So for the first time in my life as I can remember, I underwent a real surgery, with full anesthesia and all. Tonsillectomy was the case – I had frequent cases of tonsillitis and related throat symptoms, so thanks to the courtesy of Dr. Amanda Maloney, M.D., now I am tonsils-free.
This is, I suppose, a rather bizarre review to put on my blog – my experience of a surgery. However, it’s a very personal and interesting topic nonetheless, so I won’t hesitate to cover.

9 AM: I arrived with my girlfriend …

If you were looking forward to photos from the fireworks, WRONG.
The Vancouver Celebration of Light, or more commonly referred to as “The Fireworks” in Vancouver, has been an annual event for as long as I’ve lived in the Metropolitan Vancouver area. I think it’s been going on before I moved to this place.
When I was younger I was a great fan of this event, as this gave us a great excuse to be downtown late at night among thousands of people (and this was quite a nice contract to the …

Last Saturday, I had lunch with John Chow and a bunch of other guys. Rainer Schmoll of ThinkReferrals, as well as Gary Jones of Bluefur Hosting was there (Gary was hosting the lunch.. thanks for lunch Gary!).

It was an interesting lunch, and during that, John and I discussed the importance of having decent, and well-filtered links on our blogrolls in order to achieve better pagerank and credibility. For more details of the food (John is quite into food and what not), view John’s review of the lunch.
In case you did …

On Sunday I went to the Vancouver Franchise Show, which is a convention/exhibition of a variety of franchise opportunities of all sorts. While I am definitely NOT in the market to get involved in any kind of a franchise, I was quite interested in what’s out there anyhow, so I ventured out there with my friend Kris. We had a 2-for-1 entry coupon so it costs both of us $8 Canadian (the parking cost $12 for 1.5 hours though!!!).

Once inside we were surrounded by booths after booths of interesting franchises. …