Thxgiving Weekend: Dad's 60th

With the mad dashes around the airport completed, time for the weekend full of fun...

First Night:

With Hermie picking me up from the airport, we proceed to go visit my dad to give him his first surprise. Me :)... wuhahaha. Supposedly I was suppose to be web cammed in for the dinner, so instead of that, we'd show up in an 'ipad frame' to walk in with as the birthday card (I mean, what fun is just a regular birthday card right?). I have to say, the idea worked nicer than I imagined. The frame was also built very well :).

The cake was pretty tasty too!

Day 2: Private Home Dinner
Waking up at the usual time (2pm)... realized half the day was done already. So off to prepare the 9 course home made meal.

The menu:


Also was able to squeeze in an hour with some Waterloo buddies. Even if it was only for an hour, it was great!

Day 3: Dinner with all
9 bottles of wine, 2 tables of good food, good company. Fun times!


Happy Birthday! :)

Made it!

With 5 minutes to spare.. I make it onto the flight. woohoo!

This the morning of Thxgiving

Flight delays... will see if I can mad dash it to my connecting...

25 minutes to cross concourse... weeeee

Software Entrepreneurship Course Thoughts

With this whole course and finding out there are a bunch of people who have their own businesses... makes me wonder - how many years will it take to get this experience and to be successful at it. And is all this work worth whatever they had traded off to get to where they are today. How much freedom do they get to enjoy life once they are there.

Am I really comfortable where I am now, or should I try to be even more comfortable (though as of today, my latest random experiment have failed miserably... hahaha). A hamster in them wheels, vs. ... .. . ?

Anyhow, each week literally there are milionaires walking giving their spheel. It's pretty cool to see these folks take the time to give a lecture to us.

Also, what Bill G said does ring home a little bit (this is from one of the colloquiums). Sure, tens of millions will make alot of things more convenient. But once you become super rich,

"A burger is still a burger." - pretty true. I don't need billions... just millions :)

Colloquia Blitz

3 colloquias down... 1 more to watch...

These ones are pretty interesting actually...

Also need to start doing them homework... .. .

Random Thought

As I sit here at Regent, eating my luner at 6pm, I wonder - wouldn't it be nice to be able to see different people everyday and make them smile...

Like seeing kids light up seeing their favorite pastries arrive at their hands, or seeing people enjoy what they are eating, under a nice relaxing atmosphere... wouldn't that be fun...

The freedom to do whatever you want, to control your own time, and be anywhere you want to be... it will take alot of work and 'experience' and 'tuition' to make happen, but maybe it is worth it...

On Buses and Bus Apps

Even if you know in almost real time when the bus is arriving, it doesn't do any good when you feel bad when someone is running way over in their 2 hour talk with no breaks... one ends up just watching the app the connecting bus pass by...

To think, without technology, I wouldn't have the expectation...

Probably what annoys me more was I missed my chance to get back 30 min earlier... and I had to sit through a 3 hour lecture without break hearing about what for the last 20 min were advertisement of the patent industry... maybe it was the lack of breaks, but the talk could have been half an hour shorter.

As I sit here now, alone at the bus stop, lesson learnt. Be concise with my own presentations and don't ramble on and on...

Oh.. on another note.. it has been 2 months, and the publish button for blogger on ie9 still doesn't work. Now with Mango, the browser is now ie9 too (w.o the option to go into compatibility mode)... so no more publishing as I go... what a bummer. I wonder when someone will decide to fix this.

Ghetto Heart Monitor

Technology from what must be from the 80s...

You'd think there would be some kind of USB or wifi/internet upload. But nope, to use, you call in, put the mouthpiece near the device, then replay this high pitched voice.

Not to mention it doesn't work... Good thing I am getting a different device. Someone really needs to fix this for this industry... .. .

My Course Textbook

When course textbooks are effectively 120 page novels... it makes it a much more entertaining read... even though I have taken a nap or two already... and it's only 3:47 pm...

The coolest part is perhaps if I knew about this book, I probably would have picked it up to read in my spare time anyway :)

Paying for Things I Don't Use

Question of the day:
Why do I have to pay for a bus pass that I will never get to use?

And the kicker is - if I try to pay by credit card, there's a convenience fee of $83 for a $79 charge... wtf...

Rip-off x2