Monday, April 06, 2009

Blueberry cheese cake Kitkat

Special report from Tokyo. Thanks Sora for the treats! They turn into our breakfast. (^_^) (Nope, I'm back long time ago. These picture were taken in Tokyo, though.)
This blueberry flavour, unfortunately, is white. Which means, it cannot escape the excess sweetness. There is also the saltiness from the cheese cake, making it very heavy. I guess for breakfast, this is OK. Plus, the size is smaller than regular Kitkat, so everything works out fine.

Sunday, April 05, 2009

Vancouver Convention Center

Lunch at Urban Fair. The curry chicken salad was delicious, and portion was huge too!

Went to the open house of the Vancouver Convention Center afterward. Personally, that place was disappointing. I guess I was expecting Star Trek but found 50's retro instead. The walls were covered with ceder blocks without finish. The carpet was brownish orange (different colour combo at different parts, but just as bad). Hanging yellowish cylindrical lamp shades. Not enough escalators. I'm sorry, this is supposed to be brand new, how come it looks like it's got 40 years of wear?

Well... The view was awesome, though. For today's occasion, there were performances to entertain the crowd. Insane line up for balloons for your kids. I didn't see any cafeteria. Instead, there was a table with bags of chips and cans of drink. Not free, alas. Same price as vending machine. At least it's good that they didn't jack up the price.

The basement was quite big. A+B+C hall all together add up to about the same size as Big Sigh's east hall in Japan.

Poor Andrew forgot his keys...

Zakushi (Thanks!)

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Lost my change purse. It was a souvenir from my brother's honey moon in Thailand over 18 years ago. It had to be at Zakushi last night since I dug out everything from my purse to find the camera. Without giving it much hope, I phoned up the restaurant. Amazingly, they had my change purse! The customers sitting next to us found it and turn it over to the staff. Thank God thank God Thank God!!! This really makes me think that there's still hope in this world.

Saturday, April 04, 2009

Zakushi

Drove downtown / Kisilano / Burnaby. Had dinner at Zakushi. (Japanese tapas.)

Friday, April 03, 2009

Nice parking (Richmond)

Dr. Battery...
... and nice parking.

Thursday, April 02, 2009

Cross-border shopping

Hitched a ride with my brother to Bellingham. He was there to buy fire extingushers but the US standard is different from Canada's so he ended up not buying any. His goal switched to buying shoes for my older niece since she needs new ones. I was hoping to find materials for Miki's doll clothes but nothing was on sale. Only got a bunch of buttons. Didn't expect to buy a pair of shoes myself but found one at 75% off. (US$82 to $22.) Good deal even after the exchange rate.

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

April fool

No pranks, yay~!

So inconvenient without a thumb...

Dad left the edge of the shower curtain outside when he showered, so he flooded a good portion of our basement. This really happened. No joke.