When the bill comes after having a nice dinner, many people, including myself, just glaze at the total amount without looking at each items closely. As long as the total amount seems about right, we are happily putting down our credit card. This is very wrong. We should never trust the resturant and double check every bills we come across. Tonight I went to a nice seafood resturant with my parents, the waiter mistakely charged two more dessert and two coffee to my bill. The extra amount is less than $20, which is less than 10% of the total bill. I didn’t notice it at first, luckily my mom has a good habbit going through all items on the bill and spot the error. Bills written by hand can have addition error as well. which is even harder to spot. Sometimes, I wonder does the resturant randomly add different kinds of error into the bill to make some extra profit.

In the age of internet, everyone can get 15 minutes of fame. If you dare to post your video to youtube. I was talking to Verona today, came up with this wonderful idea to get her famous, instantly. Our plan is to make a MTV, featuring her as the singer. The song in our mind is Denis Ho’s “Mimi and me”, which describe girls who drive mimi. We can use Lesile, Ivy and Verona’s mimi to make the music video. We can mimic some sence in Italian Jobs and we can use P0 parkade for most of the filming. I will be the director and I have came up with some ideas how to shot the video, like driving on the highway with the top open, wearing a big hat, big sunglass and scarf flying in the wind just like old French movies. Lesile will be our special effect expert since he is good at video software. Jackson will provide the filming equitment as well as make the mimis all shinny before shotting. I am sure the video will be more popular than the “bus uncle” clip in youtube. After Verona became famous, maybe some HK record company will sign her up as a singer just like kellyjacky.

I read in the news about the lawsuit of Creative suiting Apple over some user interface pattern related to iPod. In the article, it is interesting to learn back in 2001, before Apple release its first iPod, it wanted to license the hardware from Creative. Back then Apple was the new comer to the infant mp3 player market, while Creative was in fact the market leader. At the end Creative cannot reach an agree with Apple and Apple decided to design its own hardware. The rest is history. I am sure the executives at Creative must be really regret about his decision to blow the deal or executive s slipped this golden oppertunity already let go. Sometimes looking back into history, you would make a different decision if you know what will turn out is different. The problem is, how can you know what’s lying ahead of you?

I attended a very rare event tonight. My friend is ordinated as a Catholic priest. A Catholic priest cannot get marry, so the importance of ordination is equivalent to his wedding. Actually it is even more important, become a priest also marks the end of the many years studies in seminary school. Ordination is indeed a wedding plus a Ph.D. gradulation. The ceremony is held in a church sharing the same name as my friend, what a coincident. I think almost every priest in the Vancouver archdiocese had come. The mass is celebrated by the archbishop. It is much longer than a normal marriage mass, it has many more rituals. It is a big event for the church too. The last time they have an ordination there is almost thirty years ago. The ordination followed by reciption with food and wine , as well as photo session, just like a normal wedding. There is one thing extra though, the newly ordinated priest gave us special blessing. I don’t have any other friends who has a vocation call. Probably this is a once in a life time interesting experience to attend an ordination of a friend. The lack of priest is one of the biggest problem of the Catholic Church. The sacrifice of being a priest is hugh, you simplily can’t touch woman for the rest of your life. On one hand I admire the determination for those who choose the life of celebrancy, on the other hand, I seriously doubt whether their have a normal mind.

Tonight I went out to have a drink with two old old friends. They are my primary schoolmates. One of them used to be my best buddy in primary school, although I havn’t keep in touch with him for a almost 5 years. He visited Vancouver for a few days after attending a wedding in SF. The other is a girl living in Vancouver. I was not that close to her in primary school. Actually, I don’t really know any girls back in primary school. We become more friend after I moved to Vancouver and through another friend visiting Vancouver quite often. I didn’t contact her a couple of years either. I guess I am just too lazy in keeping in touch with my friends if they don’t have ICQ or MSN. I am lazy in writing emails these days, just don’t what to write sometimes. It has been 17 years since we graduated from primary school, really a long time. We didn’t talk about many gold old days, since we don’t want to bored the guys’ girlfriend. We just chat like good friends on various topics, catching up with our recent life. Havn’t keep in touch actively for many years, I guess it will take a while to warm up our friendship to talk more hearty stuff. Maybe due to the girlfriend is tagging along, we won’t have any chance to talk about it.