Sundays

Seems like every Sunday is Chinese tea. We went to the same place we always go to. We've been coming here for the last 8 years? I don't know. Just VERY long.

Same 'ol food for Chinese tea. My throat feels so dry and I always need water after. I blame MSG.
A couple days ago I was thinking about toys and the radio had stories about a Star Wars version of this toy coming out at the same time the final Star Wars movie is coming out. The toy it's based on is:

They're planning to make a Darth Vader version of Mr Potatoe Head called Darth Tater

What do you think?

Errand Saturday

Once again, Eric is running errands on Saturday. First I went here:

I had to pick up some art paper/booklet for my mom who teaches art and a student of art. Above is a pic of an art store at Market Village. A very good friend of mine works there. I doubt she reads this blog but I want to wish her the very best in her last year at OCAD.
I called my hair stylist and he said to come at 3:30pm. It was 1:30pm on my cell phone clock so I decided to burn some time at Pacific Mall since I was here already. I saw the same old stuff, lots of Chinese people, food, cell phones, computer stores, kiddy plastic jewelery stores, and car part stores. I did see a phone that jeff mentioned:

It's the fairly capable Nokia 6170. It features fast EDGE internet access, VGA camera, and push to talk (walkie taklie-like) functionality. It's a phone you have to see to appreciate. hmm... and a lot of the same phones that I saw last Sunday but in dummy (non functional) form. Oh yeah, the Rogers now have a new Sony Ericsson phone for sale, the Z500a sporting EDGE and VGA camera in a flip phone form. I already have a pic of it on December 31 of my blog when I went to Buffalo so I didn't take another picture of it. I got bored of the mall so I went to my hair stylist's mall:

I just spent the whole time playing Solitaire on my phone. It's my favorite game for this phone and for my old T616. Sorry guys, no before and after pic of my hair. Just imagine I had a fro before I had my hair cut.

Candy Bigger in the States?

You know how we Canadians lose out so many good things? For example, Mitsubishi Lancer Evolutions/Lotus Elise for you car fans, Victoria Secret for you girls (guys too I guess), more shopping malls, Las Vegas, Walt Disney & Universal Studio (OK, I guess our Wonderland is good too but can they compare?), Ivey League schools, I can go on and on about the good stuff the US has. Well one of my friends just came back from the states and got me this:

I haven't been shopping for candy lately, but are these normal? Can we get double sized Reeses?
I was so amazed I did a size comparison with my eraser

Since it was double the size, I could only finish one. For the healthy ones reading my blog, don't worry, I went down to the gym later that night to burn off the bad stuff... i hope.

I just noticed it's limited edition. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to eat it.

Picture of WInter

Speaking of pictures, there was a picture I took a couple days ago (Wednesday to be exact) that I forgot to post. These are one of those pictures that you have to take once every winter:

We really got a lot of snow this year and it's really cold. I thought it snowed hard and extremely cold every other year while the other winters were mild and nice. But last year was freezing cold and snowy as well. I'm hoping next year will be better.

Java Games!

I was browsing some forums and I found myself reliving the past with a site all about old console games but now playable on a web page with Java applet!! WOW! Here's me playing:

Guess what game it is? Should be obvious lol.

Here's the link if you want to play too:
http://www.everyvideogame.com/nintendo_Super_Mario_Bros_3.htm

Only thing that isn't great is the missing sound effects. It's not Mario without the dying sound.

Toothpaste

Nothing much but lots of work. Oh I worked out today again. It was my cardio day. Last week 20 minutes took off 264 cals this time I got 294 cals off. It must be from watching the frustrating Raptors on TV that got me all pumped up. Once again I used my phone as my radio and now its battery is almost dead.

Yesterday I was thinking about toothpaste. How do you squeeze the toothpaste out? This is how I squeeze it:

Yep. Right in the middle. When it starts to get too thin in the center we spend the time squeezing the bottom of the tube back into the middle so we can continue to squeeze the middle. Works well for my sister and I for all these years. I hear about some people complaining about squeezing the middle, but is that for real? I mean it's so trivial to squeeze the bottom stuff to the middle/top. I know ketchup and other condiments i squeeze from the bottom since I get it all out in one direction. Squeezing the middle would force me to do it twice, once from the middle then one more time from the bottom.

Bursting heaters at University of Toronto Trinity College

Yesterday was not a great day in terms of things going right. I mentioned I was dead scared when I lost my mom and sister at the mall, now is another story. I drove my sis back to her rez and some of her roommates were just outside her room. They told her that her fire alarm had gone off during the weekend and the steam had filled her entire room. Apparently her room's heater had burst. Everything in her room was moist and humid, from carpet to the curling posters now lying on the floor. I quickly moved her computer and monitor into the hallway to minimize water damage.

Unfortunately her monitor had already suffered damage with water inside the screen and all the buttons on the monitor didn't work. The annoying part was either the screen would flicker at random times or the monitor menu would appear and disappear. Thankfully the computer did not seem to suffer as much since the desk was protecting it.

She couldn't use her blanket since it was still very wet. Some of her cosmetics in small packs burst from the intense heat. Here is are the large icicles that formed at her window from the moisture trying to escape her room:

I hear from my sister that they finally fixed the heater today after claiming they'd "fixed" it after she complained about it earlier in the year.