Month: August 2002
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Saturday: Long Day
From the “I am not Tiger Woods” dept. Up at 6:00 am. Played golf at Dentonia this morning, but get this: We’re there early, sign in, go to the tee off, only to find out that our names were never in the queue. We’re like, “WTF?! We made the reservations on Tuesday for Saturday 8:08…
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FUN FUN FUN
Hey all, Today, Kev, Florence, Eric and I went to Pho88 for dinner. Tomorrow: Kev, Florence and Eric and I are playing a round of golf at Dentonia, a City of Toronto public course. In the afternoon the four of us plus Jen and Cristine are going to watch Cirque du Soleil—Verakai at Ontaio Place.…
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Pleasant Surprise
From the “How on Earth did that get there?” Hey guys, Just want to relay to you a nice event that happened today. Jen was over and we were talking in my room. I asked her if she knew how to spell the word “Facetious”. Jen didn’t know, so I pulled out my Oxford English…
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Tai in Grade 2
From the “Did every Oriental kid have hair like this?” Dept. Hey guys. This is for laughs. Here’s a picture of me that was taken during Grade 2 picture day. It was the last school picture that I ever took. More out of personal choice than anything. Tai
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Oh, I just remembered
From the “Damn, I’m so insensitive” Dept. I just remembered. August 6th is the anniversary (not joyous though) of the bombing of Hiroshima [1945]. Three days from now the bombing of Nagasaki. Over 150,000 people died inferno and the ensuing months (and years) after the event. Karen has a good write up about this. Here…
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Old Picture: Memories
From the “Look at my hair” Dept. Hey guys, When I cleaned my room I found an old picture of a group of us. It’s a picture of (starting from the top, left to right) Arthur, Byron, Tai (that’s me), Miriam, Ha, and Chung (or does she prefer Marie now?). We took this picture for…
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Time Apart
From “Long Distance, yet again” Dept. At 2:49:14 PM Jen told me that Accenture was shipping her off to Vancouver, BC. She leaves Monday, next week. The project is until March at least. I’m bummed. She’ll be back on the weekends, and I could be there on the weekends. But Still….. -T
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Weekend Review: Signs, Main Street, and Chores
Hey All, Just wanted to run through some stuff before I go to bed. Got to keep you all updated (basically Kev and Flo, etc.). From “There is a fly in my Soup-Dumpling” Dept. Earlier in the week, Jen had told me that we were going to go out on Friday night with her friend…
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Breaking news: Weeds, Condo Talk & UI Blogs
From the “Weed” Dept. Like I mentioned before, I actually wrote up a nice blog about the some of the prior events… Sunday, Tuesday, and Wednesday afternoon I was pulling weeds from my interlocked driveway. It’s really bad… Almost done though. One more day and I’m finished. My brothers are lazy bastards. This type of…
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Life of a Contractor
From the “A little bit of Info can mean a lot” Dept Hi All, Just wanted to write about something that happened to me today. I had written a really nice blog last night about what had occured over the first part of the week, but I accidentally lost it. Anyways, I’m on the bench…