Wii obsession

Ever since Wii has come to my life, it has occupied a significant part of my leisure time. I still can't believe that I would spend that much of time on playing games.

Rayman Raving Rabbids
This is the game I spend most of my time playing. The game itself contains lots of mini-games and can basically divided into 3 catagories: dancing, shooting, and others.
I love the dancing part the most. There is no complicated instructions: player simply needs to shake the nunchuk and/or the remote according to the direction where the rabbid comes to the stage, which correspond to the rhythm of the tune. I often even shake my body or jump along with the song. I just can't stop myself playing this game over and over again, in order to get the perfect timing and hence, the higher score.

People usually associate shooting game with bloody scenes. However, with the Raving Rabbids, you don't shoot bullets but instead, toilet plungers! This itself is hilarious and entertaining. But of course, i don't do a very good job yet.

There are other variety of games as well. Some of them require very good timing and precision.
And I know...I'm not doing a very good job describing how fun this game is, but one thing for sure. IT IS JUST SO MUCH FUN!

Wii Sport
The Wii sport game that comes with the console, is good to play in large party. So that's why, I invited few of my friends to come to play and we spend a good few hours on it. Each of us did a "fitness test" and surprisingly, I'm the "youngest", which is, age 42!!! Out of all sport games (bowling, golfing, baseball, tennis, boxing), my favourite game is bowling. Boxing is not bad either, after the first "tournament" with the computer, my arms are completely sore! Maybe I can lose a few pounds? (I wish...)

Fun weekend, Wii weekend

Dine-out
Nothing really special. The portion is big, Henry got nice mini-pizza as appeitizer. My soup is a bit spicy (too much pepper?)
The main course is big and filling.
For dessert, Henry got chocolate cake and I got the tiramisu.
The tiramisu's sponge cake does not soak enough coffee / coffee wine. It tastes a bit dry.
Henry thought the chocolate cake is too sweet so I traded with him.
I ordered a small jar of white wine sangria. It's mostly white wine + orange + lemon juice.
Taste good though.
But after 3 glasses of sangria, I feel a bit "hot". Guess I haven't drank that much so my drinking "capacity" has gone down.
Overall, I thought it worths my $25/meal.

Wii
Finally I decided to line up for the Wii in the early morning.
My coworker and I planned to get to the Vancouver store at 7pm.
Just about to leave the house, he called me and said that there are around 50 people. Although each store should have at least 20 units, there are still great chance that I can't get one by the time I arrive at the store. So I deicded to check out the Richmond store first.
Surprisingly, there are only 20 people. So I line up in the Richmond store instead.
I feel bad that I didn't stay accompany with my coworker, he was there alone.
After half an hour lining up in the cold, the mall security guy let us in (the store is inside a shopping mall).
There were already a group of seniors doing exercises there in the mall.
People seems well prepared for this "line-up". Many of them brought folding chair, iPod, Ninendo DS with them.
At 8:30, the staff announced that there will be 52 units. He started giving out numbers and drop down our names as well.
9:30 store opened.
I successfully bought a Wii.
Still searching for Wii-remote though.
Also went to Walmart, future shop and best buy. I'm so glad that the game I'm interested in is on sale. $10 off the original price. Got that price-match by Best buy. (future shop is all sold out).
Henry got a game cube controller $7 cheaper in Walmart. So much difference!
Invited Henry's bro & sis to try out the Wii. So ... no more piano less for her.

Snowboarding
I almost think that I haven't go snowboard for more than a year. Until I take out my jacket again, the last ski-pass is dated Jan 28, 06. So actually I have been there once last year.
Drove to my friend's house at 8:15 to carpool to the mountain.
It started snowing as we approach the parking lot.
Great snow, but we stay in the bunny hill most of the time. Try to pick up my skill again.
I still suck at my left turn.
But I'm afraid to pracitse in the crowd. There are lots of people on the bunny hill.
Finally we decided to end our first ski/snowboard of the year around noon.
Sore legs/knee...
My friend ski so her hands are sore too... (take her lots of energy to walk up the slope with the pole...)
I guess, we all have fun though.

Gloomy Friday

It's a gloomy Friday.
Working enthusiasm is significantly lowered...
Seeing the holes on the ceiling, and the messy stuff around my bathroom, certainly makes my day more depressed.
On Wednesday, I was so depressed to cook dinner as the plumber guy cut up the ceiling to find the leak in my house, and suspected that the floor heating system has gone wrong.
Spending $400 and get nothing fixed yet, is upsetting.

On Thursday I'm still depressed so I ate more than I should for lunch: fish burger w/o sauce, 6 pieces of chicken nuggets, starbucks vanilla green tea latte.
To walk to the Ironwood plaza on a slushy gound, with 2 bags of discounted canned food in 1 degree, my hands almost get frozen. I thought the hot greentea latte could warm my hands up but I had a hard time carrying all these bags, umbrella and drink.

And after almost 1 week of carpooling, I am back on my car again. Thanks to the RAIN which wash away the snow on the ground.

Snow should only belong to the mountain or any ski resort, not on the city ground.

Weekend preview:
Tonight: Dine-out in Macoronni Grill.

Saturday: Line up for Wii? I'm still struggling to do so. It sounds so crazy silly to line up for a game console so late after the release. And I just never ever think of lining up for a game console, as I am never into video games. But the Wii seems just so much fun. Oh well.

Do some shopping for parents, preparing my trip to HK.

Work?

Piano lesson.

Sunday: Snowboarding? (it would be my first time since more than a year ago)

Hopefully it would be a fun weekend.

Diary, Blog

I used to keep a diary, on a pretty book, many years ago.
At that time, I jot down any special things and feelings in my life.
And sometimes I wrote short stories.
Some of them unfinished though.

Until my Mom found my diary book and read it.
Until my Mom made some nasty comments on some of my writings.
Then I quit keeping the diary.
What's the point, if I want to tell her I'd already told her.

Years later, there's something called BLOG.

Although I didn't have one (for a long time), I do interested in reading someone else's blog.
Perhaps I am a curious person in nature.

Reading more and more blogs, make me think of starting my own "diary"/blog again.

So here I am.

Story 1

"Do you love me?" A question from M.
The word "Yes" almost comes out of F's mouth, but she stopped it.
"It's something hard to explain", says F. "Logic can be explained, not feeling."
F should not love M.
Why love a person who does not even see each other often, or even communicate often. Why being nice to a person who was harsh to F before. F wants to know too.

F is always lonely.
Being the only child and parents always away for business, F thinks that she is already used to the loneness.
But she's wrong.
F longs for friendship, as being part of a big group of friends.
F tries to be a nice girl, tries really hard to be a good friend.
F believes if she treats people nice, people treat her nice as well.
However, at the end, F gets hurt.
Perhaps, F cares too much about how other people think about her.
F does not give up though. F still believes that if she continues to be nice, one day, people will change their mind.

F finally realized.
She is nice to others, just because she loves to be recognized as a good/nice person/friend.

So, F loves herself more, not M.

Leaking ceiling

It's Sunday morning.
I was half-awake.
I had my breakfast on my hands.
Going towards my dining table in the kitchen.
I saw a pond of water on the table.
Anyone spill the water last night????
I somehow decided to look up the ceiling.
I saw circular water mark around the ceiling light.
It was raining...INDOOR..
Seems that it came from my bathroom upstairs.
The good thing is...it stopped; bad thing is, I spent 1.5 hour to clean up the bathroom in basement before I took a shower.
The next thing, to get it FIX...

Farewell

I had two farewell lunch this week, for 3 different people.
One on Wednesday, one today.
They left the company for different reasons: either voluntary, involuntary, or go back to his home country.
They reminded me the first few months since I start working in this company, I have attended farewell lunch almost every week.
Those are the good days, the IT blooming days.
At that time, I was a bit admire of those people, hearing stories that they got decent raise when they switch jobs.
Now when I attend farewell lunch, seeing them coming by to bid farewell to me, I no longer admire them, but I do miss them, especially one of them used to be my supervisor's supervisor, and I worked with him more before he changed his "title".
I wasn't particularly fond at him in the beginning, but as time goes by, I guess I found him ok. Wish he get some better opportunities elsewhere. I'm sure he will.
The other guy decided to move back to his own country. He's a very humourous/funny guy. The way he talks is just fun, and he's also very knowledgeable in his field.
The 3rd person left as he found a better opportunity elsewhere.

I will remember them, so as others who I have encountered during my course of life.

Best of wishes.

Snow

Because of the snow, I catch a ride with my friend to work.
Now, here I am, at work, at 8am.
Not many people are here yet.
I'm still tired.
The good thing is, I can get off at 5pm :)

Sick

I was planning to update my blog more often. However, the next day I post my first blog, I was SICK.
It started with sneezing, which is not that unusual, as I had allegy.
Until I had sore throat in the middle of the night, it's more "certified" that I had a cold/flu.
Anyway, I took Jan 3 off work. A full day of rest.
I feel bad that I need to use up my sick day so soon in the beginning of the year.
But that's life.
Now I'm (almost) get over with the flu/cold.

New Year Wish...stay healthy....

New Year, New Blog

I finally decided to start writing a blog, on the new year day of 2007.
It will be a record of my state of mind.
It should be full of my like, my dislike, my love, my hate and my fun days.