Friday, July 31, 2009
Street Fighter - The Legend of Chun Li
Why do I always waste my time trying to watch these horrible, horrible movies?
Why do so many video game movies suck so badly?
Allen.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Free Stuff on your Birthday
My birthday is coming up and I was looking up places that offer free stuff around Toronto.
What-a-Bagel apparently will give you a dozen bagels free on your birthday.
Tucker's Marketplace offers a free buffet dinner on your birthday even if you go by yourself. I don't really understand the business reasons for doing that, but okay. Tucker's isn't that great of a buffet. (Frankie Tomatto's is a bit better, though they don't offer a free birthday meal any more)
Benihana's in the US will give you a free dinner (up to $30US) during your birthday month, if you sign up on their website. I used my spam-mail address. Its not in Toronto, but I'm going down to New York during my birthday month. :D
Baskin Robbins gives a free scoop of ice cream. There are separate US and Canadian mailing list sites, so be sure you're on the Canadian one.
Tony Roma's (2 of them, one near the Airport and the other in Mississauga) give a free dinner as well, up to 18.99, as well as a fried? onion loaf. It doesn't have to be on the birth day itself, it gives a leeway of about 2 weeks it seems. However, it asked me to specify which one, and I listed the Mississauga one for some reason - and the email coupon they sent specified Mississauga only. Doh.
Casey's seems to have a free entree up to $15.99. However there seems to be a lot of posting about how some do, and some don't, so I dont think I'll bother, I'm not too fond of Casey's food anyways.
Denny's is in the same case as Casey's - apparently some do and some don't. I actually like greasy spoons like Denny's, so I called the ones in Mississauga and Brampton. The Mississauga one says they offer a free meal for the birthday person, and the Brampton one says they offer a free dessert, if you buy 2 meals and 2 drinks.
Allen.
What-a-Bagel apparently will give you a dozen bagels free on your birthday.
Tucker's Marketplace offers a free buffet dinner on your birthday even if you go by yourself. I don't really understand the business reasons for doing that, but okay. Tucker's isn't that great of a buffet. (Frankie Tomatto's is a bit better, though they don't offer a free birthday meal any more)
Benihana's in the US will give you a free dinner (up to $30US) during your birthday month, if you sign up on their website. I used my spam-mail address. Its not in Toronto, but I'm going down to New York during my birthday month. :D
Baskin Robbins gives a free scoop of ice cream. There are separate US and Canadian mailing list sites, so be sure you're on the Canadian one.
Tony Roma's (2 of them, one near the Airport and the other in Mississauga) give a free dinner as well, up to 18.99, as well as a fried? onion loaf. It doesn't have to be on the birth day itself, it gives a leeway of about 2 weeks it seems. However, it asked me to specify which one, and I listed the Mississauga one for some reason - and the email coupon they sent specified Mississauga only. Doh.
Casey's seems to have a free entree up to $15.99. However there seems to be a lot of posting about how some do, and some don't, so I dont think I'll bother, I'm not too fond of Casey's food anyways.
Denny's is in the same case as Casey's - apparently some do and some don't. I actually like greasy spoons like Denny's, so I called the ones in Mississauga and Brampton. The Mississauga one says they offer a free meal for the birthday person, and the Brampton one says they offer a free dessert, if you buy 2 meals and 2 drinks.
Allen.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Tai Chi 3rd term is coming to a close
Last week our tai chi class finished teaching all the moves for Chen style 1st form. There are enough moves and repeated sections that I'm somewhat confused about which section follows which. It would probably help if the course taught the names of the moves, so we can join moves together by their names, not just by rote action.
The names are available on their website, which is pretty decent. I don't know why they didn't translate Jingang as "Guardian" or "Sentinel", but left it with a Cantonese phonetic "King-Kong". What are we, giant apes and gorillas?
They also have a book that I purchased, that shows the moves along with the name, but the pictures don't really do justice to the maneuvers, sometimes its hard to match up the pictures to them.
I probably should practice more as well. I've been bad about it lately, and have been only doing tai chi while in the class.
This weekend there is a review, then a few weeks off. The Chen Refinement class starts in the fall, where we'll start focusing on fa jing, the characteristic bursts of energy associated with Chen style.
Allen.
The names are available on their website, which is pretty decent. I don't know why they didn't translate Jingang as "Guardian" or "Sentinel", but left it with a Cantonese phonetic "King-Kong". What are we, giant apes and gorillas?
They also have a book that I purchased, that shows the moves along with the name, but the pictures don't really do justice to the maneuvers, sometimes its hard to match up the pictures to them.
I probably should practice more as well. I've been bad about it lately, and have been only doing tai chi while in the class.
This weekend there is a review, then a few weeks off. The Chen Refinement class starts in the fall, where we'll start focusing on fa jing, the characteristic bursts of energy associated with Chen style.
Allen.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Writing Chinese on the PC
Mom was asking about Chinese input on the PC so I promised I'd look up one of those writing pad systems for her. I knew that Pacific Mall usually has them for sale at some store or another, and sure enough, I wasn't disappointed. I picked up one of these USB pads for $50+tax:
蒙恬科技 Penpower 晶鑽小蒙恬
It supports Simplified Chinese, HK Chinese, Traditional Chinese and even some Japanese. It will voice what you write in your choice of Cantonese or Mandarin. Seems to be a pretty friendly device and even recognises my chicken-scratches as appropriate Chinese characters. Software installation was as simple as popping in a CD and a reboot, then plugging in the pad.
Anyways, I am done playing with it and hopefully Mom will be able to make use of it.
Allen.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Moto Guzzi
This is the sort of motorcycle I like:
Its not a cruiser or a sport bike - it's a standard model. But funny enough, there are hardly any bikes around like this any more. This one is "new" for 2009 I think, and it comes in 2 colours I know of - white or black. Attach a nice sidecar to this and I would be totally happy. :D
Allen.
Its not a cruiser or a sport bike - it's a standard model. But funny enough, there are hardly any bikes around like this any more. This one is "new" for 2009 I think, and it comes in 2 colours I know of - white or black. Attach a nice sidecar to this and I would be totally happy. :D
Allen.
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