Friday, April 30, 2004
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
Tea:
Drinking tea is one of those weird things for me. It isn't necessarily the fact that is the sister beverage to coffee, but what is interesting about it is where I usually consume tea, (most of which is Chinese tea). Now when drinking in Chinese restaurants, it's quite funny because tea isn't like a coffee where it's a beverage that goes well with in the morning, especially a cold morning. Nor a thing to wake you up. But it's a sort of thing that must be had, like table manners.
I really find it interesting, no matter where I go...the sweltering heat of Hong Kong restaurant or even in my house, who's just humid as fuck from all the heat coming from the kitchen, I can still stomach a hot tea. It's almost like masochism on a temperature scale, where you abuse your body which is already sweating from all the hot dim sum you are eating with boiling hot water of tea.
It's quite interesting, because I do find tea refreshing, much like ice tea. It isn't so much the fact that it is minty or cool, but the tastes implies cool. It implies relaxation rather than coffee. And for that single moment, as the water just sears your tongue, it passes through warms your body to above bearable and then the soothing after-cool sets in. Like you pushed yourself to the limit and are now taking a rest...a rest you shouldn't take because you have to temper yourself down from scalding hot tea.
And despite me, I always find that if I were in a restaurant in Chinatown, or Hong Kong, I cannot drink anything else other than tea with the food. It's funny how [i]strong[/i] the association of tea as the ultimate universal Asian drink for breakfast, lunch and dinner is that it would even surpass colas and coffees in beverage dominance. Even a cool drink of water seems like a foul contrast at the serving table. I'm hooked and call me a masochist, be give me my hot tea...or give me death.
Drinking tea is one of those weird things for me. It isn't necessarily the fact that is the sister beverage to coffee, but what is interesting about it is where I usually consume tea, (most of which is Chinese tea). Now when drinking in Chinese restaurants, it's quite funny because tea isn't like a coffee where it's a beverage that goes well with in the morning, especially a cold morning. Nor a thing to wake you up. But it's a sort of thing that must be had, like table manners.
I really find it interesting, no matter where I go...the sweltering heat of Hong Kong restaurant or even in my house, who's just humid as fuck from all the heat coming from the kitchen, I can still stomach a hot tea. It's almost like masochism on a temperature scale, where you abuse your body which is already sweating from all the hot dim sum you are eating with boiling hot water of tea.
It's quite interesting, because I do find tea refreshing, much like ice tea. It isn't so much the fact that it is minty or cool, but the tastes implies cool. It implies relaxation rather than coffee. And for that single moment, as the water just sears your tongue, it passes through warms your body to above bearable and then the soothing after-cool sets in. Like you pushed yourself to the limit and are now taking a rest...a rest you shouldn't take because you have to temper yourself down from scalding hot tea.
And despite me, I always find that if I were in a restaurant in Chinatown, or Hong Kong, I cannot drink anything else other than tea with the food. It's funny how [i]strong[/i] the association of tea as the ultimate universal Asian drink for breakfast, lunch and dinner is that it would even surpass colas and coffees in beverage dominance. Even a cool drink of water seems like a foul contrast at the serving table. I'm hooked and call me a masochist, be give me my hot tea...or give me death.
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in efforts to raise moola, the artist of Bob the Angry Flower has hereby holding an e-bay auction for a request a Bob art. Seems right down cool to me.
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in efforts to raise moola, the artist of Bob the Angry Flower has hereby holding an e-bay auction for a request a Bob art. Seems right down cool to me.
Monday, April 12, 2004
A Vehicle Drove Through the Front of the Store
This happened Wednesday morning...or Tuesday morning I forget, but around 5:30am, so thank God that no one was hurt. Basically we got a call that our alarm went off, and I expected the worst for some reason. I was pretty much holding my breath because my gut feeling said it was going to be a mess and it pretty much was. This wasn't some general smash and grab as seen in the past. Well perhaps no, in the past someone dented our back metal door in order to get in, thankfully they didn't.
Well eventually when we got there it wasn't a pretty site. We looked at it and we noticed that a police officer walked out, having his hand on his holstered gun, and telling us to step back and park somewhere away from the scene which we did. I finally think that I felt shock, real life shock from looking at the scene. I felt that my heart was ligther, not neccessarily beating faster but like someone added coolant into my arteries.
We went back home as a precaution, came back to wait for the Forensics personnel. Of course this wasn't exactly C.S.I., but it suited.
It was pretty shitty to tell the truth, glass was everwhere in the front part, the newspaper wire shelf trashed to shit. Comics and newspapers where strewn across the floor and the door was literally off the wall. The entire door frame just came off the wall. And all they stole for just going through all the trouble of driving through a doorway with a stolen vehicle? A row of Export A Medium cigarettes. Yes, possibly not even an entire carton, that's all they stole.
It's kinda slap in the face when pricks decide to cause so much damage to get so little shit, especially scratching our slush machine. But I guess it's stupid on my part considering that in saying that statement it's like saying "why didn't they steal more anyways?"
Well they didn't catch them yet, and the vehicle was stolen from Dawson Creek, and found abandoned in Dawson Creek. Well I suppose that if they were to joyride, might as well get some milage out of it.
This happened Wednesday morning...or Tuesday morning I forget, but around 5:30am, so thank God that no one was hurt. Basically we got a call that our alarm went off, and I expected the worst for some reason. I was pretty much holding my breath because my gut feeling said it was going to be a mess and it pretty much was. This wasn't some general smash and grab as seen in the past. Well perhaps no, in the past someone dented our back metal door in order to get in, thankfully they didn't.
Well eventually when we got there it wasn't a pretty site. We looked at it and we noticed that a police officer walked out, having his hand on his holstered gun, and telling us to step back and park somewhere away from the scene which we did. I finally think that I felt shock, real life shock from looking at the scene. I felt that my heart was ligther, not neccessarily beating faster but like someone added coolant into my arteries.
We went back home as a precaution, came back to wait for the Forensics personnel. Of course this wasn't exactly C.S.I., but it suited.
It was pretty shitty to tell the truth, glass was everwhere in the front part, the newspaper wire shelf trashed to shit. Comics and newspapers where strewn across the floor and the door was literally off the wall. The entire door frame just came off the wall. And all they stole for just going through all the trouble of driving through a doorway with a stolen vehicle? A row of Export A Medium cigarettes. Yes, possibly not even an entire carton, that's all they stole.
It's kinda slap in the face when pricks decide to cause so much damage to get so little shit, especially scratching our slush machine. But I guess it's stupid on my part considering that in saying that statement it's like saying "why didn't they steal more anyways?"
Well they didn't catch them yet, and the vehicle was stolen from Dawson Creek, and found abandoned in Dawson Creek. Well I suppose that if they were to joyride, might as well get some milage out of it.
Baseball Season us upon us
Personally I think that baseball is perhaps the most boring fucking sport of the big four televised sports. It just seems that it's incredibly restricted and most of all, having the most limitations and lack of imagination compared to the other sports. I do realize the certain....stupidity in my comments, and totally understand that baseball unto itself has much more strategy involved than I give it credit for, but from a casual viewer POV, I'd rather watch curling or even golf.
However, It was just last season that I have discovered the wonderful joy of KOMO 1000am radio Seattle Mariner's baseball. And I like it. Usually after midnight, KOMO 1000, generally a news channel, would replay an encore presentation of the Marainer's game and I usually tune in if I'm still awake. Basically describing baseball on the radio seems to make it more exciting than the TV especially considering some of the excitement that the radio commentators have in their speech. Although it's still boring, the fact that someone has to spend time dicatating it makes it all the more interesting instead of seeing some hayseed scratch his crotch.
I also support the Marainers mainly because they are almost like a sister city to Vancouver and especially for the fact that Vancouver is lacking in a MLB baseball team. Go Marainers.
Personally I think that baseball is perhaps the most boring fucking sport of the big four televised sports. It just seems that it's incredibly restricted and most of all, having the most limitations and lack of imagination compared to the other sports. I do realize the certain....stupidity in my comments, and totally understand that baseball unto itself has much more strategy involved than I give it credit for, but from a casual viewer POV, I'd rather watch curling or even golf.
However, It was just last season that I have discovered the wonderful joy of KOMO 1000am radio Seattle Mariner's baseball. And I like it. Usually after midnight, KOMO 1000, generally a news channel, would replay an encore presentation of the Marainer's game and I usually tune in if I'm still awake. Basically describing baseball on the radio seems to make it more exciting than the TV especially considering some of the excitement that the radio commentators have in their speech. Although it's still boring, the fact that someone has to spend time dicatating it makes it all the more interesting instead of seeing some hayseed scratch his crotch.
I also support the Marainers mainly because they are almost like a sister city to Vancouver and especially for the fact that Vancouver is lacking in a MLB baseball team. Go Marainers.
Sunday, April 11, 2004
Friday, April 09, 2004

Quentin Tarintino to Plan Kill Bill Vol. 3
"Kill Bill Vol. 2" isn't even in theaters yet, but Quentin Tarantino says he's already planning volume three.
"Oh yeah, initially I was thinking this would be my 'Dollars' trilogy. I was going to do a new one every 10 years. But I need at least 15 years before I do this again," the director tells Entertainment Weekly magazine in its April 16 issue.
Tarantino says Uma Thurman, who plays a bride out for revenge in the series that began last year, won't be the star.
"The star will be Vernita Green's (Vivica A. Fox's) daughter, Nikki (Ambrosia Kelley). I've already got the whole mythology: Sofie Fatale (Julie Dreyfus) will get all of Bill's money. She'll raise Nikki, who'll take on The Bride," he says. "Nikki deserves her revenge every bit as much as The Bride deserved hers. I might even shoot a couple of scenes for it now so I can get the actresses while they're this age."
Well suck my fucking cock
Final Fantasy 1 + 2 heading for GBA
Sadly no news of of North American Release.
Final Fantasy 1 + 2 heading for GBA
Sadly no news of of North American Release.