Oh, mine was much less fancy than this. Google images made this particular meal.

Alright, so this isn’t officially the first meal I’ve cooked on my own, but it is the first meal I’ve cooked on my own from scratch in this apartment. You’d think because of my ethnicity and 100% solidarity when choosing “asian” in the age old, slightly racist, meal time question “white or asian?” I’d make something like beef and broccolli, or sweet and sour pork.. pho even.

But, I did not. I made fried fish. Romo, you’re not the only Pilipinong up in this hizouse.

Sadly, it wasn’t ultra flip fish, just salmon. And rice. Setting off the fire alarm was also like having a poorly DJ’d party in my kitchen. Still, so good in my belleh.

I just paid my bills for the last month.5 and I’m negative. Considering I bought a tv and xbox plus some other random shit, i suppose it isn’t the end of the world.

This post isn’t really about money, it’s about games. I’ve been playing xbox religiously everyday after work for like the last week. It’s for a few hrs before i sleep, and it’s not as much as my SNES Chrono Trigger days, but damn is it a lot of time. I just picked up this game called Tales of Vesperia that was just released on the 27th here and it is so fucking confusing. I’m not used this new-school gaming where theres 1001 things to a battle system. I’m only used to magic + attributes. This game has magic + attributes + formation + real time crazyness + synthesizing + post-battle-cooking + combos + finishing moves + auto-strategy + personal calls to players you can’t control. zomg. My brains is going to sexplode.

If it’s not that, I’m playing Battle Field: Bad Company with Dave, Ee and Button (Eric) online. It’s fun because we only play the game as it’s meant to be played 20% of the time. The rest is playing tag with tracer/flare guns and attacking with medic kits.

There was one totally random game that I bought cause of Luke called Crack Down. Omg. This game is crack. It’s like playing through a Jacky Chan movie. You run, you bash. You upgrade and leap over fucking building while punching people across streets. GTA meats steroids + the future.

Holy Traci Lordes of the Ring my face is going to melt.

put your junk in the box. Step two.. yeah.. i’ll stop there.

In a matter of about 30 days, I’ve gone from living at home, to living abroad, and much closer to work. Obviously, I’m liking it. I’m still not fully moved out.. in fact, I’m not even 80% moved out yet but I’m taking my time. Living out costs so much money, and I instantaneously feel the cash burn. I used to not even think twice about leaving the lights on in my room when I’d go out to grab something from the kitchen, but now, the first thing I do is think.. oh shit, maybe I should turn that off. Haha, it’s strange. I finally understand why everyone got there undies in a jumble over things like that.

Anyway, it’s been a full week as of tonight, and so far, I’m glad I’ve got a roomie. Hopefully all works out this next 6-8 months and we both won’t feel the need to sneak into each other’s rooms at night and bash the other’s face in with a rock.

To buy a tv, or not to buy a tv. That is the question.

August TODO:

• Find a new gym/pool
• Get cable tv
• Learn to cook chinese food
• Lose 10 mexican lbs
• Seduce an animal and eat it.

Andy captured this lusty moment.

Wow that was not meant to be a euphemism, but now that I read it over, I don’t mind it. It’s a lot less obvious then mass debating. So while I was in training last week, I was debating.. mass debating in the chair in front of the rest of my coworkers about whether I should get up and relieve myself in the washroom. I didn’t and waited nearly 40 minutes to pee. I mass debated much too long.

Anyway, this post is about camping which happened about a month ago and as long ago as that is now, it’s actually even longer because this post comes like a week or two after my original sample post. Seriously this month has flown by so fast. I remember camping as if it was only a couple weeks ago, and now it’s August. What the hell?

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Ravaged.

I’ve been choosing for the last hour or so from pictures from my camera. It’s almost done, I’d normally try to finish before I sleep but I’m in the midst of turning over a new leaf. So sleep now, update more later. For now enjoy a preview of what happens when we violate mother nature for 3 days and 2 nights of angry passion.

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I’ve just gone and had the worst few weeks ever it seems. I was on a bit of a life-rush the weeks prior to all this where things were not going well, but it was nothing to complain about because other parts of my life were good and it balanced out.

These last few weeks, I guess I had it too good for too long because my life was like this river: seemingly pleasant on the surface but what you don’t see unless you were there to experience it in all its fury, is that it’s a strong maherfackin river. The mouth of this thing is something that would devour your babies, crush villages of 6 week old puppies and possibly sleep with your wife and/or husband then write you an email about it complete with video attachments. Gawd.

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So finally, after I don’t even know how many weeks of saying I’ll post pictures of the day at Stanley Park, here it is. I’m also way tired to write anything about it right now, so this will have to be mostly a picture post.

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No need for post production madness here.

Driven To Perform was about 3 weeks ago now. The lighting there, aside from where this beamer was, was pretty bad. So, to flex my Photoshop muscle, I styled the next few pictures in a few ways because.. I could.

I’ll update more about the day at DTP later.. I’m under-enthused right now.

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About a month ago, I heard that a former classmate of mine had passed and today, more bad news. I feel sympathy for his family and friends, but I never thought about it past that really. The fact is, I don’t feel it’s all that appropriate for someone outside the circle to be expressing anything beyond that. I remember in the past, when someone passed away, you always will have the annoying mega-sympathizers that will cry and moan on and on about what a great person X was and how they will be missed dearly.

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Alright, I’ve been moaned at for the last few days to update. I don’t know when this turned into a competition, but fine. I’ll play.

What I haven’t had time to do is to pick pictures from the Stanley Park day yet, so that’ll be on the back burner till Thursday at the earliest. Some of you may not think it, but it does take a while to do that “post production” stuff I love so much to my photos. Given, it’s not really all that crazy most of the time, but when an exposure I like is too blurry, too under exposed or too _____… I can’t help but try to save it. Sometimes it doesn’t work.

Yeah, yada, yeah.. “Shoot in RAW!” you say. “Bite me,” says I.

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