This year, my August was a tad more filled with work than last year. I again took my vacation at the start of August, and we travelled to Asia to visit family and do some tourist stuff. We came back on Sunday evening and it was off to work on the following Monday for me.

Because there weren’t really any breaks, August felt really hectic. I brought my netbook with me on vacation so fortunately I didn’t have to go through my photos, but instead I did some research and shopping to buy a new phone. Then on Saturday, we went to a wedding of a high school friend, on Sunday we went down to Buffalo, and went to Fan Expo for the final Saturday.

At home, I was fiddling around with my new phone and finally got around to playing XBox again. I’ve been playing the new (to me) control scheme NHL09 (I suck) and also Tiger Woods 09 (I suck even more at golf).

Since I was away for most of the month, I haven’t been keeping up with news that much. So I know that Bill Clinton was in town to speak at the CNE, but few people attended. A former Ontario Attorney General dragged and killed a cyclist on Bloor St (I don’t know how dragging someone from Church to Avenue is not premeditated). The big news while I was in Asia was that there was a typhoon which embargoed Taiwan and caused some hotels and houses to wash away. We had our share of rain in Toronto, causing a tornado to touch down in Vaughan and my own experience of driving through a swimming pool of water.

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