KLB Raspberry Wheat Beer
(Ingrid Michaelson - The Way I Am)
It's 11 pm, the gf is asleep and here I am in my PJ's with a beer in hand and ready to do some work. Freedom never tasted so sweet...or maybe that's just the beer talking.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Life In The Fast Lane
(The Stars - Personal)
So I've moved into the new condo with the girlfriend and it's been quite the change. I don't even know where to start. I guess the biggest change for me is slowly figuring out what is acceptable normal behaviour in her presence. I mean is it ok for me to leave the toilet seat up? Fart loudly while watching the football game? Leave my dirty clothes lying on the bedroom floor?
It's not only in regards to general annoying habits but also has to do with how much of "myself" do I now reveal? We've dated for 4+ years now and by no means was I pretending to be anyone else for all of that time (maybe just the first month during the chase :P), but now that we see each other 7 days a week, is anything going to surprise her? I guess that's the real test. One month in and I think so far I'm passing. I could be wrong.
We haven't had too many disagreements and we've been able to compromise on most things. I'm getting used to being clean around the condo and not leaving dirty dishes in the sink too long. It's not too tough when you live near your friends and you have guests over at least once a week.
Budgeting is a new concept to me now. I've never had to worry about 1/3 of my income going to a mortgage and utility bills. So far I think I've dealt with that pretty well. I don't eat out as much as I used to, especially at lunch. I don't go on frivolous spending sprees anymore. I now understand that being budget conscious doesn't mean I'm cheap.
Working 40-50 hours a week and coming home to make dinner is tougher than it looks and I don't think I've ever given my parents enough credit. I don't even have any kids to worry about at this point either. I don't know if I've found my calling yet in terms of a career but I know that work is challenging for me at this point. At times it's overwhelming but I take it in stride.
I've gotten back into playing tennis a lot more lately and trying hard to keep up with it. Balancing it with my other sports, work and my new condo life has been a nice exercise in time management and the increase in activity is keeping me from putting on 40 lbs and auditioning for the Biggest Loser reality show. I think my next step is starting to eat healthier. That's going to take some time.
Everything is moving so fast...my head is spinning...I hope I don't get sick of this ride and puke.
Talk to you next time I can find 15 min of time from my life to document it.
(The Stars - Personal)
So I've moved into the new condo with the girlfriend and it's been quite the change. I don't even know where to start. I guess the biggest change for me is slowly figuring out what is acceptable normal behaviour in her presence. I mean is it ok for me to leave the toilet seat up? Fart loudly while watching the football game? Leave my dirty clothes lying on the bedroom floor?
It's not only in regards to general annoying habits but also has to do with how much of "myself" do I now reveal? We've dated for 4+ years now and by no means was I pretending to be anyone else for all of that time (maybe just the first month during the chase :P), but now that we see each other 7 days a week, is anything going to surprise her? I guess that's the real test. One month in and I think so far I'm passing. I could be wrong.
We haven't had too many disagreements and we've been able to compromise on most things. I'm getting used to being clean around the condo and not leaving dirty dishes in the sink too long. It's not too tough when you live near your friends and you have guests over at least once a week.
Budgeting is a new concept to me now. I've never had to worry about 1/3 of my income going to a mortgage and utility bills. So far I think I've dealt with that pretty well. I don't eat out as much as I used to, especially at lunch. I don't go on frivolous spending sprees anymore. I now understand that being budget conscious doesn't mean I'm cheap.
Working 40-50 hours a week and coming home to make dinner is tougher than it looks and I don't think I've ever given my parents enough credit. I don't even have any kids to worry about at this point either. I don't know if I've found my calling yet in terms of a career but I know that work is challenging for me at this point. At times it's overwhelming but I take it in stride.
I've gotten back into playing tennis a lot more lately and trying hard to keep up with it. Balancing it with my other sports, work and my new condo life has been a nice exercise in time management and the increase in activity is keeping me from putting on 40 lbs and auditioning for the Biggest Loser reality show. I think my next step is starting to eat healthier. That's going to take some time.
Everything is moving so fast...my head is spinning...I hope I don't get sick of this ride and puke.
Talk to you next time I can find 15 min of time from my life to document it.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Growing Up Is a Bitch
(Peter, Bjorn & Paul - Young Folks)
Last week I bought a condo with my trusty sidekick. I'll tell you now, there hasn't been a moment in my life up to this point that has been bigger. Yet, if you were to take a closer look, I haven't flinched. Odd. I've been scared to grow up all my life. I don't know what's different about this moment but I just know that I'm ready. Hello independence, goodbye cold feet.
So call this Shaky's world wind tour before he truly becomes an adult. Feel free to stop in and say hi at any one of these events.
May 19-22 - Kissimmee/Orlando, FL
May 25 - Feist concert at Massey Hall in Toronto
June 22-25 - Camp trip to Killbear Provincial Park (24 confirmed, 11 spots left)
Aug 3-6 - Cottage trip to Springwood
Sept 9 - Virgin Festival Toronto (Smashing Pumpkins, The Killers, Metric, The Hives, Tokyo Police Club, Peter Bjorn and John)
Add to that a few long weekends at the beach and you've got the makings of a great summer. I officially declare this the summer of Khiem.
(Peter, Bjorn & Paul - Young Folks)
Last week I bought a condo with my trusty sidekick. I'll tell you now, there hasn't been a moment in my life up to this point that has been bigger. Yet, if you were to take a closer look, I haven't flinched. Odd. I've been scared to grow up all my life. I don't know what's different about this moment but I just know that I'm ready. Hello independence, goodbye cold feet.
So call this Shaky's world wind tour before he truly becomes an adult. Feel free to stop in and say hi at any one of these events.
May 19-22 - Kissimmee/Orlando, FL
May 25 - Feist concert at Massey Hall in Toronto
June 22-25 - Camp trip to Killbear Provincial Park (24 confirmed, 11 spots left)
Aug 3-6 - Cottage trip to Springwood
Sept 9 - Virgin Festival Toronto (Smashing Pumpkins, The Killers, Metric, The Hives, Tokyo Police Club, Peter Bjorn and John)
Add to that a few long weekends at the beach and you've got the makings of a great summer. I officially declare this the summer of Khiem.
Monday, May 07, 2007
Monday, December 18, 2006
Saturday, December 09, 2006
I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.
(The Fray - How To Save a Life)
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
...
Highlights from week 1 at the new job...
- It doesn't matter where I am, if I'm sitting idle in a moving vehicle, my super powers of sleep start to kick in. If someone is driving and I am the passenger, my eyes will be shut by the time the car is moving. During my commute this week, I overslept my subway stop twice. On Monday, I overslept by about 4 stops. Luckily I planned to get to work 30 minutes early to make a good impression. As it turns out, I got to work 5 minutes early. On Friday, I overslept my commute by about 8 stops. When I had woken up, the subway car was completely empty and the next stop read "Greenwood". I've lived in the Toronto area for the past 20 years and I've never even heard of Greenwood. I hope Santa gives me an alarm clock for Christmas so I can use it for my commute.
- I work in a sausage factory. Of the 30 or so employees at my new company, there are exactly 2 women. One is the company controller and the other one is the vp of marketing.
- I've decided that this 1.5 hr commute to work is good for me. I need to get more exercise. If my tummy gets any bigger, I might not be able to see my penis in the shower. Which makes it hard to wash. No one wants a dirty penis.
- The good thing about working for a company that has so many male workers is that the company Christmas party is at the Toronto Raptors basketball game. That would only fly with the coolest of women.
- There is no dress code at my office. The CEO walks around in jeans, sneakers and a t-shirt.
- The management group are all under 40 years old. My boss is 2 years younger than me.
- Here's something to scare you. For the 10 new business consultants they just hired including me, they had to interview 100 people. 9 out of 10 failed the technical interview. Which means that 9 out of 10 people are dumber than me.
(The Fray - How To Save a Life)
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
...
Highlights from week 1 at the new job...
- It doesn't matter where I am, if I'm sitting idle in a moving vehicle, my super powers of sleep start to kick in. If someone is driving and I am the passenger, my eyes will be shut by the time the car is moving. During my commute this week, I overslept my subway stop twice. On Monday, I overslept by about 4 stops. Luckily I planned to get to work 30 minutes early to make a good impression. As it turns out, I got to work 5 minutes early. On Friday, I overslept my commute by about 8 stops. When I had woken up, the subway car was completely empty and the next stop read "Greenwood". I've lived in the Toronto area for the past 20 years and I've never even heard of Greenwood. I hope Santa gives me an alarm clock for Christmas so I can use it for my commute.
- I work in a sausage factory. Of the 30 or so employees at my new company, there are exactly 2 women. One is the company controller and the other one is the vp of marketing.
- I've decided that this 1.5 hr commute to work is good for me. I need to get more exercise. If my tummy gets any bigger, I might not be able to see my penis in the shower. Which makes it hard to wash. No one wants a dirty penis.
- The good thing about working for a company that has so many male workers is that the company Christmas party is at the Toronto Raptors basketball game. That would only fly with the coolest of women.
- There is no dress code at my office. The CEO walks around in jeans, sneakers and a t-shirt.
- The management group are all under 40 years old. My boss is 2 years younger than me.
- Here's something to scare you. For the 10 new business consultants they just hired including me, they had to interview 100 people. 9 out of 10 failed the technical interview. Which means that 9 out of 10 people are dumber than me.
Sunday, December 03, 2006
I'm so hard for the rich girl...
(Stars - Elevator Love Letter)
Her heels are high and my hope's so low
'cause I don't know how to love
...
So I read somewhere that you can tell a lot about a person through their handshake. I don't know exactly what you could tell or how you would tell it but I think it'd be a great leap over the communication gap of our society. You could bypass all the small talk you do when you first meet someone through a simple handshake. Determine instantly if that person would even be worth conversing with or whether it'd be a waste of your breath. I think too much of our time is wasted on figuring people out and trying to understand them. Let me rephrase that. I think too many people waste our time by hiding behind personality curtains because their real personalities scare people away. People like this should be looking for help. Seeking out some personality therapy. Do personality therapists even exists? I think I'd be the first one in the line to see the personalapist.
I'm rambling.
So the big news in my world lately is that I resigned from my old job 2 weeks ago. About 4-5 months back, I had told my new boss that I needed them to hire some help to offload some of the IT functions that they had me doing that wasn't related to my career objectives. It's not that I was too important or too cool to do them, they were just taking up too much of my time and I was losing focus on my own personal development within the company. My boss replied that we didn't have the budget to add another head in my department and that they would revisit the issue in 2007. A few months later, they hired 2 new executive assistants. One executive assistant for my boss and one for the general manager. After a few other annoying incidents, I came to the conclusion that the new management team there was full of shit, so I got a new job. It's a new adventure for me. I'll be working in the heart of downtown Toronto for the first time. I'll be one of those people sleeping on the subway in the mornings; sliding in and out of the crowds on the street as I make my morning commute. Being a suburbs boy, I'm not sure if I'm ready for this but it was definitely time for a change, a welcomed change.
Watch out big city, here I come.
(Stars - Elevator Love Letter)
Her heels are high and my hope's so low
'cause I don't know how to love
...
So I read somewhere that you can tell a lot about a person through their handshake. I don't know exactly what you could tell or how you would tell it but I think it'd be a great leap over the communication gap of our society. You could bypass all the small talk you do when you first meet someone through a simple handshake. Determine instantly if that person would even be worth conversing with or whether it'd be a waste of your breath. I think too much of our time is wasted on figuring people out and trying to understand them. Let me rephrase that. I think too many people waste our time by hiding behind personality curtains because their real personalities scare people away. People like this should be looking for help. Seeking out some personality therapy. Do personality therapists even exists? I think I'd be the first one in the line to see the personalapist.
I'm rambling.
So the big news in my world lately is that I resigned from my old job 2 weeks ago. About 4-5 months back, I had told my new boss that I needed them to hire some help to offload some of the IT functions that they had me doing that wasn't related to my career objectives. It's not that I was too important or too cool to do them, they were just taking up too much of my time and I was losing focus on my own personal development within the company. My boss replied that we didn't have the budget to add another head in my department and that they would revisit the issue in 2007. A few months later, they hired 2 new executive assistants. One executive assistant for my boss and one for the general manager. After a few other annoying incidents, I came to the conclusion that the new management team there was full of shit, so I got a new job. It's a new adventure for me. I'll be working in the heart of downtown Toronto for the first time. I'll be one of those people sleeping on the subway in the mornings; sliding in and out of the crowds on the street as I make my morning commute. Being a suburbs boy, I'm not sure if I'm ready for this but it was definitely time for a change, a welcomed change.
Watch out big city, here I come.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Offside
(Anything Box - Carmen)
As a kid, I grew up loving comics. My favourites were X-Men, X-Factor, Spiderman and Wolverine. I used to spend my lunches at the comic store, buying the latest comics for $1.50. In fact, I still have some of those comics lying around my room. They're still in good condition as I kept them in plastic covers with cardboard backs.
I remember reading the comics carefully, making sure not to crease any pages. Occasionally I would try and draw some of the characters in the comics and pretend I was Stan Lee, Todd McFarlane or Rob Liefeld. To be honest though, I was more like Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the South Park artists.
I eventually grew out of the comic collecting fad but I still love comics. I don't think that will ever change.
As you know, I've been working with a few friends on a fantasy sports website (www.fantasymoneyball.com) over the past year. It's been a pretty tough and busy year but we've been doing things that we enjoy. We finally launched our website back in September and we've been continuing to improve the site by fixing bugs and adding more content to it.
About a month ago Spooner and I came up with an idea of adding a comic to our site similar to the one you see on Penny Arcade. As luck would have it, Sonia's sister's bf, Garvey, was an animator and sports fan. We asked him to join our team and we started writing out some cartoon scripts that were sports related. Here are the fruits of our loins...err...labour.
Offside
Who would've thought that one day I'd have a hand in producing a comic?
So far we've been really happy with the work. As with most comics, there's going to be a period of growth as Garvey starts to understand the personalities of our characters and our humour.
As for the content, we've had a bit of butting of heads with some of our group in terms of what they think our audience wants to see. We've stayed on the PC/conservative side to appease everyone but look for us to push the envelope a little and get edgier with our material. After all, we're not PC and I would think that we are a prime example of our own target audience.
If you've got some time, take a look at the comic and let me know what you think. I'd loved to hear some input.
(Anything Box - Carmen)
As a kid, I grew up loving comics. My favourites were X-Men, X-Factor, Spiderman and Wolverine. I used to spend my lunches at the comic store, buying the latest comics for $1.50. In fact, I still have some of those comics lying around my room. They're still in good condition as I kept them in plastic covers with cardboard backs.
I remember reading the comics carefully, making sure not to crease any pages. Occasionally I would try and draw some of the characters in the comics and pretend I was Stan Lee, Todd McFarlane or Rob Liefeld. To be honest though, I was more like Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the South Park artists.
I eventually grew out of the comic collecting fad but I still love comics. I don't think that will ever change.
As you know, I've been working with a few friends on a fantasy sports website (www.fantasymoneyball.com) over the past year. It's been a pretty tough and busy year but we've been doing things that we enjoy. We finally launched our website back in September and we've been continuing to improve the site by fixing bugs and adding more content to it.
About a month ago Spooner and I came up with an idea of adding a comic to our site similar to the one you see on Penny Arcade. As luck would have it, Sonia's sister's bf, Garvey, was an animator and sports fan. We asked him to join our team and we started writing out some cartoon scripts that were sports related. Here are the fruits of our loins...err...labour.
Offside
Who would've thought that one day I'd have a hand in producing a comic?
So far we've been really happy with the work. As with most comics, there's going to be a period of growth as Garvey starts to understand the personalities of our characters and our humour.
As for the content, we've had a bit of butting of heads with some of our group in terms of what they think our audience wants to see. We've stayed on the PC/conservative side to appease everyone but look for us to push the envelope a little and get edgier with our material. After all, we're not PC and I would think that we are a prime example of our own target audience.
If you've got some time, take a look at the comic and let me know what you think. I'd loved to hear some input.
Seniorita and the Care Bear stare.
Medusa looking for a little fried chicken lovin.
Ignore the whoopee, Scott actually wanted to go as a giant foreskin.
Jo-jo and Sarah stopping by the party after their work shift on Jarvis & Church.
The rest of the pictures can be seen here...
http://flickr.com/photos/28362622@N00/sets/72157594362895854/
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Blondes Have All the Fun
(The Killers - When We Were Young)
Ok...haven't posted awhile because I've been doing too much work on my FMB project but I ran across this website today and it was too good not to pass on.
Keiko
This is about the only time in my life I've ever wanted to be wh...European.
...
FMB is looking for some content writers. We're looking for funny, sports enthusiasts who like to express their opinions! If this is you, please contact me. What do we have to offer? Well...to be honest, it would most likely be all pro-bono but if you're really good and you're of European descent, we may be able to send you to Tokyo to meet Keiko.
(The Killers - When We Were Young)
Ok...haven't posted awhile because I've been doing too much work on my FMB project but I ran across this website today and it was too good not to pass on.
Keiko
This is about the only time in my life I've ever wanted to be wh...European.
...
FMB is looking for some content writers. We're looking for funny, sports enthusiasts who like to express their opinions! If this is you, please contact me. What do we have to offer? Well...to be honest, it would most likely be all pro-bono but if you're really good and you're of European descent, we may be able to send you to Tokyo to meet Keiko.
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