i've been working weekends and overtime to get everything done at work (which is not gonna happen); plus I'm selling my car so i had to deal with the safety check and proof of ownership and meeting potential buyers and all, thank god it's all over with, signing the car over tomorrow morning; on top of that i'm packing to move out of the apartment by june 2nd. don't even have a moment to catch my breath, let alone sleep. "it'll all be over soon", i keep telling myself.

things i'd like to do before i leave for hk:
- camping
- fishing
- golf
- poker (wong's invitational, haha)
- paintball
- bbq
- clubbing
- go kart
- or simply lunch on a patio on a sunny weekday afternoon .e  23:45  1 comments [ leave comments ]

sylvain invited many of us from work for a barbeque today. we had good weather, good food and good conversations, and it was overall a very pleasant sunday afternoon.

after the bbq I went to the driving range and killed two jumbo buckets of balls. by the end of it the skin on my fingers were ready to come off.

checking my latest tv torrents, I notice a new download rate record...

over 500kB/sec, nice. .e  23:07  1 comments [ leave comments ]

eventhough i scored a mere 50% on the nerd test, i spent my saturday coding in front of a computer. by around 8pm, visual studio .NET kinda started to get on my nerves having crashed so many times... so i took a break and enjoyed a few hours of coding in VB6. i added a few more features to my MP3 application AttoPlay.


the project really only serves as a platform to test some UI concepts. it's really not meant to become your everyday media player since it's incomplete, was fun to write nevertheless. .e  01:06  0 comments [ leave comments ]

(sing to "rain drops keep falling on my head")

rain drops keep falling on my head
and that thunderstorm seems to be coming from the west
i'm slicing to the left, coz

rain's pouring, hands are slipping, bugs feast on my skin
where are my tees?
oh shit I left them at hole three...ee~

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there's enough story involving these chili peppers they deserve a post. unforturnately they all evolve around john putting them in his mouth by accident.

episode 4: a long time ago, in a city far far away (kitchener), jonathan was enjoying a nice bowl of vietnamese noodles, unaware of the unthinkable that was about to happen. the evil hot pepper (in green), infiltrated the sprouts and worked it way into john's bowl. however, it failed to mingle with the noodles. just when the evil pepper was about to give up, it was poked repeatedly by a pair of chopsticks, apparently natural selection hasn't weeded out those who mistake powerful hot peppers for benign-looking beans yet. the evil pepper played hard-to-get for a few seconds before faking submission. once in john's mouth, it started immediately to unpack its power, severely affecting john's sensory system and motor skills. i rushed to a nearby convenience station to acquire a diary-based antidote which the restaurant didn't serve. with my hands holding the antidote in a bio-preservation container, i was only able to make it three steps back into the restaurant when I was stopped by a middle-age asian woman with a big mole on her left cheek. I was denied access because I didn't have clearance for the foreign object in my hand. "no outside food!" said the female canine in a firm voice. we were forced to administer the antidote off premise.

episode 5: years had passed since the evil pepper's first attempt for world domination. john had grown smarter and had been successful in evading evil pepper's attacks. after spending much time training on a hot dry planet at 400F degrees, evil pepper gained a dark appearance and, inside of it, super concentrated power ready to be released on the first touch of any fluid form: darth pepper was born. darth pepper remained dormant in a bottle of olive oil waiting for its chance to strike. the chance came one day when the olive oil was assigned to flavour six bowls of greens. with the one in six odds, darth pepper took a gamble and hid itself in one of the bowls. luckily, with fortune on its side, it was able to infiltrate john's disgestive system again, undetected and unsuspected.

episode 6: i felt kinda bad that I was indirectly involved both times that john got attacked by darth pepper (first time I knew the pepper was there, but didn't think anyone would eat it, second time, I didn't know it went into the salad at all). so the other night when I was making a salad, I fished a cousin of darth pepper out of the olive oil bottle and threw it in my mouth. when I came to, it was already time to go to work. (:

and that's the grande finale of the adventures of the mini chili. .e  13:33  1 comments [ leave comments ]

...this scene from the family guy

that's gonna put me on a no-dairy diet for at least a couple of months.

.e  03:35  0 comments [ leave comments ]

of sleeplessness...

semiconscious, in a state of fatigue-induced surrealness,
everything I now see, will soon not be my reality

one step towards hope, is two steps backward from fate,
yet no one chooses fate, including me

convinced that hope gives me control, control of my destiny
'cause for me choice is not a scarcity, just lacks quality

i guess now i understand, why i can't fall asleep,
for a man needs no slumber, after waking up to a dream

.e  04:20  1 comments [ leave comments ]