Merry Christmas 2011!

It's officially Christmas Day today, December 25th, 2011. So I slept at like 1:30am this morning and woke up at 8:30am, realizing that I had to go Dim Sum with relatives in Vancouver. I was still tired because I was able to sleep well. I was just a little grumpy but sucked it up!

So I drove to Golden Swan Restaurant in Vancouver. It was starting to rain a little when we got out of the car. I ate quite a bit there, including Congee, Shrimp Dumpling, Shark Fin Dumpling, which first thought was Shark Fin Soup for some reason and other stuff. I had to drink lots of tea only because my stomach wasn't feeling well.

After Dim Sum, we went to our relative's place for a little while before leaving, 30 minutes later because my sister had to get home to make salad. I was playing my PS3 when I got home for a little while before playing Mahjong 3-way. At first I was losing pretty badly, and eventually got pissed off. My mom had to give me a lecture on losing temper + bad sportsmanship and keeping calm. For a person that likes to win so badly, anything that goes remotely bad it really irritates the player. But eventually I came back and won, not by a lot but still won money! My sister lost at least $30.

By then, our relatives and friends came for Hot Pot. We had to tables and 2 pots, one adults and one Kids side. Our pot soup base became really spicy as one of the friends added tons of spicy sauces to the soup base. Even the youngest little girl was able to eat spicy food, can you believe that? I sure can't!!

After hot pot, we all sat around hanging around as our stomach was digesting the foods. I was watching the Green Bay Packers - Chicago Bears game while drinking coke and the rest were just talking and playing.

By 8:40pm, they left and I went back to my room hanging out. Now it's time to sleep! World juniors tomorrow! But no getting excited as there would be consequences!!

Hockey Pool Year 4: Week 11 Recap

This week had been shorten up due to Christmas break!! See? Even NHL Players get Christmas breaks, like your regular students! But this was sure an intense 5 day matchup for my pool.

In my NHL League, I played Team Burnaby Thunder, you can call him a rival of me because we both compete to be the league's best team, although I don't like being first while he loves being first. So this week wasn't so bad, I won by a score of 9-3, thanks to Niemi winning over Jonathan Quick in a shootout. The guy had way too many assist for my team, therefore I fell by quite a bit in that category. It was nice to have my superstar Claude Giroux back after missing 4 games. As well I want to mention the hits category, it is unreal how my opponent tied me in hits, only because some of my powerforwards didn't do any hitting at all. Milan Lucic, by far after getting suspended! I guess he is probably too scared to commit anything again. But whatever! Starting on Boxing Day, I'll be playing Justin, who Captain just destroyed this week!!

In my VCanucks2012 League, I played CanuckLegend, best known for a team with 5 goalies which is really too much!! I was able to find ways to beat him quite easily, with a 12-2 win. The goalie categories were really darn tight! Thanks to Keith Yandle's late goal which made it enough for me to beat him. Oh and Evgeni Nabokov just plainly sucks!! I should have played Niemi today, if it wasn't for that dupe Nabokov, I might have stolen another category!! But whatever! Now that I won, I'm back to 2nd again, my most desired spot!! On Boxing Day, I will be playing Whackburgers, the team who always outscores the opposition!!

Hockey Pool Year 4: Week 10 Results

This week sure sucked! It really has sucked. No Claude Giroux and Martin St.Louis. Two of my greatest forwards on the team!! Which means my opponents have such a great edge against me, or do they? Yes they do, especially when God is on their side.

In my NHL League, I played Team BieksAllent who possess a solid team. My goalies once again struggled a lot, but his goalies struggled as well. I still managed to capture most of the categories in that area. In the skaters category, I put up a team high of 215 faceoff wins. However, I couldn't outscore my opponent but still managed a 9-5 victory, now bringing me back to first place! Tomorrow I'll be playing against the guy whose spot I just stole from :)

In my VCanucks2012 League, I played my rival who happens to be a Blackhawks fan. With the absence of Giroux and St.Louis, my team struggled offensively, but still put up one heck of a fight. I fell 10-6 by the end of today, after coming back from 11-3 down to tied 8-8, thanks to the Bluejackets coach, for screwing me over. Who the fuck on earth plays Steve Trash Mason, over Curtis Sanford!!! Karma is a bitch eh? Your team deserved to lose, you sack of shit!!! Starting tomorrow, I'll be playing CanuckLegend, and I have 5 days to obliterate him!! As well, I might be getting my exam results in the next few days, I hope god makes it up for me. :(

Hockey Pool Year 4: Week 9 Results

Another tough week finally has come to an end. Man, when can all these tough weeks be over?? My players and I know that things aren't going to be easy but hell, we still have to go through it.

Anyways, in my NHL League, I played Team thething, an opponent I lost to last time. Yeah, I lost to him again. It's not gonna work if his players scores multiple points every game. Especially that buttfucker, Patrick Sharp, one of the Hawks I hate. Even defencemen John Carlson scored 7 points which really just blew my mind off. And my goalies were just awful this week. Very frustrating! I lost 8-5. It was rather close than it seems but whatever!

In my VCanucks2012 League, I played Team Blitz, another team I failed to beat last time. Yeah, I failed once again. Once again, running into a hot opponent. My team just couldn't even match the production his players were producing. I eventually lost 10-7 this time, instead of 13-4. It sucked to see Martin St.Louis going down and now possibly my team's MVP, Claude Giroux. With this loss, I fell back to 4th place, I will not complain, because I would rather want 2nd or 4th, instead of 1st or 3rd. Tomorrow I will be playing the best team in the league, Team "Blackhawk Down!" while I named my team to "Blackhawk Dead!" It will be a good one!

Happy 20th Birthday, Henry Shumstar!

I don't even know where to begin, first off I must say its an emotional day for me. Yes I'm officially 20 years old now! Lots of people I want to thank today, which included all the birthday wishes from my wonderful friends, my mom for getting the food and drinks to make this party work.

I woke up at 8:45am this morning, and began cleaning the house which included vacuuming and mopping the floor, as well cleaning the toilet. Haha I felt like a labor doing these but I'm not complaining.

After that, I went to eat as well watch the Montreal Canadiens - New Jersey Devils game. Not a very good game to witness for my birthday desires, as the Habs won by a score of 2-1.

Later, a friend came over and then another friend came over as we played NHL 12 all the way until 4:00pm when the Vancouver Canucks game was on, while they were in the nation's capital, playing the Ottawa Senators.

I had to get pizza with my mom at Costco at the time it was 2-0 Canucks, with goals by Alex Edler and Ryan Kesler.

We eventually bought five pizzas, 3 deluxe and 2 Hawaiian pizzas all for $78.00. It was already 3-0 Vancouver when I got home. However the Ottawa Senators scored a goal by Greening to make it 3-1. Eventually the Canucks would seal the game with a beautiful goal by Dale Weise. Vancouver even killed off a long 5 on 3.

After the game, while some of my friends were in my room watching random youtube videos and some were watching UFC, I played NHL 12 with another couple of friends until to the point where people wanted to take a break. While most people in the living room was watching UFC, I went upstairs to hang out with my friends there.

By 9:00pm, we had the cake, while I spend at least the first 15 minutes taking pictures with every single one of buddies we spend the rest of the time, cutting the cake! Too bad I didn't defrost the cake long enough, because it took a lot of us to cut the cake but we finally did. Thanks to Evan Su for being the biggest help.

When cake was finished, a couple of my friends were playing Mahjong while the rest were sitting in the living room chilling, as I was cleaning up. Later I played a couple of games of NHL 12 before all my friends left which eventually ended the party.

The party was great, everything went well!! Thanks to the Canucks for giving me the win today. Unfortunately, Minnesota won which wasn't one of my desires today, as well as my hockey pool underachieving which wasn't what I wanted to see. Other than that, its an unforgettable night!! Thanks to my sister for giving me the Team Canada 2010 Olympics games DVD and Vincent Ly and Ashley Chow for the Vancouver Canucks Iphone 4s case!! Loved it and really appreciated it!! :)

Hockey Pool Year 4: Week 8 Recap

This week seriously couldn't have end quick enough for me! After a grueling seven day battle, the week is finally over! I can finally breath a sigh of relieve!!

In my NHL League, I played Team Captain who I couldn't beat the first time I played him. It was really tight until the last two days which I took slight leads! After having another Saturday night meltdown, I got together on Sunday and managed to hold him off for an 8-7 win. It seems my team isn't scoring enough points against him! Thornton and Marleau had been rather useless for me this week! As well, my plus/minus category took a heavy beating with a -21. All due to because my players' club teams had been struggling to win hockey games and allowing many goals to the opposition. Anyways, tomorrow I play another team who I couldn't beat last week, that is Team thething. As well, I dropped from the unwanted first place to the most desired second seed spot.

In my VCanucks2012 League, I played Team HKL who I tied with last time. Everything was going fine for me, until the Saturday night meltdown I had yesterday which brough me into a tie heading to today. While I didn't believe I had the chance to win, due to the amount of players he had playing today against mines. I was still able to get an early lead in the matchup but eventually his players took over, which I lost only 9-8, ending my five week winning streak. I still remain in my desired second spot. While Patrick can still enjoy himself in that cursed first place seed!! :) Tomorrow, I'll be playing Team Blitz who I've lost to last time due to a Saturday night meltdown!!!

TVB Drama Review: Curse of The Royal Harem

Wow, finally this dramatic and disturbing show has come to an end. This show was by far the only show I didn't watch from scratch. I first thought its just another boring ancient palace show, but ever since making my trip to Hong Kong, I've been watching show since then!

Although no major cast I was particularly hyped up about, I actually like Myolie Wu and Jessica Hsuan in general, while they play one of the most important role in the show.

One of the most of aspect of the show was the case pretty long ago when the King was still a child, and his current mother apparently was a murderer of his actually mother back then, but the case wasn't brought up until one of the witness of the actual scene decide to inform the king of this, but had to go through lots of trouble to do so.

That was the beginning when the show began turning epic, as later the mother was dethroned, but rethroned by the king, due to her sacrifice for the King's two new-born babies. The babies became very important characters, because it led to revenges and grudges that the mothers ( Jessica and Myolie ) holds against one another, as well as others.

Unfortunately, Myolie's son died due to poisoning by the King's stamp, as well by then the King suffered serious headache after drinking a soup with addicting drugs in it, by one of the servants ( Nancy Wu ). By then, the King was having headaches and experiencing lots of difficulties, therefore the best way to relieve the pain was taking drugs, which was smoking. It did relieve the pain for a short while, but eventually his situation got worse and he constantly had to take it, while it's making his health much worse than it really is!

It was all due to his mother's decision, as well she and a few other officers were secretly planning a rebel against the King and decided to place the younger brother to throne.

By the last episode, the rebel was almost completed, but luckily for the king and those that were loyal to him, they were saved by reinforce troops ran by the other officers. However the king was still at the hand of his younger brother who was pointing a gun at him and people followed them. Unfortunately, the younger brother committed suicide right after he caught the ring thrown by Myolie. She as well suicide as well since she did not want him to die alone.

As well, the mother of the King also had to die as well, although the King promised his younger brother not to take her but Jessica Hsuan went on to pay her a visit on her own and offered her a poisonous wine that she had to take because of her sins against the King, soon she died in bed along with her very loyal servant kneeling down.

Next target was the servant ( Nancy Wu) who made the attempt to burn down the two babies, told the King to smoke to relieve the pain that she brought to him. By then, she was pregnant when Jessica offered her a poisonous bowl of soup. She refused to drink it and eventually been burn to death after lying down helplessly in pain. By now, the King did not care about her as she was being too rebellious and wasn't being the old self that he preferred 100 times more!

Later, due to no one else in competition, the King was pressured by all of his loyal officers to grant Jessica the Harem and Queen role, since she was the best candidate, which she eventually became, but the King paid no attention to her at all.

The show ended when she was riding on an air balloon, claiming that, she wouldn't tolerate any oppositions and will eliminate anyone trying to go up against her!

I actually don't like how the show didn't have a happy ending, as too many people had their lives taken. As well, the greed for power can sometimes make the person in being cruel and merciless to obtain. But is power all that important? In my opinion, no, because it doesn't mean much if you don't have anyone that is willing to accept who you are, after obtaining power. But anyways, this show ends and now I can look forward to a new one tomorrow!!