Merry Christmas

To all my family and friends, all the best on this joyeous of days! Hope you all have a wonderful day and enjoy the day with your friends and family.

Above is our tree decorated with real candles lite up for Christmas Eve!

SOLD!

So today it was announced that our company was sold to OMER Captial Partner out of Ontario [link].

It's nice to know that our company is doing so well in the market place and that institutions like OMER and Manulife Financial believe in our growth potential. This definately has opened up alot more doors for me career wise and I hope that I will be able to expand my horizons in the near future.

This has been an incredible year for us at work and I look forward to another amazing year!

People Keep Surprising Me

So this past Tuesday night I was at an event for work (the joys of doing what I do). Now these events can be enjoyable and other times can be just boring as hell. They are meant to be networking events.

Well this event had some great prizes to give away I have to say. A MotoQ cell phone, Sponsorship events, a restaurant gift certificate, etc. Now our main competitor (I won't mention their name here) was there and had donated the restaurant gift certificate. Last year I had won some of their prizes and I thought this year I would be funny to win it again :) . Well when they chose the name for the certificate, the person who donated it won. I thought cool, he'll just ask for them to pick another name instead, but I was SHOCKED to see him actually keeping the gift he donated. I'm sure I wasn't the only that noticed, but come on, if you are going to donate a gift, donate it, don't keep it in the end.

This is just another example of the competition at work. Oh well, glad I'm on this side!

The Ivy Bridge

So my sister Maria and her husband Dan have entered the world of pub owners. They are now part owners of The Ivy Bridge in Brampton Ontario.

I know it has been a long process, but they finally have it open and doing fairly well. So if you are in the Brampton area, stop by and say hello! You never know who you might run into there, a judge, a police chief or just a very nice person behind the bar.

All the best on the venture sister dear!!!

More photos can be seen on my Flickr page

DVD Beef!

So I've been noticing for sometime now that when movies are released on DVD they are released in 2 different formats. One just contains the movie alone and another version has the movie plus an extra DVD full of little extras (known as the Deluxe Version). Now I remember a few years back when the "deluxe" version was the only version that would be released. Is the way that the movie studios are gaining extra cash? Especially with the difference in the cost of the 2 versions. I myself prefer to buy the deluxe versions, but if the price keeps staying this high, I might have to revert back to just the movie version by itself.