I dunno exactly what this was for....but for sure it was haphazardly planned. They did not get the OK from the restaurant to do this in front. The restaurant did not want to assume the liabilities from this event neither. First time working with WP. It didn't happen. I was to do Sunday, but the rival music group bogarted her group out of the corner.

It's OK... glad it didn't happen. I was to just do a demo...but no cooking. I don't see the point in even doing it. My lawyer told me to layoff this community bs and concentrate on the case.

And here I prepared a lot of stuff for the press conference a week before ready to do a demo for nothing. I bought the meat and ingredients. Prepped all the ingredients and kneaded the dough to make tongyuen. Brought my butane stove. All for nothing. I wasn't even getting paid for it neither. I'm just a sucker.

Interesting how on top I am amongst two organizations. I guess I'm an organization in itself.

I didn't go up for two years in a row now... I guess it takes some motivation on my part. Such as friends encouraging me to go. Whether I drive or they drive. It's a 2-1/2 hour's drive.

Haven't touched my mural at Utopia Cafe for awhile... as I must gear my mind toward the lawsuit I am dealing with.

Work in progress

Work in progress

Here I am...sixty two years old and still a slave of my brother.

Rubber Barf we used to sell at Fueng Wah Company

CHINESE ADVICE TO 50-YEAR OLDS & OLDER

(Translated from Chinese)

Because none of us have many years to live, and we can’t take along anything when we go, so we don’t have to be too thrifty…

Spend the money that should be spent, enjoy what should be enjoyed, donate what you are able to donate, but don’t leave all to your children or grandchildren, for you don’t want them to become parasites who are waiting for the day you will die!!

Don’t worry about what will happen after we are gone, because when we return to dust, we will feel nothing about praises or criticisms. The time to enjoy the worldly life and your hard earned wealth will be over!

Don’t worry too much about your children, for children will have their own destiny and should find their own way. Don’t be your children’s slave. Care for them, love them, give them gifts but also enjoy your money while you can. Life should have more to it than working from the cradle to the grave!!

Don’t expect too much from your children. Caring children, though caring, would be too busy with their jobs and commitments to render much help.

Uncaring children may fight over your assets even when you are still alive, and wish for your early demise so they can inherit your properties and wealth.

Your children take for granted that they are rightful heirs to your wealth; but that you have no claims to their money.

50-year old like you, don’t trade in your health for wealth by working yourself to an early grave anymore… Because your money may not be able to buy back your health…

When to stop making money, and how much is enough (hundred thousands, million, ten million)?

Out of thousand hectares of good farm land, you can consume only three quarts (of rice) daily; out of a thousand mansions, you only need eight square meters of space to rest at night.

So, as long as you have enough food and enough money to spend, that is good enough. You should live happily. Every family has its own problems. Just do not compare with others for fame and social status and see whose children are doing better, etc., but challenge others for happiness, health, enjoyment, quality of life and longevity…

Don’t worry about things that you can’t change because it doesn’t help and it may spoil your health.

You have to create your own well-being and find your own place of happiness. As long as you are in good mood and good health, think about happy things, do happy things daily and have fun in doing, then you will pass your time happily every day.

One day passes without happiness, you will lose one day.
One day passes with happiness, and then you gain one day.

In good spirit, sickness will cure; in a happy spirit, sickness will cure faster; in high and happy spirits; sickness will never come.

With good mood, suitable amount of exercise, always in the sun, variety of foods, reasonable amount of vitamin and mineral intake, hopefully you will live another 20 or 30 years of healthy life of pleasure.

Above all, learn to cherish the goodness around… and FRIENDS… They all make you feel young and “wanted”… without them you may surely feel lost!!

Wishing you all the best.

I guess it's now a tradition with me to spend the last hours and the first hours of the lunar new year in Chinatown. Not that many Chinese come out to celebrate the stroke of midnight of the lunar new year. Many prefer to stay home. I guess it's because home is safe and you wouldn't run into any bad luck when you're on the outside.

I remember back in 1977 when I was out for the lunar new year I got jumped by the Hop Sing Boyz at Kum Hon restaurant and nearly killed. So I myself is fairly wary of such running into bad luck on lunar new year night. Sun nin lao lao like they would say. Many of those who jumped me experienced a lot of bad luck in their lives following that incident.

Chinatown has mostly white people and hipsters walking around burning firecrackers and fireworks. The intersections of Grant and Washington becomes naturally blocked with people just throwing firecrackers. Li Po bar....Buddha bar.... mostly whites going crazy.

For me I hang out at Red's Place. A handful of us old Chinatown boys are there to celebrate. This year Red's had the biggest fireworks display. More like people bringing fireworks and setting them off by Red's. There was a string of firecrackers that went down half a block and two hexagons hanging.

I video'd it with my Sony A6000 but unfortunately there's no sound for some reason.