Food poisoning is a terrible, terrible thing. I do not enjoy pissing little brown pellets out my ass. Especially the day before I need to fly out for 9 days on business.
I'm sorry you had to bear witness to this, but would be really sorry if you had to really bear witness to it.
Had a small birthday dinner at Salt & Bread yesterday. Lesson: Russians may know their vodka, but their baked oxtail with mashed potatoes is dangerously similar to a fatty starch bomb. And accordions are almost as annoying as bagpipes.
If I don't workout regularly, my energy level decreases in general, and usually after dinner I have the tendency to conk out. Now I'm just missing the white undershirt vest and the sitting on the couch staring at the boobtube while scratching myself.
Rye bread ain't all that. And I am in desperate need of a black belt -- I never realized how restricting to my dress wardrobe it is not to have a black dress belt. Also never realized how difficult it is to find a classy black belt around here; you'd think more people had fashion sense.
I hold efficient weekly meetings at work; for a team of 9, status updates and new topics to discuss can be done between 15-25 minutes. Anything that drags the meeting is taken offline. Bing bang boom, and we're outta the room.
Comme Ca ISM socks are a dream. They feel like satin on my feet, and make me all happy.
Sorry for the recent silence; I know how empty your lives have been without my daily blog entries. (Not.) Just a quick update; suddenly my November (business) travel plans have been jostled around. This is how it landed:
11/14 -> 11/20: Hong Kong (HKG)
11/21 -> 11/23: Beijing (BJS)
11/28 -> 12/01: Essen (FRA) CANCELLED
Will get to see M&S in Hong Kong and spend some good time with them, since they offered to put me up for the time I'm there. Excited!
[ edit: By the way, thanks for all the birthday wishes, though I'm not technically leaving 30 for another 17 hours or so (due to international date line and time difference). ]
The sun is shining, the air is cool; it's a gorgeous day that reminds me of summer mornings in Vancouver when I was a kid. Or a super-early morning in the Bay Area. Gawd, that puts me in a nice mood.
What with the broken belt incident -- "The Great Broken Belt Incident of 2005" -- I found that a good chunk of my pants selections is now no longer available to me. But this morning, I found a pair of Uppercut pants still fresh in the packaging! So today, I am sporting the Uppercut Trooper in Stone (grey). that puts me in a good mood too.
So anyway, the birthday is coming up next week. How should I celebrate it? (Within reason, please.)
(Actually, you're not really becoming a year older on your birthday; you're really just a day older, because the day before, you were just a day younger. The age number is kind of misleading that way; they should change it. But you know what I mean. Just answer the question.)
I was suddenly under a little virtual peer pressure to do this -- and you know how easily I cave in to such things, on account of my having no backbone. So, here goes nothin'. I'm not that proud of how my answers turned out, so I'm reserving the right to change these at a later date.
Three names I go by:
1. Ben
2. my Chinese name
3. BenBen
Three screen names I have had:
1. Ben
2. concept
3. whipcream
Three physical things I like about myself:
1. my arms (only after workout, thanks to paternal genetics)
2. my babyface
3. that i'm alive
Three physical things I don't like about myself:
1. my lovehandles
2. my babyface (getting carded in Vegas gets old)
3. my build (and how I'm losing it)
Three parts of my heritage:
1. Canadian
2. Taiwanese
3. uh ... CBC/ABC-ese?
Three things that scare me:
1. failure
2. dying
3. being alone (different from being single)
Three of my everyday essentials:
1. food
2. folks
3. fun
Three of my favorite musical artists:
1. 2pac
2. Indigo Swing
3. me (no, I will not show you)
Three of my favorite songs (right now):
1. Nelly - "My Place"
2. Usher - "My Boo, Part 2"
3. Mario - "Nikes Fresh Out The Box"
Three things I want in a relationship:
1. love
2. happiness
3. passion
Three lies and truths in no particular order (you figure out which ones are lies and which ones are the truth):
1. buy more for myself than for gifts when xmas shopping
2. have abnormally big palms and stubby fingers
3. never kissed two girls in one night
4. have a secret stash of controlled substances
5. vandalized someone else's property once, kinda
6. know karate, judo, arnis, and chinese checkers
Three physical things about the opposite sex that appeals to me:
1. eyes
2. smile
3. curve of the waist/hips
Three of my favorite hobbies:
1. gym time
2. geeking out
3. eating (it is so a hobby)
Three things I want to do really badly now:
1. get a car
2. leave the office and go back to sleep
3. poo (though not necessarily in this order)
Three careers I'm considering/I've considered:
1. process engineer
2. interior designer
3. street vendor / owner
Three places I want to go on vacation:
1. Australia
2. Western Europe
3. Tibet
Three kid's names I like:
1. Deanna
2. Tyrence
3. !xobile (haha, just kidding)
4. Tobi (haha, it's funny if you know my last name)
5. Sharina (to make up my real third one)
Three things I want to do before I die:
1. live, like really live
2. raise a family
3. um, celebrate my 150th birthday?
Three ways that I am stereotypically a boy:
1. i like toilet humour
2. i gots a gadget fixation
3. i have a peepee
Three ways that I am stereotypically like a girl:
1. care products
2. i get squirmy at bugs and spiders, especially cockroaches; though, rats I can handle
3. i agree: men are scum
Three celeb crushes:
1. Meg Ryan
2. Sung Hi Lee (oh yeah)
3. Maura Tierney (there's something kind of cute about her)
Three people that I would like to see post this meme:
1. Kevin
2. Hougee
3. Misc Musings
Huh. Something new everyday.
- Since returning from my vacation, I now have fruit flies in my apartment too. Taking action to remove them (from this world).
- The other day, I spotted a fat cockroach in my apartment, scampering along the corner behind the desk -- it's only the second sighting in my place since I moved in, but to me cockroaches are unacceptable. My friend killed it while I pranced around and screamed like a schoolgirl.
- My Kenneth Cole belt broke, and I don't have another black dress belt. (This might also double as a sign of a growing gut, but let's take one issue at a time, hmm?) And the pants I'm wearing today are too loose to hold up on their own.
- More pressure from work, and the directors -- in their infinite wisdom and eagerness to do something -- are doing exactly the wrong something, which makes me question whether they are really trying to help this location or if they are playing a larger game with ulterior motives.
- I don't really feel like celebrating my birthday. Year over year, I don't know if my life is improving or not.
Blah. It's just another blah kind of day, I guess. Ah, well, I'll get over it.
