Things That Freak Me Out

There isn’t a good way present your prod­ucts, no mat­ter how many metaphors you use: “ED” (erec­tile dys­func­tion), “Love Life Again” (get it hard, finally), “mir­a­cle diet pill” (take a placebo pill and eat less) or “it’s time for an hon­est voice” (get out and exer­cise, lazy ass!). Not to men­tion the freaky side effects, usu­ally mut­tered very fast at the end of the commercial.

The Last Four Things I Bought

What did you buy today? I’m curi­ous to find out! In this meme, you have to list four things you bought dur­ing a day.

This was Sat­ur­day for me and my wallet.

Pig Day In Ottawa

Every year, Sparks Street in down­town Ottawa is smokin’ hot. For five days in June, about twenty teams from Canada and the United States com­pete for the top rank of best rib choice, best rib sauce, best chicken choice and best chicken sauce.

The Blogging Advice Winners!

It’s now time to announce the “Best Blog­ging Advice” con­test winners!

"Your Best Blogging Advice" Contest!

It’s con­test time!

I feel like cel­e­brat­ing the begin­ning of the sum­mer, the fact this blog has almost reached 200 posts, that traf­fic is get­ting big­ger and big­ger and… basi­cally, I’m happy and feel like giv­ing stuffs away. Enjoy!

Under The Moonlight...

It had been a crazy day in Ottawa. We had woken up to a beau­ti­ful blue sky and sun­shine and had decided to eat out and then go for a walk. But sud­denly, about half-way through my Viet­namese noo­dles, we heard the thun­der. The sky had opened up it was soon pour­ing rain. It quickly turned dark and wind blew the rain hard against the win­dows of the restaurant.

The Kindness Of Strangers

A while ago, I blogged about Four Lit­tle Things and I men­tioned my old Tiger Balm (万金油） that I bought long time ago. Shionge com­mented and offered to send me some from Sin­ga­pore, where she lives — Tiger Balm, although widely used every­where in the world and found through­out Asia, is man­u­fac­tured in Sin­ga­pore, so I guess she’s very famil­iar with it! I thanked her and we exchanged addresses.

Dona Nobis Pacem

Why do we fight today ? Because they attacked us first. Civil war. Bio­log­i­cal war. Because we want to pro­tect our val­ues. Holy war and war gods. Because they have the bomb and they’re not sup­posed to. Pre­ven­tive war, atomic war. Because they tor­ture. War crimes. Because we have weapons to sell. Eco­nomic war. War of attri­tion. Phony war. War games.