Jan-chan’s Tidbits

A couple nights ago I went to Video Games Live with Al. It was held at the Orpheum Theatre with the Vancouver Symphony playing the music. There was a world primiere of the new music from Need for Speed: Undercover and music from Zelda, Mario, World of Warcraft, Starcraft II, Metroid, Halo, Metal Gear…etc. I think the best part of the show was how they got us to ask for encore. They had everyone in the audience turn on and wave their cell phones, DS, and PSP. Some guy even took out his laptop! Another favourite segment was when they played music from Metal Gear. Someone dressed as a terrorist came out on the stage and almost immediately after, a guy with a cardboard box over his head/body was following him. It was great because anyone who’ve played the game knows exactly what’s happening. Then the music picked up, like in the game when the terrorist get suspicious of his surroundings and a glowing exclamation mark popped up over his head, just like in the game!

I didn’t bring my camera but here’s a picture my brother managed to take with his iPhone at the end of the show.

[photo credit: David Chan]

My apologies for the lack of posts lately. Work had somewhat took over my life the past couple of weeks. I’m currently up at Kelowna attending a conference and won’t be back till Sunday.

A lot of other stuff have been going on as well. I’ve been feeling a bit on the low end so I’d like to get back into baking/cooking to cheer myself up. Hopefully I’d be able to do that soon but with all the conferences going on next month, it might be a bit tough to fit it in. Some of the stuff I want to try to make is mini baked sausage buns, apple pies and pastries.

This post is so overdued, I know, but I’ve been quite busy with other things. Anyways, a few updates on the happy stuff:

Welcome Christian! – My baby nephew is here! He’s so cute and looks just like his dad. It’s too bad he is in HK. I can’t wait to see him. Congrats to Chrissy & Eric.

Thanksgiving Party – Last Sunday we raided WuWu’s house for a Thanksgiving potluck party. I tried making baked mushroom parcels which turned out better than I thought. Too bad it got cold pretty fast since we didn’t eat right away. Might try to make it again in Christmas.

Snowboarding Trip – Finally finalized the accommodations for the trip in December. There’ll be 8 of us that’s heading up to Whistler. Hopefully this time I’ll actually learn how to snowboard properly. Oh and I also just spurge on a new set of gears so I can’t wait to hit the slopes.

Side Notes:

The wedding stuff had been put aside because work went crazy. I did however browsed through some dresses for the bridesmaids. Also incase you don’t read my other blog, Inkubook is having a free book offer. I just made mine to test out their service. The book should be here in 2-3 weeks.