While setting two personal goals a little while back (yes, I'm now a goal setting dork) I had told myself that'd I'd buy an ipod as a reward (holy crap, I sound like a knob).

I've since achieved those goals but while I'm financially capable of affording an ipod, my fiscal sense seems to be staying my hand quite firmly. This Penny-Arcade comic seems to sum the situation pretty well.

between guys:
Him: Dude, I'll give you a hundred dollars if you can get her in bed.
Me: Dude, I'd give you a hundred dollars if I could get her in bed.

[15:18] PunchMonkey: you wouldn't stand a chance since your bank book doesn't have enough digits. which is also why i never stood a chance.

[16:09] meatrocket: maybe you should hang out with chicks that aren't such whores

[20:59] spark: so can u water (my plants) while i am away?
[21:03] evil jesus: ok, but I get to go through your freezer and eat anything I want
[21:04] spark: as if i am giving you keys.
[21:04] evil jesus: I want the keys. I'll need a place to sleep if I gotta go over to your place
[21:04] spark: i will discuss with sara.
[21:04] evil jesus: I sleep naked
[21:05] spark: LIKE I SAID...i will discuss with sara.

[09:58] jarvis: i love when you talk to chicks online and right away they wanna hang out
[10:01] (_|_): it's because they're sluts
[10:02] jarvis: perfect

With sara out of town, sang and I got to do all the things guy love to do when unhindered by their women like hang out shirtless on lynn peak, get haircuts, and eat too-large bowls of pho.

Why do some people coming to vancouver for their vacation need to dress as if they were visiting a 3rd world country?

We have running water and air conditioners, even buses and taxis like most large north american cities. Coming to vancouver is definitely not considered roughing it, and there's no need to dress like you are.

After dinner last night at guu, fate would test me once again by having me run into the english girl once again, this time as she was accompanied by who I must assume was her buff tattoo'd boyfriend.

She was indeed the one I broke my own heart over as a young man of nineteen, and five years later the encounter only tells me that I'm wiser, stronger, and more focused than I've ever been.

I've come to see that the most destructive and complicated opponent in my life is my own fear. Only through self improvement, reflection and understanding do I see a path to a better tomorrow (obligatory john woo reference). I'm not expecting someone to write my long lost twin in to do the sequel either, so i've got to get it right the first time.

Someone told me tonight that they thought the 69 appendix to my email address (a hotmail account) was to denote my birth year.

Quite the contrary, it is simply because I'm a immature man-child who thinks the number 69 is inifinitely funny when I need to resort to appending numbers to user names.

What's more interesting than finding out how many people I know read my blog is trying to find out how they interpret it (and me) from it.

On a tangent, almost all scorpios I know (including myself) are more arrogant than they are confident. That's not to say that their arrogance isn't justified; I happen to think most of the scorpios I know are pretty cool people.

Gary was trying to convince me that I've got everything I need to pick up the chicks except for the 'eye of the tiger'.

I don't see how singing the theme from Rocky to women is gonna do the trick.

When you decide to bring preachy vegetarians along to a bbq, you risk not ever being invited back yourself.

A big congratulations is in order for francis finally becoming Mr. Tracy Harvey.

Now you can finally make the saix with each other.

After a night of relaxed drinking, dinner, and seeing Explaining Colours to the Blind play a great set at the anza club, sang, sara and I ended up at denny's soon after midnight (why ask why?).

There was a middle aged asian man in pinstripes sitting at a booth with a very young, strung out, extremely thin caucasian girl who we figured would not be there if not for some form of compensation.

All I could manage was to beg sang and sara to never let that be me.

Has Memoirs of a Geisha become required reading for asians now?

This could well be the most overlisted favourite book on friendster.

A full day in advance, byron and I have decided to visit the Korner Kafe (also known as the Whore Cafe due largely to it's late night clientele and location right across the street from Madame Cleo's massage parlour) for burgers tomorrow.

It's a nondescript restaurant showcasing mediocre diner food for the most part, where the owner/waitress makes note to warn me off from certain items listed on the menu despite their availability.

As picky as I am about my food, there's something so fun about going to these places that keeps me coming back.

It could just be the whores though.

I had the joy of encountering a new way of strangers trying to get money out of me this morning on my way to work.

The man approached and exclaimed "excuse me sir, I will bet you that I can tell where you got your shoes". I've always thought beggars should earn any money I give them, so this was definitely refreshing, but I just happened to be wearing my asics and a pair of wrightsock dual layer quarter socks with "Running Room" clearly branded across the top in large black letters.

I'd say it's a poor idea to insult the intelligence of the people you're trying to get money from, but then again, it is a fool and his money that part the soonest.

From Lavalife to friendster, everyone seems to be getting their internet dating on so I figured I'd start right here with my own site. Where better to look than at a place where I already know the people aren't scared of me (well, not terrified at least).

Single asian male, 24 seeks smoo.
Intelligent, thoughtful, generous, mature, funny, sensitive, honest, fun, physically active, passionate, creative, easy going, sweet, dependable, witty, articulate, fast shipper A+++ !!! would do business again, financially secure scorpio seeks cute female with identical traits.

Also willing to settle for a yeti, unicorn, loch ness monster, or leprechaun if said female is too difficult to find.

The new Hard Boiled cover is soy good.

When I'm not making fun of people and really showing off how small of a person I am, this blog is way less funny.

Wow, I think I only realized now that I don't know Charles' last name from Charles in Charge.

I also wonder if Buddy Lembeck ever got any play.

Peter sent me a domo pencil that waves it's arms when you click it and a tape of morning musume videos.

I think he is swell.

I think I had this conversation with someone before that confirmed witnessing it, but does anyone actually pick their nose and eat it?

The saying is common, but who the hell would actually eat their boogers?

Moderne Burger does it for me everytime I go there.

A lean spicy turkey burger made with love and fresh cut fries with a cherry coke goes so perfectly with the vinyl booth and sinatra filling the air.

What a magical little place.

I got my first offer for a gold visa in the mail today, and I'm still trying to figure out what useful features the $99 annual fee gets me.

On top of the free 7500 points for signing up, I'd get another point per dollar spent. So if I spent $120,000 dollars over the next decade on my gold visa, I might be able to get a free flight to calgary.

Sounds like a plan.

Being the domesticate that I am, I wonder if I'm the only one who thinks there should be dryer sheets with matching scents to your detergent.

My detergent says that crisp morning air is the way to go, but april fresh is what my dryer sheets say.

I end up with an amalgam not unlike the crisp april fresh morning air which isn't unpleasant, but it gives me visions of swampwater slurpees being made in my washing machine (though far less sticky).

I wonder if it's normal for your heart to hurt after eating a hungarian meal.

The coolest thing about the muchmusic video awards is seeing that shawn desman has a bodyguard.

I would figure his main role is to deflect the laughter.