PBR in a paper bag...

So on Sat I get a call in the afternoon, after my nap, that I should go out tonite to meet lil genius's new friend... So after a quick steak dinner, dressed up, and then headed into town.

Originally, it was to start with beer pong, then flip cup... but having arrived late, we headed straight to the bar. Went all the way to Fremont, feels pretty weird in some ways, because as I was going there, I realized that I never really have gone to Fremont for a bar night before. And I wonder why I haven't earlier!

At the bar, I was strangely amused when there were people drinking out of paper bags! That is just awesome. You buy a bottle of PBR, then stick it in a paper bag. So I bought one and I have to say, it's hard to drink out of a paper bag... it felt like it was gonna slip away at any time...

At some point, I also convinced someone that 3am hot dogs are better than 1am hot dogs. I guess them books on conversation and persuasion's paying off.

Pretty fun night overall. Haven't had one of these in ages...

Freeeeeeee

With yesterday having passed, this marks another course done. No more weekly homework for another few weeks!.. yay!

Watched King's Speech tonight. Pretty interesting movie. The whole time - kept wondering how the actor does it... to purposely stutter through the entire movie.. .that's pretty awesome.

Oh - and it was British accent all through the movie!

Whistler Weekend

The yearly trip to Whistler at Fairmont arrives this weekend.

I have realized that I am terribly out of shape. 3/4 of the first run was awesome - I was flying down, felt fully in control. Then that last 1/4 of the run, I was dyyyyiiing. So tired.. legs burning. That was pretty much the rest of the day... hahaha

Had the usual Japanese dinner - but like Travel Buddy mentioned, each year we seem to order less and less.

The highlight though was being able to drink Canadian beer. Moosehead and Rickards... here I thought we would get 3 6-packs, between 3 ppl.. and I can take some back. But the result.. only 5 beers left! All the while playing a card monopoly game and Rambo...

Spend Sunday bumming around Richmond... then bought myself a nice 21 yr old bottle as compensation for missing lil dragon dumplings... .. .

Fun timesssss

Snow Day!

2 inches of snow == snow day today!

So I WFH, and also having my lecture at home... nice feeling... .. .

Yet I still took a nap during... .. .

Equations that make no sense

In my head today - a bunch of equations... all of which makes no sense...

square square modulo modulo power poewr... I feel like a broken robot... hahahaha

Nice day ... of procrastination

Have alot of things to do... but really, these past few days I don't feel like doing much.

Last night, had the classic make my own sushi/sashimi nite, some sake. Then boiled some TVBs. Headed to bed early.

Today, woke up, finished the TVB (I should mention that I finished 9 episodes in the last 24 hours..), and opened up the assignment, then decided to blog... ... .

Staring out at a clear blue sky - really don't feel like doing much. Maybe today is another write-off.

Note to self: I am screwed on Sunday... .. .

Whooooosh!

It's been a few years... but this is probably the first time in awhile where I couldn't stand a lecture. I was literally about to walk out on the lecture part way through.

By 4th year, I've gotten to the point where I would only attend lectures that I wanted to be in - and that has helped me free up alot of time, as well as be more focused when I am at the lectures.

Fast forward to now, where I feel obligated to attend every single lecture. And I have to say, it's tough. I think for the past few lectures, I am passed out from 7 to 7:30 just from work + lecture talk kablamo.

But today was different, the last half of the lecture was a slide deck click exercise. Though I guess it doesn't matter too much because with the lack of readings available, I have been learning from wikipedia, and each weekend has been a self exploration exercise, to supplement what was mentioned in the slides. I guess it's not much different than university in the past, and I am technically in school, but the difference is that I can't take 'snow days' and 'cold days' like I used to - since I feel guilty. But then again, I also feel guilty not giving the lecturer my full attention...

Ahh the dilemna...

Sushi Attempt #X - Uni Attempt - Success!

Since I got the ceramic knife, I have basically almost done sushi/sashimi nights on Fridays. Today though, I had a craving for sushi, but instead of going to a restaurant, I figure I go see what was on sale at Uwajimaya. And lo and behold, I find nice fresh Uni, just sitting there waiting for me to eat. So I grabbed a pack, and it's on!

What I noticed was that the packaging was exactly the same as those that are used in the restaurants (little trays with 5 white compartments)... I wonder if the sushi restaurants just buys these as well. Hrm... At restaurants, they usually put about 1 or 2 pieces on each, but as you can tell, I put at least 2 on each :).

Comparing the prices...

Restaurant price: $4 to $6 for having two 1 or 2 pieces Uni on top of each sushi

Store price: ~$16 for a pack of about 20 pieces of Uni... (which comes out to 10 pieces+ of sushi that can be made from this pack... 5 + sashimi if done the Mson way)....

I am definitely one who should learn how to cook! Having say 6 pieces of Uni sushi at a restaurant would easily be $25+ dollars (and if it's doubled up like mines... $40+). The savings is definitely worth it to eat at home.

Note: It actually tasted pretty similar I think to the restaurants (not to mention it sorta looked like it!) - also, the sake I got was really tasty too.

Hmwk Hmwk Hmwk

... having to do homework every week sucks a55!.... ... .. .

End of the TO Trip

After one last K outing the night before, today was the day I went back to the west coast. The airport lineups were really long - much longer than usual. The cool part was that during the security clearance, I was picked for some ion check thingy machine... which let me jump the line! I wonder if its because I look like I was gonna be a quick one to get through security (since I wasn't all over the place and had that bored look on my face.. hahaha) - but because of that, I easily got back 20 minutes of my life. Good stuff!

As always, I meet more new people in these 2 weeks than in 1 year in Seattle! I still find this very surprising year after year. What is so different about these two places?! Good at finding facts, but bad at using them... .. .