A New Beginning

“Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” Joshua J. Marine

McDonald Breakfast

Jan 31

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I made an effort to get up early this morning to have McDonald breakfast. I haven’t had them in ages and I have been craving for their hashbrowns for quite sometime now. I tried the hashbrown at A&W and heard about the “good” things about Tim Hortons ones, and I find McDonald’s hashbrown is the best among all fast food restaurants.

There was surprisingly crowded when I get there, it felt like I was at one of those service stations when you are on a road trip. When it was my turn, I got the big breakfast and an extra hashbrown with orange juice. The egg and english muffin was okay. Orange juice was not cold enough, but the hashbrown was amazing! I was happy because I got what I wanted.

When I was about to leave, there’s this mother with 2 kids sitting next to us. The kids went to buy food and came back with more change than the mother had expected. So she asked the kids “How come there is so much change? Did you get food for mommy?”. The older kid immediately said “SHIT!”, the younger brother said “I told you ….!”. I laughed sooo hard at this scene and felt sorry for the mom.

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Up early

Jan 21

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Haven’t felt this good in awhile. I can’t even remember when was the last time I got to work on time. hahaha…but yesterday, I was the first one in my office! It just felt right…lol…and I started turning up the music and cleaning my desk! Yeah, my desk was getting messy like my room…lol.

Waking up early is good, becuz I get to make breakfast at home and finish it before I leave. While I’m eating, I can also read the news/fb lol It was a nice feeling overall. I wish I can do that more often…but that’s gonna be hard. LOL

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Jan 11

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Just watched E.T. the Extra – Terrestrial 2002 remastered edition tonite. Absolutely loved it. I think I watched it once when I was really small, probably from TVB Pearl in HK. Though I don’t remember anything from the movie, so it was like a new movie to me.

The original version was made in 1982 by Steven Spielberg, he’s truly a genius. He directed and produced countless of outstanding titles such as Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, Twister, Men in Black, Transformers, etc.

It’s a movie about friendship. I’m not sure if kids nowadays would be touched by this movie, but I certainly did. I actually cried twice in the movie; once when I thought E.T. was dying and second time when E.T. was leaving. I can sort of feel how depress Elliot must’ve felt when E.T. has to go home.

A nice way to end the weekend.

E.T.

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Upgrades

Jan 9

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Just upgraded my macbook with Adobe CS4 and Snow Leopard to work with my Intuos4! Before I was using CS3 and there was significant lags when I was using the brush tool. After the upgrade, everything’s working smoothly!

It took me awhile to upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard. I wasn’t sure what the new features are and if they are really necessary for me. Now I realized what I’ve been missing out for the past few months!

Some of the new features that I like:

-Scrollable Stack, before the icons were so tiny and it doesn’t show u everything, now with the scrollable stack, i get bigger icons plus it shows ALL the files in the folder.

-Expose is all lined up now, easier to find the app you are looking for

-Dock enhancement, how when you click and hold on a app on ur dock, it will show you all the files you have opened in that app!

Apple says finder is suppose to be a lot quicker and time machine should be faster as well. But I dont’ really notice a significant difference there.

For a more detailed list of new features of Snow Leopard: http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/

Highly recommend upgrade if you are still using 10.5!!

What am I doing here?

Jan 4

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That’s right, the question I asked myself in my routine morning shower this morning was “What am I doing here?”

In Toronto, 8 out of 12 months is Winter. Most of the mornings I woke up shivering even when I have heat on. Why is that? Because Toronto is cold. Everyone was saying, “suck it up, you are in Toronto.” Seems like after 15 yrs of Toronto life, I still can’t adapt to the cold weather here. Doesn’t help that it’s getting colder every year when other parts of the World are in global warming.

So if Toronto is the problem, why don’t I just move to somewhere else? Then I wouldn’t have to suffer from cold mornings anymore! What an exciting thought!

I have been thinking about moving to elsewhere before, but was never set on that idea. Now I think I’m much more serious about it. I need to go somewhere that’s near the tropical, but not too hot. Preferably no Winter, or a warmer one at least. This will be my mid-long term goal in the coming years of my life.

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