The title of the post means “Hello, nice to meet you!” in Korean, learnt that from my first Korean lesson at UBC this morning. The class was surprisingly fun to attend and our teacher Son Jeong Hye was really nice. She kept the class in a playful atmosphere which really helped us on learning and understanding of the difficult Korean characters (we even sang a song near the end of the class, and we had to like shake hand with everyone else in the class while singing the song and say “Hi my name is X” to the other person =) ) I’m really looking forward to the next class next Saturday!

Karl and Eva got married at my place in the afternoon, with the presence of a marriage commisioner. They chose to do a simple civil ceremony, in which the marriage commissioner would provide a statement of marriage during the ceremony, followed by the usual “I do” speech Kedding and I were there witnessing the ceremony, and after that we had some wine (was some home brewed wine that’s been sitting in my fridge for 7+ years! It sure tasted awesome) and chatted for a bit.

We headed to Kerrisdale for dinner, the Japanese operated (this really makes a difference) Japanese restaurant “Ajisai Sushi Bar” or ?? in Kanji. The food we had really worthed the 20 minutes wait IMO, especially for the eel don (rice) that Karl recommended~ it’s a highly recommended~ oh yea also my favorite amaebi sashimi!! And of course, a nice dinner wouldn’t complete without some nice dessert - gelato!

It’s Karl’s (my band’s vocalist/guitarist) wedding tomorrow, going to take place at my place since his fiancee’s family isn’t going to attend and therefore Karl didn’t really want to do it at his place since his parents are there. He and his fiancee decided not to invite bunch of people over but just to do a small wedding ceremony. Just got back from the bandroom where we had some white wine and beer and we also did some free jam and chilled for quite a while. It’s amazing that many of the people around me that I know of are getting married…! I guess I’m just getting too old :(  Well anyway got to sleep now as I’ll be having my first Korean lesson at UBC tomorrow at 10am and I don’t want to be late!

Have been listening to classical music all night while working on this site. The music is being streamed from this site http://www.1.fm/stations/Baroque/ViewLastPlayed.aspx  They have a really impressive collection of countless Baroque composers and always have awesome selections that keep me interested. My favorite composer is of course, Antonio Vivaldi! A portrait of him - You can listen to some of his work here: http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/abaroque-seasons/.

Wordpress is really a pain in the butt… I’m just trying to setup a couple of plugins and the sourcecode keeps on corrupting… now even the database is corrupted and I didn’t even have a backup! Anyway I’m also trying to figure out things about this “NextGEN Gallery” plugin for Wordpress, so I can post up all my sweet pictures!

Yawn… just got up from this crazy long nap… I accidentally fell asleep on my desk (while working on this blog)! Guess I was really stressed out… hm… Benny brought me to this nice place to eat last night called “bin 941“. It’s a nice tiny little restaurant (was a little cramped inside but you can really feel the vibe) that serves Spanish tapas. It’s got a really cool trendy interior design, with eclectic colors and dimmed out lighting, and constantly LOUD electric/dance type music. I really like that place for not just the decor but the food was A-W-E-S-O-M-E!! We had the Lamb Sirloin, Roast Queen Charlotte Halibut, Moroccan Chicken, Mussels steamed with Garlic/butter/roma tomato/herbs/whitewine, Crimini Mushroom Risotto (must try! best tasting rice ever)…and something else that I couldn’t remember. The food was fresh, extremely tasty and I was like WOW. I liked the Moroccan Chicken the most, as I’ve never tried anything like this before.. juicy chicken meat with a really tasty skin possibly cooked with different kinds of herbs.
Happy Birthday Wenwen lo por, by the way ^3^! (Wendy was so happy as she received my gifts in Beijing just in time :D)

Almost threw up after consuming half a bottle of Coca-Cola Bl?K just now. Man that was gross… you got to try it to know what i mean.. Saw it on the shelf in Yaohan centre yesterday and thought that I would pick it up just because the packaging looked kind of cool.. and there I made the most wrongful decision and there gone my precious $1.99! Anyway I’m feeling kind of bad in my stomach for the whole day (even worse after this Bl?K thing of course) but at least I managed to finish off designing some logos for one of my clients..

It’s already 2:27pm and I’ve just got up from bed.. Had my regular band practice last night from 8pm to 3am~ We had Hiro coming over to do some guitar and vocal (he’s Karl’s friend). He’s a really interesting person and we had lots of fun with him (we thought he’s cool and he’s got a Japanese girlfriend too and he can speak Japanese pretty well).  I’m getting a headache now due to the alcohol consumed last night (couple cans of beer and some Vodka that Joe brought over). Well I better start working on the logo design for my client now otherwise they’ll be like killing me next week!