O Canada

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Posted 4 days, 11 hours ago at 11:43 pm. 1 comment

O Canada (01:10)
Chicken the Parrot Home Video Series

Chicken the Parrot learning the National Anthem. Chicken was born in Ontario.

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Chicken Likes To Say My Full Name

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Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago at 7:53 pm. 0 comments

Chicken Likes To Say My Full Name (00:20)

Chicken the Parrot Home Video Series

This won’t make sense to you unless you know my full name in Cantonese.

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Chicken’ s Evil Laugh

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Posted 2 months ago at 8:39 pm. 0 comments

Chicken’ s Evil Laugh (00:10)

Chicken the Parrot Home Video Series

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Chicken Singing in Cantonese

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Posted 2 months ago at 6:18 pm. 0 comments

Chicken Singing in Cantonese (0:07)

Chicken the Parrot Home Video Series

This won’t make sense to you unless you understand Cantonese. The lyrics roughly translates to “There is a sheep by the river and it looks like you.”

- Chicken couldn’t enunciate the very last word in the song, but I think it can now.
- As you can tell from this vid, Chicken can’t sing.
- Cantonese is so hard to learn, even by a parrot. It takes a lot of effort for Chicken to say each word.

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The Bilingual Chicken

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Posted 2 months ago at 7:24 pm. 3 comments

The Bilingual Chicken (1:06)

Chicke the Parrot Home Video Series

Pretty girl
Honey
How are you
I love you
Thank you
Goh Goh (Big brother)
Goh Goh Fat Choy (Big brother, big money)
Happy Birthday
Happy New Year
Merry Christmas
Sing Dan Fai Lok (Merry Christmas)
Happy Birthday
Hello
How are you?
You are beautiful
Goh Goh Fat Choy (Big brother, big money)
Happy New Year
Merry Christmas
Sing Dan Fai Lok (Merry Christmas)
Happy Birthday

… there is a pattern.

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Returned with New Flavours

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Posted 1 year ago at 5:21 am. 3 comments

Hey! Hey! Hey! I am back from my mid-year trip, and I feel super energized right now at 5 a.m., jet-lagged.

The trip was nice and it felt very needed afterwards. Not that I got to visit more places than usual or did anything extraordinary, but it was a perfect balance of relaxation and relaxation. I went to places I wanted to see, took pictures I have always had in mind, ate enough for my summer hibernation, and met up with friends unexpectedly. The nicest part was it felt long, even though it only lasted two weeks. Long, as in I-had-enough-time-to-do-everything long, not I-bored-myself long.

I even got to be all Zen-ish about my life, thought about what I want to do, and what needs to be done to take myself to the glorious era of “25″. There is a big smiley face in my Zen garden.

Weather was fine in both places (have I mentioned I went to Tokyo and Hong Kong again?). It rained once in Tokyo and it was not steamy hot. I carried a jacket with me all the time. That said, I look like I haven’t showered for a few months because of the uneven sunburn on my arms. More about that later.

Speaking of Japan, every time I go there is a new buzzword. The current one (well, as of last week) is “eco”. There are eco cars (gas-saving), bottles (which are just overpriced water bottles), chopsticks (any non-disposables) and everything you can imagine. Kimura Takuya is running on a hamster wheel because Pocari Sweat has a new eco bottle (link).

Last time I went (in January), the buzzword was メタボリックシンドローム (me-ta-bo-rikku-shin-do-rou-mu). We call it metabolic syndrome here.

You know how this works. I visit Japan/HK every N months, blog about the trip two months after and finish posting all the photos one month before my next trip. If you know me, poke me in person before my snacks run out.

Celebrating My 10th Year in Canada!

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Posted 1 year, 1 month ago at 5:45 am. 1 comment

I wanted to post something special but I got nothing, so Kanpaiiiiiii!