I took a sick leave and rested at home today. I think I am still not totally recovered from the super cold germs I got from Germany. After resting alot last night and cleaning up my home today, I feel a bit better. I also cooked my first dinner in over 3 months, finally my life can go back to normal. Pat is also sick, probably we caught the same germs in Europe. I was pretty ok last week, I thought I am already recovered. However, I was chilled awake over the weekend when Pat was away in the camp, and she forgot to leave me any bankets by locking up all the bedrooms. I end up have to sleep on the couch rather than sleeping in the cold basement. I was not feeling too well since then. I didn’t get enough rest for the camp site visit and meeting friends from the States in the following days. I thought I am ok on tuesday when I go to work, but end up have to leave early and visit a doctor. I hope I will get better tomorrow after resting at home all day without leaving the door. Moreover, my home is much more tidy now.

Today I spent most of the time writing travel journals, so far I had finished 2 out of 6 chapters.
I spent too much time writing already, my brain is suck dry. Can’t think of anything else to write in my blog.

Pat come out from the church camp today, from what she had told me I guess I didn’t miss much,
except the latest gossip about Brother Anthony.

Other than visiting doctor for my cold and god some medication, I had attended three mini-gathering today. The first one is get together with the WYD team. I had to drop off my photos to Jan at the 6:30 mass at St. Paul, and then I drop by at Earl to say hi to those who can make it to the dinner. I don’t have much time to catch with their stories since I have to run to see another friend. One thing I know is that they had to desperately look for the Eucharist and watied 6 hours for bus to leave Marienfield, arrving in Koln at 11p.m. I feel really lucky that me and Pat got away relatively earily. SoB has a wedding to attend tomorrow, so he come to Vancouver for just 2 days. I have dinner with him and talked alot about friends in the Lasalle group. Then somehow Derek is in town tonight as well, he is having his flying trip from SJ all the way to Victoria. So I have drink with him afterward. Too bad that SoB has to rest early tonight so he couldn’t join us for a drink. As he said, he see Derek almost every week in SJ, what’s the point of seeing him here in Vancouver. I found I am repeating the similar topics with Derek, just disscuss them in a different aspect. It kinda odd I am seeing them quite often this year. I just met them last month down in SJ and I will see them another next month when Mingwai come over.

I found that I am spending quite some time reading info about my new iPod shuffle. I am looking forward to use it as a replacement for the CD player in my car. It is just inconvinient to burn CD. Finally I am catching up with the digital trend by having my own mp3 player, although my player is a bit lame without the screen. But hey, it’s free, what can I ask for more?

Foosball is a game that mimic the action of football in a table. I used to play it once awhile in univeristy, but I am never good at it. Back from my vacation I found that PMC had made a game room after rennovation, and it has foosball and table tennis. Everyday at lunch time and after work, there is a big crowd playing in the game room. Today I finally lay my hand on the foosball table. I partnered with Jason, and lost big time. I even scored one goal for the other team. Chris and Alfred is not doing very good either. Tonight, the gang decided to practice foosball at Jackson’s place after dinner. We played foosball for the whole night. I slowly discover the skill of how to play it well. One mistake of beginner is trying to hard to chase the ball and having too much unplanned reactive shots. The ability to stop and control the ball is the key to win, second to that is the strength of shots. My shots are weak on strenght since my left waist can’t really twist fast enough to deliver a powerful kick. However I companse my weakness with strategies. I focus on the players of my opponents instead of the ball, which is bigger and easier to follow. Still I need more practice on my reaction time and ball control. Too bad that my chess buddies at work are not addicted to this game. I guess I will be hooked to this game at work for a while until the novelity wears off.