Fancy Pants

Last Saturday was a friend’s wedding.  A group of us, after the afternoon reception, booked a couple of hotel rooms, so I took this opportunity, while everyone was still dressed up, to take some photos.  I didn’t play around too much with lighting at all.  I used one flash that was bounced off the wall/ceiling to the right of the camera.  Overall, i was quite happy with the resulting images.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ilovelamp/sets/72157606025920089/

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Artsy Fartsy No Comments » July 2008

Leaked Rockband 2 Song List

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=174487

I do hope this list is for real!  EVERLONG!!!

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Video Games No Comments » July 2008

Wall-E? M-O!

OMGOMG, I’m waiting for this to arrive in my mail!

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Movies, Music, & TV 3 Comments » July 2008

Food Review: Pho Hong Vietnamese Restaurant

5975 Kingsway, Burnaby [map]

Food:  Tasty.  At least the noodles that I’ve had.  I’m not a fan of the meat balls though.  Good place for a quick lunch.

Service:  Usually quick but not usually personable.  The second you step in the front door, someone will ask you how many people and then point you to a table.  Your order will be taken minutes later followed by your food quite quickly.  Drinks at times may arrive much late though.  Don’t expect the waitresses to check up on you, but don’t be afraid to flag one down if you need to.  The bleached-blonde woman is always angry looking.  I think every day is the worst day of her life.

Ambiance:  I think there used to be a Greek restaurant there.  Cleanliness?  Let’s not go there. 

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: 30-Second Food Reviews 4 Comments » June 2008

Late Night Blues

I worked about 19 days straight as of this past Saturday.  I took Sunday off.  Sometimes, I find working late quite peaceful.  My desk is in the far corner with 4 other desks and so secluded away from the busy-ness of the rest of the area.  However, it gets rather boring at night.  Especially since the other 4 people that normally sit around me aren’t staying as late.  There are a lot of others staying late too, but they’re all on the other side of my cube.  Sometimes it makes me jealous when I hear them guffawing about stuff I don’t know about.  Oh well.

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Worky Worky No Comments » June 2008

30-second Food Reviews!

I’m horrible at writing, always have been since elementary school.  So I will leave the more elaborate reviews to those who have talent!  Any restaurant I review from now on will remain short and sweet.  Anything that stands out from my experience will then go into detail. 

Hmm, my blogroll seems to have disappeared with this new layout… I’ll need to sort that out…

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: 30-Second Food Reviews No Comments » June 2008

Lack of Updates

Unfortunately for the past month I’ve been pretty swamped at work so I haven’t had much time to do anything creative.  I did remember that I did a small Mario-based painting sometime last year.  Nothing fancy, but definitely geeky!

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Artsy Fartsy, Random Life Tales, Video Games 4 Comments » June 2008

Oh, Guitar Hero. How far you’ve fallen.

http://kotaku.com/5011292/rip-guitar-hero-2005+2008

http://www.destructoid.com/footage-of-guitar-hero-iv-someone-tells-activision-ceo-it-s-called-rock-band-88034.phtml

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Video Games No Comments » May 2008

Office Pranks

I’m at my desk and then I heard just a barrage of laughter on the other side of my cube.  So I wandered over to find out what was going on.  My manager had sent his XBox 360 away for repair some weeks ago and it just arrived back.  However, he wasn’t at his desk when it arrived, so they opened up the box and replaced his 360 with an old XBox and taped it all back up so he couldn’t tell it was opened.  He was about to call the Microsoft helpdesk to complain until they broke it to him.  I thought it was a pretty awesome prank.

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Random Life Tales 1 Comment » May 2008

His Mom Thinks He’s Cool

Me, the boyfriend, and another couple went to Sweet Revenge, a small dessert cafe, last night after dinner.  When I say small, it’s pretty small.  We had this tiny against-the-wall table for the four of us, right next to another tiny-against-the-wall table which seated a guy and a girl.  Throughout our time there, the guy at that small table was just loud enough to be slightly distracting to our own conversation.  Every now and again something he’d say would stand out and we’d chuckle to ourselves.  I guess it’s pretty rude to eavesdrop on other people’s conversation, but when you’re making no effort to keep your conversation to yourself, I say it’s a free-for-all.

What I learned about this fella…

1. He and this girl he was with met on the Internets.
2. He likes to repeatedly say that he’s gotta put himself out there and see what happens.  He’s done the dating scene for a long time.
3. An older woman, through a dating website, was interested in him.  But he wasn’t (since she had a kid that was his age), so he nicely wrote back to her that he was flattered but he’d rather just be friends.  The woman was quite unhappy about it.
4. He’s old enough so he’s allowed to have high standards.
5. He was in the army for a while… But he hates guns and refuses to serve overseas.
6. He was shocked by the Taco Del Mar explosion when his buddy told him to go to the Global website to catch the live feed which wasn’t a live feed of the explosion, but rather a live feed of a reporter on the scene.
7. He has Samurai Jack on disc.
8. His mom thinks he’s cool.
9. He brought up his ex-girlfriend for some reason.  She has the same name as me, and she turned 25 last September.
10. He has verbal diarrhea.

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Random Life Tales 2 Comments » May 2008

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