Today's Track : The Cure - Friday I'm In Love

I love Friday. You suck Monday!

Jessica Alba in Honey on Friday Dec. 5th...another reason why I love Fridays.

Today's Track : The Cure - There Is No If

You know when the moon is full supposedly some people turn into werewolves? I think when it rains or snows some drivers become morons. Yesterday morning I saw a car go around a turn too fast and slide onto someone’s lawn, taking out two small trees in the process. Luckily there were no pedestrians walking by.

I found out yesterday that eating too much sushi can be bad for your liver because of the toxins in sushi. Toxins? I thought sushi was super healthy! So much for my sushi diet. After this weekend’s all-you-can-eat-to-the-death sushi birthday dinner for Lindy, I’m going to eat sushi in moderation. Those Japanese people aren’t too fond of their liver huh? They drink in excess and they eat sushi. Their diet is like one big fuck you to the liver.

Speaking of the Japanese – Tom Cruise has a new movie coming out called the Last Samurai. Tell me the Japanese aren’t pissed off about this movie. First the Americans nuke their country and now they claim to be the last samurais? Those crazy Americans are just pissing everyone off these days. And to think the Japanese have done nothing but been the best of friends to the Americans in recent years. Remember Mr.Miyagi? He didn’t have to help Daniel-san with that crane kick. But he did. Damn those ungrateful, arrogant, insolent Americans!

Ending on a brighter note, it’s American Thanksgiving and I’m very thankful for one thing – Thursday night football!! Go Dolphins go!!

Today's Track : Saint Etienne - I Was Born on Christmas Day

Coupland...the man cracks me up... --> McJob

Speaking of which, I better get back to studying so I can leave my McJob and get a real one.

Today's Track : Tori Amos - Lovesong (live)

5 Reasons Why I Suspect Christmas is Coming Early This Year

1. Last night while watching WWF Raw, a girl’s nipple inadvertently popped out of her wrestling outfit after she got tossed off the wrestling canvas.


2. Wanda, my little SHIT (Super Hero In Training) aka Sidekick Sonia, bought me Murakami’s Norwegian Wood on her most recent book shopping spree.


3. I’ve already got 2 snowboarding trips to Mt Tremblant booked in the next 2 months.


4. My parents haven’t yet killed, given away, cooked or eaten my insolent dog.


5. I’m no longer longing for things that were only a mirage of happiness.

Tis the season for clementines, egg nog and Toblerones. I don’t know how these two food items got associated with Christmas but here are a few food items I want to see get associated with Christmas.

1. Chicken wings. If you’re planning to come to my house for Christmas make sure you bring some. Hot, suicide, jerk chicken, Cajun, honey garlic – I like them all. Don’t forget the veggie sticks you cheap bastard.


2. Slow roasted prime rib. I’m pretty sure I saw a slow roasted prime rib in the background of that Last Supper painting. Medium rare please.


3. Foie gras and veal. Just kidding. Leave that and your fur coat at home you insensitive, cruel, animal hating SOB!


4. Nachos (with a hint of Lime!) and salsa. You could probably use the nachos as tree ornaments.

Woohoo…Christmas is coming!

Today's Track : The Carpenters - Rainy Days and Mondays Always Get Me Down

This weekend was quite a somber one. Friday night I attended Sonia’s grandmother’s wake. To date, my 2nd wake/funeral and it never gets any easier. A few interesting things to note about the funeral and traditions :

1. Chinese/Vietnamese tradition is to burn fake money and paper gold/silver bars so that the dead have money in the after life. This perplexes me on the account that I’d imagine everything in the after life to be free. Except maybe movies. Movies are ridiculously priced everywhere.



2. The fake bank notes they burn have “Hell” on them. I made some inquiries as to why they bought the currency for Hell. Apparently, when we die there is no Heaven and Hell. There is no good or bad place. We all go to the same place except this place has different levels. This doesn’t really answer the original question but this all but confirms my belief that we’re all going to Hell. I’m stocking up on marshmallows, chocolate and graham crackers after work today.



3. The funeral home address was 665 Spadina. Right across from 666 Spadina. This has nothing to do with tradition but I just thought it was an eerie coincidence. Maybe that’s where they bought the Hell bank notes.



4. When you arrive at a wake you’re asked to burn some incense and bow for the deceased person. Knowing full well that Asian people are very superstitious about numbers, I knew there was a certain number of bows I had to do. My dilemma was that I couldn’t remember whether 3 or 4 was the unlucky number of death. So I bowed twice to be safe. The next day I found out I was suppose to bow 3 times. 4 is the unlucky number of death.

Oddly enough, after the wake I attended a birthday party (cue Elton John’s “Circle of Life”.) It made me wonder whether it’s more important to celebrate the beginning of life -- a birthday, or the inevitable end of life -- a wake/funeral. Then I finally realized it wasn’t a celebration or a mourning of someone’s death that I had attended prior to the birthday. It was actually a celebration of the person and the great life they lived. The funeral the next day wasn’t as somber.

Today's Track : Cranberries - Twenty One

I would rather erase a bittersweet memory than have it haunt me the rest of my life.

Maybe that’s why I’m so forgetful.

(It’s the bittersweet symphony called life.)

Today’s Track : The Strokes – What Ever Happened

Wanda sent me this this morning...here’s for all the scrabble enthusiasts…

Hollywood is developing two movies featuring Scrabble, reports The Independent on Sunday. One film, to be directed by Curtis Hanson (8 Mile and L.A. Confidential) will be based on the cult novel Word Freak. The other, to be produced by Miramax, is a love story about a couple who fall in love at the World Scrabble Championship.

I’ve just added that to my list of things to do before I die. Playing in the World Scrabble Championships is right after playing in the World Series of Poker! If anyone ever wants to play a game of scrabble or poker, you know where to find me :P

On a disturbing and unrelated note, I found a dead worm/caterpillar in a strawberry yesterday. It’s a good thing I chop my strawberries in half before I actually eat them. I’d highly recommend everyone else to do the same.