Merry Christmas! Long time no blog!

it's been 3 solid months sinced i've blogged. I think a lot of things have happened since september. I got myself a permanent job, I took a little trip to Cancun and I finally moved into our house,.. that we bought.. and we're in a lot of debt.

During my 4 month stint at head office, I applied for a position within the organization in june. Well september rolled around I finally got a call for the interview. A few weeks later, I got the position. That was the good part, the bad part was the commute. I can bitch and moan about the commute but I'm just glad I'm employed, full time and permanent.

My brother and sister in law got married in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. We were there for a week, it was beautiful but not as beautiful as our honeymoon in April. It was a lot cooler this time and the resort wasn't as great. Overall, it was satisfactory trip.

The same weekend we came back from Mexico, we decided to finally take the leap and move into the house we bought in June. Our brother and sister in law "P&S" went in with the purchase and they live in the basement while we took the top floor. They moved in September and have been occupying the house while renovations have been taking place. The move was quite rough but we managed. Its December 27th today and well, we moved in November 22nd and still haven't unpacked.

FYI: I also managed to sprain my right ankle by rushing down the steps and completely missing the last step. I really hate this house.

There have been quite a few things that have been going on but not enough to blog about. I've been keeping myself busying and reading other peoples food blogs from Vancouver.

I'll try my best to keep my blog updated in the new year.

Back from the grave

Its a dreary night here in Vancouver and I've caught a cold. I keep thinking about the past, like stuff from 10 years ago. I feel young but numerically, I'm a married cougar(good lord!).

Many thoughts through my mind, like hanging out a pool halls, ricers, eating at 24 hour chinese food joints, karaoking, bubble tea'ing, smoking marbs, drinking china white shooters, taiwanese food, pho, raves, Lesters, .. the list goes on.

Its not like I wanted to go back to doing those things but really I miss being young and free.

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Looks like the last time I posted was the same time I started my 4 month stint at MV covering somebody's leave of absence. Well its been 4 months and I completed my stint.

Within those 4 months, I met some great coworkers and I'll probably miss them a lot. I thought I'd be out on the streets after my assignment ended but good news... I won a permanent position within MV. This is rare because I heard horror stories were people waited anywhere between 4-10 years to becoming permanent. Like they say, the only way to get a position at MV is if somebody retires or dies. true story.

Its been a busy 4 months.. hence coming back and updating my blog.

I'm not sure what's in store for me in the future but its pretty scary thinking about it. I'm off to LCOC for the next 4 days, then permanently going to SCFP and supporting the people out there.

My short-term goal at this point is trading in the Civic and getting myself a nice pickup truck and running over pedestrians. I've already gone back to my roots and highlighted my hair blonde(you can't tell by the pic tho). I might as well start fresh with a fresh new look..

scurred.

GM's Reinventation

I really love this commercial !

ah my chicken mcnugget is snuggling my pink elmo~ what life~

may 29th: writing my blog via my blackberry and wifi

So I ended up finishing my lakecity assignment today. Ill be sad to go but I'm off to head office next thursday to start the next. Its been rough cuz work's been starting at 7am :o anyhoo I got myself a new pair of glasses :)

Monday I'm going to BMC for an information interview. Tmr is jazz time!

$49 million lottery

Maybe if I win the lottery tonight, I can donate some and the rest I can adopt as many cats as I want and live a big mansion in Burnaby with 10 cars.

I don't think I'd give any to my family, maybe my friends tho.

El Mariachi Mexican Restaurant Hastings St Burnaby BC

El Mariachi Mexican Restaurant

We need a quick bite to eat so decided to try the newly opened mexican joint that previously was called El Mexico or something. I previously tried lunch at El Mexico last year and I found it mediocre so I was skeptical about the new owners.

Sad to say, I was disappointed. We arrived at 6.45 and waited 10 mins for our server to get our orders. Mind you there was 1 server and 1 mgr? and they kept walking back and forth from the tables to the cash area getting drinks. It was clear to us there was no experience here. It seems they went to a table, forget something came back to the cash, grabbed something, went back to the table, went to another table, went back to the cash and back and forth every minute. It was very annoying.

After waiting 10 mins waiting, the waitress got our order and 5 mins later we got the compliementary chips. It was ok, the salsa and salsa verde were good. We ordered chicken fajitas, bbq pork and nachos as appy. I would expect an appy to come out usually 10mins from ordering. This wasn't the case, we got our nachos 25 mins later. We gobbled it up, and waited another 15-20 mins for our dishes. The BBQ pork in adobo sauce was basically vingery ketchup sauce poured on top of BBQ ribs. gross. My chicken fajitas looked like a chinese stir-fry with "red" sauce, bland, and full of water collected on the side of my dish. It came with beans which were nice and a dry cup of mexican rice. We had to ask for the tortillas as well.

Over an hour later, we were very disappointed, late and will never eat mexican food in a restaurant ever again. We have yet to try Dona Cata which I heard its ok.

I'll take Taco Del Mar anyday.

I didn't bother taking pics because I didn't want to waste space on my blackberry, plus you'd barf if you saw the food.