DOOD.CA: Guy Stuff

Best Chinese Food in Nanaimo! If you’ve been to Anton’s Pasta Bar in Burnaby, the portions at Armani’s will be familiar to you. Gord, the guy who owns and runs Armani’s, also started Anton’s back in the day.

Armani’s has sizable servings and very good prices, the guy even makes his own cheesecake. Atmosphoere is good, but not absolute perfection, but I go there for the food, and Gord is a blast. One of the craziest hosts ever, and a great sense of humour.

Two things I like there are the Burgers, and the Rice Bowls. I have not had the noodles bowls yet, but next time I go I plan to get one rice bowl and one noodle bowl. Tasty stuff!

Rice Bowls – There are plenty of variety of veggies in the bowl, depending on the one you get (My fav so far is the Gordo’s Special Bowl) you get chopped up brocolli, cauliflower, shredded carrots, mushrooms, bean sprouts, shredded beets, etc. The meat is always tasty and the sauces in the rice are fantastic. The Jasmine rice is very fragrant and cooked to perfection.

The Burgers – The fries that come with the Burgers are the BEST. Hands down. Never had better fries in my life, and Gord told us the secret.. its an ancient chinese secret, you’d better ask him yourself 😉 The fries are deep-fried from raw, and taste VERY good with the chilli mayo that they have there. The King of Shrooms is my favourite burger, with a pile of mushrooms that is collosal, and a huge burger on a whole wheat kaiser.

I’ve never had anything else on the menu, but I love the rice bowls, every one that I tried was great!

Give Armani’s a shot, they are probably the best medium-priced restaurant in Nanaimo for Burgers and Rice bowls. They also serve Pasta and Noodle bowls and other things, but I haven’t tried them yet.

• You have never loved or being loved?
• The idea of time does not matter?
• Materialism does not exist?
• Pepsi Co. and Coca-Cola belong to the same company, even if they are making you believe that they are not?
• You all of a sudden lose the ability to see colours?
• The sun never shines again?
• There were no fables used to teach us the meaning of life when we were kids?
• You know you are doing something bad and yet you cannot stop yourself?
• You cannot tell if you are living in reality or still stuck in a dream anymore?
• No one is policing the police?
• You all of a sudden think you are too old?
• The world ends in the next hour?
• You have no sense of right and wrong anymore?

These are just some things I think about all the time.

…Slow down, look around you and see what is going on and who is with you. Appreciate life, stop once in a while and smell the roses but most important of all, plan ahead but enjoy the moment.

Oh and rob, here’s a site for you if you want to make some money by completing surveys: COPEWELL

    So as I’ve mentioned once already I’m always out to make a few easy bucks online, so let’s continue that quest.  If you read my first post you’ll know the way to make money is definitely not from internet porn.  However I might have stumbled upon something that works,  online surveys.  I’m sure you’ve seen them around,  you know those little ads that ask you to take a quick survey for cash.  Well there are actually sites that will send you notifications for those when they become available( I found http://www.thesurveypro.com/Canada.htm to be the best one that I found).  Seems like a good deal to me, I sit there waiting for the surveys to pile into my mail box and then fill them out for money.  Usually they claim to take five to fifteen minutes to complete and pay about $5 a pop.

Ok sounds good to me so far, let’s look more carefully into this.  First off how do I know it’s not just some scam to get my info and start sending me copious amounts of spam.  There are a few ways to figure out if the survey you are doing is a scam.  The best way is to think about the questions they ask about you before you do the survey, most real surveys will ask a lot of detailed questions before you even start the survey to see if you fit the demographic they want.  Another way, well if they ask for anything like a credit card number, drivers license number or Social insurance number, then it’s probably a scam or even if it isn’t, do you want to risk it with that kind of info going onto someone else’s hard drive.  But hey I did a few already and they seemed legit.  Now when does that check arrive?  So far it seems like never . . .   Maybe some things are too easy to be true.
Better luck next time?  Peace.

Well, seeing as today is my birthday, I’m going to post what my ultimate Birthday Present would be. I have a Breitling Super Avenger coming in the mail today, so that’s a nice little treat, and of course I have all the wonderful gifts from my girlfriend. But all those things and sentiment aside, the ultimate gift for me would be a Solid Rose Gold Breitling for Bentley Flying B. The following pic shows it on a Crocodile strap, but I would want it on solid Rose Gold Bracelet, not a bad way to spend $30,000.

I saw one on ebay for $27,000, brand new! Anyone wanna buy it for me? 😀

Ok so this is way off topic from the last post but I had to write it. Most of the world is unaware but I recently spent a few days in the hospital having stuff extracted from me in rather painful ways, which is partially why its been so long since my last post. Let me tell you I didn’t plan on spending three days in the hospital when I went to see my doctor for what I thought was a case of strep throat. So long story short I had to get some surgery done on one of my tonsils and after waiting all day in the emergency room getting hopped up on morphene the doctor finally arrived. Now this should have been a dull thing to write about but luckily for me I had a hot student nurse. I mean she was HOT! Jet black hair, ocean blue eyes, nice curvey little body under the nurses gown she was wearing. Oh and she had a lip piercing which I thought was weird cause I didn’t think nurses would be allowed to have those, then again I guess its stainless steal so….

So as I was saying before the hot nurse’s memory got me distracted, here I am all drugged up thinkng that this is going to be a simple little operation kinda like getting your wisdom teeth out. Boy was I wrong, I won’t go into grizzly details but I’ll tell you that I was definitly not completely frozen when they start jamming pointy bits into my swollen tonsil. So despite the pain I figured I was doing alright just put on a tough front and it will be over soon. WRONG! That was only to see if my tonsil was actually infected, now we get to slice it open and let it drain. The whole time I’m thinking how can I impress this girl. Unfortunately it’s hard to impress anyone who has to hold your hand while you get your tonsil cut open and spit up 4 ounces of blood. On the plus side I got to hold her hand, although she was kind of cringing at the blood and puss that I was puking up. So there you go, despite the hype abot cute nurses you really don’t want to have one when your going to look like something out of a horror movie. Anyway I’m out for now.