DEADPOOL, R ( 1 hr & 48 min )

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I went to see this on Thursday, February 11th, 2016, in Vallejo, CA, at the CENTURY 14 VALLEJO, for the 7:00 p.m. advanced screening in auditorium 8, 6th row ( counting from the front ), 7th column ( counting from the left ). The price of admission was $11.25. And I bought a medium Buttered Popcorn and a medium Powerade Mountain Berry Blast at the concessions counter for only $2.50--computer glitch ( and who was I to lodge a complaint )!

Quickie Review: A former Spec Op turned mercenary ( Ryan Reynolds ) is dying of metastasized cancer and volunteers himself as a patient for a controversial cancer cure. His body mutates. And he hunts down the person responsible for his mutation, capturing the interest of the X-Men in the process.

The audience loved this movie and gave it a "Hands Clapper" ending.

I loved this movie, too! I would say that this is The Most enjoyable superhero movie that I've ever seen so far. It just far surpassed my expectation. Heck, I plan on seeing it again in I-Max. Too bad it isn't in 3-D. Go see this movie.

You're going to enjoy reading the Opening Credits. And be sure to stay for the Bonus Scene after the Ending Credits. Here's a spoiler: Deadpool drops "spoiler hints" here and there!

Here is what was wrong in this movie: Those bullets would have to be removed from his body--or expelled by his own body--somehow.

This movie is rated R for violence, sex and nudity.

I found this on the Internet.

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This Deadpool pose shown above reminded me of a similar pose made famous by Burt Reynolds, a Hollywood star, back in the early '70s in a Playgirl spread.

I found this on the Internet.

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Hah, I was right! Ah, guys ... let's just be clear on one thing: I don't peruse Playgirl magazine. Ha, ha, ha.

Playboy is ( was ) an altogether different story, though---Oops!

Hmm ... I wonder if Burt and Ryan are related.

And speaking of related, I also met a man in Benicia the following day, Friday, who is a nephew of the late Hollywood legend, Red Skelton. I was curious and asked him if he was related to Red after I saw his surname. This man's father is the brother of Red. But both families are not in touch with each other because they had a "falling-out", more than likely over the inheritance of Red's estate.

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More updates on my supervisor's attempted murder ....

In Benicia, CA, I spoke with a lawyer whose associate is a prosecutor who's pursuing the Death Penalty charge on the defendant. The old lady who was killed by the suspect with a strike to the head with a baseball bat was also a Benicia resident. And a former classmate of the suspect said that he didn't get along well with others back in high school.

My supervisor is resting at home while recuperating from her head injuries.

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Thursday was a weird day in that when I went to the BofA branch in Benicia to deposit some money, the teller's computer had a glitch. I was sent to another teller whose computer, also, had a glitch! Then, to cap it all off, when I had my items rung-up at the concessions counter, that computer had a glitch, too, and gave me a super-special discount!

As I have said before, three of anything supra/extraordinary is a "Yes!" in the supernatural realm. And I had a business email waiting for me when I got home; this offer piqued my interest in the matter. Therefore, I shall look further into it.

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, PG-13 ( 1 hr & 48 min )

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I went to see this yesterday, Friday, February 5th, 2016, here in Vallejo, CA, at the CENTURY 14 VALLEJO, for the 7:15 p.m. show in auditorium 13, 5th row ( counting from the front ), 7th column ( counting from the left ). The price of admission was $8.00 ( the senior discount because the box office cashier knew that I am a regular patron--and not because I look like an old fart! LOL ). And I bought a small Buttered Popcorn ( $6.05 ) and a 1-litre bottle of Dasani Water ( $2.70, which is $2.00 less because it's a special offer on my email movie watcher reward coupon ) at the concessions counter but was charged only $8.00, instead of $8.75, because the cashier knew that I am a regular patron, too!

Quickie Review: Victorian England is overrun by a macabre plague, that of cannibalistic zombies, which threatens to annihilate all of humanity through rampant infection. Some well-to-do families send their children to Japan and China in time to learn martial arts and defend their lands from the encroaching infestation led by The Beast and his Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse.

The audience liked this movie. But nobody gave it a "Hands Clapper" ending.

I liked this "chick flick" movie, I must confess. It is better than any of the Twilight movies. Go see this movie, if you like horror/comedy/action "chick flick" type of movies. Let this screen-shot serve as your enticement:

I found this on the Internet.

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I liked the first scene with the Cadaver Flies.

Here are a few things wrong in this movie: The scene with the zombie mother and baby leaves the audience hanging because it ends ( Fades Out ) before anything has happened so that some subsequent scenes become incongruent. After the bridge is destroyed and the camera pulls back for a Long Shot, their horse is nowhere to be seen! And the Bonus Scene during the Ending Credits doesn't make sense because scene-after-scene established the "fact" that a zombie can be permanently destroyed by either decapitating it or blowing its head off; therefore, either one of them would have easily known what to do to make certain that that one particular zombie would not come back to "life"!

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I did my Zhunti Mantra while I watched the movie. After the movie, I looked at my tally counter to see how many repetitions I had done. It showed: "666", the mark of The Beast. Hah! how apropos is that?

I use a tally counter exactly like this model. I found this picture on the Internet. 'Notice how it shows: "9999"--I chose this image intentionally to counter the "666" display on my tally counter.

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Here is a follow-up on the incident that happened on Tuesday to my supervisor who was beaten with a hammer then robbed:

The same asshole robber went to a shopping center in the neighboring city of Fairfield and did the same thing to a 67-year old lady at approximately the same time of day on Wednesday. The only difference was that the asshole low-life switched to using a baseball bat because using a hammer was not effective enough for him in the commission of his crime the previous day. The old lady died from her head injury! The asshole was caught by the Vallejo Police Department on Wednesday and charged with robbery and attempted murder. The Fairfield Police Department also charged the asshole low-life with robbery AND murder. The 19-year old asshole low-life graduated from high school last year here in Benicia, CA. I spoke with one of his former teachers today. The teacher said that he was a troubled kid with a temper. The teacher tried to get a hold of the asshole low-life's parents about their son, to try to put him in counseling, but the teacher couldn't get a hold of the parents. I say this, if you are not responsible enough to raise your children properly, you have no business having children in the first place!

One other source told me that the asshole low-life was high on Crystal Meth. Incidentally, in Benicia, Methamphetamine is the "drug of choice". Police have raided quite a few "meth lab" houses in Benicia these past few years.

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IP MAN 3/LAZER TEAM

PG-13,  1 hr & 45 min

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I went to see this last night, Thursday, February 4th, 2016, in San Francisco, at the AMC METREON 16, for the 4:45 p.m. show in auditorium 11, 5th row ( counting from the front ), 8ht column ( counting from the left ). The price of admission was $13.59. And I bought a Kid's Pack for $7.07 at the concessions counter.

Quickie Review: This movie picks-up from where part II left off, with the introduction of Bruce Lee's character. Ip Man ( Donnie Yen ) multi-tasks as a husband, father, sifu, school guardian, crime fighter, and as a grandmaster fight contender in a secret match.

The audience liked this movie. But nobody gave it a "Hands Clapper" ending.

I liked this movie well enough. If you're interested in the Ip Man/Bruce Lee legend, you'll want to see this. But I have to warn you in advance that Bruce Lee's character only appears in the beginning and near the ending.

Yes, I was curious about Mike Tyson's bad-guy character in this movie. Which is why I went to see this movie. But I'm definitely clueless about the beautiful, young Chinese mother and her daughter just hanging around in a warehouse.

But the fight between Ip Man and Tyson's character, as well as Ip Man's fight against many opponents, and his fight against another Wing Chun grandmaster, left me puzzled as Ip Man was known as a heavy smoker and opium addict! Where did he get his stamina and lung capacity from to fight the way he fought? More than likely, though, they just embellished the fight scenes to make them more exciting.

And another thing that confused me was why did Ip Man not enlist the aid of Qi Gong masters who have the ability to make cancer tumors disappear? There is a scientific/medical documentation which proves that a Qi Gong master can make a cancer tumor disappear in mere minutes!

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PG-13,  1 hr & 42 min

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I went to see this yesterday, right after I saw IP MAN 3, in the same theatre, for the 7:05 p.m. show in auditorium 1, 6th row ( counting from the front ), 5th column ( counting from the left ). The price of admission was $13.59. And I bought a Kid's Pack and a Parmesan/Garlic popcorn topping, both for $7.56, at the concessions counter.

Quickie Review:  Four small-town losers accidentally shoot down a UFO headed for a nearby military base with a power suit on-board, intended for Earth's champion who will do battle with an alien warrior to decide the fate of the world. The four apportion the suit among themselves and are therefore tasked with saving the world from an alien invasion.

The audience, there were just about 6 people in the audience, liked this movie, especially the couple seated in the back row. But nobody gave this movie a "Hands Clapper" ending.

Surprisingly, I liked this movie even with its low-budget feel. Since it's no longer playing in theatres, you should keep this movie in mind for when it comes out as a DVD rental.

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I had to go to San Francisco yesterday for a doctor's appointment because I couldn't get a surgical appointment with the doctor in Los Gatos since his schedule is fully booked 'til the middle of summer. And my vacation is this April, and I don't have any more vacation weeks available for the rest of the year. The San Francisco doctor had his office moved to a different location--I got lost while looking for it because I walked up on Montgomery Street when I should have walked up on Kearny Street! His new office is more spacious and more beautiful than the one that he had at his old location.

Walking around lost made me realize that my walking shoes were not properly designed for walking. My feet were hurting. I will need to put in a pair of orthotic insoles if I'm to use this particular pair of shoes for some more "pavement pounding".

I had to walk in a hurry to catch the start of the IP MAN 3 movie. As I started to cross Market Street at the corner of Grant Avenue, a white SUV zoomed by me because the damn idiot ran a red light. I, along with a few other pedestrians, almost got hit by the SUV! Had I been hit, I would have needed a different kind of surgery then! Thank God the idiot missed hitting me and the others. And this is the same intersection where a bicyclist ran a red light a few years ago, which I mentioned in an earlier blog. Maybe, it's the same idiot.

I noticed a bunch of people waiting in line for the advanced screening of, DEADPOOL, on my way to see the Ip Man movie. And the same people were still there patiently waiting in line as I made my way to auditorium 1 to see, LAZER TEAM.

Between the first and second movie, I was in the hallway posting the IP MAN 3 movie on my Facebook page. I looked out the window and noticed a huge gathering down below on the Moscone Center grounds. I will have to check this out when I'm done watching the second movie, I said to myself.

After I purchased my movie ticket for LAZER TEAM, I went to the concessions counter to buy a Kid's Pack, along with a small tub of Parmesan/Garlic popcorn seasoning. The cashier, a short and fat black female, just put my items on the counter when they should have been put in a pack. So, I asked for a pack. She put my items in the pack And Plopped The Parmesan/Garlic Topping In The Cup! This was unsanitary of her to do. Then, she just walked away without saying anything. I rinsed the cup out.

( And I reported this incident to the AMC's main office in Atlanta, Georgia, today! )

After the movie, I walked on over to the Moscone Center. The whole perimeter was guarded by cops, SWAT officers with assault rifles, and security guards. It was a football fan appreciation party for the upcoming Super Bowl 50, hosted by San Francisco. It's just a shame that neither one of our local teams ( San Francisco Forty-Niners & Oakland Raiders ) will be representing the SF/Bay Area in the Super Bowl game, at all!

Just a short distance from the Powell Street Bart Station, I stopped in front of a building to post the Moscone Center event on my Facebook page. As I busied myself with my post, someone approached me and said, "Hey, nigger, I need your help." Sheez, I didn't know that I was black---My parents lied to me this whole time and forced me to live an Asian life ( cue in Steve Martin's 1979 movie, THE JERK )! I looked up to see a tall, skinny black panhandler with 10 pennies in his right palm. He wanted some change for it. I just said, No, and walked away.

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KUNG FU PANDA 3, PG ( 1 hr & 35 min )

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I went to see this on Friday, January 29th, 2016, here in Vallejo, CA, at the CENTURY 14 VALLEJO, for the 10:05 a.m. First Show Matinee, in auditorium 7, 6th row ( counting from the front ), 9th column ( counting from the left ). The price of admission was $7.25. And I bought a medium Powerade Mountain Berry Blast ( $4.85 ) and a small Buttered Popcorn for $0.00 ( free on my email movie watcher reward coupon ) at the concessions counter.

I went to see it once again in its 3-D version on Tuesday, February 2nd, at the same theatre, for the 5:15 p.m. show in auditorium 14, 5th row ( counting from the front ), 7th column ( counting from the left ). The price of admission was $9.75 ( $6.25 All-Day Discount Tuesday + $3.50 3-D ). And I bought a medium Powerade Mountain Berry Blast ( $4.85 ) and a medium Buttered Popcorn for $1.00 ( an upgrade on a free small popcorn on my email movie watcher reward coupon ).

Quickie Review: Po is reunited with his long-lost father and journeys to a secret Panda Paradise to master the art of Chi in time to stop an evil warlord from conquering all martial arts masters.

The audiences ( there were just about a dozen people in each one ) liked this movie, but neither group gave it a "Hands Clapper" ending.

I liked this movie. But I think that part 2 is the best in the trilogy. Go see this movie if you're a fan of the franchise.

I liked the Master Chicken scene. And I liked the "Of course he did/Of course you did" scene near the end.

I actually missed the first 5 minutes of this movie the first time that I went to see it. The second time, however, I fell asleep throughout most of the scenes--but, hey! at least I saw the first 5 minutes! Ha, ha, ha.

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When I went to see this on Friday, I told the concessions counter cashier that I came to see the 1st show matinee in order to beat the "little brats" crowd. But, as it turned out, the brats were remarkably well behaved in both audiences. It's a nice way to start off the new year, wouldn't you say?

Before the Tuesday show, I was in Benicia, CA, where I saw a bratty girl have a temper tantrum in a grocery store. The little brat was in a shopping cart as her mom was buying groceries. The next lady in line tried to make friends with the spoiled brat when "it" got irritated and threw it's empty drink pouch at the lady! The mother apologized profusely. The lady, a nurse, assured the mother that she was used to such behavior working in ICU but was glad that she doesn't work there anymore--and who can blame the nurse!

Later on in the day, I checked my email because I finally made an investment in a company over the weekend but was notified that there was an issue with my name: my bank account name and my investment name don't match. I responded on Monday to let them know that the bank account name is my formal name and I abbreviate it at times to avoid a redundancy in pronunciation since the last syllable of my first name and my middle initial sound the same, but the address shown in both accounts are one and the same. This Tuesday, I received a response assuring me that everything is fine, that they will go ahead and keep my deposit on hold for two weeks while they do a background check on me.

Which one is more practical,

this ...

Moto Piaggio MP3 500 cc two-seater, 40 hp, 55 mpg, 89 mph, $8,999 base price.  I found this on the Internet. 

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or this?

Elio two-seater car, 55 hp, 85 mpg, 110 mph, $6,999 base price w/ standard air conditioning and heater.  I found this on the Internet. 

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Both 3-wheelers don't require a motorcycle class license. But the Elio is self-enclosed and is $2,000 cheaper than the MP3 scooter. Already, there are close to 50,000 people on the waiting list for this car to get produced and sold sometime late this fall. The Elio P5 prototype was featured in a recent car show and generated some interest, especially since it is now a complete car ( no "mule" engine/transmission ) with its own custom-designed engine and transmission. This type of car will be perfect for new car drivers, college students, work commuters and senior citizens who are on limited incomes.

Do you remember when Hyundai first marketed their Excel model here in the States in 1986 with a base price of $5,000? But look at how much Hyundais sell for these days.

Now, 30 years later, the Elio is entering the car market/sales competition with a car that's $2,000 cheaper than a scooter! And which can keep up with freeway traffic. I kept an eye on this car company for almost a year now. And, since they now have a complete car, I decided to invest in the company.

I actually approached them back in September of last year to see about investing in their company. But my offer was declined back then because they were still working on the design of their engine and transmission. Their first four prototypes, the P1 - P4, all had "mule" engines/transmissions. They used the Geo Metro 55 hp engine in their prototypes but eventually developed their own engine. Now that they have a complete car, I decided to buy shares in their company. I bought 150 shares. I could have bought more but they don't accept credit cards. They only accept money transfers. I transferred money from my checking account which limited how much I could invest since most of my money are in my savings accounts. Anyway, I hope that I made a wise decision in my first-ever foray into stock investing.

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While I watched the 3-D version of this movie on Tuesday, I didn't know that a female co-worker ( whom I mentioned in my blog on CRIMSON PEAK ), was attacked after she exited the Wells Fargo Bank on the corner of Tuolumne and Tennessee Streets here in Vallejo. She went in the bank, around noontime, to withdraw $200. As she was about to enter her car, a f--king asshole went up to her and attacked her with a hammer! She was struck in the head 15 times! She broke her hand because she covered her head with it! Had I been there, I would have killed the sonofabitch!

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They caught the f--king lowlife, according to a news update. The low-life scum suspect's name is William David King, 19 years old, of Vallejo. I hope that he rots in jail!


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24 HOURS/ 3 MOVIES

PG-13,  1 hr & 52 min

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I went to see this movie on Thursday, January 21st, 2016, here in Vallejo, CA, at the CENTURY 14 VALLEJO, for the 9:50 p.m. Advanced Screening in auditorium 10, 4th row ( counting from the front ), 9th column ( counting from the left ). The price of admission was $8.00. And I bought a Lite Bites for $6.80 at the concessions counter.

Quickie Review:  An unknown alien force, dubbed, the "others", has come to Earth to eradicate the human population prior to colonizing the entire planet. In the impending doom, a girl ( Chloe Grace Moretz ) goes in desperate search of her younger brother.

I don't recall how the audience reacted to this.

But I certainly didn't like it. You may want for this to come out as a DVD rental.

This movie leaves you hanging at the end. It is as if it was intentionally done so to make this movie "segue" into the much anticipated INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE, coming sometime this summer.

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R,  1 hr & 42 min

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I went to see this on Friday, January 22nd, 2016, here in Vallejo, CA, at the CENTURY 14 VALLEJO, for the 2:15 p.m. show in auditorium 11, 4th row ( counting from the front ), 8ht column ( counting from the left ). The price of admission was $8.50. And I bought a 1-litre bottle of Dasani Water for $4.70 at the concessions counter.

Quickie Review:  A junior partner at a law firm ( Zach Efron ), who's about to wed his boss's daughter in a week, is tricked into driving his "horny old goat" grandfather ( Robert De Niro ) down to Daytona, Florida, during Spring Break.

The audience seemed to like this.

But I didn't like it. The humor in this movie appeals to the crude and vulgar. I don't recommend that you go see this movie.

What are the things wrong in this movie?  Aside from the liberal use of drugs and alcohol, a naked old man is in a recliner chair, watching interracial porn on TV and masturbating to it. Another old man wants to sodomize a "lesbian-looking" young man. A drunken man, asleep on the beach, is violated by a dog. There's a pedophilia-suggesting scene. A drug dealer sells drugs to minors. There's a semen-encrusted pair of pants. A "Hugh Hefner"-like old man is horny for girls as young as his great granddaughter and even gets one pregnant. A young man wakes up to find a penis next to his face, et cetera, etc.

If I were a member of the Ratings Board, I would have given this movie an NC-17 rating!

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PG-13,  1 hr & 37 min

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I went to see this on Friday, January 22nd, 2016, here in Vallejo, CA, at the CENTURY 14 VALLEJO, for the 4:40 p.m. show in auditorium 11, 3rd row ( counting from the front ), 4th column ( counting from the left ). The price of admission was $8.50. And I bought a 1/2-litre bottle of Dasani Water for $3.95 at the concessions counter.

Quickie Review:  An American nanny ( Lauren Cohan ) accepts a job from an old couple whose son is a life-size doll. She is hired to follow a strict set of rules in caring for the couple's son. When she breaks the rules, she begins to feel that the doll is actually alive.

The audience liked this movie. And some even gave it a "Hands Clapper" ending.

I liked this movie. Go see this movie.

If you pay close attention to it, this movie actually drops hints here and there which all come together near the end of the movie. But the last scene was kinda dumb.

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On my way to seeing the advanced screening of THE 5TH WAVE, I noticed that my headlights were not shining as brightly as before. I checked the high-beam, it was okay. After the movie ended, I did a visual check on my headlights and found out that the right headlight bulb was burned-out.

And that left me with two choices on how to deal with the problem: 1.) Go online and order a pair of headlight assemblies from PartsGeek.com, or 2.) Have a repair shop replace the lightbulbs. I ordered the parts before from PartsGeek.com. They were cheap because they were not OEM parts. Now, I know why they were cheap! The original headlight lightbulbs lasted over 10 years; the cheap ones that I installed along with the new headlight assemblies lasted just three years! I decided on just having the lightbulbs, themselves, replaced this time around because the headlight assemblies still look brand new.

The next day, I took my car to OCM Auto Repair on Sonoma Boulevard, here in Vallejo, to have them work on the headlights. I went to the McDonald's Restaurant next door to have a breakfast of Oatmeal and Sweet Tea as I waited for the repair work to be done.

I had an urged to use the men's room as I waited for the repair work. I went to the men's room and found out that someone was occupying the stall. I waited. I heard a plop ... and a flush.  Good, he's done, I said to myself. Then, I heard another plop ... and a flush.  WTF?!?!?! I was waiting for someone to get done, a someone who was in the habit of "plopping logs" then flushing them one-by-one! This idiot probably didn't realize that California is still in the middle of a drought, irregardless of the rain that we are now having!

I gave up and went to a table to preoccupy myself with some reading material while I waited for the idiot to get done with his "business".

After about twenty minutes, I went back to the men's room only to find out that there were no more toilet paper in the stall. I told a cashier about it. But I didn't see any employee doing something about it! If only I had my computer with me, I would have gone online and done a customer dissatisfaction survey.

I could see a mechanic working on my car from the comfort of the table that I occupied inside the McDonald's Restaurant. It didn't take long for the work to get done. I paid $92.63 for the whole thing ( parts, labor and tax ). And the lights are brighter than the original OEM or the aftermarket that I installed.

I went home to use the toilet--had to make room in me for the buffet lunch that was soon to follow.

Then, I went to Selecta Pilipino Buffet Restaurant on Springs Road here in Vallejo for lunch and to buy some lottery tickets. It would be super great if I win the Super Lotto, the Mega and the Powerball all in the same week. Why? Here's the reason why:

Last year's crop of Binibining Pilipinas contestants. Pia Wurtzbach is somewhere in the group. 

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The man in the middle is my brother-in-law. He's the Driving Force behind the favorable, oftentimes stunning, placements of Filipina beauties in International Beauty Pageants these last few years ( and the Chinese are crying, Foul! sore losers that they are ). If I win the lottery major-big-time, I can literally have my pick on whom to marry--with his help, of course. Heh, heh, heh. I guess you could say that I'd be willing to give up on my monastic celibacy vows for any one of them. Ha, ha, ha.

After I watched DIRTY GRANDPA, I refilled my water bottle at the drinking fountain. A man came up to me and said, "That's good. You have the right idea."

I'm just refilling my bottle, I said.

He said, "I can't afford to buy stuff here. I bring my own snacks." He showed me the big bulge in his pullover hoodie's pocket pouch. ( Or was he just happy to see me---Just kidding! Ha, ha, ha. )

I found this on the Internet.

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Yup, I can't blame him for it. I'm guilty of doing the same thing, myself, on occasion. Especially in the wintertime when I can wear a jacket with Big Pockets!

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