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no….it does not mean I need to "go" after a cup of coffee.  I don’t know about you but whenever I have coffee, every function in my body goes x2. This includes the digestive. So I’m feeling pretty hungry now even though I had quite a bit at dinner. It’s worst than normal today…because I had 2 cups of coffe. One in the morning, one in the afternoon. Gotta remind myself never to do this again……so hungry…..yet I know I shouldn’t eat anymore…..best just go to sleep….   ~_~

yup, that’s right. The bottle of delicious ume shu (plum wine) from Japan is all gone. It’s my favorite alcoholic drink second to the apple ice wine from Quebec. And neither of the two can be purchased here in Toronto, so it’s back to the lesser quality pulm wine from the local LCBO. You can probably tell by now, I like my wine sweet with a nice scent. Wish I’m in Japan…or have the ability to import their conviniennt store here. On my last visite there, I had one kind of carbonated alcholic drink per night. Pear flavoured, soul apple flavoured, lemon flavoured…and much more. I am not an alcoholic, I just like have something different at times, and these drinks are pretty lite so it’s not a big problem.

If you are asking "what about beer?". I can tell you out loud, I hate the taste, smell, and just about everything else about beer. The only thing beer is good for is going into a pot of chili. I like fine wine too. The problem with wine, the cheap stuff taste awful and I’m not willing to shell out for the good stuff. Occationally I dine with some people who knows their wine and I get a taste of what’s good. So all other times, I just don’t want to taint my pallet with the cheap stuff. That’s pretty much what I can say about alcohol right now, I might not know much but I know what I like!

If there’s sunch a thing as designer’s block, I’m having a big one. So I’m re-designing a site right now. It’s a site I built a year or two ago. The problem? I had already optimized every aspect of the site from the start. The dimension fits perfectly on a standard 1024×768 screen, maxed usability for the navigation…etc. All the information is organized at it’s best. After a few hours of tinkering in photoshop, I can only come up with a new skin for the site. sigh…. I did add some minor features but over all, it’s pretty much just a new skin. I know I can move blocks of data around to change the look, but that would also mean I will have to piss on optimized structure along with all the rules of usability. I just don’t have the heart to do that. After all, it’s a high traffic site which demands good usability and low data transfer. I hope taking the site from html to php will lower a bit of the over head. I might try to add a customer input form just to see what new feature the users want. I bet half of those will be online order and online reservation. No way in hell am I adding those, because I would very likely to be the one to handle those tasks and be the middle man. I don’t want to do that, and the restaurant already has loads to do, I doubt they will deligate one of their busy workers to take the task unless the direct competition starts offering this. I hope the users will have some useful input.

Read lists of stuff on someone else’s blog and inspire me to put up a list of my own stuff.  (more to come…if I remember to)

1. People turning or chaning lanes without signaling or just signal at the very last min.   Damn it, the signal lights aren’t there to make your car look cool when you make a turn, it’s for the drivers around you to keep a safe distance, so use them. (yes, I even signal when I’m driving 2 am in the morning with no cars around)

2. People who sees another car signaling for a lane change and won’t give room. (yes that you, jackass in the silver jetta driving on 401 today). When I signal for a lane change, the lights blinked 4 or more times, looked over my shoulder twice, with a safe distance, you’d better slow down and make room because YOU KNOW I’M ABOUT TO CHANGE LANES!

3. Car at an intersection stopping way pass the white line. Please be kind and don’t block the views for the drivers making a turn. Hell know you won’t be running the red, so stay behind the line.

4. Cars that makes lane changes while making a left turn on a double left turn intersection. With the increase of traffic, these type of intersection are popping up a lot in Richmond Hill and other places. When there are 2 cars turning, things get a bit tight, so stay on your own freaking lane. Whatever you want to do afterwards is your choice, but not while turning!

5. Cars with one non-functioning tail light. I’ve seen quite a lot of these lately, 3 today at least. You know how in movies cops stop cars with broken tail lights and issue tickets (sometimes break the lights then issue tickets, hee hee). Where the hell are those cops?

6. People who don’t know how to use the brake paddle. Let me just say, the correct way to use the brake is to gently step on it to slow down or to a full stop. It is not for tapping! Tapping makes it difficult for the car following to anticipate what you are going to do. so never tap on the brake unless you are slipping on the rain/ice and need to match the rotation to the road to get traction.

7. Cars that stop half way trying to make a left. Make up your mind, if you can’t go, don’t. Going half way doesn’t get you anyway and certainly blocks cars going across.

that’s it for now. I’m actually surprise I don’t have a problem with the trucks on hwy7. It’s a bit annoying following a slow truck from a dead stop but hey, it’s a public road. And for the time being, none of the trucks have caused me any harm or anger while driving to school. So thumbs up for the truck drivers on the hwy7 route.

Planning a little gathering this Sat to brunch then go for a walk or biking lake side. It was somewhat of an attempt to balance my social life. Though it looks like it’s going to turn into the usual all guys event. Since ever, I seem to only be able to have male friends. Supposely romance kills friendship but I don’t have a gf so that couldnt’ be the reason why I have so little friends of the opposite sex. When there are girls at the social gatherings, they are usually gf of friends who seems to be an unwilling participant held hostage by the boring things that we do. So what do we usually do, movies, dinner, baseball, mj, tea….that does sound pretty boring. oh well, it wouldn’t matter in 2 weeks. Summer sem will be starting soon, good bye healthy normal life style, hello insanity.

Felt kinda bored today, since the sem ended last friday. i didn’t feel much like eating out because I’ve been spending quite a lot on not so important stuff. (adding a second wireless router, buying design magazines, upgrading the power supply so now everything is power surge protected).  So I decided to make soup at home. All the stuff costed around $25 and it’s enough to feed 6-8 people. Here’s a run down of what I used so I don’t forget.

Celery, carrots, onion, green cabage, tomatoes, potatoes, veal strips, and ground meat.   

It’s pretty easy to do. Just chop everything into bite size pieces, throw them in a huge pot, add water, 2 soup spoon of salt, a few shakes of tobasco, 1/8 can of chicken stock. Boil it for 2-3 hours and it’s done.  Leave the meat last, add them in around 1.8 hrs after boil else they will over cook. 

See, simple. No recipe. That’s the way I like to cook, "free style". Think I learned this from my grandpa (mother side). He does things like this too, know it, try it, refine it. What can I say, cooking is not difficult. It is as simple as meat on stick over a fire.

So here’s a list of my favorite female celeb in the order of liking. Yes I like these people but in no way does that reflect my choice of a female companion. Why did I make this list then? Just so I won’t forget.

1. Penny Tai
   -super talented,rare sight to see. An asia artist, 6 album running and still haven’t sold out to commercialism. Writes her own songs and lyrics, plays guita….what more can you ask for?

2.Rachael Leigh Cook
   -saw her in the movie "She’s all that" and just couldnt’ get her off my mind. The movie was a bit silly but I wouldn’t mind watching again.

3.sasha cohen
   -brillient skater, pretty as well. If you watch figure skating like I do, you will have her on your list too.

4.Bonnie Pink
   -another talented artist song writer/singer. There is something about her songs that you just can’t find anywhere else. Her lyrics are deep too.

5.Claire Forlani
   -hm…see her in the movie "meet joe black". Not exceptionally talented but there’s a look in her eyes that you just can’t forget. It’s a shame she never got any good roles after that movie.

6.Jennifer Love Hewitt
   -no description needed

7.Natalie Portman
   -one of the many new talent in the movies these days. Really enjoyed watching her in "Garden State" and "the professional". Didn’t like her role in "closer".  hey gimme less skin and more acting.

8.Ivana Santilli
   -love her music, from the "bass is base" days to her latest album. I do wish she find her style of music faster so we can listen to some songs which offers more depth.

Have you noticed how much we are out of the system? By system, I mean nature. None of what we consume are grew naturally (in the wild). We are no longer allow to eat healthy active animals, only one bred to be eaten. Even when we die, we don’t even give back to nature. Humans are no longer part of the food chain. We rarely get eaten by other animals unless in some kind of freak acccident. In a lot of ways I hate this type of existence. Not only I can die as part of the natural cycle, I can’t even live as part of the natural cycle. Trying to hunt for food for example. If you try to kill and eat any wild animals, you are more likely to get a belly full of fines than a good meal. If you think you can get rich and buy a piece of land to keep the gov regulations out of your natural being, gooooood luck. You need loads to $$ to keep that piece of land, and so you will need to work a hell lot, which means you won’t actually get to live on that piece of land you got…..maybe someday aliens will invade, zap all the establishments and the world can start again, hopefully in a much better way.

like the title said, exams are over. Finally have time to work on other stuff. (a much needed site update….sigh…but it’s gonna be a whole build from scratch…lots of work I tell you) Anyway first thing I did after the exam was try out the new Saint Seiya game for ps2. Actually I went to sharpen my skates first. Back to the game, the graphics are not perticularly detailed (tekken5 does it better). The game control is awful. Let’s just say, unless the character I’m controlling has a shield, I don’t ever want my control to have a block button. Especially when it’s 1 on 1 vs types. In all my years playing games, there are only 2 control systems I like for these games, the capcom (S.F. series 6button) and the Namco (tekken series 4 button). Nothing else makes sense. That control sys for the dragon ball series for ps2 is pure crap. Back to Saint Seiya, they have pretty stupid a.i. chars. The freaking bonus stages, the enermy keeps running away after taking one punch. F…that was annoying. And I was so looking forward to this game seeing I was a fan of the anime way back. Looking at it now, it was a pretty stupid anime. Lots of lessons you can learn from the anime series. Here’s 2 which are often mentioned (just about every episode)

1. if you cant’ beat your enermy, make a suicidal move and take your enermy with you.

2. never fight to your best ability until all your friends/alieds are half dead.

enough bull. time for some 3d modeling…yea got a new interior design mag today.

This winter sem is almost over. A few days to go and I’m still one assignment short…gotta push myself over the edge and finish it on time. I’m’ so tired from all the tests and assignments from the past 3 weeks. I did however get back one of my assignments which made me happy. The mark isn’t that high by my standards but hey it’s a group assignment thing and I carried it all the way. (time for the I am so smart, I am so great song) The crazy schedule this sem reminds me how much I miss taking an art program. It was so much easier. Even with the biggest of big projects, I can pull it off the night before the due date. Cant’ do that with programming.

need to get some sleep…gonna be another day on the battlefield.