Demi Levato just leaked this as a track on her upcoming album. I do like Renea’s version better, but I thought Demi did a great job as well.

If you liked Renea’s rendition, be sure to check out her 2009 EP ‘Hello My Apple’.

Kinton Ramen has a fun tradition for their patrons — If a patron was to finish the entire bowl of ramen, soup included, you become a part of the Kinton Bowler Club – earning you free appetizers and whatnots once you’ve reached a certain numbers of bowls devoured. Oh yea, did I mention they take a photo of you with the empty bowl?

My friend was really shy, so he asked not to be included in the photo. Nevertheless, the conversation continued, and when I showed him my flickr page, he was amazed by the number of sets I had. I didn’t feel that there was a lot there, in fact, I realized how little photography I’ve been doing from the past few years compared to my university days.

One could argue that I have been doing quite a lot of photography with my phone, thanks to instagram, but that wouldn’t be really fair either — with my phone, I almost never have to worry about apature, or shutter speed. It’s even easier than when I got my first Canon point and shoot. At least with that I had worried about ISO levels, with my phone, it’s truly just point and shoot.

Weirdly enough, shooting all these photos on my phone made me crave my DSLR again. I remembered how much fun it was to come up with the best composition, to think about the lighting and then applying it to my shots. Can’t make promises that I’ll bring my DLSR everywhere I go, but getting back into it has at least been fun and rewarding so far:

I discovered Betty Who earlier this week thanks to Rdio, and now I can’t get this song out of my head, in a good way.

I don’t know what overcame me, but a week ago Wednesday I decided to stop shaving. Being follicle-ly challenged (Yes, I just adverbed a noun. and used “adverb” as an adjective… this is a disaster), I’m only able to grow, what I’ve come to conclude, as an “not so dense” fu manchu (See photo above, I figured I’d look better beside someone who can actually grow a beard and not just a weird moustache).

So far, the reviews from my social peers have been mixed. Below are some of the comments I’ve heard this week:

• “I like your dirty Asian moustache” – Adam.
• “Let’s Give it another week and see how it goes” – My friend Erin at work, whom I think is just being polite.
• “You look more Masculine / Manlier” – Connie, my hairstylist, and Theresa, another friend at work. I think they’re both just not the type to initiate confrontations.
• “I Don’t Like It” – My friend Rob, who always tells it like it is, I think.
• “Tim, I think you should shave” – My friend Steve, who is most likely right.
• “Moustaches are for weirdos” – My friend Grace, she thinks I’m weird.

What do I think? I’m just trying something new and fun. If anything, the response I’ve received so far have been quite entertaining and amusing, and some of the best things in this world are free entertainment.

Pretty cool to know that the people I work with are so great at what they do that we’ve won the 2013 Stevie Award for Front-Line Customer Service Team of the Year. I’m so proud to go to work with these people who aspire me to be the best that I can be.

Upward and onwards.

I went in not knowing anything about it, but the talk ended up being quite a learning experience. It was a great reminder that everyone of us has the ability to make changes in our own community, and that it’s always important to engage in some level of civic duties, whether it be volunteering, or interacting with your government.

The talk was also a reminder of what a great city Toronto is. There were discussions of gun crime rates here compared to major cities in the United States, where the differences are in the hundreds of bodies. I was also particularly shocked to learn about the Rodney King Riot in 1992 Los Angeles, especially the looting of Korea Town. The multiculturalism and the diversity that we see in Toronto isn’t something that is present in other areas of the world, and it’s definitely something we should protect and cherish.

“Knowledge is power” they say, and I’ve been inspired to learn more about my own heritages after hearing others examine their own. I think some studies on Asian-Queer-Canadians would allow me to discover some interesting reads.

For those that don’t know what timeplay is, it’s basically an interactive game that you can play with your smartphone before the movie start. There’s a whole lot of marketing strategies around that, which I won’t get into, but one of the game involves randome people (enter me) to act out a line from the movie, and the players will have to guess which movie the line was from.

I delivered the line so terribly I didn’t think it would ever make it onto the big screen, so it was a pleasant surprise when I got various messages from friends that they saw me in theaters. Makes me wonder if the other two lines I did will also make it onto the big screen sometime in the future.

Needless to say, it was weird (and a little bit embarrassing) seeing myself on screen. I can already see my acting coach telling me that “I’m showing too much” and to “just think it!”. That said, at the time, I think was just trying to be as ridiculous as possible. If anything, my line delivery got a short chuckle out of the guy that was sitting a row in front of me, so at least it was entertaining to some folks.

It’s pretty spectacular, and besides, my ketchup costumes makes a glorious return, which is always a good time (for me, anyways).

If you haven’t heard the original because you hate top 40s, well, here it is: