In the Catholic church, when a person baptise and join the church, he has to find a god-parent to sponsor him. The idea of god-parent is to give spiritual guidance to the god-child. Pat has recently become a god-mother. The odd thing is her god-daughter is actually a year older than her, she is a friend of hers. In today’s mass, there was a ritual to admit the new believers into the Church. In the following months, they will have go to catechism classes every week to prepare for their baptisium in the coming Easter. Pat feel quite pround and honoured to sponser her friend. I feel a bit jealous on her. I want to be a god-father too. I know I am probably not a very good example for the new believer. I am probably not good enough to be the god-father of an adult, it takes quite some responsibility. However, I think I am good enough to be the god-father of a baby or child. Especially those parents who are not-so-faithful catholic but somehow want their kids baptised for whatever secular reasons, such as applying for catholic schools. So, if there are any child want to be baptised in Catholic, yet the parents are worried the child getting too faith and end up being a priest, please let me know. I am happy to take in god-children who will still have the freedom to choose his beliefs when he grow up. Oh… to give some more incentive, I had already prepared a gift for my future first god-child. It’s a brand-new very cute precious moment bible I had ordered extra.

I rarely go to shopping, I actually feel a bit uncomfortable going to the mall. I always prefer to know exactly what to buy, the price I want to pay before I go into a shop. Buy things base soley on the limited information available in the store and presumably unreliable sales is just plain dumb. Anyways, tonight after dinner, I went to Metrotown with Pat. I have bought some new clothings. I think the last time I had bought any clothes is almost a year ago. The good thing about going to shopping with Pat is I can offload the decision making to her. Obviously she had much better taste on clothes and know alot more on the market price range than me. The only thing I need to decide is the total amount of money I am willing to spend in one shopping trip. Although I am happy with the fact that I have new stuffs to wear, but I don’t really enjoy the process. I wonder how can woman enjoy shopping?

Today at lunch, Edwin showed me the Gundam game on his PSP. You all might already know that I am a long time Gundam fans. The new game is very attractive, so I played in car and while waiting for food. The game play itself is similiar to the old Gundam arcade game, but with different machines. It also come has story mode and support multi-player via the built-in PSP wireless protocol. Edwin had already finished the game, so all the machines are unlocked. The graphics is very nice, especially the glare and explosion effects. However, the game control is much worse than the old arcade game. The movement is not very natural, the terran doesn’t interact with the players. The moves are very limited, only very basic long range gunfire and meleec combat. In summary, it is a total disappointment. I wonder Bandia make this title just to milk the Gundam franchise. I rather they sincerely port the arcade version to PSP. Another reason justify not to buy original copy of mostly crappy games. Edwin is trying to convince me buy a PSP, my response is wait until I see the killer game, which I doubt will ever be made.

I have listened to a very inspiring speech on procrastination, which I found is one of my biggest problem. There are three types of procrastination in general. The first type is the prefectionist. They won’t start working unless everything is planned out prefect, and everyone knows you can never archive perfect in planning. The second type is fear to success. Once the work is done, they don’t know what to do next or fear to work on something unknown, so they keep prolonging the work. The thrid type thinks the work is too tedious, they don’t bothering to start working on it. I think I have combined problem of the second and third type. The remedy to the procrastination is divid up the work into small managment task, and allocate a set time slot to work on it. If you couldn’t finish it within that time slot, at least you had start working on it. One can never get any accomplished by thinking about doing the thing, you gota act.

Mui Garden is finally reopened. This resturant is the default place to have lunch. When we are out of ideas, we can simply pick it with no objection from anyone. It was closed for a couple of months already. The resturant has posted a notice on the door saying it is closed due to renovation, but I don’t see any work going on every time I go by there. We suspected it got a warning from the health agency and have to close down for inspection. I don’t want to cook tonight, and somehow I wander to Mui to check whether it has reopened without any expectation. To my surprise, it just opened today. Everything, including the menu and the waitress are still the same. I ordered the hainanese chicken I had missed for so long. Maybe I am a long time customer, I got a free upgrade from chicken breast to chicken leg. It is as good as before. Anyways, we don’t have to be troubled by where to go for lunch anymore.