Puck’s Blog

I had been on my diet since the first month we moved out to Burnaby so Mel & I really hadn’t had a chance to take advantage of living close to the city and transit.  Mel had Friday off (she works the 3-midnight shift, so if she didn’t, this wouldn’t be possible) so we decided to remedy that and made plans with soon-to-be-married Jess Pink and Rob Tarzwell.  Jess made reservations at Kobe Restaurant which was really expensive but really really good.  The chefs make the food right in front of you on the big grills and really put on a show.  We Skytrained in so we both partook of the “Smiling Buddha” drink — you get to keep the Buddha shaped mug it comes in!

Afterwards we went to Milestones and had a few more drinks and talked.  The girl who seated us looked totally familiar and I finally asked her if I knew her from somewhere and after a short chat she said “Well, I only just moved here.  I used to be in Chilliwack” and from there realized that she had gone to at least one of the UCFV Theatre parties I went to and that was that.  I wasn’t crazy, I really had met her before!

The evening winded down with us going to Rob & Jess’ place and just hanging out while “What Not To Wear” was on.  Rob had to work early in the morning so he excused himself to bed while we stayed up and chatted some more.  On the Skytrain home a native Indian guy sitting across from us was really drunk and agressively shouting out something about “refugees” and how “natives were screwed” and “never got no apology”.  Had he not been so totally hammered that he was incomprehensible he may have actually had a point.  Most everyone else just looked away from him, but I kept my eyes on him most of the time knowing the alcohol might make him think he can get physical with someone.  He got off at the very next stop.

He did have a cool native orca tattoo on his left arm.  Before he started shouting at everyone I was actually thinking about asking if I could take a picture of it with my cameraphone.  Oh well.