October 2010
1 post
“Teach me how to love
Show me the way to surrender my heart ( I am so lost)...”
– Musiq Soulchild
July 2010
2 posts
“Yeah… my life is f***ing awesome that’s why you are my biggest...”
– The Hills… dislike the show now but that made me laugh!
“Time is only wasting so why wait for eventually?
If we gon’ do something...”
June 2010
2 posts
May 2010
5 posts
“Don’t leave me alone with my thoughts… it’s eating me alive.”
– =/
“Praise in a kitchen is the absence of criticism.”
– - Daniel Boulud
Story of my life!
Ugly Waste
Let me share one of the emotional things that excruciatingly pains us while working in the kitchen:
A Jasmine-scented White Chocolate Creme Brulee costs about $8 in a restaurant. This $8 includes high quality ingredients such as the jasmine, chocolate, the cream, the eggs, and let’s not forget the plate that it gets served in and the labor. At the restaurant, we make about 24 liters of...
You are my in-between The pages between the ends.
You live in-between my daily endeavors and between my distractions.
And you are the safest place there is. And the closest I’ve been to purpose.
You are my in-between
A place I can go when the clouds unfold. And I am so thankful to have found you.
My in-between.
The one person that lives
between everyone else.
—- Derek Doublin
Second Bests
A chef once told me that if you find yourself working for someone who settles for the second best items (ie. produce, equipment, products,etc…), get out of there! If you want to be the best, you learn from the best. Never settle for second bests.
After he lectured me, it got me thinking: How many times do we say “oh well” on things that should matter? And how many times do we...
April 2010
8 posts
VIP Weddings
One of our usuals to UNusuals VIP party at work:
Me: Oh my gosh, did you see that?
Craig: See what?
Me: I’m like a quarter of a size of that bride. She’s huge!
Craig: She’s a man.
Me: No way?
Craig: Yep. You should’ve seen her when she lifted her dress up to flash everyone.
Me: Why would she do that?
Craig: To show them what she just got done…
=/
A mid-night snack.
Couldn’t sleep hungry so I got up and satisfied my craving for nutella on toast. Went back to bed, tried to fall asleep and this kept going through my head…
When the past comes to the present and knocks back on your door, at first, it might seem tempting to let it in, but we just got to be brave, move on and quietly shut the door.
Let the past be the past. It had its chance to be...
Chefs for Life 2010
An event benefiting Vancouver Friends for Life Society.
Vancouver and Whistler’s Culinary talents at its finest on May 16,2010. Back for another round hosted again by Chef William Tse from Goldfish Pacific Kitchen (Yaletown) =)
A 12-course sit down dinner with select vintage wines to compliment each dish prepared by 13 well-distinguished chefs in one kitchen. With silent auctions,...
I know things aren’t easy and we all have our own problems to deal with. But when things start falling apart on your side, stop being a dick by making others look bad to make yourself feel better.
Some things never change.
I swear, one of these days I’m going to freaking lose my cool… and I want to stay cool.
“I strive to be as far away as I can from where I first began.”
– Gordon Ramsay
March 2010
11 posts
“Christianity isn’t religion or moralism or a wishful thinking....”
– Archbishop Miller
Time to PUSH.
George Brown’s Culinary Arts Italian (Postgraduate) Program
La Scuola Internazionale di Cucina Italiana
I will come for you… one of these days. Hoping.
Praying Until Something Happens.
I can lose everything. I can lose my job. I can lose my friends. I can lose my money. I can lose my scarves. I can lose my connections. I can lose my shoes. I can lose my guitar. I can lose a potential someone (*ahem:Jason Lamy Chappuis). I can lose weight. I can lose my favorite clothes. I can lose my computer. I can lose an arm. I can lose my books. I can loose… well you get the idea. ...
avoid miserable & unhappy people, their misery is...
annnaac:
true. one person can make your whole day just as bad as theirs. its amazing how they don’t even realize that they just fucked up your day by being the way they are. sad.
“If I were Peter Pan, you’ll be my happy thought.”
“Who needs constant electronic video stimulaton, when there’s a...”
– Family Guy
Going back to the corner where I first saw you, Gonna camp in my sleeping bag I’m not gonna move, Got some words on cardboard got your picture in my hand, Saying if you see this girl can you tell her where I am, Some try to hand me money they don’t understand, I’m not…broke I’m just a broken hearted man, I know it makes no sense, but what else can I do, How can...
Time to face reality even if reality isn’t, yet, facing me.
Just started a song. Now I gotta finish it.
Inspiration… come to me.
Uhm, yeah, like now?
Hitching and Hiking.
While I was up in Squamish, I hitchhiked my way around the area due to lack of transit services. (FYI: It was my first time and it was either that or walk alone in non-lit paths in the middle of the night for 3 weeks)
One night, a very nice man offered me a ride home when he saw me waiting for the bus in the rain. If this happened in the city, I would’ve quickly declined the offer but it...
February 2010
3 posts
A Charlie Brown Valentine
“I’m going to sleep and tomorrow morning I’ll tell her I love her and then I’ll give her a BIG hug and I’ll go bungee jumping on the moon.”
LOL So cute!
A food joke?
Everything goes with fat. Bacon goes with Duck. Duck fat goes with chicken. Chicken goes with butter. Butter goes with fish. Fish goes with olive oil. Olive oil goes with bread. Bread goes with foie gras. Foie gras goes with pork fat… Hmm, what else goes with fat?
You…!
“Women are made to be loved…
Not Understood.”
January 2010
9 posts
A mother's day
It’s late at night and I just want to steal my buddy’s laptop for a quick sec to let this out of my system.
I am thankful for a lot of things today.
I am thankful for brighter days. I am thankful for all the mistakes I made. I am thankful for the hardships that I faced. I am thankful for all the jokes that helped me get through my days. I am thankful for my accomplishments. I am ...
Sarcasma
… and he prescribes me with these.
Jose Alcantara you are an idiot!
Jack and Jill
The first publication of the lyrics 1760s.
Jack and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.
Then up Jack got and home did trot As fast as he could caper To Old Dame Dob who patched his nob With vinegar and brown paper
Jill came in and she did grin To see his paper plaster Mother vexed did whip her next For laughing at...
“The richness of your life is in direct proportion to the passions that you...”
Wonderful
Guido: You’re wonderful.
Claudia: (chuckle) You think the hair, the make-up and the wardrobe are wonderful. You strip me away from it, and you find a different person.
- NINE
Still cracks me up
“I may be fat, but you’re ugly. Besides, I can always diet.”
Jose says:
i realllly want them to get their shit together, but they are so friggin ...emotional
-madz- says:
hahhaha!
aww i miss this
Jose says:
lol
-madz- says:
you getting all worked up
hahaha
get twitter!
Jose says:
ITS ANNOYING
-madz- says:
it'll help!
December 2009
1 post
“Silence has become my good company because that’s where I find you.”
November 2009
13 posts
I was looking for my USB in my laptop bag and look at what I found after thorough research…
I think, I BELIEVE, that was my 1/2 eaten Oatmeal blueberry muffin that I purchased for breakfast at the YVR airport before I left for Toronto. Hmm… I thought I ate it all. Now, it’s a flat, molding mush.
HA!… oh man, this is epic. I dare not to open that starbucks bag.
French Man1: What kind of accent is that?
French Man2: My Father's French, he never speaks. My Mother is Chinese and never shuts up. So all of us picked up her accent.
1 tag
French Vanilla Cappucino
I’m on search of new music to upload on my ipod. Maybe some of you can relate, but sometimes it is quite hard to find music that speaks to you and that you can listen to over and over again and probably will stay in your musical contraption forever.
Here’s one of the 1,000,000 ways (or more) to find a unique song/music, that makes you think “it’s for you”. Go on...