I tag alone with Pat today for the whole day. First in the morning, I went to CMCC with Pat. After that we went to have dim-sum with her friends, the girls had their girl talks while I was concentrating on my newspaper. After lunch, yet another girl joined the group and they moved to the food cafe. I finished my newspaper and start listening to Verona’s first radio show. The show is pretty lame, just some mindless game. I am surprised at the among of common knowledge needed to win this game, especially on the entartainment related questions. Then I moved to bookstore wait for the girls finish their gathering. When Pat came to grep me, I was reading a new novel. The first few chapters are pretty good that I decided to buy it. Big mistakes, never turst the introduction on the cover. I was reading the novel while Pat was shopping at Daiso. Without me rushing her to go, since I was reading my new book, she had bought quite some stuff. I have to give more pressure to Pat next time in order to save money from getting useless stuffs.

I took my car to regular service today. The appointment was at 9:30a.m. in the morning, but when I got up at 8:00a.m., I felt like want to sleep more, so I call the service center and reschedule the appointment to 1:00p.m. Since the service center moved to Coquitlam, whenever I take my car to service, I have to wait there for a few hours while they are checking my car. I had lunch at the nearby Mcdonald’s and have a cup of Latte at Starbuck, read the free newspaper provided by them. This afternoon was quite relaxing, when I get a pocket of time that I can’t spend it doing anything else. I finished a small book called Slow-down therapy, kinda match the theme of today. After I picked up my car, I found it runs more smoothly. I guess the servicing really did some work. My next service is in next March, I guess spending an relaxing afternoon doing nothing is not too bad every half a year. My car need maintance, my mind also need some maintance. I decided to use the regular car service as a chance to give some reflection to my life in the future.

I wonder what makes a guy good enough to be a boyfriend, this question is posed when a friend of mine has trouble with her relationship. From my first impression, I thought the guy is pretty decent. But with more information from my friend, apparently he only has the outer shell that the inside is not quite up to standard. I told my friend that she can buy low and hold him for long term. While this guy has so many problem, she can fix them one by one like debugging some RTL code. Her response is it doesn’t worth the effort if she doesn’t get the title. I think in the end, it’s a problem of trust in the relationship.

On the other hand, sometimes having too good of inner character may not be a good thing. This is a true story. The boyfriend of a Pat’s friend decided to dump his girlfriend after the World Youth Day. The reason is he had the vocation call from God and decided to be a priest. I guess it really hard to accept this break up reason. If the guy leave you for another girl, you can still comfort yourself saying that girl maybe prettier, sexier. The guy choose celebrancy instead of a girl is as shocking as he is gay. How can you accept losing to a guy, or even worse, losing to merely an abstract concept?

I still don’t feel too well today. Therefore I didn’t go to the boat curise of my department, I rather stay home and have some rest. Moreover, I don’t think it would be very fun stuck in a shitty boat for 3 hours while it is raining outside. There isn’t much to see in the False Creek anyways.

Apple has relesaed a new version of iPod, iPod nano, which use flash memory instead of harddrive. I was talking to colleagues today about how inconvinient the iPod shuffle is, and I had mentioned maybe I would buy a iPod mini for cheap since this line will be discontinued. Anson said he wanted to get the new iPod nano and may sell his 2 months of iPod mini for cheap. He made a big mistake engraved his name at the back of his iPod mini, that will lower its resell value by a lot. The engraving is for free if order directly from Apple online. We had concluded it must a scam of Steve Jobs to kill the 2nd hand market of iPod. Normally, people don’t want to use something with someone else’s name on it. I won’t mind if it is cheap enough, or I am still fine with the iPod shuffle, I don’t listen to much mp3 these days anyways.

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.