This Week

Went to the theatre with Leah last Wednesday to see Denzel Washington in Julius Caesar. Very disappointing performance. You can read about it more on Leah’s blog.

Got the second instalment of the promised bonus from work this Friday. About bloody time too since we’ve slaved our winter away for this piece of ultra exciting (not) tax software.

I also played our first game of softball at Central Park this Friday. Managed to get two real good hits of the ball, both to the outfield. The first one got caught out so I didn’t even make it to first base. The second one didn’t but I was too ambitious while my legs wasn’t obeying commands from my brain to sprint faster, so I got tagged out near second base. Then when I was fielding first base, I caught this fast ball from second base and tagged out a guy. Felt great when it all came together, which can be rare 🙂 I also took my camera with me but my sport photography instinct must have been on vacation as I was more concerned with watching my team’s action than taking photos of it!

This afternoon (opps, yesterday afternoon) Leah and I went to a free taping of a HBO comedy show called ‘One Night Stand’ at NYU. Ok performance from Caroline Rea and acceptable from Omid Djalili. We’ve seen Omid Djalili before last year at the West Beth Theatre so many of his jokes are not new to us. One interesting thing though, why does people has the compulsive desire to give standing ovation? Isn’t standing ovation reserves for the exceptional performance? Or is this, as Leah calls it, an American Idol thing where everyone should get a standing ovation so they won’t feel left out? I am all for fairness in life but this borders on delusional for the performer. Anyway, so we may be on TV sometimes this summer around June/July, even for a briefest moment. Surely this must be a slightly longer appearance than the one my friend Paul and I made on Canadian’s equivalent of MTV last summer when the camera paned very quickly over our heads as we watched from the street.

Was going to play tennis tomorrow in Jersey City but the rain and a late night Halo gaming put pay to that…

Tiger is coming

I’ve placed my order of Tiger this evening from Amazon (actually it was Leah who placed the order since she had more items to buy verses my one). However, that also means that I’ll have to get a new hard drive for my PowerBook before it arrives. Right now it has just under 4GB of free space left which should just be enough for a upgrade install, at least according to Apple. That won’t do at all since there will be no free space to store any future digital photos, so a new 80GB drive it is. Hopefully the promised second bonus from work will materialise soon…

Two years on

Wow, just realised that it has been exactly two years ago that I started blogging. In the beginning I wasn’t really convinced that this is something I would be really into but after awhile I got into it. Then I even converted Leah to blogging and now she posts more frequently than me!

How times flied when life is busy…

Normal service will resume shortly

So the release date of the project I work on in my day job has yet again been postponed to this Friday. This was after discovering a huge calculation mistake in the application on Friday morning. Not the development team fault, mind you, the mistake was found by the business analyst himself.

Thus, I am still working long hours this week even though I shouldn’t need to. I didn’t go to the office this weekend though, which is nice and allowed me to watch the Bahrain GP on TiVo on Sunday afternoon. I forgot how great the sound of a F1 engine is. I missed going to a Grand Prix like I used to do in the U.K. at Silverstone. May be a trip to the Indy GP? There’s a thought…

I did manage to spend good amount of time on ecto so now it spots a Office 2003 theme! Hopefully next week I will have more time to spend on it. Fingers crossed.

Packing and Moving

And so the moving day is tomorrow. Leah and I have packed more or less everything bar the bare essentials. Though the definition of bare essentials for us consist of the TV, TiVo, DVD/Hi-Fi, both of our laptops, speakers for the laptops, printer, and DSL/Wi-Fi equipment. And these are just the electronics! We still have all the kitchen stuff and bathroom stuff to be packed away.

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