Before you say, what the hell kind of crap is this, I came here for movie reviews… listen to me carefully. I’m addicted to food. Perhaps to the point where I have an untreatable mental issue. So when I stepped foot in this supermarket, my jaw dropped… I drooled a little, then I walked around like the whitest person this side of Markham, oogling and gawking at every bizarre item on display.

During my adventure through this wonderland of chicken feet, dried squid, and 813 varieties of Pocky, I came to the realization that North Americans know nothing about cuisine. Not in the local sense at least. We have French restaurants, Italian restaurants, Japanese restaurants… the list goes on. When have you seen a sign for ‘Canadian cuisine’ (and I have) and said “Hmm… sounds delicious!”? I sure haven’t.  But I digress!

The supermarket in question, is called T&T Supermarket, and apparently I’m the only one out of my circle of friends who had never heard of it. I will from now on refer to it as Shangri-la.

My voyage throughout its many aisles, with their many, MANY odours, was somewhat hindered by the fact that… well…. I was very hungover. The myriad pungent aromas penetrated my nostrils with the force of a thousand skunks. Not to say, after the nausea subsided, I rather enjoyed some of the bouquets of freshly baked pork buns…. Oh… the pork buns.

Whatever they were, they were the greatest pork dumpling/bun/things I’ve ever eaten in my life. I destroyed a pair of them like they were going out of style, and I’d do it again. Speaking of which, are they open?  BRB!

At the pub and just have to write a quick blurb? Now I can even more of an outcast and whip out my HTC Hero… open the Wordpress app… type away on its average keyboard, and away we go.

Also, this WAS written on said phone. Yay to technology!

So, I’ve been told that there will be a mini-me soon.  Well, a female version of me, which… might actually be scarier.

I will be completely honest, having a baby was never the first thing on my list of lifelong goals, but I have no regrets and cannot foresee any in the near future.  However, that may change with the 3 hours of sleep / night. I’m very slowly getting excited, and the most recent ultrasound pretty much sealed the deal. Seeing our little one wriggling around on the screen was just incredible. (Insert lame Simpsons joke : I swear she was mooning us!)

Like probably every single other future parent, I constantly have fears that she will come out with 13 toes, 2 heads, or more realistic problems, like developmental problems, underdeveloped organs, I have no idea.  My mind tends to go to strange places. Thank god for my wife, as her job consists entirely of helping infants and toddlers with their speech and developmental problems. That, and her level of patience is enough for us both.

Oh, btw… she will LOVE the fact that I posted her very round, and very hard belly for the world to see. (Please look to your left!)

After checking out this site for over an hour last night, I couldn’t believe how many social network websites there really were. What was even more surprising, was that almost every one of them had a unique trait. Some allow you to post videos via twitter, some catalogue your video games and help you decide which new ones you might like, some even help select music, movies or tv shows you might like… all while sharing this information with your friends and family, or whoever you choose.

I am definitely a sucker for social networking, hell… my job requires it to a certain extent. A site like this is a joyous discovery, since I can waste even more time online than even I thought was possible. Check it out, I can guarantee not every one of the sites will grab your interest, but there may be a few you hadn’t heard about, I certainly hadn’t heard of at least half of them!