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Yesterday (Satarday), I was rather bored and just want to throw $50 at anything fun. I decided to get that glossy white arcade style joystick from blaze I saw around half a year ago when I didn’t feel like spending money for no reason. Guess what, they are all gone. 2 of the stores that used to carry the product are closed, and the other one just doesn’t carry it any more… Hate it when my hunt is unsuccessful. It’s not all bad, the 2 stores that close sells piral games, so I guess it’s a good thing. Though on my trip to Pacific Mall, I’ve noticed there’re a lot more of the temporary piral stores, you know, the ones wil only stacks of piral discs in containers all on the floor. It’s rather sickening seeing these stores rise. Come on, stop making Chinese people look bad, stop selling pirals in public.

Went to a ramen place at Warden and Steels today. You know there’s no good ramen place in toronto, and after today, I stick to that comment. Relatively speaking, the soup base at this place is better than other places I’ve been to but it lacks in everything else. The ramen was rather stales, it doesn’t have the elasticity of the real thing. I had the ramen with pork. If you’ve had the real thing you know this sucked. The pork slices were paper thin, you can’t really chew on it. The enviroment was well decored but way too packed. Service was alright but the waiters really need to learn their Japanese. Pronunciation was way off, and they don’t speak a word of Japan other than the "welcome" and "yes", I blame the owner for not educating their stuff. It was rather embarressing, there was this table of Japanese people there. They called the waiter over to take the order, the waiter said "hai", then that’s about it, the waiter don’t even know the menu items in it’s native language….for shame… Like I always say, if you can’t do it right, don’t do it at all. 

Chances of returning to the ramen place…low, very low. Well…I might go again to check out their curry, but definitely not for ramen. (price is around $10 a person, not including drinks.)

Dont’ really have much time on my hands lately but I still manage to watch 2 movies. Batman Begins and The 40 Year Old Virgin.

Batman Begins was pretty good. Action, special effects, tech gadget, you name it, it’s in there. The story isn’t as dark as what the critics said it was, I actually think the first Batman movie(Michael Keaton) was darker. Christian Bale didn’t do a good job at conveying batman’s anger towards criminals. The biggest flaw of the movie was casting Katie Holmes as the lead actress. Katie Holmes,  eeeeeew… I’d rather watch a dead rat floating in the sewer. She’s not movie worthy, not even tv worthy, someone please drag her off the screens.

The 40 year old virgin wasn’t quite what I was expecting. From the commercials, it looked as though the producers really know where to draw the line with the jokes but if you watched it, you know it’s pretty vulgar. Steve Carrell was rather boring. I’d much rather have Michael McDonald(mad tv) take the roll, he’s much funnier and more capable as an actor. The support character in the movie was great, much more interesting. Everyone has their very identifiable personalities. Anyway, I still find the language and comedy to be more than I can take and ending with the dancing and the singing is just lame.

Verdict: 

batman begins - katie holmes = good

the 40 year old virgin = trash

I’ve been viewing this girl’s profile lately. Someone with a simular lifestyle, too much work and none of those really personal friends who you can just call out anytime of the day.  Messaged her once, no message back, I assume she has no interest in me. Anyway while reading her blog, there was a mention about how said it is now she can see the people who’s read her profile. Not sure if that a shot at me but heck, I know my limits. If my attention is unwanted, I will go.

On another note, I did something silly today. First some background info, I do have little difficult keeping relations with people and living things, there’s just too much uncertainties, I’d rather have a connection with inanimate objects. So today, I made a deal with my car. Got money from it’s coin storage, bought a ticket. So here’s the deal, if it’s a winning ticket, I will purchase the car when the lease is up.  silly but fun. Good luck car!

Drove downtown today…was a bit difficult. Right when I was at the entrance of the parking lot, a pedestrian(Ryerson student) gave me the right of way eventhough he should go first. So I drove up to get the parking ticket, while looking for the switch to lower the window, I hit the lock door button instead.  I hope you weren’t offended. If you are I’m sorry, I was really just looking for the switch to lower the window. You probably aren’t reading this…but hey I mean it.

didn’t sleep too well last night, woke up around 5, slept a little more, finally woke up at 6:55…damn I’m late. rush rush rush out the door by 7:45, still managed to get to work before 9. Spent 7 long and slow hours looking at awful codes….my eyes hurt…Who the f would do client side vb with asp? Trust me, it’s a mess of codes, I know first year cs students who can do better. If I see the coop student who wrote those code, I’d definitely will kick his ass. After all that, I had a meeting/dinner with a client who’s expending their brand. I actually really hate driving downtown but work is work is work. The meeting/dinner wasn’t too eventful. Had to meet this contact person who’s somewhat of the upper management type.  Her intentions are good but it’s these upper management types with their vague idea pointy fingers(figuratively speaking of course) that’s made me leave the design industry. Time to drag the carcass back in the game.  sigh…

Soon enough, I will have my company up and running. My company will have no bull, everyone everything will be as practicle as they can be.  ^_^

no… it hasn’t happen yet thanks to my driving skills but it’s the 3rd time in 2 weeks that idiots try to block me at the changing lanes. You know those single lane country roads, when there’s a car at the passing lane, that pretty much mean the car is going to pass you.  Some people just don’t get that concept. For the 3rd time in 2 week, there’re these idiots who sees me on the passing lane and just floors it. Good thing my little coupe has enough power to get by, thought I’m starting to see what my friend said about there’re never too much hp for a car. It’s not to drive over the limit on the road, it’s to avoid getting into accidents with those idiots who doesn’t know the rules of the road. Can’t wait till I grad, find a close to 60k annual job and get my 350z. Till then, I will keep practicing my shifting skills. I’m already at the point where it’s as smooth as auto.  ^_^

Went out with my highschool buddies tonight, at a place call "best dessert" which used to be "just dessert". Thought it was just another gathering, turns out it’s some what of a fairwell for one of us who’s leaving for work in HK. It’s both sad to see a friend go and the nation’s aging population lose another capable youth. Sooner or later, Toronto will be senior citizen central. Everyone will be grey haired with a cane in their hand. And a large portion of the population will be made up of old immigrants who don’t speak a shitty word in English. (Yes, I’m really in diagreement with the current immigration system, letting in all these people in who doesn’t contribute to the city while taking advantage of our wonderful resources which were meant to benifit the Canadian elderly who worked their ass off)….  Anyway good luck to you with your career in HK, but do make a lot of money and spent it here in our wonderful nation and boost our economy. : )

If you read my posts, a while ago I posted one with the specs I want for a LCD monitor. To my surprise, I’ve actually got something pretty close to it.

Gateway FPD2185W,  21" wide screen lcd monitor. It’s got component/composite/s-video inputs, dvi and d-sub. It’s freaking amazing. Did I mention, it’s max res is 1680×1050? perfect for watching movies and those hd tele programs I downloaded. (most jap stations are in hd now, so it fit well) It’s got picture in picture as well, fully featured.  It’s great but I still have a few things I want to change.  First, a tv tuner should be added. Second, the buttons should be relocated to the front of the monitor. Having the buttons on the side is bad enough, it’s worst when the labels are on the side too, how the hell am I suppose to see them. Third, with all these functions and features, I don’t want to go up to the monitor to change the settings every time, gimme a remote!  Fourth, I want the inputs ports to be relocated for easier access, possibly at the back of the stand. Other than that, it’s perfect.

As for a more recent post, I told you I was looking for a wireless trackball. Well I found it, but it’s all the way in Japan….Damn you Japan with your fancy toys that doesn’t get imported to Canada. I can probably ask my friend in HK to find it and ship it but….I hate to bother people with such minor specifics.  I hope I can visit Japan this winter so I can get it myself….though no big hopes, It’s already mid Oct, if I was to plan a vacation, I should have started earlier.  Anyway the trackball is from sanwa supply. The design isn’t exactly what I visioned but close enough…plus I just don’t know where else I can get a wireless trackball.

A friend of mine from work was gloating about how he got a better deal with his dell monitor. Sure it’s $200 less but if you know your video shit, That dell monitor is an inch smaller, doesn’t have component in, not as bright, and doesn’t have pip. This monitor is great for playing ps2 games and work…worth every buck. Oh it’s $900 CND including tax, damn good price. I love Gateway  ^_^   I’m still using that gateway laptop from years ago, still running greats. Thumbs up.

woke up with a little sore throat this morning, so I thought I beat the sickness before more syptoms show. Had some neo citran before I head out….baaaaaad idea. Drowsy driving to work, drowsy at work…drowsy all day long…. It’s also due to my lack of sleep these few night. Anyway…I’m all better now. Driving to the meeting after work was a bit hellish though, I’m just not very much a downtown person. I hate driving on narrow roads with cars parked on the side. Funny though, it’s the fifth time I drove to the client’s office and I still manage to get lost and amazingly I got to where I need to be by chance while I was lost. ^_^ life is always like that….I will eventually find my path.