Jonbu the baker

Our old family car suffered a hit and run incident, in a parking lot. The car was so old, that ICBC estimated the repair cost to be higher than the worth of the car. Which means it became a total loss. We still had to pay the deductibles, but the rest of the car was sold to ICBC, who will probably take the car apart and sell its parts for profit.

That also means we’re short on cars. I’ve been car shopping for more than a year, so it’s really time that I get one. Hopefully it’s the right decision.

Canned Candies, originally uploaded by jonbu.

Dad says I used to eat this when I was small. Very likely since they’ve been making this for a hundred years. I vaguely remember it, except the can was a lot bigger.

Found @Daiso

Nothing better to start the new year than writing a blog about it half way through the first day. And continuing the tradition started last year, I’ll recycle a picture from the year. Turtles live a long life. So they’re year-related. I’ll have to admit I wasn’t counting down last night. I was playing Crono Trigger and then realizing it was already 12:37.

Looking through past year’s pictures in my flickr, 2008 wasn’t too bad. The last 5 months tho, just zoomed by (after I started working at the new job).

Looking forward to 2009: Recession. President Obama. Windows 7. SkyTrain Finishing. It’s feeling unpredictable right now.

I’ve always considered the iTunes visualizer feature to be pretty lame. And who has the time to look at those things WHILE listening to music? But with iTunes 8, Apple has a new visualizer that they bought from some guy (Robert Hodgin) and it’s just AWESOME, complete with hidden features.

Anyways I only discovered it 2 months after it was pushed onto my computer.

Mysterious QUARTER POUNDER store in Tokyo selling burgers. Complete with raving customer testimonials on the site. Looks like it’s worth a visit. The packaging looks stylish yet oddly familiar… HMMMM…

Just finished Fallout 3 unexpectedly. Unexpectedly because I thought I was just playing one of the quests, and all the sudden the ending showed up. Not very happy with the game, but I think I’ll go back and play some more.