So after all the hype about Avatar, I finally found time to watch it at the Dublin movie theatre in all its IMAX glory. After the movie, I was really dissapointed, an uninspiring, predictable, unoriginal story line. Despite all the oohs and ahhs you see from the special effects, to me, a true movie fan, the storyline is the soul of the film, and this film stole another great movie’s soul. Dances with Wolves, which I’m sure for most teenagers, seems ages ago and they won’t remember the story, but James Cameron stole the story. If you haven’t seen Dances with Wolves, go see it. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out where Cameron stole his material from.
Avatar-Dances with Wolves, alien version
March 4th, 2010How to trim your nose hair
February 21st, 2010So my wife had a talk with me today, you know, one of those you’re old now and can’t rely on the magic of youth so take care of your ass conversations. Today’s topic happens to be on what I need to do with excess nose hair. With my broken heart and an alarming bell inside my “old man” head. Here is a great video on just how to trim your nose hair.
R2D2 Home Theatre
February 12th, 2010First of all, I know this post is late, but I still wanted to make up for it since it was supposed to go on 8 hours ago, and at this point I’m just really glad I didn’t promise free lunch like Kevin has.
Since Josh posted his robot ambition, the kids didn’t read the post, but only saw the cool R2D2 picture on the post, the natural conclusion was of course “Uncle Josh is building a R2 unit, he’s so cool”. Long story short, I told the kids we’re building a R2 unit, so then I checked out all the fancy R2 units people have already built, you know, the metal, remote controlled ones. Then I thought, why would I want a remote controlled car under an R2 ? What I really want lately is a home theatre server with projectors, a light bulb came on…I will build a R2 Home Theatre unit, on top under the dome will be the projector, and inside the body will be my board with all my 1TB of movies in full glory, at the bottom of the R2 unit will be a subwoofer.
Now the battle plan is out, I just need to do it…..Josh ?!
Star Wars Lego-Tie Fighter with Darth Vader
January 29th, 2010As Evan gets older and is now learning the ways of the Force (through watching Star Wars repeatedly, just like his father before him), I’m enjoying watching this young Padawan learner discover the Star Wars universe as well as teaching his younger brother how to handle a light sabre (you can’t hold it the other way, the laser will cut off your finger kind of thing).
Evan’s love of legos as well as Star Wars recently joined forces and he has been on a building maniac. This all started when we got him the Darth Vader Tie Fighter Lego kit. Sure, the label says for ages 8-14, but I knew Evan has built enough legos to build this one (his last lego work was like this whole city kit that Grandma got him).
Since I am also a lego fan and a Jedi, I really enjoyed spending quality time with Evan building Star Wars lego. I told Evan we will try to build one per month and I will post them on this blog as we move along.
Without further adue, here is the pictures for the Tie Fighter.
The Snowless Winter Olympic
January 23rd, 2010This is the winter I’ve been waiting for, since Clara convinced me to move to Canada by telling me it never snows in Vancouver, it’s been one year worst than the other. The last two years in particular, I heard from my neighbors “we never get snow like this”, all the while I’m going “yeah, right, this is Canada”.
But this year, things finally turned around, I think it snowed for one day, and the snow didn’t stick. For a California native, this is AWESOME !! Don’t have to worry about slipping, falling, icy stuff.
However, this also happens to be the year of the 2010 Winter Olympics, which is not so good for no snow. According to unconfirmed reports, people are starting to mountain bike in North Vancouver, also the site where they’ll host Olympic events. My neighbor also noticed her tulips are starting to show. It’s one thing to not have snow, it’s another thing when nature’s saying “Spring is here”.
My Olympic prediction, a lot of people will come, find out how bad public transportation is (For the last month, I can’t remember a week where the skytrain I ride didn’t have some kind of delay, they are obviously not prepared),how expensive housing is, and how many homeless guys are wondering our streets, our only saving grace might be the visitors will be amazed at how beautiful spring time is in Vancouver.
Project 5x ?
January 18th, 2010Since Kevin failed to produce a blog post the first week, Josh and I thought he was out of the running, however, Kevin “suave” Chan seemed to sweet talk his way back to project 52. This is disappointing news, since it would have saved him the trouble of producing 51 more blog posts. This also points to an interesting fact about new year’s resolutions, most of us fail. Seriously, when was the last time you followed up your “I’m gonna exercise” resolution or “I’m gonna stop procrastinate” resolution. Last time I talked to Boris, he told me doesn’t do “resolutions”, too much of a commitment, he does new year’s “wishes” , can’t remember the exact phrase, but it’s a less committed term. Pretty soon, we’ll all just start doing new year’s good ideas, I think.
A Brand New Day !!
January 7th, 2010So I’m doing the Project52 thing proposed by Kevin and we somehow managed to convince Josh to do it as well, we even got Josh to register his domain. Which is an accomplishment in itself. This blog will continue to be a place of my random thoughts which I can’t even be responsible for most of the time.
If you’re still reading this now, you must be bored.