Tried a wonderful Thai reso called 'Khmer Thai' off of St. Clair W Thursday evening with Jordan. Jordan ordered the yellow curry chicken with sweet potato & eggplant, I ordered a pad thai that we both split (but the curry had a bit of a kick to it) and we also shared two spring rolls (vegetarian and chicken).

Saturday was busy beginning with checking in with a massage master (who I hadn't gone in to see in over a year and half due to health issues) in the morning before heading to a Cathay Ball Orientation at Mon Sheong Foundation from 1:30-4pm. The Cathay Ball is one of the biggest events of the year for the Foundation! It's one of my favorites as everyone, even the volunteers dress up to the nines. The tickets cost like a fortune and everyone gets amazing performances and food. The volunteers also get a fabulous buffet dinner (just not in a sit down meal like the paid guests). If I had the choice, I would attend the Cathay Ball...however, I've two other events happening this upcoming weekend.

After being picked up from the orientation, I was dropped off for dinner at Paisano's with my parents and dad's bridge buddies. There we had a wonderful dinner (I split a penne vodka with sautéed mushrooms, penne pasta with vodka rose sauce with mom) before the group headed back to our place where as the bridge commenced, I caught up on some of my MANY television shows! Once the game was finished, we all had some amazing dessert and coffee before the guests went home and I conked out!

Sunday was a lazy day where after sleeping in, had a hardcore workout that proceeded a fabulous brunch with Romz and Fayewood at the Sunset Grill. Considering neither of the girlies had ever tried the Grill, we had a nice relaxing time with fabulous dishes! Romz was sweet enough to be my ride to and from the Grill!

There was no relaxing right afterwards as Ames had come back from a trip to Jamaica Sunday morning so the rents and I went downtown later in the afternoon to hang out with her and Mr. Trudeau, hear how the trip was and then a family dinner to finish off the weekend! :)

And we're still on the train with Trudeau...

With all the pre-election drama with the party candidates, liberal still came out triumphant even though it's a minority win.

I was working the election as a poll clerk and even though it was a super loooooong day (from 8:30am-11:30pm with a couple of 15 min breaks), it was worth the excitement! There were a couple of really busy periods but overall there was a pretty regular tide of voters. Other than the approximately half our 'lights out' in the gym (however, the lights in the hallways were still on and we all pulled out our cellphone lights (haha) before they were turned on again), it was pretty smooth sailing.

Luckily, this wasn't the first election I've worked. It's the first big (for the PM) one but I've worked as information and registration clerk in a couple of smaller election ridings.

Therefore, Mr. Trudeau is still very relevant which is good for our Mr. (cat) Trudeau!

I've been re-reading my posts from when I first started my blog from back in the day and I noticed how fun and care-free my writing and life was from back over ten years ago! I miss those school days where my numero uno priority was to finish my schooling, get a good job that in something that I wanted to do AND maybe be in a relationship or family.

How things change...

BUT I miss writing how life was from over a decade ago and this will be my new GOAL...bring back the writing from back in the day, just less activity from back in school days.

"That'll do, pig. That'll do."

Farmer Arthur H. Hoggett (James Cromwell) in "Babe" (1995)

My definition of travelling while on holiday (this Canadian Thanksgiving) is going to places and 'visiting' the area.

How interesting that it is so different from my parent's definition as we 'travelled' to Finger Lakes in New York State, to literally eat at a diner named Magee County Diner and go to Costco, where the tragedy of all tragedies occurred...the cafeteria had NO FRENCH FRIES!!!!!!! VERY tragic...

There WAS, however, churros...whatever, done deal.

We also stopped by the Niagara Casino on our way back to Toronto. C'est la vie.

Patience is what is indispensable to make a dream come true...

Otherwise known as 'patience is a virtue'.

Even though I'm in the midst of crazy job and life changes still...I've been slowly closing up shop on hopefully the end of my health battle in the chapter of life (fingers-crossed). In regards to the job front, there's been activity on that end so there's also something to look forward to...

While at the same time, I've spent two days this week lunching with past co-workers from my last job in preparation to a fellow co-worker's last day (today) from the company as well. Tuesday's lunch was spent with my actual past 'child operations' co-worker's team at the 'Granite Brewery' with a granite burger; where today's lunch was spent with past 'contract' co-worker's team at 'Churrasco Villa' with a chicken wrap and fries. I must also take an opportunity to thank my friend, Efren for the Portuguese tart dessert!!!

As well, I enjoyed a nice lunch with my cousin's, Alice and Grace at Sushi Moto on Wednesday. Our table was given a free tofu dish along with my own meal of beef enoki roll (enoki mushroom and beef wrap, teriyaki sauce) and a salmon sushi pizza (salmon, crunch, mayo on crispy rice patty)...yum!

Finishing off with a farewell dinner with Tanaks, Kristy, Karina, Faye, Marc, Karina's brother/sister & partners at El Mariachi Tacos and Churros in Mississauga! This was crazy fun as it brought back soooooo many memories of high school days but in the present! It was the best farewell dinner for Tanaks before she, Kristy and Karina leave for Oz by the end of the year for their own new chapters in their lives over there!

Excellent incentive to visit oz again!!!

Crazy little thing called love...

- Queen

Amongst other songs such as 'Another one bites the dust'/'Radio Gaga'/'Bohemian Rhapsody'/'We will rock you'/'We are the champions' sung by Queen and Adam Lambert that included a nice tribute to Freddy Mercury as well as performances by Pharrell, Alicia Keyes (including Empire State of Mind) and appearances by Chris Martin and Rami Malek.

This was my highlight from yesterday, watching the Global Citizen Festival on MSNBC...one of the few things I will stay up a little later for!

As for today, I look forward to catching J. Lo's 'Hustlers'!

People say nothing is impossible; But I do nothing everyday

- Pooh from Christopher Robin

This is the state that I am in right now.

However, my main struggle is to work with my new normal in the act of re-wired plumbing (literally). Sadly, this is quite stressful and challenging. Unfortunately, this is all up to only myself. Therefore, as I understand, just give it time.

BUT...time is a-ticking...which is very unfortunate for a person that likes to remain occupied with something or another.

I must give it time.

On the bright side, now that I can sleep through the night like a normal human being again...I’m happy to be sleeping soundly again and am now back on my caffeine-kick! And thanks to Jordan, I have a small supply of drip coffee for my mornings now, yay! Something to do while I do nothing...

The Show Must Go On

The Queen + Adam Lambert Story #QueenxAdamLambert

I've just finished watching the ABC story about Queen and Adam Lambert that I taped back at the end of April...such a great performance! I guess something that I hadn't realized was that Freddy Mercury had passed from HIV back in the day and it was nice that they did such a thorough explanation on the back story to both the band Queen and how Lambert became famous from the first American Idol as the runner up. Personally, I think he did pretty well with filling in with the team of Queen. Go Adam!

Anyway, another way to look at this story title is to bring it back to myself (hence my own blog, duh!)...a week after the end of another chapter of my life, I feel like I'm doing pretty well! I'm not going to lie, I do NOT miss counting hours etc and am totally relishing in the fact that I can now literally sleep through the night without waking up every two hours! (yay!!!)

Something not to take for granted until you realize that you were...it's part of the first world culture etc that a person NEVER has to think about until they do....but details... :)

As I'm still going through my recordings (I'm doing well as my family's recordings are down to 58%, I'm now watching 'the 2019 Met Gala' E! Live From the Red Carpet from back at the beginning of May now. It's 4 hours long so hopefully afterwards the % will be even lower! Most important to go through all the recordings now as new seasons start in the next two weeks!!!

Oh how I've missed my Tim Horton's fix!!!

Yesterday, I had my first small French Vanilla Cappuccino is over a year and a half...and it was SOOOOOO worth it!

Altho….I'm still waiting for my taste buds to come back...

The END.

"Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you."

said by Neo (Keanu Reeves) in "The Matrix" (1999)

This is a good quote to describe my long weekend spent with the abbey girls at Maija's place in Guelph! It's also special that we'd all met up... 'We' including Dr. Tanaks who'd flown in from NYC, Kristy, Karina, Faye, Maija and myself!

Why?

As it turns out...we had all known that the K squared were going to be moving to Oz back where Kristy originally came from. However, the that we all learnt Saturday is that Dr. Dune has accepted a job in Oz as well! Mind you, it makes sense as her whole family lives in Sydney...even though the best surprise (like they'd all arranged it...but hadn't) is that all three of them will be living in Melbourne, the wonderfully artsy city. Similar to our Toronto and Montreal is what Sydney and Melbourne is to Australia!

CRAY-CRAY?!?!?!? I think so!!!

Regardless, all five of us arrived at Maija's with two chocolate cakes as presents because we had run later (involving stops at Karina's brother's and sister's place for Tanaka's 'farewell tour'). Interesting side note was that while we were getting the cake, T also bought a couple of cheeses (including my fav, Brie). One of the cheeses, smelled bad, so T immediately chucked it into Maija's garbage can. Luckily, Maija insisted that she take it out of the garbage to return to the store (as it was bought NEW)...and as she was investigating T's receipt, turns out that this 'BAD' cheese was charged $60!!!! :O

Maija made T go with Kristy back to the store to return this bad cheese and get her rightful $60's back!

While they went to the store, the rest of us helped Maija with setting up lunch (with cake as dessert!). After a fantastic and laid back lunch, because the weather was so beautiful, the six of us went out to the backyard where Maija has a pool!!! T, Kristy and Maija had a fantastic time frolicking around the pool while Karina, Fayewood and I dangled our legs off the side. We had SUCH a great time, we even saw a rabbit off the side of the pool!

After a fantastically relaxing time, we went into town for dinner at 'La Reina', a Mexican-type restaurant where we had a couple of tacos and sopas while sitting outdoors.

Needless to say, we all stayed up very late chatting together like we haven't done this in much too long!!!

The wonderful thing about staying at Maija's was that while she has three children with Jonathan, they had other plans so that it was just us ladies Saturday. Even better was that we all had great sleeping arrangements involving beds for all of us!

Sleeping in until around 7-8am, we had a lovely brunch Sunday morning before Maija went to bring home Jonathan and their darlings, James, Ruuben and Emmi!

Emmi, Maija's youngest, had drawn little artistic presents for all of us to enjoy. Tanaka was so ingenious to ask Emmi to sign and date her art projects so that we can have them for safe-keeping for the future! (Plus we all graciously let T have all of Emmi's drawings to take to Oz!)

We all ended our great weekend with a nice drive home from the K squared. :)

Come holiday Monday, as Jordan lives in my hood, he walked over to pick me up at my residence and we walked over to Sheppard Centre to try out 'Blaze pizza' (we each ordered one personal pizza). He ordered the BBQ chicken pizza that had chicken, mozzarella, onion, gorgonzola, bbq drizzle and banana peppers (he asked for half of his pizza without the peppers for me) and I ordered the Art Lover with artichokes, mozzarella, ricotta pork and red sauce dollops. Then we had them halve the pizzas so we each had half of the other....so the best of both worlds! The best was that we even split a s'more pie for a pre-dessert...

Luckily, the pizza's are thin crusted and the s'more pie very small so that after dining and chatting for awhile, we popped next door to 'Sweet Jesus' for ice cream dessert! There, I had my favorite, a small 'red rapture' while Jordan had a small 'hella hazelnut'.

Needless to say, a FANTASTIC labour day weekend! My scale also let me know that it was fantastic... :/ Ah well, you only live once. This is MY choice!

Bday’s cheat day with bestie!!!

Today was a long over due date with my best friend, Shelley!!! The reason I've alluded the post to birthday's is because we were technically celebrating (in person) her very over due birthday (back at the end of May) and my upcoming birthday (beginning of Sept)! Even though I had sent her a photo of the card I'd gotten for her, and then FINALLY sent it to her two weeks ago...at least we could celebrate in person!

While we spent three sweet hours together catching up in person (we'd actually spent a couple of minutes discussing when we had last physically seen each other...that would be December 21st at Fairview Mall where we had cinnamon buns for dessert!!!), hashing everything over a vegetarian wrap and a salmon and cream cheese bagel!

The best part was that even though we were becoming full, we ended up splitting up a Nutella waffle for dessert!!!

Even though we haven't caught up in person for some time, we've been very lucky to always remain in touch via text/WhatsApp messaging and phone calls.

Hopefully, we plan on not allowing this large amount of time passing again before catching up in person! It might be easier now that the my challenging year and half is coming to an end and she's getting into the groove with her new full time job and other part time past times.

WE SHALL SEE!!!

"So you’re a talking Pikachu with no memories, who’s addicted to caffeine?"

said by Tim

Just came back from seeing the fabulous Detective Pikachu with Louie! It's so good that I'm glad I actually caught it in theatres while it's still out. Definitely made my day! I would've gone so far to say week except I know that there's still more to the week to come... ;p

"Son of a b**ch… stole my line."

- Sean (Robin Williams) in "Good Will Hunting" (1997)

I miss seeing Robin Williams but gosh, I cannot believe it's been FIVE years since his passing!

I need a vacay from vacay (minor detail...). Point is, this weekend has been incredibly busy. Perhaps the point being trying to fit everything in before the long weekend partying. This will be detailed after the craziness to ensue... call it a 'hunch' ;p.

Mind you, this weekend's busyness isn't a bad thing. It's all actually been just enjoying the weather and partying with family. After all, Friday involved going to the woodbine racetrack and casino!

I KNOW...how long has it been since I've last been to woodbine?!?!? DECADES, at least!!! Gosh, the last time I can remember must have been at LEAST two decades ago. Back then, we would have gone as a family (myself, Ames, mom & dad) with Uncle Stephen, Auntie Winnie, Grace and Jules...and we'd watch the horse racing in the bleachers, where it could become terribly hot! BUT, at the same time, we'd have such wonderful times in a sense, betting (in our heads) which horse would win. And cheering/booing the outcome!

NOW, it has become quite classy. We didn't watch the horses race at the bleachers at all. THIS TIME we watched INSIDE, in such a lovely atmosphere. In fact, we literally dined while watching three races. We went for a nice promotion of a lobster dinner. The deal was that we could either have a steak/salmon/chicken & a lobster dinner. So while the horses were doing their racing bit, we enjoyed the show indoors in the best environment ever. We could either watch out the window OR via a television screen that was at EACH table.

After our dinner and 'show', we went to the casino section and because it was our first time at the casino (it's a new edition since when we were there last), we each had one of those free $5 card plays, which went uneventfully until the last game, where it worked in our favor! THEN, we called it a night, haha!

Yesterday was a quiet day where the 'event' was in the evening...after going to visit Ames and Trudeau in the early afternoon, we (the family) walked over to the Fairmont Royal York, to dine at REIGN, the newly renovated restaurant, where I had a lovely lemon thyme gnocchi (that included roasted mushrooms, smoked ricotta and heirloom tomatoes) meal. Dad had the aged tenderloin, mom the butter-roasted BC sablefish and Ames, the brown butter scallops. This was all finished off (for me & Ames) with a lemon poppyseed financier of lemon curd, olive oil cream and thyme!

I had originally anticipated a nice relaxing day of chilling at home in front of the television. HOWEVER, mom got the idea that the three of us should visit Unionville Main Street, after all, such a beautiful day. How could I say no? Once we got to main street, we discovered that there's a farmer's market (where we OBVIOUSLY had to check out) that had so much beautiful vegetables, cakes, fish etc! After getting our fill of what we wanted, we had lunch at Next Door Restaurant. Here, I had the Okonomiyaki Cheeseburger, Japanese pancakes with a 6oz grilled beef patty, mozzarella, iceberg lettuce, sunny side up egg, double smoked bacon, kewpie mayo, Japanese BBQ sauce, bonito flakes & nori. YES, I was able to finish the WHOLE thing!!! It was SOOOOOOOO GOOD!!!! And SOOOOOOO FILLING....

Luckily, afterwards we walked it off checking out the entire main street (it's not too long), dad and I each had a scope of ice cream! His was chocolate something or another (mom wasn't all that pleased but whatevs), mine was a scope of black raspberry thunder, yum! (Did I not mention that I was full? Mind you, dessert always has an extra spot in my fullness...another minor detail that may/may not come back to bite me later on...we shall see.) As we were all full and tired afterwards, we've since gone home.

The most exciting discovery while we were on main street was that there will be a GILMORE GIRLS FESTIVAL taking place on Octover 4-6. Why? What kind of blows my mind is because the actual pilot was filmed on this main street! Apparently Scott Patterson (Luke Danes) will be in attendance!!! WHAT?!?!?!?

Ok, not just him. The town troubadour Grant Lee Philips, Miss Patty (Liz Torres), Caesar (Aris Alvarado), Brian (John Cabrera), Madeline (Shelly Cole), Olivia (Tana Shrick), Mrs. Kim (Emily Kuroda) and writers, producers and costume designers that will be also attending this event. This is all nice to know! :)

What's so incredibly crazy and thrilling is the fact that even though this show ran from October 5, 2000 to May 15, 2007, 12 years later, it's still so enduring! Honestly, THIS has made my day!

My last comment may be incorrect *wink wink* but this will be to be determined, hopefully in the near future! But until then, looking forward to the upcoming long weekend! :P

A tease...to myself...

I'm still binge watching Jerry Seinfeld's 'Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee' on Netflix.

Just finished the 20 episodes in 'First Cup' and even though I'm thoroughly enjoying each episode with car information and comedian interaction...I keep telling myself I'm mostly watching the show for the interaction...ALTHOUGH I am also at the same time telling myself that I should just ride out the whole premise of watching the pouring and drinking of coffee in EVERY SINGLE EPISODE...mind you, I find it so interesting that even though Jerry and the comedians are enjoying such exquisite food choices in each episode as well...it's the drinking of the coffee that puts me over the edge each time.

However...I will not stop watching these episodes for the time being.

M.Y. B.A.D.... shrugs

Leo celebration

This weekend included celebrating Ames' birthday!

We had gone to visit her Saturday afternoon and for dinner, celebrated at 'Spring Sushi' on the 5th floor of the N/E corner of Dundas and Yonge St. An interesting point that was noted...even though it's put as an 'all you can eat' sushi price, they sneak in other additional prices if you're not quick to notice the price difference in the menu. SNEAKY... Which leads me to this review...if not for the pretty skyline on a nice sunset, I've decided that even though the food is the normal type of sushi that you get at a sushi place, it's not some place to be recommended nor where I would gravitate toward again.

Sunday was my lazy (except for a hardcore gym workout) day where I had a late lunch with Louie at Fortune Stone Restaurant (NW corner of Warden and Steeles), having a Portuguese chicken meal, Louie a club sandwich, and then we split a French toast for dessert. Afterwards we had tofu drinks at zenQ (NW corner of Steelcase Rd W and Woodbine Ave). Totally my first time trying this out and I went for the sweet potato tofu drink while Louie went for a grass jelly tofu drink. I enjoy trying new things and so far, as long as I've known Louie, he's been introducing me to a lot different types of foods and drinks. I LIKE!

Tdot's brought one back!!!

After spending nearly 6 years in Seattle (I'm not going to lie, I only remember her location due to the fact that grey's anatomy was based there...;)), I've learnt earlier today that my good friend, Mich, will be coming back to the Tdot in another two months!!!!!

YAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSS!!!!! :) I've missed this friend interaction soooooooooo much!!!!!

Considering our history...we had first met in Tokyo, Japan back in the mid-2000's...I'm going to say 2004/5?...when I was visiting Liz, who was teaching English in Osaka, and she had come on this trip to Japan with her then new bf (and my friend), Christian.

After our great experience in Japan, we continued our friendship within the CS (comp sci) group, what both she and Christian were studying at U of T. We discovered that we both liked to listen to music and eat out with the group of CS friends (back then, I was the social butterfly back at SMCSU and we had shared friends from CSSU). This led to us sharing great times going to the TSO (Toronto Symphony Orchestra) on the cheap TSOUNDCHECK tickets, scoring symphony tickets for as low as $19, an exclusive program for people ages 15 to 35.

Either way, even though we haven't seen each other as much since she's been away, I cannot wait to reconnect and hear how the train ride in to the Tdot was when she's back in October!!!

Binge watching shows...

Is pretty much the only thing I can do at this moment.

Especially as I cannot be working (or maybe I could if I still was? Perhaps...), volunteering, just waiting for a phone call for this over extended appointment that I've been waiting for over half a year now.

Therefore, I've been binge watching many television shows that I've taped or catching on Netflix including (but not only): - Elementary (disclaimer: I just saw the last episode of the series, it was a good wrap up!; - Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee; - My Next Guest Needs No Introduction; - You; - Lee Daniels' Star; - When They See Us; - Oprah Winfrey Presents When They See Us Now; - many stand up comedy acts on Netflix;

As well as still wanting to start watching The Umbrella Academy and finishing watching Designated Survivor and Lucifer (now that the shows have been canceled and on Netflix)

You would think I'm thrilled to just be watching tv...but I find myself falling asleep (thus needing to re-watch once I've woken up) or needing something to keep me occupied on the show (I mostly miss when I used to do my work and watch shows at the same time...I call THIS multi-tasking at my best...details...)

That is all for now...

8, not for me...

For people of Asian descent, the number 8 is regarded as the luckiest number in Chinese culture. Apparently, with pronunciation of 'Ba' in Chinese, number 8 sounds similar to the word 'Fa', which means to make a fortune. As it contains meanings of prosperity, success and high social status, Asians (like myself) favor this number.

Therefore, today hypothetically, was the perfect day for me, except that it was not meant to be...

Due to a previous situation, I was pushed back to another day yet to be determined.

Too bad, so sad...C'est pas pour moi, quel dommage.

Getting ready for it...

Highlights after spending the long weekend in Buffalo and Niagara Falls include dining at Cora's and Canyon Creek (yum to ravioli!) and seeing Toy Story 4 (after missing 2 & 3, it wasn't difficult to fall back in with 4...especially with Duke Caboom, Keanu Reeves!).

Back in the Tdot, I've had an exception dinner with Louie at Petit Potato (you've got to love the French name that's run by Asians!) and gotten a haircut at Pac mall before my D-day occurring tomorrow morning...I've been asked how I'm feeling about it but honestly, I'm very nonchalant about the entire process. It definitely helps that I'll be out the entire time as well as the fact that this is sadly, nothing new for me.

C'est la vie...

The art of disclosure

In a sense, this blog is a type of disclosure, the action of making new or secret information known as even though I am pretty much an open book in person...I find that sometimes when I write things down, I can organize my thoughts more into a coherent sense. Also, in normal conversation with people, it's a natural ebb and flow conversing on topics but here, I direct the reader in where my mind is going!

One of my favourite subjects to disclose about is food!!! I went to Tuesday dinner with Louie although the vegetarian restaurant we wanted to try out, Blossom Vegetarian didn't open at the time it was listed as opening at. PLUS, after hanging around for about 10 mins, we decided that even if it HAD as we were the only two customers, it didn't feel worth it. We ended up going to Turtle Jacks, where I had a delicious French onion burger & fries combo while Louie had Honey garlic roasters (wings) that he studiously ate so well that I had finished my combo wayyyy before he finished (I was hungry).

As we had such an interesting dinner conversation that didn't feel like we had enough time to finish, we continued the conversation by having bubble waffles (Asian dessert). He had a strawberry Nutella waffle with a whisky cranberry orange green tea while I had a banana Nutella waffle with a handmade taro milk tea. It was all so delicious!!! HOWEVER, only after the fact, I realized that I had over eaten as after we had left and he'd driven me home, I made sure to stay up a little later (it was late but hey, I had no reason to worry about the time) to make sure the food was properly digested before going to sleep.

Yesterday, I had an out of the blue dinner date with Henry, Laurianna and one of their family members at sushiOne due to the fact that Henry and Laura wanted to catch up with me before my big 'date', to be disclosed by the end of this post. They had originally suggested meeting up for $1 oysters but in the end they had to abort due to the long wait time (surprised? not really). They went for the all you can eat dinner while I decided to go with the salmon sushi pizza. Normally, they don't allow one person from the party to not have the all you can eat dinner but luckily, due to the fact that it was a weekday evening with not too many people in the restaurant, it went off without a hitch! The restaurant was so nice that I actually got a free green tea ice cream for dessert out of it!

This morning, I went out with my rents to a Dim sum lunch at the relatively new Yanyu Chinese dining off of consumers rd. I'm not going to lie though, I find dim sum pretty similar at most places we go to so regardless of the fact that it was new, I didn't find the reso good enough to stand out and make me want to go back in the future.

Enough with the food disclosure for now, as I will continue with the backlash over The Bachelorette Finale 2019 (full disclosure, I normally don't watch any of the Bachelor shows as I have no interest in following a show where people are trying to find their mates...as I am in the exact same situation...I focus on myself first, why root for someone else? *minor detail*)...however, I'd been hearing about the fact that the guy that the most recent bachelorette had chosen had NOT DISCLOSED being in a relationship before going on the show. I applaud the fact that she broke off the engagement and it seems like she and the runner up may try again...off camera. But this is an example how not disclosing information can work negatively.

There ARE situations where disclosing can work positively but speaking out of experience, this is a very tricky subject. EVERY situation is different, there's absolutely no map book to help with this situation. Which brings me to the fact that I have been disclosing about my own health battle to people who I feel comfortable about sharing this information to (this is where Henry and Laura come in). Only my family, closest friends and people from my work know about this battle I have been fighting since after Faye's wedding last year. 15 months later, I'm now able to see the light at the end of the tunnel. After next Thursday (note for Asians that this is August 8), this will hopefully be the end to another chapter in my book of life.

I'm most excited about having coffee again!!!