Tuesday, June 20, 2006

   And then a nation wept . . .
Yeah, Carolina Hurricanes took the Stanley Cup from the Edmonton Oilers, 3-1. A shame.

Again, everyone else in the house is probably more devastated about it than I am. Can't be helped. . . t'was a shame, but life goes on . . . unless you're a fish . .. . . kinda . . .


I forgot to mention that when I bought season 3 of "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" (SUCH a great show!), I also grabbed season 2 of "Justice League" - it's a good season, lots of great episodes. In fact . . . . . tomorrow/today after work, I think I might swing by the place again and grab Volume 3 of "Superman: The Animated Series" if it's out.

What? I like Superman stuff. That's just how it is.


Alright, I gotta entertain the next door kids now. See ya!
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Monday, June 19, 2006

   SUCH a great show . . . . .
Finally got a hold of "Lois & Clark" season three (SUCH a great show), though assorted setbacks are keeping me from really watching it. Glurgh. I've said the words, "All I've wanted to do since Saturday is watch 'Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman' season three, can't do it . . ." quite a few times now. Today'll be my only day off all week, so hopefully I can get some watching done.

Unless I have to take my brother's car in for servicing, in which case I'm gonna be upset at various facets of life.


So yeah, Edmonton won game 6 in a shutout victory against Carolina. Today is game 7 and the final game of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Now, in case you didn't know this, I'm nowhere as much of a hockey fan as the rest of my family - indeed, I barely am to begin with, really - but y'know, this is pretty exciting stuff. Heh, if we can't get in on top of World Cup, right?


Going back to work related stuff, the weekends are still plenty busy. The upcoming week is gonna be especially busy, too, because my supervisor is taking a week's vacation. Basically I'll be doing all his paperwork and stuff for the week . . . a little more responsibility than I usually like, but hopefully "Boromir" will be more than willing to help me out a bit. I guess we'll see what happens . . .

Oh yeah, I'm singing "Come What May" at work a lot these days, or at least the parts I can remember so far. Just sayin' . . .
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Saturday, June 17, 2006

   Hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, that I put down in words . . .
So . . . . . I ended up starting "Moulin Rouge" at 11:30pm that night . . . surprisingly I wasn't falling asleep at all the whole time, which was weird since I was actually quite tired all day.

In any case, I've fallen in love with it now. I'm not surprised that I have, but y'know. So yes, thank you, you, who pushed me on and on to finally get on top of this. I've never doubted ya before, and I never will.

For those of you who know me, I'm sure you won't be surprised that I absolutely love "Come What May". So here, have a Final Fantasy AMV of it. It's pretty:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybWYGT7CDSs


Big red mill aside, I had another reason to dislike parents at work. Y'know the ones who leave their kids in the toy aisle or in front of the Electronics department in front of the TV playing some new DVD of sorts? So yeah, these two kids were parked in front of "Dumbo" with a big stuffed horse, a rubber ball, and a bunch of the plastic Sesame Street garden statues . . .
. . . . . so yeah, while playing with them, they ended up dropping and breaking two Grover statues . . . these things sell for $16.98 apiece, mind you, and they broke two. After the children brought the other items and left them at the front of the store (once the smaller boy started missing his mother, no less), I chatted with the host about this a bit. So yeah, I waited with him so we could tell the mother what her kids had done while she was shopping. She won't get charged, of course, that's not policy . . . but yeah.

Again, I don't exactly blame the kids. I blame the mother who decided to leave them BY THEMSELVES in the middle of what might be the largest Superstore in all of Western Canada for at least half an hour . . . . . gugh . . .


The parents come home from England today. Life shall get slightly more normal. This is good . . .


Random SomeGuy Trivia: I'm a DVD freak. As probably already mentioned, I've practically run out of shelf space for them already. I'm a big fan of 2-disc sets, collector's sets, extended cuts, box sets . . . . . when new DVDs of movies I already have come out, I sometimes need to "upgrade" them . . . . . it's an addiction, it really is.
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Thursday, June 15, 2006

   Oilers didn't die yet! Good stuff . . .
The Stanley Cup finals are now 3-2 for Carolina. Game six on the way. Edmonton might pull it off after all . . . t'would be happy if they did, methinks . . . . .

Umm . . . . . so yeah, yesterday "Faramir" convinces me to go play tennis with him at the park near his house. This is of course, the second time in my life I've ever held a racket and pretty much the first time I've ever done anything useful with one. Heh . . . for the most part it was pretty fun, though. My body was completely gone after 90 minutes because I'm out of shape, but it was fun.


So goodness, quite a lot of drama around these parts of the interweb . . . got people unhappy at other people, people forming hate clubs against other people . . . . . much drama. Of course we need none of it . . . but that ain't gonna happen any time soon, I imagine . . . . . anyone doing anything with these issues, just remember to keep it civil until things clear up, a'ight? It hurts my brain to see these things happen.

Alright, I think I need to go watch "Moulin Rouge" now. I've been leaving that for far too long.
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Monday, June 12, 2006

   Still just bits and pieces . . .
Shower unclogged overnight. I'm happy now.

"Yakitate!! Japan" ended after 69 episodes. I got to finally burn the last of it off and free up about 4 gigs of hard drive. I was happy . . . pretty good ending to the series too, and it leaves it plenty of OVA room. Also makes me happy.

I'm just gonna remind everyone to watch "Ouran High School Host Club" if you're not yet. It's funny and satirically silly. It's happy inducing.

Funny anecdote: yesterday the cousin decides she's gonna make lasagna for dinner that night. While it's baking, we then get a call from next door; seems they made lasagna and are bringing some over to us now. Tres ironic, nya?

It's the weekend. I got nothin' else. Cheers!


Random SomeGuy Trivia: I forget if I've mentioned this one before or not . . . my favourite generically large number is 5000. So if I need to say something's going to take a huge amount of time, I'll say something like, "this'll take like, five thousand hours to do!"
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Sunday, June 11, 2006

   2:30am quick post
The cousin finally had a fairly nice Saturday, spending all day in her pajama bottoms and watching the Oilers win game 3. She was happy.

Heh, to celebrate the Oilers winning (among other things), I finally cracked open my bottle of "Ezekiel's Passionfruit" which I've been dying to try all week. It's very sweet and thick, which I was kinda expecting. Very nice, and I can only thank its sender with thanks and love and other foofy stuff.

Another friend cut a hand breaking pretty things. She deserves many foofy things as well.


On the work front . . . I didn't close this Saturday! I actually got to come home with the sun still up! That was exciting . . .

Oh yeah, and on Friday a kid fell out of a shopping cart and hit the floor hard. That was pretty freaky. For you see, Superstore shopping carts are not your typical shopping cart. Rather than one large, deep bin for the cart, it is instead two large but fairly shallow bins staggered, one above and behind the other. Thus, parents tend to let their kids sit in THOSE instead of the actual child seat areas . . . and these children will climb back and forth between these two sections . . . and then climb out of the cart altogether . . . . . and that day, a 2 or 3 year old boy paid for it with his head . . . . . no bleeding, but a lot of crying - some people thought he may have had a concussion, but yeah. Scary stuff to witness . . .

. . . so yeah, if you take your kids shopping, PUT THEM IN THE CORRECT SEAT in the shopping cart!


In other news, my shower is funked up. It's slightly clogged. Along with that, it seems to be the big pipe that the shower and sink in my bathroom funnel into. I'm quite upset about this. Hopefully some liquid plumber will finally do its thing . . . . .

Oh yeah, and I recently hit 10,000 visits. Thanks, y'all.


And now it's time to get ready for work, I bet. See ya!
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Thursday, June 8, 2006

   Secret secret, I've got a secret . . .
The Earl and Dutchess of Wessex were fun. They went around to everyone very methodically, shaking hands and saying hello. Heh . . . not like anyone expected we'd be running on time anyway, eh?


So first off, I slept in and didn't wake up until 10:30, the time I was supposed to already be at City Hall. Damn. So yeah, very fast clean-up and out the door. Parking, naturally, was impossible seeing as everything on the streets was cut off for press and other types - I ended up parking a few blocks away on the street. It was funny, because the sign said "1 hour max" and I knew for a fact that we would not be finishing that quickly. Ah well, if it happens it happens . . .

Caught up with my kung-fu people after getting my name checked off a list (hehe). Turned out there were five of us performing altogether: 2 guys in the lion, one drummer, one gong, and one cymbals (me). Not one of our bigger group thingies, but I guess this was kinda short-notice for us for some reason . . . that, and it was in the middle of the Wednesday, when people would be working and stuff . . . ah well.

We set up as the second group of performers along the royal driveway or whatever they called it (a driveway that went all around the actual building). Ahead of us was a girls' choir, directly after us was a group of wheelchair basketball playing kids, then an Indian dance group, then . . . some kind of First Nations something-rather group that had a trampoline, and finally a street dancing team. It was a good selection of Vancouverisms, I suppose . . . well, the wheelchair basketball guys were there more so because it was a flag-raising for the Paralympic Flag, but yeah.

Oh yeah, random Vancouver trivia: Vancouver's mayor, Mayor Sam Sullivan, is quadriplegic and thus makes quite an impression on people when he takes the Olympic Flag home from Torino on his lap and when you have stuff like this for the Paralympics.

Second Sam Sullivan trivia: he speaks better Cantonese than I do. First mayor of Vancouver to be able to do that, so the Chinese people like him.


Aaaanyways, so yeah, we're all set, the mayor wheels over to us and says some thank yous and stuff in Cantonese - it's just amusing, it really is - and then we all got ready. After a while a pipe band and stuff marched through, some police guys went through . . . and then out came the royals, slowly making their way along the lines of spectators and stuff while the choir sang the extended version of "O Canada" (the one that goes "This iiiis my hoooome, O Caaanadaaaaa . . ." and then goes into French). So yeah, very tranquil, very pretty . . . . .

. . . then it was our turn. Big drum, hard percussion, excited lion. Now, I was watching the drum for when to start, but right after we did I looked back up at Prince Edward and them and well . . . heh, I think we freaked him out. He and the Dutchess looked as though they were just recovering from a sudden start (y'know, heads back, touching each other, laughing . . .that thing). So we did our very quick performance, people clapped for us, and then they all came to chat with us for a bit.

. . . well, technically they chatted with Michael, the lion head. He and his brother are the club's poster boys, though, so it's okay. But yeah, just basic questions like "how long have you been doing this? How hard is it?" Y'know. A few good laughs here and there . . . and then they shook hands with them, nodded and said "thank you" to us the musicians (burn on us) . . and off they went to the next group.

After that the Mayor thanked us again, Premier Gordon Campbell (who was there but I had forgotten about) shook all our hands and said thank you - I received the thank you graciously in turn. Hey, like him or not, who cares, we're here to celebrate stuff; to hell with politics. There was enough of that as was . . .


. . . . . heh, protesters with signs in the next group of crowd. What killjoys . . . and how ignored they were . . . . . I mean come on, you're holding up protest signs about MPs, the Prime Minister and the Olympics at a Paralympic Flag-raising ceremony! There's school kids standing next to you who only know that the Queen's son is in town and nothing more . . . at least they were quiet, I guess. Whatever. . . . .


We packed up long before the actual flag-raising ceremony and went to lunch at the mall next to City Hall. We could still see the flags through the windows, though, so we did get to see the Paralympic flag up next to the giant Olympic one. Yeah, it looked a'ight . . . . . really I just wanted to go home and chill some more by that point.

Oh yeah, I didn't get a parking ticket despite being in that spot for over an hour. Go me.

Drove home just before rush hour so the freeway was slow. Inexplicably there was also a pooey smell in the car, either coming through the A/C or something I stepped in (though I constantly checked and saw nothing). And now yesterday is over. Hooray.


And then the Oilers got splatted. Dang . . .
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Wednesday, June 7, 2006

   Bi-onic Bionic Six (oo-oo-ooh oo-ooh) . . .
Well, the cousin is settling in quite well to VanCity. Seems she's working at the label that Bif Naked is with - neat, huh? But yeah, she's already loving work, enjoys being in a house again . . . food issues may be a problem for a little while, but that'll ease up, I bet.

Heh. So yes, now there's "The Cousin" in the daily family stories for this page. Hooray!


In even crazier news, The Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, is probably in Vancouver as I type this. He's gonna be at a ceremony at City Hall today at noon to raise the Paralympic flag next to the Olympic one (y'know, 2010 and all that jazz).

This is especially cool, however, because my kung-fu club is doing a lion dance at it too! This is good stuffs for our club, methinks. I mean, it's never a bad thing to perform for visiting royalty, is it? Well, I imagine it could in some ways . . . but for the most part, I figure it's pretty cool.

The aniki would have been there too, since he's part of the ceremonial guard or something for the police department. Sadly, since he got into ERT, he's gotta go train on like, a marine course or something. That's a shame, we could've been at the same thing together . . . ah well.


So that's what I've been up to. I'm just sleeping in a lot now that I finally don't have to work every day. And how are you all?


Random SomeGuy Trivia: I am extremely tolerant of spiders. I feel they're quite useful creatures that kill the other bugs that are more troublesome, as well I've never been bitten by one. I always catch them when I see them in the basement and release 'em outside. A lot of people find that part odd and slightly creepy about me.
Mosquitoes are given zero quarter, however.
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Sunday, June 4, 2006

   And then there were five . . . again . . . . .
Last year (or the year before? I forget), the aniki got his own house and I got a new room.

Today, My cousin from Edmonton starts living in Vancouver with us again. I say again because - I think I may have mentioned this passingly in a prior post - she and her older brother lived here with us years ago for a little while as well. So yeah, she's got some spiffy job in downtown Vancouver at some music company or something, and we're gonna be her home in the meantime. Should be fun, huh?

On the other hand, she gets here at about 8am . . . ah well . . . . .

So yeah, here's hoping she doesn't freak out about the current state of the house that two boys have left it in since the past couple weeks . . . gyahaha . . . . . ohh, we're horrible . . .

She's also gonna hate how out of tune the piano is. Music people, go fig' . . .


In other news, I've had the theme song to Bionic 6 in my head all day yesterday. I only ever saw one episode of this show before! What gives? Who knows . . . but hooray for multicultural adoptee family with superpowers through the miracle of modern science!

The aniki has our Krazy Glue . . . I should buy some today during work . . .


Random SomeGuy Trivia: I think Sharpie permanent felts are the most brilliant office device ever conceived. I think people who misplace my Sharpies around the house are not being kind to me.
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Saturday, June 3, 2006

   Licor, Maracuja do Ezequiel . . . sweeeet . . . . .
First off, I wanna start off with a quote the aniki spoke while we worked at quelling the uprising ant population in the backyard. The aniki, of course, had just recently won his own ant-war at his house . . . . .

"Now, after a couple hours I started to respect the ants because they carry away their dead . . . of course, it's only to eat them later, but still . . . . ."
(Maybe it's just me who found that really funny at the time, I dunno . . .)


So the past few days have been quite eventful, it seems. I'm still working plenty, eating junk all week, annnnd . . . yeah. There's been other stuff too.

As many of you have probably noticed, the site recently got some new toys to play with. For a time I was unable to play with said-toys, which irked me a whole lot more than it should have - they ARE toys, after all. The whole incident, however, has shown me that perhaps . . . well, maybe I actually am making some sort of a dent at this site after all. So for all of you who stepped forward when you did, again, I thank you all. You guys are the reason that title means anything to me at all.

Politics aside, my way cute island butterfly's package arrived finally, and I was pleased. We did learn that a couple of the more delicate pieces arrived broken, though, which was less pleasing for both of us. Nevertheless, the gift was truly wonderful and I WILL superglue the hell out of those jewel shards . . . . . in any case, the bottle of MARACUJÁ DO EZEQUIEL liqueur arrived very safely, and I can't wait to toast to somethin' with it soon. Thanks a ton, borboleta!

Elsewhere in my country tall white girls are impressing Japanese boys with her eriitou japanisu sukiruzu, another dude's going insane with watermelon colours (and he needs to stop sooner than later), annd . . . our rising dollar is keeping tourists away. Hooray.

Have a good weekend, all. I'll be working for all of it.


Random SomeGuy Trivia: I have a habit of snapping my fingers at red lights in the belief that the snap will in fact change them to green. Oftentimes it seems to work . . .
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