look.

search.

our entire lives are defined by the search. from the moment we awaken, until the moment we close our eyes forever -- it is, and has always been about the search. whether it is for knowledge, companionship, shelter, money or whatever else - the search is something that's been inbred into us as salmon swim upstream - it is simply is.

searching for a home in one of the most expensive cities in Canada isn't working out too well. you have to make sacrifices obviously. but what goes? security? convenience? cost? peace of mind? it is a gamble and a game.

the consolation i suppose is that i am still single so the stakes aren't as high. consequently -- i am single... and i am all that i know... so if i don't take care of myself... who will?

f*ck it all.

kung hei fat choi.

Happy Chinese New Year everyone! Kung Hei Fat Choi! Kiong Hee Xin Nee Kwai Lok!

project 365.

604_EWF's project 365. 

i've decided to start a new project - one that has a fairly strict timetable that appeals both to my latent-creative side, as well as a my authouritarian Colonel Klink side.

the concept of photo 365 is to take and post a picture everyday for one entire calendar year. it's both an exercise in developing your photography skills, as well as documenting an entire year right before your eyes. and unlike journals, there's no harkening back later on and groaning at how horrible your writing is, but an actual tangible comparison with how well your photography skills have improved.

I've also got another goal beneath all this altruism but that particular minutae shall stay with me for the meantime until i'm ready to divulge. so please check it out - leave some comments -- and I do apologize for the absolute hideosness of my photo layout unskills.

604_EWF's project 365. 

thoughts.

christina killed at the grammy's. i would totally buy a covers album without a second thought. corinne bailey rae and john legend performing together was a close second for moment of the night.

mr kennedy is the future of the wwe - as soon as he learns how to carry a match. undertaker is freakin' awesome live. kendrick, london and yang prove once again why they are my 3 favourite wrestlers. i can't believe i saw big dick johnson live... blargh...

joey's in coquitlam still has it. the broadway one... not so much.

1 more week til chinese new year. can't wait! kung hei!

have you noticed?

that the sun is staying up almost to 6 PM now?

shuffle.

I'm not an Apple fan. Ask anyone -- I'm the biggest iPod hater out there. I just don't understand the appeal of something so locked down, feature-less and generally expensive.

Except for the new iPod Shuffle. This thing is brilliant engineering in every way possible. It's tiny. It has no screen. It has controls. It's a freaking clip! It's brilliantly targeted.

Now when I went hunting for a flash player to take running with me years ago, I debated getting the original Shuffle - you know -- the white phallic symbol -- but after playing around with it at work and finding immense amounts of problems getting the dumb thing to actually work -- I decided against it. And it was just too expensive having to buy a case for it and all (white? ew... no...)

Then dumb luck comes my way and I ended up getting a free MuVo TX from Creative. Very nice. Very nice indeed. Voice recording. Screen. FM tuner. Arm strap. The works -- all included. No iTunes needed. And it was a USB flash drive... that actually worked!

Today. Today on the Windows Vista launch. A day when I have publicly stated that Vista will undoubtedly be successful in one thing -- and that is to drive a whole lot of people to the warm embrace of OS/X (remember -- I DON'T LIKE APPLE). Apple releases their secret weapon:

An orange iPod Shuffle.

Orange.

F*cking orange.

F*ck.

I might have to buy one just to display...

beauty and the city.

two weeks ago, during one of the many maelstroms that had pummelled Vancouver, a large hole developed in the domed roof of BC Place Stadium - as much as a landmark of my city as any.

BC Place is a dome kept inflated by a constant pump of air pressure - and soon to be host of the 2010 Olympics. well when a hole develops in what essentially enumerates as a giant balloon, I'm sure you can imagine just what happens.

it was an event that seemingly came abouts in the middle of one of the more eventful periods of my life... sadly eventful in a rather abbhorent sense, but i won't get into that right now... but it was an interesting bookmark that seemed to focus peoples' interests in something outside of their own bubble.

two days ago, the dome was re-inflated, and as of this moment, it seems to be holding up quite well.

yesterday i was at the new costco in downtown, lovingly wedged between GM Place and BC Place. i was heading back to my car through their sloped ramp to the underground when i chanced to look up through the window. the skies were a brilliant blue for a change and were peeking through a small opening between the buildings - when a flock of birds flew up to the blue.

they led my eyeline to the now fully puffed BC Place and for a moment, all seemed right with the world.

i love my city.

old?

What's the verdict on the year?

1 - San Diego Comic-Con
2 - Irvine
3 - met some new friends
4 - met Kevin Smith
5 - watched Clerks 2 with Kevin Smith
6 - got personally insulted by Kevin Smith
7 - shopped at Kevin Smith's shop in LA
8 - Wii
9 - new store
10 - first road trip ever without family

hmm... not too bad... not too bad at all.

Have a Happy New Year everyone! See you in a month for Chinese New Year!

wii.

wii.

wii is destiny.

wii is here.

wii so pretty.

so... so... so pretty...

so very pretty...

... ...

...

'scuse me... i need to be alone...

crowbar.

... and I wish nothing but a cold and thick crowbar up his red and raw asshole ...

oh hi there. sorry - if you're just joining us in-progress, let me fill you in. in over 10 years of driving, i've never gotten into a car accident, never got a speeding ticket, and generally have had tremendous good luck with cars. mind you, i have had numerous scrapes on walls, columns and various immoveable objects... and there was that time when the drunk biker hit my car (yeah how about that? and icbc found in MY favour)

so imagine my utter shock when in a period of 12 months, from january 2006, to december 2006, i've rear-ended someone (yes yes -- get your giggles out), someone rear-ended me (keep going), i got a speeding ticket (just remember to breathe in between guffaws) -- and now, just 2 days ago in fact, i got my passenger side window smashed in... while parked in my locked, remote-control-access-only parking garage.

wow. just wow.

i lost a limited edition janet jackson 20 y.o. cd/dvd, and linkin park meteora.

no biggies. they fiddled through my dc inverters. they diddled through my glove box. they fingered my cd compartment. but they left everything else untouched. life goes on.

what truly amazed me is that i headed out to work (45 minutes late 'natch), and for the next 4 hours actually performed well beyond my typical performance, and was actually in one of the better moods i'd been in in so long a-time. absolutely baffling.

so yeah. i think i've actually managed to not allow this little $5-wh*re-c*m-stain actually piss me off in the least. i'm out $350 for the deductible -- right before Christmas too, but in the year when i can least afford sh*t like this... but so be it -- i'm not letting this reject from b*tt-f*ck country get me down. i promised myself to actually buy Christmas gifts for people this year and that's not going to change. i will not allow the indiscretions of one jack-hammered scr*tum-s*cker to even in the least change the way i live.

so to everyone I wish a very merry Christmas. and to one extra special little unhappy-accident who got his virginity broken by a terribly lonely donkey one cold and special night at the petting zoo, i wish nothing but a cold and thick crowbar up his red and raw asshole.