Archive for January, 2006
January 30, 2006 at 11:35 am · Filed under Mundane
I booked my flight today – leave Vancouver on March 26th to arrive at Narita on the 27th. Wow I think this is a real itenerary in my hands.
But could I be hallucinating? Am I drunk? I swear I could have been wasted last night because I feel hungover today. No actually it was not from drinking…it was from that 90 minute bath. Yes folks, I have a bath hangover today. But it was a really amazing bath. I used the Ombra Chamomile Herbal Extract Foambath. I think it breaks the long tie between Rosemary and Lavender.
Me in the lab (just a few minutes ago): I kinda wish that I could do my thesis on the chemistry behind peanut butter addiction in females. I would call it my Reeses Thesis.
Yes, I am also sinking to the low level of quoting myself today. Of course I didn’t say exactly that but it was what I meant to say.
January 28, 2006 at 9:01 pm · Filed under Movies&Film
Yay for Shoppers Drugmart shopping spree – thanks Jemma : ) The best thing you can get a girl for her birthday…SD giftcards. I stocked up on bath products and this week I’m gonna be soo clean!
So after that and playing some Zelda, I went to the Elysian Room on W 5th and Burrard St and man…I had the damn best cappuccino. I would say it was the best ever. I almost ordered a second – will have to go back and indulge again. The cappuccino was prelude to seeing Woody Allen’s latest, Match Point, at the Fifth Ave Theatre.
I had heard that he strayed from his past habits with this one and that he did. Quite a bit. The changes:
- the movie is set in London, not Manhattan
- he kept his classic opening and closing credits style but the jazz music is replaced with opera (throughout the entire movie)
- there is an absence of witty or dry humour. A few moments are chuckle worthy and I think the whole audience laughed together maybe twice…but sometimes I think I was chuckling more at English mannerisms than I was at the script
- finally, there is no Woody Allen (he has not been starring lately), no Woody Allen replacement (like Jason Biggs or Will Ferrell), and no awkward sub-Woody Allen-esque characters. The only awkward one out of the bunch is maybe Emily Mortimer’s character, Chloe, but I think she’s supposed to be more sweet and slightly annoying at the right times than awkward
After getting used to the fact that this wouldn’t be like his other movies, I enjoyed more. I found the start a little slow and halfway through I wondered how good the movie would have been if the lead roles were not played by clinically beautiful people. Their faces were pushing the plot, not so much their character. This turned around midway as more and more darkness and motives began to surface. I left the movie knowing it was fairytale-like and uber-scripted but still getting a message about consequence and luck in life.
January 27, 2006 at 7:13 pm · Filed under Random Thoughts, Things Found Online
best headline of the week: Octopus attack on B.C. mini-sub
best desktop wallpaper for waffles ever:
(from Plan59 ads through BoingBoing)
January 26, 2006 at 7:40 am · Filed under Japan
Three things that freak me out about moving to Japan:
1. throwing up: every gaijin blogger makes some comment at some point about the drunk salarymen upchucking in the train stations. Some even post pictures. No…I’m not even going to link to that. The way I see it though, is that this is an opportunity to get over my fear…it’s a bit of a necessity if I happen to have a child in the future.
2. bugs: this fear applies pretty much anywhere new. I’m used to Canadian critters (sort of). Who knows what kind of surprises I’ll get.
3. having to eat a four-legged friend or risk offending someone (or starving): in the land of soy, people tell me it’s still extremely difficult to remain vegetarian. I’m hoping that my exception for seafood will help me out.
Three things that excite me about moving to Japan:
1. the food: the other night I was hearing tales of the incredible edibles – especially the sweetest strawberries and ginormous apples.
2. taking pictures: of everything different.
3. being foreign: even if it means I’m ignored.
Three things that are just awesome:
1. the end pieces on a block of cheese: the more they are imprinted by the plastic packaging the better.
2. the first time you use a new kind of soap in the shower: and you are not used to the smell yet.
3. listening to a new cd for the first time *tied with* taking the plastic covering off the screen of a new electronic device.
Hmm…the theme of that is new. Could it be that newness is one of the most pleasurable things in life?
January 23, 2006 at 10:59 pm · Filed under Site Specific
This is evil. I was all pumped to get up at 5 and hit the 6:30 am yoga class. Oh my rubber arm I don’t know if I’ll be able to do it anymore! So I roll over and open waffles to start browsing (waffles sleeps next to me).
Website stats > Search Query Report > horseback riding trot butt blog
That’s all one query. Google it…I come up first. Hehe.
I love checking up on my search queries. I laugh, I’m amazed, and then I feel bad because it’s likely that my site didn’t actually have the valuable information needed.
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