Lei

Bye Bye Black Bird

My head hurts and I'm not sure what caused it. It could have been the scotch because I hardly drink. It could have been the cigar because I don't smoke. Maybe it's from all the chocolate. I eat chocolate.

I went to see the parade of lost souls yesterday and there were some cool costumes. One was a guy dressed up as the 6 o'clock news guy. The most notable are as follows.

1. Six FOOT tall walking penis complete with testicles and squirting liquid into the crowd. This was funny. All the stuff he squirted came down on the people. I wanted to get a picture of my three female friends with their tongues on him but he ran away.

2. 6pm breaking news guy in plasma tv. He had a hole in his box so anyone cold stand beside him inside the box and be on the news.

3. Tall guy in seven foot tall pink panther suit.

4. Mr. Jack in the Box head.

5. The funniest one was the guy dressed up like Richard Simmons. Ever seen Richard Simmon's drinking and looking drunk?

Afterwards. we went to an apartment in the area for a house party. Just like that part in 'Big Fish' but with a halloween twist, the theme was 'freaky carnival show'. Before the party got started, we went looking for some guy that was supposed to be stationed up in a tree in an alley nearby. We went and didn't find them. Instead there were two women on a small balcony dressed up as crows.

"Excuse me?" my friend said. "Do you know where the singing man is?"
"I'm sorry." One woman replied. "We don't know what you' re talking about.
"Oh. Well, can either of you sing for us?" my friend asked.
"ha ha. umm sorry." they said.
"Sing like this... caww, caww!" I said to the woman in the crow custume. Bird talk. They just smiled and looked at me.
At that point, we decided to give up and leave.
As we left, I turned around and said one last thing to them.
"Bye bye black bird!" waving as we left to go to the house party. Roni's friend slapped me on the arm and couldn't stop laughing. The rain started to come down but it didn't matter. We were going inside to a friends house.

Time Turns

Outside the pitter patter of rain splashes like static on the screen. Chilly nights and brisk days are upon us. I have not seen too much of the light of day. The fish is gone and Elden fights no more. The bowl is empty. The water is dry. The rocks are bare. The energy is gone. Quietly I break. Cracks form. Time turns. Into the secret garden I go.

Please Stand Still

I started working out a month or two ago to show my friend how to use the gym equipment in his condominium complex. Yesterday while leaning against a wall, my hand went through it all the way up to my left shoulder. When I went to open the door on my truck, the door ripped off. At work, I was moving some computers around and accidentally tossed one in the air over my head when I went to lift it up. I stole some time during lunch to do some shopping at mall nearby. While trying on a pair of pants and attempting to keep my balance, I put my foot through one pant leg and tore the pants right through the crotch.

Thanksgiving is over and I've just finished one Costco sized pumpkin pie. For some reason my mother decided to get two and little ol me is the only person eating it. The second pie waits to be consumed for transformation into stored energy inside me.

My coed soccer team has been fun. No one knows what they are doing and every game we get our butts kicked. One team told us it would take us about three years before we would start to show significant improvement. Thanks for the encouragement.

My big brother had a baby last week. Or rather my sister n law did. He just helped start the whole process. The baby was three weeks early. Tiny little guy weighing in around seven and a half pounds. I didn't dare hold him for the first week since I had a small cough and cold. This week I was much better and they put the baby in my arms. At first it, I guess I should call it by 'its' name instead,

Samuel started to cry before I adjusted his position. He then began to fall asleep despite all my relatives talking loudly around me. And for the next thirty minutes or so, I was stuck there with my brothers new baby in my arms while my brother and his wife brought out the little guys birthday cake. They all ate the yummy cake while I sat there and Samuel slept.

One thing of note. The little guy looks just like his dad.

It's fall and time for movies. I haven't gone clubbing since the wedding. Instead I've gone to the theatres two times in the past week. Last night I rented Big Fish. Cool movie. Lots of symbolisms in there and great imagination. I will attempt to watch it again this week when I have time. These are the days for sitting at home on the couch and staring at the tube, being lazy. If only it could be true. Time does not stand still.

I wish I could have some time to just stand still.

A Wedding

All the single guys stood there in a group. Each one waiting for the wedding band to be tossed out by the groom as one of many traditional games which have taken place on this day. I went up to the back of the group and started handing off money to each person. "Here's five dollars, go sit down... Here... go have a drink..." I paid off each person one by one until I was the only person left standing there waiting for the wedding band to be tossed.

My friend Cal got married on the weekend. The previous week was his stag party. Here he sits in a chair waiting for the strippers to arrive. He's already half sick and woozy from alcohol. Not a strong drinker...

Then on the joyous day the married couple make their first walk down the aisle after taking their vows as the best man looks on weeping ("Oh god how could I let her get away...weep weep")

Cakemaker was a bridesmaid. Here she takes time out to sit with us common folks at our table.

Everything went off without a hitch. No one stood up to stop the wedding forever holding their peace. We though we'd do it as a joke but didn't.

This week I received some sort of ecard from this site. Unfortunately, it is in chinese and I can not read it. Nor am I able to understand who has sent it in the first place as they had chosen a taiwanese ecard site. So whoever it is, please resend it again but in english! My chinese is horrible!

miniature Rose Wedding Cakes

Cakemaker had the inner guts of the cake premade and sitting in a fridge. It was a two layer cake with chocolate in between. I used a round forming/cutting tool to cut the shape that we wanted. The tool was too short for the two layer cake which is why they came out in different heights. Some were crooked and some were slanted. We even tried peeling off the top layer to cut the shapes out one layer at a time. Such a mess it was. I ate bits and pieces of leftover cake matter which was of no use anymore. There was plenty leftover to feed a small group of hungry cake lovers. In this first photo, I include an example of what the large slab of cake material looks like after I've taken a bite out of it with my mouth.

Here I am using a disc cutter to trim the fondont around the bottom. Such a mess again. Chocolate, icing sugar and other cake matter all over the place.

We eventually went back to using the round forming/cutting tool to trim each one of these cakes which looked like Casper and his friendly ghosts. The thick fondant helped to hide all the surface imperfections underneath.

The final product packed and ready to go. Each one was topped with a small flower and a double layer ribbon.

In the end, all the little caklings found their mother ship before flying off to outer space.

This now concludes this installment of 'In the kitchen with Mr. Lei'. All cake material, facility and sweet sugary mess was provided by razzledazzlecakes.