once chapter ends and a new one begins

hello friends,

i am letting you know that my time of bloggin on this site is finished. it is time to move on to something bigger.

that bigger happens to be eatmorecords.com

i have retooled the site and now it will be my primary spot to talk about whatever i talk about!

come and check it out...

eatmorecords

hope to see you over there

paris

we are in paris. the keyboard is whack and hard to use.

the louve was closed today, so we will go there tomorrow. it should be interesting.

it is stinkin hot here but i see other parisans sweating, so i do not fell so bad. we also went to the neighbourhood amelie was filmed in, it is also where the moulin rouge is. we also walked the champs elyisse and saw the arc de triump.

lots of walking and plent of more to do in the coming days.

pics that make me laugh

summer is here, school is winding down and vaca starts about right now...hope you have some fun in the sun...

you have to check out these new blogs that i have found...please take the time to check them out...

1 fail blog - i am not sure what its about other than showing things that have failed!


2. 1000 awesome things
this one is about the little things in life that give you a smile

3. awkward family photos - this one is all in the name

4. stuff white people like - this is funny because i am white...

Mike v Ireland

Today...my buddy Mike is playing vs Ireland, the newly crowned champions of the 6 nations tournament, and its today at Tbird stadium at UBC.

If you cant make the game, its on Score TV at 4pm...go mike...

Now What

Well Canucks shit the bed and Arsenal have too...

I dont know what to do with all this free time!

I did find somethings that have piqued my interest...

Weezer covering Mgmt. check it out...good!



Jeff Ament, Pearl Jam bassist, was mugged outside an Atlanta studio while recording Pj's new album...here is the link

Finally, Coldplay has released a new live album for free...its very entertaining if your into Coldplay...here is the link

have a good long weekend...i will try to

Excuse Me?! You said WHAT?

Today I rode my bike to work and I have to say that man does my ass hurt. I really need a new seat, in fact I need one of those gel padded seats. I think that is the way to go. Anyways the meat of this post goes like this...

I was riding home, well actually to my parents place. Along the way, I was riding along 47 and came to an intersection. Well I was watching this mercedes and wanted to make sure that it saw me. And of course he didnt and then at the last minute he did and did this jerk stop. So I proceded to go through the intersection and looked at the guy. I didnt really think that I glarred at him but I rolled my eyes or shook my head.

As I rode by and he went through the intersection he yelled out

'What are you looking at CHINK?!'

I couldnt believe what I had just heard. I quickly did a sharp turn to go back towards the guy but I went too sharply and went over the handlebars. Luckily I landed on my feet and when I picked up my bike to get on and chase after the guy, I noticed that my chain was off. So I put it back on and then went to chase the guy but he was long gone. I did find a mercedes that looked like his going into an underground car park but choose not to follow. But man was I pissed. My head was in a haze for an hour.

I'm not even sure what I would of done had I made that turn properly...

Anyways here is some new Doves...

Also, I will be going to europe in the summer and Pearl Jam just anounced some dates over there but timing isnt right...too bad...that would of been awesome to see them in London or Berlin!

Doves-Kingdom of Rust

Adidas Has the Ads going

Normally i am a huge nike ad guy and they commission some sweet ads but right now there are few adidas ones that i am truely loving...

here is the best house party ever...see how many people you can spot...my fav is kg with golden balls on the couch!



next is chelsea fc (i hate them!) player michael ballack showing his accuracy



i am so glad i am not the guy holding the hoola hoop!

Anything Goes

You have to see this blooper from Hockey Central on Rogers Sportsnet...
its pretty funny, a cheap laugh at least!



and this is a good chase for some trash talking...

director of radiohead

i found this website where you get to be the director of video for radiohead at a concert in japan...i dont know what this looks like but check it out...

oh yah...go canucks go!

Britain's got Talent

OMG!

you have to watch these video's...first is Susan Boyle...quite a surprise!

damn they wont let me embed the video but go to the link...it is worth it for sure!



this is the second link...

its a father and son duo who are known as "Stavros Flately"
if that doesnt interest you, i dont know what will!

PLEASE WATCH, you will not be dissapointed

Things are starting to happen

Tonight is Game 1 of the playoffs. Extremely excited b/c we were not in it last year...but hopefully things go off to a great start...c'mon nucks!
Also, Doves have release a new album 'Kingdom of Rust'...I have only heard a few songs but it sounds like more of their best!

Here is a video from Jools Holland. Damn brits! they get they best music programming...enjoy the vid

No Can Do

My moms was a huge Hall and Oates fan and so it was on all the time in my house growing up. I was sent this video and I must say that seeing the unlikely pairing of Darryl Hall and Chromeo matched together redo No Can Do was very surprising. But dude, it rocks! check it out...



Also apparently the Chelsea Liverpool game was cracker. The game was tied 4-4 but Chelsea held on to win on aggregate 7-5. What a game to have been at. I will try to catch it on replay on TSN later tonight.

Cant Sleep, What Else to Do!

Its is in the wee hours of the morning and I cant sleep. Maybe its the turkey waiting, no, more like kicking to get out of my stomach.

I thought that I would check on the status of my blog and came to the realization that I no longer may any attention to it. I should but I dont, so now on I will do my best to be a good friend and nourish this blog back to health once again!


Nucks won their division for the 2nd time in three years...not bad...i bet there are a lot of broken ankles that are healing just in time for the playoffs. Burrows has been pretty clutch for the last little while. Lets hope he can keep it up and watch out for Sundin, its his time to shine.

Got my Pearl Jam ten re-issuse...very please about that. I forgot how awesome that album really is. It hasnt really left my cd player for the last couple of weeks...
Finally got really into the police over the weekend watch Spectacle with Elvis Costello. He was interviewing the Police this past episode and there was some cool insight into the band. Here is their combo performance of 'Watching the Detectives/Walking On the Moon'. Very cool...



This is a clip of how Roxanne came to be and how Sting originally wrote the song



Thats it for now...time to try to sleep so I dont lose it on the students in the mornin' b/c I'm grumpy!!!

Travis

Well...its always seems its a long time between post now...I suppose thats they way it goes...

Last night I went to see Travis at the Commodore...

what a great way to see a great band. they had tonnes of energy and it was a great time all around. i love the fact that i can call down to the commodore to find out what time the band will go on stage and finish watching the hockey game! nucks lost though...

anyways here is the set list...good set...


i took pics and some vids but too lazy to post it...haha


Travis - Vancouver 04/04/09

1 Chinese Blues
2 Writing to Reach You
3 Re-Offender
4 Love Will come through
5 J Smith
6 Something Anything
7 Long Way Down
8 Closer
9 Driftwood
10 Side
11 Falling Down
12 Sing
13 My Eyes
14 All I want to do is Rock
15 Song to Self
16 Before You were Young
17 Turn
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18 3 Times
19 Selfish Jean
20 Flowers in the Window
21 Why does it always Rain on Me?

Fran, the lead singer got the entire crowd to do the 'pogo' on the dancefloor for why does it always rain...and there were plenty of sing alongs...and one final note...it was a concert that went by very fast...truely the mark of a great live band...

Travis- J Smith

its been a while

i usually try to get at least one post in a month...but jan seemed to pass me by!

whats been going on?

my knee was f'd...then my back was f'd

the nucks lost a lot and now they have won 3...

i am about to invest in a hd pvr...

thats really all thats exciting and good...

and i liked the grammys this year...




radiohead feat. usc marching band - 15 step

WTF

blogger has fisted me twice now...

i have twice wrote about pearl jams new re-release of ten.
i am not going to bother with that any more. needless to say, i am excited about it.

it was a nice ceremony that they had for trev. i enjoyed it a lot. he was my idol and still is in many ways.

world juniors is starting soon...c'mon pat quinn...do us proud!

here is to a merry xmas and a happy new year for all of uses!

enjoy the time with each other...and remember that i have been fisted by blogger...

what do you do at work

right now i am in a workshop about blogging. i feel that this is good professional development. i did find out a about a good new search engine called TECHNORATI. this search's just blogs.

also while i am at it, i have been using mostly one main blog to search for the music. the name of it is

pretty much amazing.

this site is very good. i enjoy the music that is posted.

death cab for cutie - christmas (baby please come home)

and listen to JUSTICE and buy their new DVD/Cd 'A Cross The Universe'

justice - we are your friends

crawling on the eastside

So after all of last weeks shenanigans, its was time for a little fun. A was in the eastside culture crawl. It was a really good time. I think that she enjoyed it and had fun with it but it was a very long weekend.

She even managed to sell a few things. Not much really to say other than it was nice to finally meet all of her other studio mates and that the show was great. here are a few pictures.


Another thing...i have noticed that my visit counter went from just under 10,000 hits up to over 16,000 in less than a week. it lead me to believe that there is some sort of malfunction with the hit counter or someone is pumping up my stats. it took me almost two years to get to 10,000 and less than a week to get another 6,000?! it doesnt make sense!

The next day

Well, I talked to Ed today. He did nothing to take ownership of what occurred and offered nothing but excuses and bad reasons on why he did what he did. I told him that when he said that he was going to be around 4-430, that sounded like an appointment to me. He countered by saying that he was there by 4. I told him

'I dont think so. We were home by quarter to 4. Also when we listen to the playback of the message, it said that it was received at 332.'

He response was something muttered under his breath about 330, 4 its all the same.

I asked about the toilet and then he said that it was just surface mold and we should take care of it. He then told me how to clean the mold for 5-7 minutes. The whole time I was thinking that there is no way that this is normal looking mold and this guy is an idiot.

From now on the less I have to deal with the yahoo, the better.

I am going to take care of it myself and thats that. I do have the option of taking it to the health unit and having them to inspect it and then they put the pressure on the landlord but how far do i really want to take it? I do like living here and its in a great location...

also if you are ever in the market to buy a place...i would steer clear of royal lepage and any agent with the name ed or laura...


here is there theme song

team genius-i'm just an idiot

He's A Ping Pong Playa...Baby

Last night I tried to connect with my Asian Heritage. I went to the Vancouver Asian Film Festival and saw two really fun movies.

The first movie was a short film on Harvey Lowe, the worlds first YO-Yo Champion. It was a great insightful movie that really connected with because he has a similar story to my grandparents. I also have the feeling the my grandmother knows this man because I have heard his name before!

The Feature film was called Ping Pong Playa! This is the film that really connected with my roots!
Little did you know, but I was destined to become a master of table tennis until that accident that shall remain unspoken of!

It was a fun comedy that was full of humor and it was also great to see Chinese characters depicted as normal member of Western society, not the regular math geeks stereotype. The movie played on a lot of those stereotypes and had fun with them. I had a great time watching the film and highly recommend it to anyone.



On another note. We have had some mold issues in our new place. It is mostly caused by poor air circulation and we have taken steps to change that. I spent a weekend two weeks ago cleaning all of the window sills with a mixture of bleach and water. More air gets to the windows, we shut the door to the bathroom and if we airdry clothing, we open a window. This has seem to taken care of the window mold.

The reason that I wrote about this is because we found an incredible amount of mold underneath the water tank part of the toilet. It is some thing that isnt normal and needed to be addressed. I called the landlord about this issue and arranged a meeting time of 4. Ed called back and left a message to A's phone that he would be around between 4-430. We had a birthday party to attend in the afternoon and got home around 345. When we got home we found that one of the couches had been pulled out from the wall, my office chair was on the otherside of the room and some picture frames in the bedroom were pulled from the resting spot on the wall as well.

All of this was very strange. A listened to her phone and sure enough Ed left a message on her phone at 330 saying that he went into our place and looked around and saw no evidence of mold.He then proceeded to give a five minute lecture/message that we live in a rain forest and the it is moist. Mold is something that we all have to deal with. Because I mentioned the bathroom, he said that he looked extra closely around in there and saw nothing. he also proceeded to tell us that we have too much furniture and too much clothing in the closets.

'If you are taking about the staining on the bath tub tiles, my goodness, thats nothing some good scrubbing cant take care of'

Ed, it wasnt the bathtub you twit, it was the toilet like I mentioned in the original message.

I dont want to rant anymore but the overall tone of his message was that we were complaining about nothing and that he was scolding us like little children. He was making judgements and assumptions about us and our stuff without even talking to us. He arrived early and didnt attempt to contact us to see if it was okay to enter our place. he just entered with out permission. I know my rights and I know that the landlord can not enter without 24 hours prior notice unless it is an emergency. believe me, this was no emergency! If I can figure out a way to make an mp3 of his message i will and post it.

On a final note. The landlady that we have normally dealt returned my call and began to scold me that unless it was an emergency, she doesnt want to be contacted on the weekend. she has 300 tenents and doesnt want to called. she gave me the same lecture about we live in a rainforest, she has mold and has to clean it up to and that ed told her that we have too much furniture and clothing. everytime i tried to tell her that i was unhappy with the way it was handled and that ed was unprofessional in the way he communicated with us, she would cut me off and tell me that she didnt want to deal with non-emergencies on the weekend. finally she told me to call the office and leave a message for ed and he'll call me when he has the time.

I am sorry for calling you laura. I thought that when someone illegally enters your apartment, you are entitled to say something about it to the landlord!

You tell me if this is normal mold and i should clean this with 1% bleach and water!