It’s not everyday that you have the opportunity to cheer on the Olympic torch relay. Yay for the flame! Sure, there are people out there who oppose the Olympics and try to block the Olympic torch relay for whatever reasons, and sure it has a slight corporate look to it these days. But nevertheless, I [...]

Okay, it’s been a while since I’ve gone all festive.  This time last year, I was out in Nepal trekking out of Annapurna or trekking to Everest basecamp or something like that. Made a simple digital photo post card at the local internet cafe and spent the day getting them addressed and mailing them out.
This [...]

Well, 2 weeks later and I’ve gotten another wisdom tooth pulled. This time around, straight to the strong local anesthetic. Though, when the tooth became loose, I felt a terrible jolt down my spine. Weird, it most certainly woke me up with a slight chill down my back.
For the moment, my mouth is still gauzed [...]

I did not meant to leave such a long time in between my last post and to now. But amazingly, school work, part-time work, and my own personal work have kept me pretty darn busy. Especially the school work.
Do I have much to report? Well, honestly not too much as it’s just schooling stuff for [...]

Well, it’s back to school for me. Once again, life as a student. And to my surprise, in a class of 35 students, there are only 4 native-born Canadian. wow!  What gives?
I’m back in school, studying International Business Management at for a post-grad college certificate and there’s plenty to learn, and to read already. Some [...]

For the past few weeks, I’ve been teaching ESL (English as a Second Language) to a group of Japanese university students. Certainly feels weird when your university students were just barely born when you were finishing off highschool, etc. This getting old thing… certainly is weird, bloody 4th dimension.
My students grew up in a day [...]

I was rummaging through my parents basement and found an older version of a pop can. Remember the days when the opening was more narrow? The widemouth came about in the late 90s… almost a decade ago. And the diameter of the ends of the cans also started to change. In actual fact, allowing the [...]

You know that it’s not a good sign when your computer monitor looks like this.
Some weird fuzzy white border appearing from the frame of your screen, and slowly dissolving into some white abyss. Not good. And after you force quit (power down) and try to reboot. All you get is a briefly blinking HDD light, [...]

What’s up with the temperaure in Canada these days? Today is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year… and I’m assuming that we should already technically be in summer… but it’s unusally chilly. Even when I went out for my morning jog (like to say that I do it regularily… unfortunately not… only [...]

During the past few weeks, instead of buying yoghurt from the shops, I’ve been making my own yoghurt. Okay… for you kids with dirty minds. Gett’em outta the gutta.
I’m serious, with the help of some Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris and Acetobacter orientalis yoghurt culture, I’ve been trying different kinds of milk (low-fat, no fat, homo [...]