absolutum dominium

for starters: i covet a chrysler dodge dakota.

but for reasons tt include the word "extermination". like dune harvesters. wahaha.

anyway i didn't snow board today after all. tmd. woke up too fucking late. had problems sleeping last night. woke up at the ungodly hour of 5am when the sun rose, and couldn't get back to sleep. so in the end i could only wake up at noon, which made it too late to get my day's worth of snowboarding.

so my parents and i decided to go for lunch. we went to this japanese restaurant at the marketplace called sushi-ya. i finally found out tt the nabeyaki udon hasn't got anything to do with motherfucking, but is rather a noodle soup dish including tempura prawns, fishcakes (the white flowery-cut one with pink whirls), diced chicken and egg in a miso soup base.

oh. and my dad wanted to save $$$ by paying $0.50 to park for half an hour @ a 1-hour pay parking lot. we ended up spending $14.50 more coz he got fined $15 for exceeding the time limit stated on the receipt.

after tt, we drove around some more, then we came back coz my mom wanted to buy more chocolate-covered espresso beans from the rocky mountain chocolate factory.

while she was there, i got myself a scoop of turkish butter chocolate chip ice-cream in a cone. see below. i'm with the rocky mountain bear. who incidentally has the same tummy as my dad.



after tt we went to dad a jacket coz all he'd brought was a windbreaker and a sweater and he was finding nights at whistler too cold. the columbia was pretty worth it for $54.95, but it was thin and made only of fleece. now tt i realise tt anchorage may be around 3 degrees, i really don't think it's enough.

we were thinking of catching a movie, but in pure canadian fashion the cinema was closed then. so it was back to the hotel room where my dad started on an early wine-drinking spree, my mom took a long catnap, and i rekindled my addiction with my laptop, as my mom would call it. addictions and conversations, i would prefer to put it.

my dad also took the time to engage me in conversation about life in the legal stratosphere about the gossip tt permeates tt sphere. i also believe he had had a bit too much to drink.

we went for dinner around 8pm. the keg steakhouse.



that's three of us at our table by the window. i look unglam i know. and omg my face is so white tt it is a travesty.



and me and my mom. :) we now have the same skin colour. :( NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! must tan must tan must tan. *sigh*

but for starters, we shared a plate of escargots and scallops wrapped in strips of streaky bacon.



this is what i ordered: a medium (i wanted medium rare or rare, but this is a half portion of the keg sized order me and my dad were sharing, and he doesn't like his food raw, so i had to stick to medium) slab of prime rib steak, served with sauteed mashed potato and deep fried sweet onion. the meat was really good, although i would have preferred it more raw. my dad on the other hand, found it too raw. haha.

and for the dessert, this is known as 'chocolate heaven'.



it comprises of 3 chocolate desserts: the chocolate pyramid which is a chocolate mousse with a liquid white chocolate centre; a chocolate tartufo ball resting on a bed of sticky chocolate fudge, and a chewy chocolate pecan brownie.

it completely lives up to its name.

and after dinner: it was onto a staple of tv diet. csi, law and order: suv, and episodes of the daily show with jon stewart and the colbert report. good stuff, this. i cannot believe tt i have to rely on tv to partially remind me of my reason for the choices i make, but tv does help. and it's interesting tt the so-called fourth estate in the american media can still exhibit subtle or explicit biases towards the people in their positions of power... in parallel to you-know-what.

but in contrast, people like stewart and colbert can expose the media and those people in power for who and what they really are.

in singapore however, the only result includes either the word "defamation", or lately, "criminal intimidation".