I can't go on...tonight

So today, like the past 5 days I went to Harvey's for lunch. I ordered my Angus Burger and Garden Side Salad and happily ate it. It was tasty. The burger was big, juicy and meaty. I felt fine all week, but this afternoon I started feeling bad. I felt bloated and fat. I felt like my stomach had expanded. Lately, I haven't been as regular as I like. My fruits this week, cantaloupe, bananas and oranges might not have had enough fibre.

On the way home, I decided to forgo the Angus Burger. Yes, it's been good to me, but I had no appetite for another Angus. So disappointingly, I'm broke my "goal" of two Angus burgers a day. Wondering what I ate for dinner? I picked up fruit and only fruit. Check out my dinner:


You're looking at a mango, an apple, an orange, three quarter pounds of grapes and half a pound of strawberries. I ate all this after some quality time on the elliptical. I have never eaten just fruit for dinner, but it was surprisingly filling.

So even after all that, I want to get back on track tomorrow. I'll see how I feel at lunch and decide whether to continue. I'm attending a wedding tomorrow night and I'm not stupidly brazen enough to be bringing Harvey's into the wedding. So dinner tomorrow night will also break the streak. But this weekend I should be able to continue...if my body lets me.

P.S. Let's Go Raptors! I'm so pumped about attending the game on Saturday!
P.P.S. Smash and/or Mario Kart Wii this sunday afternoon at my place. All are welcome :)

Super Size Me Angus

While attending her Jack and Jill, a drunk Andrea made me feel guilty for not taking advantage of free food, so I decided to make up for my past transgressions by overcompensating and taking advantage of this tremendous deal from Harvey's.

Let me explain what I mean by "overcompensate" and "take advantage".

When I first heard about this through Teresa, she mentioned it was being abused by customers and Harvey's was no longer accepting it. With my parents away in Japan leaving little food in the house, Kitty working 100 hour workweeks and my sister back from NYC, I tried scoring some free burgers. I went on the RFD forums this weekend and saw that a lot of people were reporting success with the coupon. I read some RFD forum members had even ordered a puny 50 cent gravy and got their free $4.79 Angus burger!

I'm not going to be that cheap. But I am going to be cheap and GET IT EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR LUNCH AND DINNER THIS WEEK. Yes, I'm Super Sizing myself for a week. I'm planning on only ordering the $1.99 salad, for a total of $2.09 for a Burger and Salad. What an awesome deal! I've already had 3 straight meals of Harvey's and I'm not sick of it yet. (Harvey's is coincidentally my favourite burger joint).

I looked up the nutritional info and if I eat 2 Angus and 2 salads a day (plus miscellaneous fruit I regularly eat), the caloric intake is surprisingly only about 1500 calories. Surprisingly, my favourite sauces, BBQ sauce and Buffalo hot sauce are some of the worse ones nutritionally. (My favourite soft drink, root beer, also happens to be the worse soft drink). But the worse part is 2 Angus burgers with toppings accounts for 70% of the recommended daily intake of fat, 100% recommended of saturated and trans fat, almost 100% of the recommended daily sodium intake, and 60% of recommended cholesterol intake. Unfortunately, Harvey's nutrition chart is out of date and the this new Angus Burger under promotion is suppose to be "bigger and better". "Bigger and Better" = more death. So, while the overall caloric intake is not high (~2000 is daily recommended), it will be a diet relatively high in fat and sodium. I'm not sure what will happen to my overall health as a result of this diet. Any thoughts?

If you would like to partake in this deal, print the pdf I link to, or email me and I can forward you a jpg copy (Thanks Teresa!). I plan on blogging the result at the end of the week when the coupon expires. The good news is after overcompensating like this, I won't have to dye my pubes.

Playoffs Here I come

Raptor Playoff tickets went on sale to the general public last Saturday at 11 AM. So Saturday at 10:50 AM I start hitting F5 in Firefox. Surprisingly, the site is not slow at all, so I slow down. Right at 11AM, the page loads and there's an option to buy tickets. I quickly look for some upper bowl tickets hit search....and seats are found!! OMG! I quickly fill in my purchasing info and I have a pair of Raptor Playoff Tickets! Yay!

I tried searching for more, but by 11:10 AM they were all sold out. I have never been to a Raptor playoff game before so it should be exciting. Unfortunatly, my prediction for the series is Raptors will lose in 4 (five at most), and I have tickets to game 4. Nevertheless, ACC will be rocking because the Raptor fans never disappoint. Man, I'm so excited!

Like I've mentioned before, this has been an amazing NBA season. Here are my thoughts on the playoffs.

Lakers VS Denver: Lakers in 6. Kobe will be too much for Denver to handle, but I think Denver can win some games at home, especially behind the offense of Iverson and Melo. Gasol will have trouble with Camby and Kmart, but overall I doulbt Denver's D. Oh yeah, Kobe has to stay away from resorts and 19 year old girls and Lakers should win.

New Orleans vs Dallas: I'm picking New Orleans in 6. Even though I have only watched one New Orleans game, I think they will surprise as they have during the regular season. New Orleans really seem like a cohesive unit, while the Mavs haven't looked good with Kidd. I think Kidd is past his prime. The x factor will be whether Dirk can forget about the last two season and play like the Dirk of old.

Suns vs Spurs: Unforunately I didn't watch any of the later Suns game beyond the first two weeks with Shaq. From what I've read, they've been playing well, so I'll pick the dog and go with the Suns in 7. SA is getting older and Horry won't be around to cause trouble.

Houston vs Utah: Houston is banged up and overacheived, but I think their luck has run out. I really like Utah's team and I think they can do better than they did during the regular season. Sloan will have them prepared to battle, so Utah in 5.


BOS vs ATL: Bos in 4. Not much to say here.

Philly vs Detroit: Detroit in 4. Again, not much to say here.

Orlando vs Toronto: Toronto has been playing like crap. Calderon needs to start again, Bargnani needs to wake up and Bosh won't be able to handle playoff defense and the additional contact allowed by the refs. Who will guard Howard? Moon and Parker will have their hands full with Rashard and Turk, and I don't expect them to do well. Toronto will have to push their advantage at PG and hope Howard bricks all this free throws. Orlando in 5.

Wizards vs Cavs: The most exciting Eastern conference matchup, which is also the 5th most exciting matchup after every single Western conference series. The Cav's supporting cast is abysmal, while the Wiz have a well-balanced team playing well together. I think the Wiz will have the upper hand, but it'll take 7 games despite Lebron's inevitable brilliance.

This is the only time of the year that I wish I had cable TV. I guess streaming will have to do. And most importantly, I'll be able to watch a game live! I'm so pumped!

AHHHHHHHH, I'm not Chinese

I went to the Blue Jay home opening weekend series with Andrea, Mike and some of her cousins. It was a great game, because Skydome was pretty lively, we had Halladay on the mound and the Red Soxes were in town.

The Red Sox were pretty sloppy, which I attributed to their recent trip to Japan. Their shortstop made 3 errors in the game! But the most exciting thing was something I've never witnessed in person before. Boston's starting pitcher, Beckett, loaded up the bases by walking two straight batters and Francona had seen enough. The relief pitcher came in to face Frank "Big Hurt" Thomas. You could feel the energy in the stadium. Everyone was anticipating and wishing for a home run. First pitch thrown and Thomas hits it out of the park for the Grand Slam and the stadium goes crazy! It was an awesome moment.

But as for the title of this post, the Blue Jays ended up getting 7 strikeouts, which means free pizza! Andrea passed me my ticket and I started to think about which location to visit the next day.

So anyway, I opened my wallet today and discovered my unredeemed ticket! AHHHHHH! OH NO!!!!! I didn't get my free food! How is this possible? What is wrong with me??? They should revoke my chinese ethinicity. Just dump a bucket of non-yellow paint on me. That's not enough, because I'll need to dye my hair, my eyebrows and pubes. After my appearance is done, I'll change my behaviour too. I will wear my shoes inside the house and not mind the mess. Then I'll wear those same shoes to the local mall, attract some white chicks, go to the food court and order chicken balls and chop suey...and like it.

Yeah, I'm mad at myself for missing out on free food.

Smash Saturday

Open invite for anyone to drop by on Saturday afternoon (April 12th) for some Smash at my place. :)

Basketball Playoffs

Almost every year, I go to watch some Raptor games. This year, I haven't attended any yet, but my plan is to save my money so I can attend a playoff game. My cousin Eric went last year (or the year before) and said it was worth it.

Last year would have been good, because Vince Carter was in the house. This year, he apparantly is taking on more of a leadership role now that Kidd got traded to Dallas. Really? Seriously? Check out the leader Carter:



LMAO! Leader? Really? Are you sure?

But the Raptors can't say much, since the Nets beat killed the Raptors in the 1st round last year. Hopefully they'll be more experienced this year and do better. Now if only Bargnani would stop sucking. At the very least, the fans gave something back to Carter:



So if I'm fortunate enough to get some tickets this year, I'll be embarassingly cheering myself hoarse.