My Family's First Cellphone

Cellphones have become so common place that it's a shock to hear someone tell you they don't have a cellphone if they can drive.

But cellphones were not common just a short time ago. Here's my first cell phone:

It's a old Motorola that I'm sure no one cares to know the model number. It worked and it had a display. My house phones don't have displays. This phone worked on the old Cantel network, which is now consumed as Rogers.

Printer Cartridge Garbage

For the past couple months, I've been out of ink for one of my printers. It's a new printer so it doesn't let you print anything if any of your ink cartridges are empty. I decided to swing by the local BestBuy to pick up an HP ink cartridge so I could print my travel documents.

I got one and opened it up. Here's what it came with:

There was the plastic seal from BestBuy to protect the metal detector stuck on the paper box, the paper box, a small paper box, a plastic wrap, and finally the cartridge.
Unwrapping all that reminded me of those joke gifts friends give you that make you unwrap newspapers and go through a couple empty shoe boxes. A real big waste of materials.

New Years and Dim Sum (missing photo)

Went to Dim Sum with family on Sunday (Chinese New Year) morning. They were very festive! Just look at this guy in a costume:

He was giving away red pockets with coupons. So nice!

Happy Chinese New Year!

It's the year of the Dog! Want to wish you and your family a happy Chinese new year!

A Whole Roasted Hog

Have you ever been so hungry that you could eat a cow? How about a whole pig?

Now is your opportunity!

This is at the City Barbeque. It's like from those old medieval movies where you eat a whole pig with an apple in its mouth. To me, it looks like those crispy skin pigs they have at Chinese BBQ places.

Chapters late at night

With an hour to waste before a movie, we ventured over to Chapters to pass the time.

With so many books, a starbucks, and plenty of chairs, I can't see how they can convince people to buy the books and actually make enough to pay for the rent and operating expenses of this entire store.

City Barbeque

After a long night of work, all you want to do is sit back, open a beer, and munch on some meat. This when you go to:

A place where meat is #1. We walked out with bags of meat and a crate of pop in ice. This image says it all: