Reusing last year's Halloween Bowl to serve candy = zero dollars
Skittles, Kit-Kat, Snickers, Tootsie Roll and other sweets = 30 dollars
Mixing up the sweets and preparing the bowl for the little kids = 10 minutes
Having one kid visit your house and end up with at least 3 bowlfuls of sweets = weight gain + tooth decay

LMAO. I forget to decorate our home, ergo, kids thought we weren't participating this year. Now we've got loads of sweets and 3 adults — 2 of which are are watching their sugary intake. LOVERLY! I wonder if I can return the unopened candy packages to the store >_<

In other news, the National Novel Writing Month starts officially (for us West Coast peeps) on November 1st (or 12am tonight). Exciting! This year, I'm really going to pursue it and finish another 50k novel! I didn't do it last year (well, sort of started and then lost interest into what I wrote) so this year's definitely it! If you're thinking of embarking on this crazy journey, join me! www.nanowrimo.org

p.s.,
If you end up signing up, please add me to your buddy list… I go by "RaDragon" there (du'r!)

This is the scariest pic (scariest to the point that I don't freak out myself) that I found via Google. ^_^ Happy Halloween all!

YAY! It's my little (well, not so little) brother's birthday today! He turns…. 30! LOL!

Happy Birfday, Ray!

Been crazy in California this past week: Brush fires everywhere. Amongst the hundred thousands of acres burned across the state, hundreds of structures burned, numerous people displaced, it's a blessing Sissypoo in San Diego didn't have to evacuate; it was close, though… Can you tell we really really need rain?! and not just to benefit my snowboarding season… Anyway, I'll most likely keep praying for rain rain rain.

Belated Happy Birthday to me! Hehe. I've been so busy that I didn't have the time to wish myself (online anyway). Yay, I'm another year older /sarcasm.

So yah, October's a much better month than September. WAAAAY better, I would say. Anyway, I probably won't have another chance until mid-November to say this: Advance Happy Halloween!

Speaking of November, that National Novel Writing Month "event" is coming up! I will really do my best to complete another 50,000-word novel… I was unable to finish one last year (did finish in November '05 but it's still raw/unedited) so I definitely want to go for it this year. Then again, I'm busier than ever so Iono how I can pull that off… We'll see.

Until my next update!

Cheers,

R.

I added 3 more things in my growing list of what I want to do… Check it out on the sidebar or go see me on 43things.com ^_^

As if I had all the time in the world to accomplish these! *wink*

I was fortunate today to have a good 30 minutes break of doing… nothing! Ergo, I went online and landed upon The Wayback Machine.

It was somewhat nice reminiscing about the past, er, website designs that I had for both this domain and my other, more "professional" one (Leicar). Then I somehow got to read my old blog posts (some of which are available here, some I still haven't transferred over from the old system).

Then that got me to think about my unfinished or unfulfilled (or as my title states, undone) projects! Stuff like learning Spanish, transferring over files, learn how to author Javascript functions instead of merely hacking previous ones, and so on.

So yah, now I'm all disappointed cos I seem to have no time (or haven't really made the time) to do these goals…. At the very least, I'm going to try and keep up this journal! It's good for posterity and all that.

A hearty congratulations to Leesa/Lisa for completing her first half-marathon on Sunday! YAY! Congrats to my sis Annelle for finishing her 2nd half-marathon and I suppose I should congratulate myself, as well, for finishing this event! LOL.

Important tip: Never ever try to run 13.1 miles without training or if you're just coming out of an injury and illness! I don't know why I ran it — wait, I know cos I'm cheap and I didn't want to waste what I paid for my registration fee! That and I didn't want to leave my sis to fend for herself.

I got bored while running, btw so took this photo during one of my many walk breaks:

It's some sort of tug boat displaying jets of water and in the backround is the Queen Mary.

My race report will probably be above this post!