I just discover something that is more disgusting than being gay, it is the sex change operation. There is a guy in my company going to change his sex next month. At first I am not aware of his abnormality. When I work with him, I thought he is just a skinny guy with really long hair. Although he loves to wear tight clothes, I never notice he has breasts, not until someone point out to me. Well, why would I pay attention to his breasts if I assume he is a guy. Some of my colleagues noticed his breasts, and keep wondering whether is he a he or a she. Finally the mystery is solved when reliable source told us he is under going a sex change operation. He is injecting female hormones now. In next month, he will remove the extra body parts and officially become a woman.

This guy brings up lots of questions. After he turns into a she, presumably he will act like a real woman and love guys. Would any normal guy with a sane mind willing to marry a sex changed woman? If he loves guy, why can’t simply be gay? Compare to sex change, gay seems much more acceptable, at least gay guys are still guys. If there is a disgusting scale, gay is just medium disgusting. I can tolerate gays around me, as long as they are not my kids. I don’t think I want to deal with any sex changed woman. Sex change operation is on the extreme end of the disgusting scale. Pretending to be a woman while born as a man is out right lying, which is socially unacceptable, it is an act that destroy our social fabric.

I do acknowledge there are some men really want to change their sex. They have serious psychological problem, so we should treat them and cure them. If we can’t turn them back to 100% normal, at least we should turn them into gay. Helping them fulfill their sex change desire is not right way to treat their abnormal state of mind. I hope he better pay for his sex change operation fee out of his own money. As a tax payer, I do not approve the government health plan spend a single dime on sex change operation.

Today, I went to Whistler to start my skiing season.  I am horribly out of shape.  After the first run, I already felt my adductor muscle stiffed up and stressed out.  It is really cold and windy today.  The Peak Chair and the Harmony Chair is closed due to strong wind.  It is chilling riding on the chair lift.  The cold wind blow so hard that it seems like freeze up my face.  My face can’t feel anything when I am up in the chair.  When we were riding the gondola in the afternoon, the wind was so strong that the gondola has to stop for 5 minutes, wait until the wind died down before keep moving.  The gondola was swinging back and forth in mid air.  I can’t imagine what if we were stuck when riding chair lift instead of the gondola, probably we will freeze into an icetude.  Somehow the wind is so strong that it sucked the gondola door half open.  Luckily the gondola is quite empty so no one is leaning against the door.  The snow condition is pretty good today, we have lots of fresh snow, but the weather is pretty bad, in the afternoon, we have almost zero visibility.  Well… we  got some free lift tickets, so it is essentially free today.  Since we are not paying, our mind works differently.  We don’t have squeeze as many runs as possible to get the most worth of the ticket, we can take it easy and ski down relaxingly.

Company party is one of the most boring and time wasting event. I wasted a whole fine Saturday evening. If the food is good and there are have lots of door prizes, maybe it still worth my time. However, the winter party of my company offer none of them. The company party is simply not fun, party is not free, drinks are limited to two per person, the casino game uses fake money and the dance music is pretty lame. If I want to have fun with my friends at work, there are much better things to do than go to the company party. The only positive reason I can come up with for the party is it is a great way to know the spouse of your colleagues. Normally don’t see the spouses of your colleagues and you don’t get to introduce them to your spouse. It is nice to let your spouse know your friends at work, so when you whim about work at home, she can link the names with the faces.

I had worked under this VP for 7 years and I never seen him smile. Well, I didn’t see him that often, probably once a quarter in the department update. He always wear a strict face. He don’t like to talk, he only say the words absolutely necessary to get the message across. I never heard him joke or make fun of things ever. I always though he must be a robot.

In the last round of restructuring, he was striped all his sub-ordinates. He keep his VP title, but moved into the research department to work on strategy planning. Today, I was chit-chating with some colleagues talk about the latest layoff rumors, he came and join the chit-chat. It is the first time I ever see him smile. He make some good jokes about himself being the last man remaining on his aisle, everyone sitting around him got laid off. We have some good fun and waste half an hour bad mouthing the company.

He seems like a totally different person to me. I wonder, does a person can change this much between when he is playing the role of the boss and when he is simplify a peer worker.

Me and Pat are booking photographer for our wedding day. We have check out a few photographers and still having decide which to go for. We met up with a photographer on Sunday, quite an eye opener. The office of photographers is located in Granville, in one of those hippie building full of artists’ studio. Walking into a building with too many artists makes me feel uncomfortable. My hintch is right, you can never trust artists. The photographers are having way too much style over substance. Never mind they are charging a premium for their artistic photo style. Why would I pay extra money to buy useless artistic photos?

The photographers boasted about themselves being wedding journalists. They claim their style are non intrusive, never get in the way of the wedding. They will never ask people pose for portrait shots in the wedding day. This so call artistic style of photography really bother me. My goal to hire wedding photographers is to take some good pictures in my wedding day. Wouldn’t it be much easier to take good pictures if we cooperate with the photographers? I won’t mind slow down a bit in the ceremony for good pictures. I can even pose like I am pretending not posing for the photographers if natural shots is what I want.

We are not getting marry in the middle of the war zone, we have plenty of time to capture the prefect photo. Wedding is a staged event, there is no need for any form of photo journalist. Wedding journalists cannot guarantee they can capture all the important moments. Why risk the chance of missing important photos? In fact, being told to slow down, turn around and look into the camera is part of the wedding experience. The stupid self named photo-artists are just creating a solution for a non existing problem. Wedding journalist is a gimmick that can only fool people who are not smart enough to say no to useless arts.