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- • I started and beat Mass Effect 2. SO AWESOME! Seriously, this game is amazing.
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- • The Olypics happened. In Vancouver. We rocked. Our ceremonies did not.
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- • I got pulled over for speeding. Got two tickets for my licence being expired and having my old address on the expired licence :( Nice cop tho. Let me drive home because I was so polite :) Thank God he wasn’t a white cop!
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- • Learned that the Timmies at Lawrence and Don Mills is not good. Like… TERRIBLE. Do NOT go there.
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- • Got back into Westbam.
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- • Got into Tape Deck Bros. Funky-ass house! They are so awesome. Monday nights @ Andy Poolhall after capoeira are amazing! (Thanks Wyn!)
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- • My competitive vball team changed their name from Grapes to “I Wish I Had More Hands.” Before that we were Pancakes and before that, Blouses.
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- • I got down to 181lbs. I probably gained some back after I went dessert hopping with Steph and Cin. Yeah you heard me, dessert hopping.
Anyway, that was a breif summary of my February. See you next year, Feb.
Stacks of GAMES, and Coke on ICE,
We be Street Fightin’ all NIGHT
And maybe we can play whoever we like. We can play whoever we like;
Great white BEACH so warm and so BRIGHT,
String up the net for you so TIGHT
And baby we can bump however you like. We can bump however you like… Yeah!
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February 28th, 2010; 4:02am
January 10th, 2010; 11:20am
Hello!
I’m back from Japan and sad. It is cold, there is snow on the ground, I am jet lagged… not fun.
Speaking of fun, I just wanted to make a list of things that I am doing. I need to figure out which of these things I should focus on at the moment. So here goes:
- • Playing Doom. Yes, the first one. I’m using this for mouse/kb
- • Playing Dragon Warrior (Dragon Quest in Japan). Yes, the first one! I’m being bad and using a NES emulator on my PSP. I just want to see where all the hype stems from.
- • Cleaning up. It is very messy after packing/unpacking.
- • Drinking water. Well I can multi-task this one…
- • Trying to stay awake. I failed yesterday and slept from 3:45pm to 10pm
- &bull Watching Japanese TV via KeyHoleTV 3.14
- • Watching Dollhouse on NinjaVideo.net
- • Reading Blackest Night. It is pretty badass. Read the lead up to it first if you don’t know much about Green Lantern.
- • Getting pictures of my trip ready for the site and Facebook.
- • Scanning those writey-drawey pages from when Zoo & Vix were here. Sorry for taking so long :(
- • Organizing “Pick-up Thread” pics for NeoGAF
- • Checkin’ Facebook. I started logging into FB again after a 55 month hiatus. I guess I should install that FB app on my Android phone.
- • Groceries. There is nothing to eat in this house.
- • Making MP3 CDs for my car. I’ve had the same CDs for years. 2010 it is time for some new (meaning: older) shit.
- • Filling out my GST forms. I hate form filling.
- • Payin’ bills that piled up during the trip.
- • Did I mention cleaning up? This place is a nasty mess…
Am I forgetting anything?
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December 18th, 2009; 3:16am
December 4th, 2009; 1:26am
Today, when I got to North Beach, I got four or five complements regarding my appearance. Felt good! A little ego boost never hurts right? With a boost in ego comes a little boost in courage as well.
I used that courage to do something I never do. And while it wouldn’t sound like a big deal to normal people, it is kind of a big deal to me. Nothing interesting or special happened but nothing bad happened either so thumbs up! I hear practice makes perfect. So let’s see how long it takes for me to try it again!
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December 1st, 2009; 3:25am
I am WIDE awake. Ooh! After I typed that, I yawned.
I can’t believe it is December already. In 18 days, I will be boarding an aircraft headed west and almost a full day after that, my feet will be touching Tokyo pavement. I need to figure out how many clothing items to bring. I should buy some walking shoes like now and start breaking them in.
Man, I really suck at planning.
Ok new goal: learn to plan. Does that mean I’m planning to learn? Sweet, I’m making a good start already! I guess I should write a list down so I don’t forget anything.
Feel free to add to my list anything I may not be thinking of:
- • Grab my suitcase
- • Figure out how many days of clothes I need 7?
- • See how much room Marcus’s new Xbox 360 takes up
- • Let Marcus’s mother know how much room I can spare
- • Do daily Japanese refreshers
- • Pay all my credit cards before the bills come
- • Convert to Yen (how much is enough?)
- • Find Lost Planet Japanese phrasebook
- • Get shoes and in-soles
- • Buy gift for Tomoko
- • Copy FIFA 2006 save game to Marcus’s Xbox :D
- • Finish all contract work
- • Look up JR line routes to use my JR pass wisely
- • Check out Shinkansen destinations
- • Find good earbuds for laptop
- • Load games/music/comics on DS/PSP/laptop/phone
- • Set voicemail and email vacation message
- • Buy a couple of nice sweaters. It’s gonna be cold!
- • Format camera’s memory card
- • Find all chargers for all gadgets!
- • Cross things off list once completed… :)
- • Make Vamp my cellphone wallpaper
- • Buy travel-size toiletries and first-aid
- • Twizzlers, sour keys and saline nasal spray
- • Lactaid!
- • See if Shezz fits in the suitcase :(
- • Shaving kit
- • Shopping list ;)
I’m sure I’ve forgotten something important. Please help if you can as I just started learning how to plan :(
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November 26th, 2009; 2:04am
So the blog is finally live again. I would love to hear/read some feedback. It isn’t fully complete of course but it is good enough for me at the moment.
I was extremely bored yesterday so I watched Gamer and The Lost Boys. I know what you’re saying, how can he be bored with all those darn video games to beat? I just wasn’t in a gaming mood. Anyway, I think Gamer turned me off of games for the day because it was so bad. I never expected it to be good in the first place but Derrick told me to give it a try. Derrick now owes me two hours of my life back.
I am going to post a spoiler, covered in black, which can only be revealed by selecting the text with your mouse. Here goes:
The last line of the movie was: “Well played…”
I was on the fence on how I felt about the movie until that last line. I shook my head with a slight smirk. Terrible. As for The Lost Boys, it was great to see Keifer LOOKING EXACTLY THE SAME as he does now. Well, with fangs.
I was at home sick today and I was still feeling like vampires and I saw an ep of National Geographic’s “Is it Real?” Vampires Edition and then watched The original Blade. Blade is still an awesome movie. I loved the second one too. Maybe I’ll watch that some time before MY TRIP TO JAPAN!
I’m still so excited to go and the excitement only grows stronger as the date gets closer! I still haven’t looked up any Transformers that I might want to grab. I think that it’s a good thing! Save some monies since after the trip I’m gonna be broke-ass. After I get back, I will be focusing on saving up money for a down payment on a house. Goals!
BTW, I think last week’s link of the week should be this week’s as well since I can’t stop staring back at the picture!
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November 18th, 2009; 12:51am
Derrick and Vicky are gone :(
But that’s ok, I had lots of fun during the last three weeks. I hope they did too. And I hope they come visit me and Tomocus (Tomoko and Marcus?) in The Land of the Rising Fun.
Here’s a quick run down of what I did during the last week:
- • Bought Assassin’s Creed 2 ($20 off!), all three Overlord games ($9 total!), both Crysis games ($15 each!)
- • Got early access to the Bayonetta demo on XBL
- • Got my 2 week JR/Shinkansen pass for my Japan trip
- • Watched Derrick and Andy play Borderlands for many hours
- • Practiced Street Fighter IV with Sagat (and destroyed Derrick’s Ryu, heh)
- • Andrew and Wendy’s wedding (last one of the year!)
- • Planted seeds for Andy and Ben getting snowmobiles for X-Mas (lol)
- • Watched Pandorum and 2012
- • Dim Sum with the office crew and D+V, Ana, Carmen
- • All star wings with D+V, Andy and Karmun
- • Applied for my passport renewal
- • Volleyball tournament
- • P90X Core Synergetics
- • Died after P90X Core Synergetics
I can’t remember much more since I’m dead. I also procrastinated updating this site to make it live. All I need to do is tweak it so Internet Explorer doesn’t just do whatever it wants with the CSS. Then one day you can actually read this!
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