mindless ramblings

Happy Chinese New Year to everyone, or rather Happy Lunar New Year to the politically correct out there. I hope everyone has had a good time meeting up with relatives/friends/aquaintances and having a ball of a time! It’s a pity CNY here isn’t a holiday, a 2 day holiday in the post-Christmas rainy gloom of [...]

MAJOR GEEK POST… if you are not geek-inclined please scroll down and read my food posts instead!
After a few months of rock solid computing on my Athlon64 system, the first signs of instability have started to creep in. I’ve been getting a couple of BSODs over the past few days. I’m not sure [...]

As I mentioned a couple of posts back, We went to our first Dine Out Vancouver experience at Bistro Pastis yesterday. We took a slow drive there and found the place with little problem, it’s just a block west of Arbutus along 4th. By some stroke of luck, we got a lot right outside the [...]