Now I'm cultured

I went up to Metrotown today (well, yesterday given that it's after 3am now) to pick up a T-shirt from American Eagle that I've been wanting. I've seen a few people wearing this shirt when I've gone out dancing, so I had to jump on the bandwagon and get one for myself.

Afterwards, I walked over to T&T to get more frozen pork dumplings and just happened to walk past an art gallery on the way. I've been wanting to get some art to put on my walls in my new apartment, and I've already picked out a few prints online that interest me. Shipping a framed print is ridiculously expensive, so I walked in to see what it would cost to get the print framed locally if I just get the print online. I ended up buying two pieces of art. One is a 1948 Salvador Dali print titled The Elephants and the other is a more recent print by Justin Bua titled El Guitarrista. I was planning to get some of Dali's other work.. either his 1937 Swans Reflecting Elephants or Metamorphosis of Narcissus, but that would have been much more expensive than what they had sitting in the gallery. That Dali was one crazy guy, but his artwork are excellent conversation pieces and are certainly going to draw attention when I have people over. Plus, now I have something to give my white walls some character!



I never did make it to the T&T. I ended up leaving the art gallery at 9pm when the mall closed. The pork buns will have to wait for next time.

Lucid Dreaming

I think I had a lucid dream this morning before I woke up. I can't remember the exact details any more, like who was in the dream, but I was with a group of people in a forest and we were being attacked by some sort of deformed humans. I think that came from watching Serenity last night and seeing the Reavers in the film. We somehow outran them to a rocky ledge with one side a wall of rock and the other a cliff going straight down. We started grabbing them and throwing their bodies off the ledge as they came at us one by one on the ledge, and I think that's when I realized that I was dreaming. Suddenly I had superhuman powers and my fist was three times the size. I started pounding it into the heads of the attackers, crushing their skulls against the rock wall and then throwing them down the cliff.

Then my alarm went off and I woke up.

Weird. That's what happens when I watch four movies before going to bed, three of them with containing violence (40 Year Old Virgin, Transporter 2, Serenity, Wedding Crashers).

I burnt water

I got this bamboo steamer as a housewarming gift, so I decided to steam some pot sticker dumplings and pork buns that I got from T&T. I boiled up some water and steamed them for about 11 minutes, and they tasted really good. So I put on another batch and steamed them too. Unfortunately, the water completely boiled away and the food residue that had dripped from the bamboo steamer burnt inside the pot. Now it's all black on the bottom. What a mess.