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I am on my adventure to becoming a Mac user. After 2 weeks of contemplating, and 1 week of waiting, I semi-impulse bought a MacBook Pro. And my first impression? z0mg its so pretty!

I think the Mac commercials had brain washed me on how ’so easy!’ and ’so intuitive’ a Mac is. My first problem I ran into was connecting to my wireless internet, or should I say, the ‘Airport’. Wow, of course! when i think of wireless internet i think of 747 planes!

Then, after hours of figuring out the basics, I decided to turned on the backlit keyboard coz I remembered when i turned on the machine for the first time, the keyboard lit up and it was so pretty. And after about 10minutes of trying to find the key that turns on the backlit light, I found out all i had to do was to turn off my table lamp that was lighting right above it, and it magically lights up. Cool, that was ’so easy!’

This adventure of becoming a Mac is going to take a while. I’m so glad that I have a usb mouse to feed my need to right click. And i’ll have to really get used to the apple+q and funny vocabulary choices like arrange your items by ‘Kind’.

Z0mg! i just wrote my first blog post on a Mac machine! That was so easy.

This post is dedicated to my Mac AND the opening of .SQUAD group blog. fooray!

Perhaps my favorite things to do of all time, Sunday breakfast with friends.

Wheelie came back for a visit from the americas this past weekend and hosted breakfast at De-dutch with everyone on Sunday morning. It was a kickass breakfast, even though i have to wake up early for it and the food wasn’t all that great. It was just super relaxing, because you know the day’s just started, there’s no rush to go anywhere or finish your food.

Sunshine - good.
Breakfast food - Good.
Coffee - Good.
Jams - GOOD.

Sitting with friends eating breakfast, coffee and jams and talk and laugh about nothing at 10AM when its super sunny outside????!!!
- “Makes me walk away so haaardd.”

i stole Becca’s idea, and added a wishlist page. heehee!

only coz it’s SUCH a good idea!

and i’m extremely bored at the moment.

Wow, here we go again. So, whenever something really really shitty happens to me, it always happens in 3 events.

On monday night, my car got broken into at a parking lot. The window glass was broken, and my 5 year old ipod nano, and fm transmitter were gone.

I drove to work today, still feeling bummed about what happened to the car and my ipod. I was kinda glad that at least the car would be fixed, and everything would be back to ‘normal’ again. But i kept getting this ‘this could not have be it‘ feeling.  And i was right, the day just got shittier as it went on.

Shittier Event : The car topped off  the pile of bullshit and it made me want to go to LA more. I’ve been planning to go for the past month, and i looked foward to it everyday. Now my trip has to be cancelled, because of the swine flu outbreak. Luckily i havent buy the tickets yet, but really, i’d pay anything to go if it weren’t for the outbreak.

Even shittier event: I have been semi-recession’d. By the end of work today, i was told that i’d only be getting 4 days of work per week, starting next month, which is in 2 days. The good news is that i’ll be getting a long weekend every week. The bad news is about 20% of my paycheck would be gone.  And another good news is, there wont be any shittier news than this.

So now, i’m paying 300 dollars for someone to walk around with an ipod with my name engraved on the back. And i can’t even make myself feel better by flying off to LA to spend the weekend with some fresh faces. And what is the use of the long weekends if i can’t get to anywhere without taking the risk of catching the swine flu.

ugh, Luke, can i join your bitter life club?

i went down to my bank today to do some adult banking stuff. For those of you who don’t know, my bank is located right at Main & Hastings. And for those of you who don’t know, Main & Hastings isnt the best place to hang out in Vancouver. When i got there today, the whole intersection was blocked off because of some sort of rally, and there was a smell of burnt things.

Anyways, i went in and i told the receptionist i have an appointment. She looked at me and told me to hold on, and 2 mins later she turned to me and asked: ‘Are you feeling alright?‘ I replied Huh? in confusion, coz normally, people would say, ‘How are you doing?”,  and she asked again ‘Are you feeling alright?‘ I told her yes, and ignored what she said after b/c by then i was self concious about looking sick.

As she was getting ready to lead me to my banker, my sister pulled me away and asked me if i heard what she said after, because she heard the receptionist said, ‘I’m so hight right now.‘ I laughed and shrugged it off, and as we’re all the the elevator, the following conversation happened:

Receptionist: do you smell it from outside?

Me: yah, what’s going on outside?

Receptionist: I dunno, but its been there all morning, and i’m so high from the smell of it.

Me:…. *thinking what?*..oh..really?

Receptionist: Yah! i’m so giddy! hahahahahah… *with alot of hand gesture.*

Me:…..*awkward..* ha..-ha…?

Receptionist: is it…MARIJUANA?!

Me:…no..err..no, it isn’t.

Receptionist: hahaha… I’M SO HIGH…this city is so interesting..haha!

DING the floor finally arrives.

What.a.weirdo.

Oh, this 50 something chinese lady made my day.

I’ve just had an emo moment.

This global recessioning has got me into thinking about a lot of things. Things like, what if I was told that this would be my last month of employment.

I don’t know if that would be a total midlife crisis meltdown or a sigh of relief. I remember when i first graduated, i was so eagered to get a stable job, because the most important thing was to build a career. Now, after collecting 2 years of paychecks, all i can think about is how i can stop waking up for the morning news and get out of this norm.

So, honestly, i don’t know how i’d feel if I were told that i’m getting laid off. I guess i’d have a mini meltdown thinking my life is over, and i’d be paranoid about my future for a month or 2, and then i’d go have some fun, a lot of fun. But in the end, i’d want to get back into the 9-5, coz i haven’t forgot what it’s like to be jobless. Unless i come up with that plan B while having lots of fun, then it’ll be a different story.

i.can’t.get.no.satisfaction.

Today’s luke’s birthday, yay! happy birthday Luuuke!

I think i’m having a mid-life crisis, for realz.

I’m gonna be next soon, fudge, i dont want to be 26.

gawd, snowboarding season sucks ass this year.

it’s like that Katy Perry song, ‘coz you’re hot and your cold, yes and you’re no, you’re in and your out, up and you’re down’..WTF!!

I’m gonna be sooo bunkers the next time i go up. Its been 2 weeks.

LET IT SNOW!!

A couple days ago i was on a phone with a cop because my friend applied to the RCMP, and i was his reference. I’ve only been someone else’s reference once before, and it was nothing but a 5 minute chat with max 5 questions. It was over before you could get bored or annoyed. I guess talking to a cop on how awesome your friend is isn’t the same.

The whole thing lasted 15 minutes, interrogation style. I got nervous 5 minutes into the conversation, when i realized he isn’t interested in me sounding nice, and was actually listening to what i was saying, and asking for further details of what i answered him. And then i started picturing what he looks like; white middle aged man with no facial expression while he talks to you even if you attemp to make a joke. He sounded exactly like those cops in the interrogation room they show on tv. And it was right about then that i was screaming in the back of my head: zomg, zomg, zomg! i’m going to f*ck this up for Paul!! i’m going to f*ck this up for Paul!!! 

I was the criminal and he cracked me. Thumbs up for officer Jim Mcgray, but why so serious?!

A little pie chart for this site.

IE is still winning. I wonder who is stalking me from Chrome. And would there be a day where firepoo  firefox over takes IE?