Slacker

30th November 2006

I had been slacking quite a bit in terms of exercises over the last 7 days; I’m not even going to put blames of the Thanksgiving holidays, because I was just feeling plain lazy.

The big price that I have to pay for being a slacker, are the feeling of losing muscle tone and endurance at the same time. I f*&king hate that feeling, it makes me feel guilty.

Anyway my plan this weekend is to head out for a 5 mile run on Sunday, and go grocery shop for some whole food and lots of complex carb.

Happy Thursday everyone!Failure to Launch Land of the Lost ipod

Mailing Address

29th November 2006

Christmas season is right around the corner!
As a way to say thank you to all my loyal readers, I would like you guys to take a minute and email me your mailing address to alex at thesoupdujour dot com, and I promise I will mail you a Christmas Holiday Card.
I hate how everything has to be politically correct now days.

First 10 people who email me their address are entitle to receive a limit edition Christmas card designed by me.

ipod dilemmas

27th November 2006

The click wheel on my ipod is completely shit to bed. 3 days without my ipod is like 3 days without water in the Sahara.

Here are my dilemmas; I really like the new 1 gig shuffle because of its extreme compact size and the $79.00 price tag, but since it is a shuffle it will not have the playlist/artist feature (Imagine going through 200 + songs by only pressing the next and previous button). Then I started to look at the new 4 gig Nano $199.00, the question is “Is it worth paying that extra $120.00 to have the extra 3 gig of space and the playlist/artist feature?” And last but not least if I’m willing to pay $199.00 for a Nano, should I just suck it up and pay the extra $50.00 to get the 30 gig video ipod.

Somehow the price tag for a new mp3 player went from $79.00 to $250.00.

What should I do? Which one should I get?
Shuffle, Nano or Video Ipod?
Help me out guys!!

Thanksgiving Travel

26th November 2006

My New England trip was lots of fun. I got to hang out with my buddy Taylor, see my parent’s new home in Providence, oh and I also saw a 蔡依林concert at the Mohegan Sun Casino. Even though her music is really not my cup of tea, but she was definitely fun to watch.

Below are a few drunken pictures of me, Taylor and Maria (I think that is her name) at Faneuil Hall

Cab ride to Faneuil Hall $20.00
2 UFO Hefeweizen and 2 Shots of Jamerson $24.00
Singing the 少林足球 金剛腿 鐵頭功 duets with Taylor while we were intoxicated in an irish pub was just Priceless

For those of you who don’t know the song, here is a clip of the song from the original film shaolin soccer with subtitle

Thanksgiving

22nd November 2006

Heading off to Bean town now.
Have a happy Thanksgiving everyone!!
Cheers!

thanksgiving
Thanks Evelyn for the comic

New Book

21st November 2006

After work today I went to the book store and bought a new book called Leaving Microsoft to Change the World, I remembered the first time when I came across this book title; I thought it meant let’s see what Microsoft can do to change the world.

Of course I was wrong; this book is actually about the author John Wood who once was the marketing director of Microsoft and now the founder of a nonprofit organization Room to Read.

I can’t really talk about it too much, since I only read the first chapter, but here is a brief video of John Wood talked about his dream and passion to change the world. Enjoy
High Res Without a Paddle: Nature’s Calling video or Low Res

Thanks Gab for the book suggestion

Stupidity

19th November 2006

Stupidity seems like the perfect word to describe my evening last night.

1:20 am front door at the Old Toad British pub
Me: Sir may I see some ID please
Angry Black Male: Nigger I just want to get some food
Me: I’m sorry sir, you cannot come in unless you show me your ID
ABM:Shut up you don’t even fucking work here nigger.
Me: umm I do work here sir, and by the way the kitchen is closed for the evening.
ABM: Get the fuck out of my way, I’m coming in and I ain’t showing you no ID nigger.
Me: I dare you to try, and I can guarantee you will spend a night in jail
ABM: What you going to do nigger, karate my black ass!
Me: Just leave before I call the cops.