Happy Birthday Ben!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEN!!!

I ordered your present from Japan... Ninja Shoes!


^ Ninja Shoes.


^ Birthday Cake.

Weekend Report: Mother's Day

My dad's retirement from CMC for 36 yrs of service, was on Friday at Baton Rouge. Speeches by Jim and my dad.


^ Speeches.

I finally got a myself a good steak too. I ordered a medium-rare rib steak and I got it medium-rare :)


^ Baton Rouge Rib Steak.
I choked abit on a piece with too much horse-radish sauce on it.

Food this weekend ->
Live lobsters were on sale at Metro this weekend. I got 2 and I completely destroyed them :) They were so good. 1 was female and full of lobster roe! I boiled them is salty water with a few red potatoes.


^ Lobsters (Before Shot).


^ Lobsters (After Shot).
I put a couple of the empty claws in my fish tank for decoration.

Saturday night the family went out for dinner at Little Sheep Mongolian Hotpot. It was for Ben's Birthday.
I thought I ate alot, but I think Jane and Ben ate way more than me!


^ Hotpot.
We hit Ikea afterwards for some $1 Frozen Yogurts :P


^ Ikea Frozen Yogurt.

Relatives from Toronto visited on Sunday, and we had a big Mother's Day BBQ with our grandparents. We always make too much food, and we stuffed ourselves silly.




^ BBQ Food.

Useless Gaming Info:
I discovered that there are some iPhone apps for the Fighting Fantasy game books I used to read. I bought the Deathtrap Dungeon book and read/played it til 3:30am Saturday night. The app automatically does everything the book does, but I felt that the dice rolls for the monsters (red dice) usually roll higher than the player's dice (blue dice) rolls.
I think I will be getting the other FF apps, even though I already have all the re-released books and most of the original books.

I Hate Well-Done Steak

I had a lunch paid for by CMC at Montana's Cookhouse in the Centrum today. It was for completing one of my projects and the Kanata team was invited out for lunch.
I ordered the featured meal, a cookhouse 8oz Sirloin steak. The picture on the menu looked really good.
I ordered it medium rare, with smashed potatoes, fried onions, and spiced corn.
What I got was a well-done steak, smashed potatoes, fried onions, and coleslaw.
I was really disappointed with the steak. It was way over-cooked and tiny! I like my meat bloody. I would have sent it back if I hadn't been sitting there for an hour already.


^ Montana's 8oz Sirloin Steak (Artist Rendition).
I forgot to take a picture of the meal, but I created my rendition with Paint. The smashed potatoes with cheese was really good as was the fried onions.

Friday is my dad's retirement luncheon from CMC. I think he's been with CMC for 37 years? I'll need to meet or beat that record :)
His lunch is at Baton Rouge. Hopefully the steak shouldn't be screwed up there.

Rideau Meat-a-polooza

I'm all set for this year's softball season to start. I picked up some cleats from Sports Experts. They were on sale for $29.99 from $59.99.


^ New Cleats.
Julie, if your reading this, I didn't forget that you wanted to play, but we have 5 returning girls from last year so we can't add you yet :( If we lose any, I'll let you know.

Lunch today -> Rideau Meat-a-polooza.
Our annual "Robot Hockey Awards Ceremony and Banquet" was held at Rideau Restaurant today. "Chuck Norris" won this year, and got his name engraved on the trophy. His is the 1st name on the side of the trophy.


^ Robot Hockey Trophy.

For food, all we ordered were meat dishes:
Tender black pepper steak, General Tao chicken, lemon chicken, salt & pepper squid, sweet & sour fish fillet, and 2x Szechuan beef. I was surprised that the fish was really good.


^ Rideau Meat-a-polooza.
(I remembered to take a pic before we destroyed all the food.)

Useless TV Info:
Did anyone watch Supernatural Wednesday night? Dean discovered a new monster and named them, "Jefferson Starships"! LOL And the name stuck!

The newest viral video featured Mr.Miyagi at this weekend's UFC pay-per-view. Seem like Lyoto received the training for his finishing move on Couture :). Watch the link on Dailymotion! (only 1min long)

May The 4th Be With You?

May 4th is Star Wars Day!
Also, this year on May 4th at 6am PST, something will be revealed on StarWars.com. I wonder what will it be???

Lunch today -> Sticky Rice Wraps.
I ate a couple of sticky rice wraps for lunch today. The rice is wrapped in leaves and filled with pork belly, chinese sausage, egg yolk, green beans and peanuts. Really good stuff and filling.


^ Sticky Rice Wraps.

Susanna and I went to the new Walmart Superstore on Merivale. It's really big, and the layout is just like the Walmart Superstores in the states. The grocery section has alot of stuff and I picked up a bag of Walmart Snow Crab Legs for only $20!


^ Walmart Snow Crab.

Sugar High

I filled up a Miracle Whip jar with Frosted Flakes cereal and brought it to work. I ate the whole thing as a snack in the afternoon. The cereal was really sweet without milk, and I'm pretty sure I got a sugar high from it :)
I think I'll get some Rice Krispies and fill it with that next time. I don't need that sugar rush.


^ Frosted Flakes Snack (Before and After).

Dinner today -> Leftovers
Nothing special. Just leftover BBQ pork, roast pork, and roast chicken. Made some white rice to go with it.
BTW: I learned (through a new AKB48 educational show ^_^) that if you add honey to the water and rice in a rice cooker, the rice will puff up more and not collapse in on itself. I tried it and didn't really notice a difference. Maybe I needed to add more honey.


^ Leftovers with Rice.

Useless Idol News:
Officially announced over the weekend, HKT48 (HaKaTa) will be formed in Fukuoka. Their theatre location in HawK's Town? Might be alittle soon as NMB48 only just started in Osaka.
So the 4 "48" group locations will look like this:


^ "48" group locations.

Weekend Report

I watched some of the Royal Wedding Friday morning. I fell asleep for most of it actually. Almost every channel was covering it, and most were talking about Kate's wedding dress. I thought it looked nice and looked good on her.

Potluck get-together at Jeff and Linda's place Friday night. I made a big pot full of Beef Curry using curry from Osaka. I wanted the meat to be really soft and tender, so it took me 2 days to make. I also added 2 soup bones for extra flavour from the bone marrow :)


^ Potluck Food and Gaming.

I got the siding on my house fixed on the weekend. My dad and Marc came over to do it. Thanks!
I also got my roof shingles fixed. A guy was going door-to-door fixing the roofs in my neighborhood for a good price.

Ethan also showed up and took away my old couch. I finally have my living room back!

I watched on NHK the "ROOKIES: Graduation" Movie Saturday night. It was a good ending to the great TV series. Just need to find a subbed version of the movie now.

Food this weekend ->
Linda made some Chinese Pork Buns from scratch! Jeff gave me some to take home.


^ Linda's Pork Buns.


^ Steak, Zucchini, Pita, and leftover Curry.

Useless Transformer's News:


^ Latest Transformers 3 Trailer.