Down with Miramax!!!

I'm all about spreading the word on Asian cinema. But does EVERY single quality movie that comes out of Asia have to be bought out by Miramax? First it was Shaolin Soccer, which they did a horrible job with. Then Hero, and now Infernal Affairs. Now this makes it damn inconvenient for me, as now I can't buy these movies from HK to show to my friends and family.
Oh yes, I knew about Hero back in December 2002 before it was first released in China and my mouth was watering for it! I was absolutely dying for the DVD to come out in HK and when it finally did, I bought copies for myself and friends and family. But since Miramax has come in and bought the rights to it, that's all gone. Pricks! Same thing happened with Shaolin Soccer and Infernal Affairs. Granted, it's not a total loss because I was able to snag those movies on DVD before Miramax bought the rights to it (HEAR THAT MIRAMAX???!!! I OWN COPIES OF THE MOVIES ALREADY!!! AND I'D RATHER WATCH IT ON MY TV THAN PAY YOU 10 BUCKS TO SEE IT IN THE THEATER! -OKAY, maybe I WOULD pay to see it on the big screen. But only once!). May all who work at Miramax burn in Eternal Hell. I'll see all you guys in hell!

Curse AOL Spamers!

I can't stand it! My stupid AOL account has been stolen 6 times by spamers so far in the past month! Now if a spamers wants to do that with my account, that's fine. Just don't change the bloody password or close down my account. Sheesh.

Anyway, today I went apple-picking with Richel. It wasn't my idea to go. But I've always wondered about apple, or cherry, or apricot-picking. Maybe a hundred years ago or so, my ancestors were working in the fields as farmers, probably picking multiple fruits and vegetables from trees to eat and sell for a meager profit. Since then, my family has struggled to improve their lifestyles, and I've studied hard to become a working professional so that I can work in a nice large building and have an office, etc. And what do we do in our spare time? We drive for hours to get to the orchards to pick fruits and vegetables. I dunno, kinda doesn't make sense to me.

Anyway, I was trying to teach Richel how to find good apples to pick. HA! Like *I* know. I theorized on how to pick good apples, but wasn't sure if it was true. I told her to look for bunches of apples that were close to the ground because that meant that the apples have become heavy with juice and pulled the tree branches down. Then, I said to gently twist or tug on the apple and if it came right off the tree, then it was a nice ripe apple. If not, then it wasn't ripe, yet and you should leave it alone. I also told her to keep an eye out for apple trees that had lots of apples on the ground below it, because that meant that that tree had many ripe apples that were just falling off. Richel wanted to test the theory by actually tasting the apple. You can't do that! And even if you could, those apples are so freakin' dirty. Who would want to? So she actually wiped one down fairly well and took a couple of bites and I was like, "what are you doing? You can't do that! Otherwise, everyone would be taking bites of their apples and throwing away the ones they didn't like." Oh well...kinda neat little festival going on there.

I went bowling for the first time in...8 years or so. I can't believe I got a 126! After all these years, too! During my prime bowling days in high school, I averaged 160-170. My highest score was about 200 but I never really got past that.

Well, if I can ever figure out how to post pictures...

Hi!

Well, what's the point of having a blog if you're not going to write in it, eh? What's amazing about these blog things is that they're almost like writing in a diary, except it's out there for all to see. Even funnier is that bloggers want other people to see what they write in these electronic diaries. How odd.

So after watching my girlfriend waste countless hours in front of the computer reading other blogs, I had a great idea: how about I create a blog of my own that we can both waste countless hours on? Actually, the motivation behind the Rehab Ice Rink's creation was my brother's wedding, which happened August 2004. After countless hours spent reformatting and posting his wedding pictures on my yahoo photo album, and then emailing the entire family to go view it, I thought, why not just create a blog and let them all come and see and post comments, blah, blah, blah? So here it is! In the meantime, I can post other cool things like pictures of Team Canada, Jet Li, etc. And now that I have a digital camera, I'll be posting more photos of me and Richel and Chicago.

Why the Rehab Ice Rink? No, it isn't a blog about crippled and injured skaters and hockey players. I'm a resident in the field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (no, that does not mean I'm a physical therapist). If you're wondering what a rehab doc is, visit www.aapmr.org. So there it is. Have fun, and skate at your own risk. "Take off, you hoser."