Day Old Breads

I discovered that Sobey's sells day old breads in a mystery 12-pack for $1.99.
Well... it's not really a mystery. I see what's in the bag, but I don't know what some of these breads that are.
Anyways, it's a really good deal and I can try out some of these different breads.


^ Mystery Breads.

Picked up a classic 4-pack of Jackie Chan movies from Walmart for $9. I'm not sure if I've seen any of these movies, but it should be some good old Jackie Chan style action :)


^ Jackie Chan 4-Pack.

Useless Japan News:
New Noodle Cup commercial supporting Japan and featuring Yoda.


^ Noodle Cup and Yoda.

Coloured-Flame Candles.

Dinner today -> Rideau Takeout.
Susanna's Birthday dinner was Rideau Takeout at my parent's house. We got Beef Chow Mein, Dry Fried Flat Noodles with Beef, Singapore-Style Noodles, Imperial Pork, Fried Rice, and KFC Popcorn Chicken.


^ Rideau Takeout.

Susanna's Birthday Cake was "Strawberry Whip Cake" from Swiss Pastries (same as Jeff's cake, but this time I remembered to take a picture before it got cut). I also got some candles that burn coloured flames from the dollar store. They're pretty neat.


^ Birthday Cake with Coloured-Flame Candles.

I got Susanna Ninja Cookie Cutters. She used them to make Ninja Cookies!


^ Ninja Cookies.

Useless Idol News:
I got the whole set of Puccho x AKB48 Mini-Photobooks. I sleeved them to put in a binder.


^ Puccho x AKB48 Mini-Photobooks Set.
People are helping me out by eating the candy, but Steve is eating most of them :)

Nov 30th is the last day to vote in "AKB48 Request Hour Set List Best 100 2012".
I've got 4 votes this year.


^ 2012Voting Tickets.
I used all 4 votes on Team B's 5th Stage, "Candy" (1st column, 2nd last video for short clip).


^ Team B's 5th Stage, "Candy".

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUSANNA!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUSANNA!!!

Little Helper

I was attending meetings all day today, so I had a little helper working at my desk for me.


^ Little Helper.


^ Little Helper at Work.
I put him to work in the morning, but he didn't get anything done all day!

Dinner today -> Roast Beef Sandwiches.
Heated up some instant roast beef. Sliced it up and put it on some French Bread with a little butter and honey mustard. I dipped it into the gravy before each bite :)


^ Roast Beef Sandwiches.

Weekend Report: Stabbed

I got stabbed on Friday. The CMC nurse attacked me from the side with a down-stab using her Flu Shot needle, and got me right in the arm :) She must have gotten a critical hit, because it actually hurt!


^ Nurse Armed with Giant Needle.

Food this weekend ->
It was an all spaghetti weekend. I made spaghetti with garlic and onion tomato sauce with shrimp. Then I made spaghetti with tomato sauce with polish sausage.


^ 2 Kinds of Spaghetti.

Useless Gaming News:
Derek, Jeff, Anthony and I played a deck building game called Dominion. I've heard about it before, but never played it. It's a pretty good game. Need to try the expansions next time.


^ Dominion.

Bruschetta

Useless CMC News:
Some of my friends were layed-off at CMC today :( I did not see this coming at all. People in MTL were layed-off too.

Dinner today -> Bruschetta.
Picked up a fresh bruschetta from Sobey's for dinner. I was only going to eat half, but I ended up eating the whole thing later in the evening while playing Skyrim.


^ Bruschetta.

Useless Idol News:
I got a package in the mail today. I got the latest AKB48 Puccho promotion. This time the candy comes with mini-photobooks. I got 2 boxes, so I hope I get the whole set.


^ AKB Puccho V3.0.

I also got some AKB48 sub-group CDs in this package:
- Not Yet's 3rd Single "Pera Pera Perao" Type B and C with bonus Sasshi photos.
- French Kiss's 4th Single "Saisho no Mail" Type B and C with bonus group photos.


^ Not Yet and French Kiss CDs.

AKB48 performed at this year's Best Hit Song Festival 2011 today. They performed "Flying Get -> Kaze wa Fuiteiru -> Everyday Katyusha".


^ AKB48 Medley.

K-Pop's KARA also performed a special medley.


^ KARA Medley.
Lots of other performers were invited and some of the performances are here.

2 Day Trip to Montreal

I was gone at CMC MTL for a couple of days. I was given a Subaru Outback from Hertz to drive during the trip. Pretty nice SUV. It was perfect for the first snowfall in MTL.

I stayed in the Marriott Courtyard Montreal Airport. Nice hotel, but no WiFi.




^ Hotel Room.
The bathroom had marble counters. I should get a curved shower rod for my bathroom too.


^ Hotel Bathroom.
Look, free soaps!

I didn't realize all the stores/malls in Montreal close at 6pm Monday thru Wednesdays. I was planning to hit the malls and Toys R Us after work. So I had nothing to do in the evening except read some manga I had brought with me and watch TV while eating McDonalds.


^ McDonalds #1 Combo + 10 McNuggets.
The room had a great view of the highway. When I got up at 6:30am, there was 5cm of snow and the highway was already bump-to-bumper packed! I was glad the hotel was only a 5 min drive to CMC.

Lunch at CMC MTL was really good. I've got to hand it to chefs there. Their food is way better than CMC Kanata's food.
On Tuesday I got Beef Cabbage Rolls with Veggies. Alot of meat in the cabbage rolls :)


^ Tuesday Lunch.

Wednesday was BBQ Chicken Leg with Gravy and All-I-Can-Carry Fries. The chicken was cooked perfectly as the meat pulled off the bone like pulled pork.


^ Wednesday Lunch.

BTW: I found this weird notice in my room. Why would you print that?


^ Notice Card.

Stay-Puff

Lunch today -> Truck Fries and Cheeseburger.
I got a large truck fries and a cheeseburger from Glen's at Canadian Tire for lunch. Fresh piping hot fries are perfect to eat outside on a cold day.


^ Truck Fries and Cheeseburger.

Dinner today -> Clam Chowder.
Home-made clam chowder topped with lobster claws.


^ Clam Chowder topped with Lobster Claws.

I forgot to post the picture of the Birthday cake Linda and Margaret made for Jeff. It's pretty awesome. Just like a cake on Cake Boss.


^ Jeff's Birthday Cake.

FYI: No post on Tuesday.

Weekend Report: Finished Arkham City

Useless Gaming News:
All I finally finished "Batman: Arkham City" on XBox this weekend. I finished all the main and side missions, got all the Riddler trophies and puzzles, and finished all the Catwoman parts. The game is awesome, but I found the ending really easy.

After I finished Batman, I went to Best Buy and got Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. I'm only a few hours in, but this RPG is great. The world is huge!


^ Skyrim.

Food this weekend ->
I made a big pot of congee to eat all weekend. I made it with bone marrow, BBQ pork, and preserved duck egg. It was super tasty. I got some fried chicken from Super Store to go with it too.


^ Congee with Fried Chicken.

Useless M:tG News:
Picked up the Graveborn premium deck. I was going to get for a good price from Miraj Trading, but I got it for a great price because James and I split a case.
I think this is a pretty powerful re-animate deck. Similar style to Gordon's deck, but pure black.


^ Graveborn premium deck.

Useless Toy News:
I got a few packs of Marvel Megablocks series 2. I was hoping to get a Wolverine, but I discovered it was an ultra-rare :( I got 3 Ironmans, 1 Assult Drone, and the Chase Red Skull.


^ Marvel Megablocks.
Not sure what I'm going to do with the extra Iron Mans.

Happy Birthday Jeff!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEFF!!!

Crystal Head Vodka

Dinner today -> Curry Rice.
Curry Rice Round 2... FIGHT! Yoga Flame!


^ Curry Rice.

Useless LCBO News:
Crystal Head Vodka is finally available at the LCBO, after I got mine 2yrs+ ago. LCBO banned it for some reason, but now its here. I picked up another bottle today.
This is the website for the vodka, but I don't think it has the Dan Aykroyd promotional video on there anymore. Search for it on YouTube.


^ Crystal Head Vodka.

Useless Japan News:
The live action Ranma 1/2 tv drama will start on December 9. I hope it'll be good and somebody will make english subs for it.

Useless Toy News:
Toys R Us has a Moonlight Madness sale this Friday Nov 18. I think all TRUs will be open til midnight. I may pickup a double-barrel nerf gun or some new Transformers: Prime if they have it.
FYI#1: Wooden Thomas trains are 60% off starting at 7pm.
FYI#2: Walmart will match every price in the flyer.

Japan TV is Free until Nov 21

Dinner today -> Curry
Made some curry with the last of my marinated rib fingers, red potatoes, baby carrots, red onion, and king oyster mushrooms. For the curry sauce, I used a mild curry roux from Osaka.


^ Curry with Rice.
The leftovers will to taste even better tomorrow, when the curry flavour really soaks in.

Useless TV News:
Rogers Channel 829, Japan TV (aka NHK) is free until Nov 21.
If you select "Spanish" as the audio language, some shows and news programs (usually morning news) are dubbed in English.
I recommend watching:
- "Kitchen Car comes to Town" on Thursday night (but I don't think it's on this week due to a sumo tournament? But the food made on this show is awesome!)
- "Music Japan" on Friday at 4:30pm and hosted by Perfume,
- "Tokyo Eye" on Saturday at 1:50pm,
- "Music Station" on Saturday night at 1:10am (repeated Sunday at 7:10pm),
- "Begin Japanology" on Sunday at 1:50pm and hosted by Peter Barakan.
- "Cool Japan" on Sunday night (again not on this week due to sumo.)
FYI: On this week's airing of Music Station (repeat of Oct 28), AKB48 will be a guest performing Iiwake Maybe (short version) and Kaze wa Fuiteiru. I think Perfume was also a guest on this episode too.

Speaking of AKB48, today was my oshimen's, Kasai Tomomi's, Birthday!


^ Kasai Tomomi.

Happy Pre-Birthday Dinner

Dinner today -> Dinner for 10 at Rideau Restaurant.
6 Adults and 4 kids celebrated a pre-birthday dinner for Jeff tonight at Rideau Restaurant. We got fish maw soup with chicken (not shown), tofu with treasures, lemon chicken, steamed fish, salt & pepper squid, beef and chinese greens, singapore-style noodles, and dry fried flat noodles with beef.


^ 7 Rideau Dishes.
Dessert was a strawberry whipped cake from Swiss Pastries in Carlingwood Mall. I forgot to take the pic before Jeff served the cake. I got cool coloured flame candles for it too.


^ Remaining Strawberry Whipped Cake.

Useless Toy News:
Steve sent me confirmation of the new Toys R Us, but it's in Stittsville instead of Kanata. It's really close to Ben's place.

TRU in Kanata?

Dinner today -> Rib Fingers with King Oyster Mushrooms.
Chopped the rib fingers into chunks and cooked it with sliced king oyster mushrooms, a splash of Korean BBQ sauce, and garlic butter.


^ Rib Fingers with King Oyster Mushrooms.

Useless Toy News:
I informed today that a new "Toys R Us" will be built in Kanata! Woo Hoo! :) Hopefully it's true, but I haven't found a second source yet.

Weekend Report: Christmas Tree Broccoli

Spent a late Friday night and all day Saturday at my second home, CMC. The amount of last minute work Reza and I had to do this weekend seemed unbelievable, but I think we got it all done. A few more things to do on Monday, but the pressure should be off. I feel like I need a vacation.

Food this weekend ->
I marinated some rib fingers in Korean BBQ Sauce for 3 days. On Saturday night I boiled some and made stew out of it. It was so good :) The rib meat was really tender and soft, not chew like when I BBQ or roast them.


^ Rib Finger Stew.

Susanna and I went to the Farmer's Market at Lansdown Park on Sunday. I got some fresh Dynamite Rosemary and Garlic Artisan Bread. This one vendor had a long lineup for his bread. I figured it must be good, so I got it.
It goes well with stew too.


^ Artisan Rosemary & Garlic Bread.

We also saw this new Broccoli type: Romanesco Broccoli. What's so neat about it? Well it looks like a mini-Christmas Tree!


^ Christmas Tree Broccoli.
It's suppose to taste nutty. We didn't get one, but I think I'll get one next time to I'm there.

I found this promo ad at T&T :)


^ Colin Mockrie.