Christmas Presents 2010

This was this year's Christmas Tree.


^ Christmas Tree with Gifts.

Ben, Susanna, and I got our parents a giant Chinese Vase. We won it from an auction for only $70! It is easily worth way more.


^ Giant Chinese Vase.
Different paintings on both sides.

I got a package from Japan just before Christmas. It was from Gavin and Emi.


^ Package full of AKB48 and Japanese Goodies.
My favorite is the AKB Music Box that plays the "RIVER" chorus.


^ AKB48 "RIVER" Music Box.


^ Fongpay's Christmas Gifts.
My favorite Christmas gift this year was a Snuggie, but it was no an ordinary Snuggie. It was a Superman Snuggie!


^My #1 Gift: Superman Snuggie.

Dinner today -> 2 Duck Congee.
I took the 2 left over duck carcasses from the Christmas Feast, boiled the meat off the bones for a couple hours, and made congee with the broth and meat. Added some dried Chinese mushrooms, preserved eggs, and green onions.


^ 2 Duck Congee.

Christmas Feast 2010

I hope everyone had a great Christmas! Mine was full of food.

1st up: Christmas dinner with the relatives at Henry & Linda's house.

Christmas Appetizers -> Butternut Squash Soup, Spicy Korean Noodles, Bacon wrapped Seafood, Zucchini & Sausage on Sticks, Chinese Meat Pastries, Peking Duck Wraps, and Fongpay Sushi.


^ Appetizers.


^ Peking Duck Wraps and Fongpay Sushi.
I bought a Japanese 3-Tier New Year's Bento Box to put the sushi in this year.

Main Course -> Roast Beef, Ribs, Vietnamese Wraps, Shrimp Scallop & Squid in Cream Sauce, Chinese Greens, Shrimp Tempura, Herbed Chicken Breasts, and Pepper Salad.


^ Main Course.


^ Desserts.
Jane made some really good soft PeanutButter & Chocolate Chip Cookies.

My cousins Amie and Houston announced that they were having a baby. Congratulations! I kind of guess it earlier in the night by the way Amie was dressed, but I wasn't 100% sure. I didn't ask because maybe she was just getting abit fat :)

I cannot believe how much food I ate all night long. I think we started around 5pm and feasted until 1am. There was a 2nd feast the next day too...

Next day: Christmas dinner with family and grandparents.


^ Hotpot!!!


^ Desserts.

Useless Japan and Idol Info:
Apparently in Japan, Christmas is all about 2 things: Cosplay and eating Kentucky Fried Chicken. I wouldn't mind doing both of those things :)


^ AKB48 x 7-11 Christmas Day Wallpaper.

Merry Christmas!!!

I went to Costco Kanata this morning around 10am (I thought they opened at 10am?). It was nuts in there! There was no parking anywhere, so I parked at Home Depot and walked; then I waited 45mins in line to pay. Finally, when it was my turn to pay, the debit machine stopped working.

Dinner today -> Steak and Chinese Greens.
This Bottom Blade Steak was actually more chewy than I like it.


^ Steak and Chinese Greens.

Steve's Christmas lights: Check out all the hard work


^ Steve's Christmas Lights.
How will he out do this next year?

Useless Idol Info:


^ Dec 24 Wallpaper.

Merry Christmas!!!

Note: Blog Entries will be less frequent until Jan 4, 2011.

Ouch!!!

1st day of vacation. I got up early and went straight to Comic Book Shoppe, FutureShop and Best Buy. Picked up some last minute gifts and stuff for me :)

Useless Pics:
Found a couple pics on my iphone I've been meaning to post but haven't:


^ Cookie Monster Hunter.


^ See where the yellow ball is... ouch!!!
This happened to an umpire during this year's CMC Strikefighters playoff run. I was catching, and the batter tipped the ball past me, right into the ump. I couldn't laugh in his face, but I was LOL on the inside.

Useless Idol Info:
Another AKB48 Christmas song:


^ AKB48 - Manatsu no Christmas Rose.

Christmas Toilet Paper

Dinner today -> Garlic Cheese Bread.
Wasn't very hungry today, and didn't feel like making anything.


^ Garlic Cheese Bread.

Still don't have any glow-in-the-dark toilet paper, but Julie pointed me to where to order some :) I may order some in the New Year.
Ed gave me some Christmas toilet paper today.


^ Christmas Toilet Paper.
I'm going to install it at our family Christmas party :), if Henry and Linda don't mind.

Useless Idol News:
Filling out the top 10 best selling singles of 2010 are only 2 groups: Arashi and AKB48!
1. “Beginner” – AKB48 : (954,283 sold)
2. “Heavy Rotation” – AKB48 (713,275)
3. “Troublemaker” - Arashi : (698,542)
4. “Monster” – Arashi : (696,022)
5. “Ponytail to Shushu” – AKB48 : (659,959)
6. “Hatenai Sora” – Arashi : (656,343)
7. “Løve Rainbow” – Arashi : (620,057)
8. “Chance no Junban” – AKB48 : (596,769)
9. “Dear Snow” – Arashi : (591,207)
10. “To be free” – Arashi : (516,142)

The rest of the sales here.
(Credit to IXA Ready - Fist On!)


^ Dec 22 Wallpaper: Maeda Atsuko (the face of AKB48).
BTW: 3 days left til Christmas, but I'm on holidays already :P

Happy Belated Birthdays!!!

HAPPY (Belated) BIRTHDAY Stefano!!!
(Dec 20th)

HAPPY (Belated) BIRTHDAY Charin!!!
(Dec 15th)

HAPPY (Belated) BIRTHDAY Myriam!!!
(Dec 14th)

Sorry I missed them. Takahashi Minami and Kasai Tomomi wish you all Happy Birthday's too.


^ Takamina and Kasai.
(Credit to No3b blog.)

Dinner today -> Cheese Tortallini with Portabello Tomato Sauce and Honey Garlic Sausages.


^ Cheese Tortallini with Portabello Tomato Sauce and Honey Garlic Sausages.

Weekend Report -> Toylet

I helped Susanna move to her new house on Saturday. I wasn't planning on helping, as I had decided her payback for swearing at me, was for me to not help her. But I caved and helped her move (mainly because Ben already bailed out with a lame excuse). So her payback will have to be something else and bigger.
I was not happy in the morning because I had to first go buy Timbits for her friends, and then she wasn't fully ready to move when I got there. Everything was in boxes but in separate rooms of my parent's house. She could have atleast moved some of them to the main floor. It also pissed me off that she hardly moved anything when we were moving.
I was surprised with how much stuff we had to move and how much stuff she was taking from my parents.

Weekend food -> Chow Mein with Beef Brisket.
Got the chow mein and brisket separately from T&T, but the chow mein was kind of limp. I re-fried it in a pan and topped with Beef Brisket.


^ Chow Mein with Beef Brisket.

Weekend food -> Steak with Roasted Mini-Potatoes.
Roasted the mini-potatoes with Rosemary and smashed Garlic in the oven.


^ Steak with Roasted Mini-Potatoes (and CMC lunch version).

Useless Japan News:
These are some of the best cookies I've ever eaten. As expected, they're from Japan :) They're also abit expensive, but so worth it. I've only seen these available around New Years at T&T.


^ Japanese New Year's Cookies Gift Box.

A Japanese urinal game has been developed by Sega. It's called Toylets. Basically you aim your pee stream at a target sensor in the urinal to play. The accuracy, intensity, and amount is measured on the screen above the urinal, where you see what the game does and how your doing. Looks fun.


^ Toylets.
I can see a restaurant like Moxies having this.

1Kg Dairy Milk Bar

Shipped some Christmas Ferrero Rocher chocolates to CMC MTL for the SQA group and the OCM group. OCM totally deserves them as I made them do a ton of annoying little actions all year long, especially Eleanor.
I also got 1 huge chocolate bar for OCM Kanata, but they aren't opening it til Monday :)


^ 1Kg Dairy Milk Bar.
I got it from Walmart.

Dinner today -> Spicy Beef Tendon and Daikon.


^Spicy Beef Tendon and Daikon.

BTW:
By the time your reading this... there are only 8 days left til Christmas!!!

Useless Idol News:
AKB48's latest Christmas song:


^ AKB48 - Yoyaku Shita Christmas.

Omelet Rice

Dinner today -> 4 Egg Omelet Rice.
Fried rice with veggies and Polish sausage, wrapped in a 4 egg omelet.


^ 4 Egg Omelet Rice.
I wonder how my Omelet Rice compares to the @Home Maid Cafe's Omelet Rice...?
Gavin! Next time we're in Japan, we will hit the Maid Cafe and find out! Yuto can treat Uncle Fongpay to the meal :)
(Do you think Yuto will need to pay the cover charge?)

Hot Water Prank

Dinner today -> Beef and Chinese Greens on Rice.
After I put this together, I decided to add a raw egg to it. It changed the flavour abit and made the rice more smooth.


^ Beef and Chinese Greens on Rice.

Useless Japan Info:
Here is an old clip of a hot water prank played on one of the members of the "Ninety-Nine" comedian duo. This is hilarious.


^ Hot Water Prank.

Wakka-Wakka

Speaking of Pac-Man yesterday, I found this amazing Ms Pac-Man cake somebody made.


^ Ms Pac-Man Cake.

Useless Transformers News:
Finally got around to opening my Transformers: Animated Ironhide and Rodimus. Pretty good figs. I think I'm done collecting Transformers: Animated now.


^ TF:Animated Ironhide & Rodimus.

Useless Japan News:
Burger King's New York Pizza Burger is now offered in Japan!
Gavin/Emi, you guys should try it while your in Japan.
If this was available in OTT I'd get one.

Useless News:
I can totally see Mark wearing a shirt with this on it :)


^ Rick Astley Sign.

Useless Idol News:
Dec 14th Wallpaper is Oshima Yuko!


^ Dec 14, 2010.
11 Days left til Chirstmas.

Weekend Report

Friday:
Dinner today -> Steak with Veggies.
Stayed really late at CMC today. I was starving by the time I got home.


^ Steak with Veggies.

Went Walmart around midnight. Alot of people there. I had to get a few things for Christmas, but I scored myself a new t-shirt :)


^ Pac-man T-Shirt.

Saturday:
Slept in longer than I wanted. It resulted in a headache. I went to CMC in the afternoon and spent another late night there. I wanted to get everything done before the potential snow/ice storm on Sunday.

Dinner today -> 24hr Marinated Drumsticks.
I marinated some chicken drumsticks for 24hrs in some soy sauce, hoisin sauce, and maple syrup.


^ 24hr Marinated Chicken.

Sunday:
Spent most of the day reading some manga (Naruto and Bleach) and waiting for a call/email to go into CMC to finish work for MTL. The storm outside wasn't too bad when I left, but the walkway outside CMC was all ice.

Dinner today -> 48hr Marinated Drumsticks.
The same batch of chicken drumsticks but marinated for 48hrs. Added a couple potatoes and sweet potatoes too.


^ 48hr Marinated Chicken and Potatoes.