Tuesday, April 30, 2002
I'M DONE!!!!
woohoo! yippee!! :) the partying (and packing [sigh]) starts tmr. :D
keep persevering, all of u who still have exams.... i'll be with u in spirit! til i start studying again in one wk when my distance ed accounting course starts.
today was quite the day. ange and i left for our exams tonight, a little later than we had intended. stepped into the elevator as usual, pressed G and waited. we hit the ground floor... but... the door wouldn't open!!! we tried everything - hitting "door open", the alarm, calling security on the elevator phone. no answer!! did they fall alseep in the gatehouse?? :) we were freaking out... what would happen if we were stuck for a looong time? and was late for our exams? would they still let us in? (i read on the arts and science calendar l8r tonight that we wouldn't have been allowed in 15 min into the exam. aiya.) all that studying!! finally, ange was like - let's call anita and hope that she's home! so she called her and phew!! anita had JUST got home. yay!! she went and told security right away - umm.. i think my 2 friends are stuck in the elevator! :P so they called us on the elevator phone and the guy told me diff things to try. finally he said - try to move the elevator door, like slide it open. ange did... and yay, it worked after a couple tries!!! phew!!!! :D anita's our hero!! :D ange and i quickly ran out the front doors and flagged down a cab. what an adventure. :)
so i'm moving out on wed. so sad. :( but i'm trying to look on the bright side. change is good, right? see change as a challenge. it'll improve ur hardiness - ability to handle stress. :). at least that's what ob has taught me. and moving home will be good. more nature. :) there's a hiking trail and a ravine behind our house, and a park and a softball diamond right across the street. hanging out with my parents and my sis. driving again. :) living in suburbia. not having to cook/shop for groceries anymore. though i think i'll miss that. no 24/7 personal internet connection. i'll hafta share with the family. and i'll definitely miss ange. :( it was fun while it lasted, girl. good times. :)
Sunday, April 28, 2002
guess what, guess what, guess what??
i just found out that i got the room with the big windows in the apartment at lexington for next yr!! yay!!!!!!! :D i have sunlight!!! and a view of the maple leaf gardens dome. ah well. :)
one exam tmr. bleh. i want it to be OVER! my studying has come to a very loong halt.
and i've been working on my communication skills in conflict resolution. :) u don't really know how far u've let someone into ur life until some kinda conflict comes up... and u see how it affects u. and how it turns out. hmm. communication is key. ange was asking me why this conflict thing seems to be such a big thing for me. and i think it's cuz i'm slowly learning to get out of my avoider mentality. no longer a pushover. :P
Saturday, April 27, 2002
happy birthday to lill and ann! :)
happy together
Me and you and you and me
No matter how they toss the dice, it has to be
The only one for me is you, and you for me
So happy together
I can't see me lovin' nobody but you
For all my life
When you're with me, baby the skies'll be blue
For all my life
So happy together
How is the weather
So happy together
We're happy together
So happy together
Happy together
So happy together
So happy together
~ g. bonner, a. gordon
i like this song. :) it's happy and boppy. hehe. my other favourite is "let it be".
what a good day of studying and working and praying. :) life is good. God is good. amen!
it's bright and sunny outside! it looks to be a great saturday. :) have a great day, everyone!
gabe is a genius! :)
so what'd u end up doing last night, connie? did u guys go to money?
for some reason loe poh bang from nyc tastes extra good this morning. maybe it's the morning, maybe it's with age. :D
i'm off to 2nd cup to pray with shannon!
happy studying, everyone! i wish u great productiveness. :)
let it be
it's 6 am!! and i'm up studying! aren't u proud of me? :D my productivity at this time of the morning is amazing. after a full night of sleep. hehe. yeah, i wasn't "studying hardcore" really. :P but now i am! kinda. i think i've lost my endurance for studying for long periods of time. after about an hour, i just wanna play. what happened to those days in first yr when sue and i would go to the lib after dinner every night and the whole wkd and stay there til closing? [sigh] i'm getting old. :)
so after an hour, i'm downloading beatles mp3's. hehe. i had an urge to listen to them yesterday after spending the afternoon at 2nd cup, studying with sarah and riah. they were playing their hits.
ok, i've had my break. i should stop talking to winnie on msn and get back to my books. :)
Friday, April 26, 2002
mcdonald's, mcdonald's, kentucky fried chicken and a pizza hut!
ange and heidy are going crazy over amazing race in the other room. :) we went out for dinner to pizza hut tonight. i had a craving for nabeyaki udon at tokyo grill again - it's about time, 2 wks. but ange had yet ANOTHER craving for pizza, so we headed to pizza hut. the waiter got our order wrong the first time around, so we had to wait another long while for our stuffed crust pizza. then it was another forever waiting for him to take our money!! we were late for our tv shows cuz we had to wait for him. ange even went next door to buy her dessert from baroli so we wouldn't hafta wait for her after we paid. but nope, we were still waiting when she came back with her tiramisu. we finally decided to forget waiting for change (ange wanted to break her big bill) and gave him exact change. finally we walked home super fast and ran into the elevator, key in hand, ready to run into the apartment and turn on the tv - dawson's and amazing race already on. [grin] are we sad or what? we know. :D
ooo.. jamie oliver's coming to indigo next wk!! wed night. anyone wanna come? :) he's the naked chef in case u didn't know. :)
i so cannot wait for exams to be over. i gave up going to matt's to jam tonight to study, so i better get going. i'm not allowed to sleep anymore!! ange says i'm a sleeping machine. :D i tell ya - it's the best method of procrastination!
Wednesday, April 24, 2002
it feels like a saturday today for some reason. i woke up with a big day of stuff to do ahead of me, and then it all went away. so my day ended up being pretty free. it was nice and sunny too - maybe that all contributed to my saturday feeling. so since it feels like sat, it also feels like there should be church tmr. i like church. :) it's refreshing. gives me energy to face a new wk. i need that energy right about now. exam time atmosphere has a way of producing lethargy.
i also feel like having dinner with someone i haven't seen in a long time tonight. but i dunno who. my bro was supposed to come down and have dinner with me and ange, but ange's stressed (stop icqing and go do work!! :P), so nate said he might make plans with someone else instead. i dunno. i wonder if he's still coming. oh well. i should study with all this extra time that i suddenly have, but i'm just not in the study mood yet. it's still light out. :)
so i saw the place this morn that i might be living in next yr. it's at lexington, on college right across from maple leaf gardens. it's pretty old - maybe like 20 yrs? and a lot more ghetto than i'm used to. ok, it's not really that ghetto, but it reminded me of waterloo living... eeee.... i've been spoiled. :) it's a 4 bedroom place. the master's taken, but 3 rooms are left. only one of them has windows - that's the one i want. i hope i get it. it's the solarium and it looks fairly big. $500/month including utilities. no phone or cable. not bad at all. i guess i'll see...
ok, so no good blog today. [yawn] so tired, so much work to do. aaaahhhhhh!!!!! one more wk left. and then what? i dunno.... still trying to figure things out with my placement. why is this so difficult?! i started studying for organizational behaviour. it's interesting stuff... but takes so long. studying feels weird. i'm too used to writing papers.
stress, stress, stress. aiya, aiya, aiya. what happened to me? i was fine this aft. but now..... i'm thinking of everything....
i gave my notice at jaka's for the summer tonight. i'm gonna miss working at that place. lotsa cool friendships made, ppl met, old friends re-acquainted with. and now i know how to make bbt. :)
sarah got engaged!! over the wkd. congrats, babe. :) sometimes our lives seem so different... i'm still a kid. u're an adult.. with all the trimmings.
Tuesday, April 23, 2002
sorry, kids!
...for the lack of blogging. a good one will be posted tmr. :) for now i'm tooooo tired.
i had a paper due today that i didn't make much progress on til last night and today, so i felt guilty blogging when i should've been working... though that didn't happen much. :P
the last couple of days were fun ones - my "set up backup plan", essay cramming and guitar lessons at matt's. :) well, kaitlyn's lesson while i watched felicity, tried to study and talked to vince and andrew. :) now it's time to relax again. but REALLY i gotta study for my exam next monday! no more of this procrastination junk! :D
ok, time for bed. nite!
Friday, April 19, 2002
play hard, work hard... but play first. :D
wow, i didn't know i had such an adoring fan! [grin]
[sigh] i went to the lib for a total of one whole hour tonight. all i got done was.... eg. too tired to read anything. it's getting close! my essay's due soon. i think i'm gonna hafta start my napping thing again. too bad my human alarm clock is out of town. :( :P i can't even start writing essays til there's pressure now. what happened?! it was only 3rd yr that i used to write 'em a wk b4 they were due. the steve wong school of essay writing has had its effect on me. there's no turning back! :( :( well, play hard, work hard, i suppose.
which leads me to my new fascination... exercise. :D it's hasn't been long since i've been doing it regularly and i'm already feeling it's effects.. ow ow ow! :P but really, it does feel good. :) ange made a comment this aft about how i've become so healthy all of a sudden - i sleep early (2 am is early? :), eat healthy (well, i've always eaten pretty well... it's all about balance, right?) and now i'm exercising! yay. :) healthy is good. i've always wanted to become "normal". :D but.. i'm afraid i'll lose touch with all my non-normal friends! :P let's see if i can convince ange to do tae bo with me tmr. ;)
btw, does anyone know what church angus fung goes to? (i'll explain l8r.)
and is anyone making a trip to london any time soon?
ok, time to nap. more blogging for my adoring fans l8r. :)
bye, clark!
anita and i ran into anna and winnie tonight at kelly. they were studying for their professional practice exam tmr. anna told me that clark's leaving for hk on sunday. i guess this is it.... everyone keeps leaving.... clark got a job working at goldman sachs. wow. and he plans on being there 5-10 yrs. good luck, buddy. we'll miss u. a decade of fun and growing up. now moving on to bigger things. it's funny how all of us either ended up at ut or uw. and some who were at uw came to ut. :) or toronto on their work terms. i wonder how the rest of the gang are doing... it's been awhile.
i was reading an article today in the american journal of public health. it's about the growing obesity epidemic in the states and how it correlates with increasing portion sizes that began in the 70's and jumped to new heights in the 80's. portions are still getting bigger and bigger now. ppl think they're getting more value for their dollar, but really, it's doing damage to their hearts. (fast food nation is probably based on this study and others.) physical activity patterns haven't changed much in the last decade, so the prevalence of overweight and obesity is being attributed to increasing energy consumption. apparently the US food supply now provides 500 kcal/d per capita more than it did in the 1970s. that's a lotta calories. i dunno if u can get it online, but it's in the feb 2002 issue, vol 92 (2): 246-9. Young and Nestle, The contribution of expanding portion sizes to the US obesity epidemic. an interesting read.
anyhoo, i'm too tired to blog more tonight. so i'll leave u with a quote i found in my inbox:
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Thursday, April 18, 2002
finally updating
i should do this more often. i keep forgetting what i want to blog about.
what a nice couple days. [sigh of content] i was talking to lill this morn and she said they've been getting the same kinda weather in hk - 29 degrees, 70% humidity. we're getting hk weather in april in toronto!! can u believe that? crazy! :) but very very nice. :D
so i went home for the last couple days. it was nice to be back. i'm kinda looking forward to living at home for the summer. i was telling my parents about my summer plans and my dad was kinda concerned that i'm putting too much on my plate. so i'm re-thinking. i think that i think i can be superwoman at times... i should quit being so optimistic and face reality. :P
i had my first recording session! it was lotsa fun! :) i dragged my sis over to matt's house cuz my parents were off in kitchener. she was supposed to do work, but slept instead. too tired from her near all-nighter the night b4. :) matt and i played around with only hope, u are my king and one pure and holy passion. after 30 min, i didn't wanna hear my own voice anymore. :P hehe. so not used to it. one thing for sure - i gotta work on my range... high notes....eee... and translating what u wanna do from ur brain to ur voice is so hard!! practice, practice. reverb helps. :P i'm learning! i made matt sing with me for u are my king and one pure. duets are fun. :) but i think a lower key is better for us. i wonder how i sang it decently at my grandma's bday banquet. :P i guess my bro, sis and i couldn't really hear ourselves well there anyhoo. time to listen to the recordings over and over again and see what we can do with 'em.
this blog thing is funny. :) u get to see it from both mine and matt's perspectives of things (grad dinner, recording, etc.). it reminds me of when i was a kid. i used to read a lot and wonder what all the other characters in the book thought of what was going on in the story. i thought it'd be cool when i grew up to re-write books from the perspective of another character. that was b4 they did it with gone with the wind. :)
my resolution not to eat out for a whole wk was broken. my mom didn't wanna/have time to cook, so we went to loon gae (where i saw rob last time we went! :) it was a fun time hanging out with my parents and talking to them again in person. haven't done that in ages. and shopping with my sis was actually quite productive. :)
yay! yu-ling has a new blog! and i quite like it. :)
haha.... ppl are bugging me to blog. :P coming, coming!
Tuesday, April 16, 2002
it smells like summer!!
the weathernetwork says it's gonna be 28 degrees out, but the humidex will be 35. whoa!! in april?! i gotta go outside and see how warm it is for myself!!
i forgot to mention that there was a 2 h special of ally last night. yay! to make up for the month that they didn't have any episodes, i suppose. bon jovi's gonna be on the show for awhile longer! matthew perry was in it too, as a potential love interest for ally. ange was rooting for him, but i stuck with bon jovi. he's sooo cute! :P sweet and cute. [sigh] well, at least his character is. :) hehehe.
brain dead
gosh, i am so brain dead. why am i even up. :) i was trying to post on eg, but it took forever cuz i couldn't think straight! hehe.
the weather was so nice today... well, not much sun. but nice and warm. it's supposed to be 29 degrees tmr. do u believe it? we'll have to see!
i decided to go home tues/wed. finally. i think it's been like 2 months at least since i last went home.
and no news yet about my placement. [sigh] which reminds me, i gotta call the dietitian at regent park chc tmr.
what a boring post. ah well, not every day's an exciting day. :) but i did get to sleep 10.5 h last night! it's the best feeling in the world to go to bed and know that u don't hafta set ur alarm for the next morning. [sigh of content] :D
btw, i've been to hollyholz's site at least 3 times today due to boredom. and 2 out of those 3 times she's had a new post! yay! talk about keeping ur readers happy. :P i think she gets the award!
Monday, April 15, 2002
i've been eating out every single day since wed night.... this has got to come to an end! first it's ice cream, then it's eating out. :P what's become of me? :) well, at least it's all good food... healthy! hehe. japanese 3 out of the 6 meals. mmm.... :9 lotsa fish. omega 3's! anita and i went to sushi inn tonight cuz she felt like temaki. i wasn't really hungry, so i just got the rainbow roll - yummy! we sat at the sushi bar and were mesmerized by the sushi-makers in front of us. :D
oh, guess what? i have work out buddies now! :) cath and ginsei came with me tonight to go run laps. around and around and around. :) we're gonna go run and swim tmr night. yay! i met some med students, classmates of theirs, who were working out too. they said there are at least 30 of 'em living in our complex. this one guy was reading a bk his mentor had just given him - something about getting off the boat. i dunno... :P but i remember seeing it at mitchell's b4 and i thought to myself - oh cool! a christian! i find it so rare these days to meet another christian. i used to meet lots of 'em all the time b4 - like at non-church/fellowship related functions. but not anymore. sad.
i'm so tired... [yawn]. i think i'll skip studying at country style with terrance tonight and head straight to bed. big day of work tmr!
Sunday, April 14, 2002
am i really one of the guys... or is matt just one of the girls? ;) heehee.
lol. up to count #11 now. :D
Saturday, April 13, 2002
random thoughts
why is it always that after my busy period of school, nonschool stuff is even busier? ever since i handed in my papers on tues, i haven't had much time to myself... or rather... the time i do have, i waste cuz i know i can afford to. hmm.
ken kwan is getting married this summer!!!!! :D and donna's coming back too!!!
so i'm supposed to sing "breathy" for mandy moore's "only hope". hmm. i think my voice is breathy enough. i remember in gr. 11 vocal class, ppl called my voice "airy". i didn't know how to take that. :P all this time i've been trying to work on focusing my breath... and now matt says i'm supposed to sing "breathy" again?? :) i guess it's all about control.
ccf grad dinner
... was tonight. kowloon actually looked kinda pretty! :) candle light, soft white lights, balloon and star confetti, floating tealight centrepieces... and a shiny pale blue and white backdrop for pictures. very nice. :) mission accomplished, right justin? :) it was funny watching the skits... and acting too. hehe. i couldn't not smile for denise's skit, try as i did. :) the video was good too! and hearing the grads share.... it didn't sink in that they probably wouldn't be back.. til afterwards ... it seems funny. to have been there when this generation started coming to ccf. and still be here when they are leaving. i can't imagine them not being there anymore. though some of them might still be around for grad school next yr. yeelee, ameals, henry, isabel, megs... i still remember when they first started coming to ccf. i remember ameals calling me for the first time cuz she saw my name on posters around campus. and we had been worried about the weirdos that might call me. :P [sigh] nostalgia. :)
u know, being at ccf tonight again was kinda like returning to something familiar. i haven't been around for quite awhile. life this yr has definitely been different without the constant anchor of fellowship and ccf activities. but in some ways a little more freeing. more time to myself, more time to study, more time to hang out with nonccf friends - at work, at school. i do regret not being able to go to elections last wk... listening to the grads share tonight reminded me of the passion and vision of the nominees each yr. i miss that. listening to ppl talk about their dreams for the campus, the big picture. God at work. and pino shared with us that he accepted christ on monday. praise God! :) u know what, though - tonight also showed me how easy it is to fit right back in. after not going regularly for so long.... it's kinda nice to know that even though i've been doing my own thing, my own kinda ministry this yr, ccf will always be there... for fellowship, support. it's just the matter of making the effort. that's comforting.
at the same time, i wonder if i've been neglecting my role as a big sis in ccf. i thought there were enough "older" ppl around this yr to take care of things, per se and offer advice whenever they saw it was needed. but... i guess i was wrong, or maybe everyone thought that way. hmm... anyhow, either way, i think i have a lot of thinking to do about ccf and next yr...
for the record
ok, i'm up to "is matt ur boyfriend?" count #8, so i think it's time we set things straight. he's "my boy", but not my boy. get it? tonight's incident at ccf grad dinner was the funniest outta all of them. :) poor jas. but his heart belongs to another... *sigh*. right, honey? :D
Thursday, April 11, 2002
married... with children?
what a topic, eh? well, i've been thinking about it for awhile on and off, but this article that amy told us about at cell grp last night made me think some more.
we're getting to that age (or at least, i am) where our friends are starting to get engaged and pretty soon they'll all be married off. ok, so not so drastic. :P but u know what i'm talking about. endless weddings and bridal showers to go to every summer... it's starting early this yr... tim quan's getting married this wkd. or so my mom tells me. this hit closer to home than i was comfortable with a couple months ago when i read joanne's entry (jan 31) about her plans for the future and how her and mel and christine are all kinda at the same point in their lives. that was when i realized that b4 entering univ, that's where i had always thought i would be when i graduated from univ... ready to settle down. mel and christine are both engaged (both my age) and joanne's just as good as engaged. :P (congrats on ur job in hk this summer, btw. have a great time. :D) i've heard of other ppl who are around my age and engaged or even already married (rachel!! and wendy...), but it didn't bother me as much as this realization did. i think it has a lot to do with the fact that i know these girls, we used to be good friends as little kids... christine used to be my best friend when i was 4 and our parents go way back to gr. 1! anyhow, thinking about where i thought i would be... and where i am now... kinda scared me. i was both sad and relieved. it was weird... thinking about what it'd be like to have ur future b4 u certain in that area... and then thinking about what i'm like now. i don't feel 23. or at least, i don't feel like the 23 yr old i thought i'd be when i was 16. :) so... would i really be ready for marriage/engagement. i don't think so. but that doesn't stop me from wondering.
ideally i'd like to get married at 25 and have my first kid by 28. but the reality is... that's probably not gonna happen. at the rate i'm going, i probably won't be married b4 30. u know what, i've gotten into the habit lately of checking for engagement rings/wedding bands on ppl i meet. and i've also found that there are a lot more single ppl out there than i thought. hm. the time magazine article said that a woman's fertility starts declining at age 27. and at 42, the chance that a woman will be able to have a child with her own eggs is less than 10%. it was talking about women who put career as a priority and then later on when they start thinking about having kids, it's too late. for me, that's not so much of an issue cuz i'm not really a high achiever, so there's no danger of me getting carried away with my career. :)
i like balance. family is important, but i don't think i'd like to be a full-time homemaker. maybe stay at home with the kids for 1, 2 yrs... but then i'd want to go back to work. i was talking to my mom about this tonight. and she kinda surprised me by sounding surprised when i told her this. she really thought that i would stop working permanently after i have kids. my dad was teasing my sister about wanting to be a see lie. :P
my mom's also been telling me lately about how hard it is to find the right person. well, she hasn't said that right out, but that's the impression i get from listening to her. she has so many stories about women who've married a guy and then afterwards he's become something else. how do u know someone is who they really seem to be? u never really know. it's so important to really know the guy b4 rushing into anything. a lifetime of unhappiness isn't worth the loneliness u might be feeling right now.
after all this talk about marriage and kids... the added complication is my career path/calling. how will that fit in? hmm... but u know, maybe it isn't so different. perhaps harder, but not so different. if tentmaking is about doing what u would be doing right where u are now, but in a different country... then all it is is living ur life the same way no matter where u are. still ministering to ppl, still serving God, still living ur life for him. still working, still caring for ur family.
so what do u guys think? have u thought much about things like these? matt posed the question in his blog and i'm asking too. what are ur expectations for the future - marriage, kids - is it a priority? or do u want to be established in ur career first? what would u do if the person u loved had completely different priorities/expectations?
u know what? i've been thinking about this, but the thing is... i'm not worrying. it's this curious feeling of peace and letting go. thinking about it and worrying won't do anything to make it happen any faster, so why waste ur brain power? God's timing is perfect and he'll bring the right person into my life when the time is right. or if that person is already there... he'll open my eyes. :) wongs and i were talking one time and we pulled a random statistic out of the air - hehe. the chance that u've already met the person u're gonna marry by the time u're 23 is very high. i then heard another more legit statistic somewhere else... but i forget what it is now. :P do u remember, matt? i think i told u. anyhoo... the point is... no amount of worrying will bring marriage and a family any closer, so for now... just trust... and enjoy ur freedom. :)
ps. i'll eventually get to the other topics i said i'd blog about. :) simplicity, growing up (which is pretty related to this)
pps. ccf grad dinner is coming soon! fri night. we had a rehearsal meeting for the grad skits tonight. soooo funny! :D davin's a character. :) i'm going decoration shopping with bonnie and justin tmr. yay!
Wednesday, April 10, 2002
on 2nd thought... ange's ready to go to kinko's now so i'm gonna postpone blogging til tmr! bye!
forum replies
alrighty, kids. i'm back and ready to reply again!!! phew... what a couple days... i swear never to go thru that kinda stress again, that's just insane. but now that it's over... i took the night off. :) but planning to get down to work asap.
anyhoo, i decided to reply to ppl's msgs on my forum in my blog cuz there's just no way i'm gonna post a gazillion diff msgs. :) so here goes:
hollyholz: i like the avocado too! :) very good source of monounsat'd fat. :) lol!! ur mom. aiya. :P conball's starting to post on her own gbk again.... we might just start something in her gbk too! i gotta sign. u didn't get to see mws at the skydome? was that way back when billy graham came? i got to see him then!! :) how'd stats go? i'm assuming good since u smiled? :)
dorcas: lol. u crack me up. it's not pete lizak - pete was normal!! err.. at least his colour combos were. ;) PAUL IRWIN is who u're talkin about. good ol paul with his orange and green combos. :D ewwww.. pretty pastels. i'm not girly enough to have pastels. :P i agree with wongs, this new look is definitely more "me". :) btw, it's a template so i can't change the fruit... not that i know how! hehe. and i'm alright. :P it's cool... don't need a boy.. hehe... already got one. [wink]
jon: alrighty, i'll wait patiently for scene iii. :) what's a "crawl" exactly? and how can u make urself be first? i did a search in google for my name and my page is the first link to show up!! then it's wongs' link to mine.
wongs: ferro rocher, eh? too bad i'm allergic. what other flavours do i love? greg's chocolate banana chunk. mm.. :9 tastes like the banana muffins my grandma used to make. ok, so this counter thing doesn't mean a thing. i agree. but i would appreciate some feedback if ppl feel so inclined to comment on my blog. i made it clear at the beginning that that's what it was for - less of a gbk, more of a commentary cuz i don't know how to add that in the first place. and besides, i don't think a toll free number would work cuz that would mean more inconvenience. u're using one form of communication already, chances are that ppl would wanna stick to that and be too lazy to call. wongs, i'm blaming my corruption (aka essay writing habits) on u!!! u have taught me too well. [sigh] wongs party time? free ticket, free ticket! :D then i'll come!!!
matt: summer's a-coming! i'm excited about my anticpated spumoni!! :D it's scarce these days.... no longer on sale at the supermarket. phooey.
ange: hang in there!!! party time will come soon enough!! :) matt and i will be ur kinko buddies. :D
brian: no longer neglected. :)
u boys.... :D keep at it, u crack me up. and i'm learning some hidden, little known facts about u guys!
phew... that's it for replies. time to blog for real....
Tuesday, April 09, 2002
i'm taking a break from my wild night of paper writing to say, happy birthday, amy!
tmr we will return to our regular schedule of blogging and forum replies.
Monday, April 08, 2002
almost there
hopefully.... in 25 h. so what am i doing blogging? taking a break of course. :) i should check blogs more often in the early morning. there were actually quite a few new posts!! there are hardly ever any when i check at night.
i should quit drinking anything sweet or tea-based any time close to my intended bedtime. i wanted to nap last night at 11 pm, but i didn't end up sleeping til 2 am!! :( thanx to my human alarm clock (among other things :P), i managed to get up after 3 h.. or so. :). amy's bday party last night was fun. for the short time that i showed up for it. i didn't get to talk to that many ppl, but i did spend some quality time catching up with amy (i miss those roommate days. i wanna go to nyc!!). it was good to see nancy after so long too. i've run into her and sim a couple times over the last while, but never for long enough to talk. she said there might be a possiblity of a condo on bay being available for us!! i've lived on bay long enough to be addicted to condo life. :) (a whole 2 yrs. hehe.) bernie kept me company while waiting for my almond steamed milk (that was the source of my insomnia!) and anita to meet me to walk home. i've been neglecting my little bro's... among other ppl. brian. >.< well, the end is in sight.... hopefully after recuperation, i will enter the real world again.... ready to play! :)
btw, ppl like my new look! yay! :D
and ange's still not home yet... .i hope she's ok!! i won't be seeing u til l8r tonight... did the project go ok?
Saturday, April 06, 2002
new look
whadaya think?
eat ur fruits and veggies! :D
now i gotta change my gbk colours. that'll be on my next break/procrastination urge.
countdown
3.5 more days to go.... >.<
i'm already planning things to do after to reward myself.... lunches, dinners, shopping, cd's, movies and plain relaxing. oh yeah... and sleep!! if only these 4 days would whoosh by and it could be tues aft at 12 pm right this moment. [sigh] persevere, persevere.
"The shortest way to do many things is to do one thing at a time."
~ Samuel Smiles
"smiles". what a cute name. :)
Wednesday, April 03, 2002
growing up
more to come...
Tuesday, April 02, 2002
ice cream overload
or maybe it's just food in general... :) ange's mom is here for awhile and she's been cooking for us. lotsa yummy food... but i've been eating waaay too much!! in our freezer right now, we have 3 kinds of ice cream: strawberry, cappuccino biscotti and turtles. mmmm... :9 that's not including ange's 2 haagen daaz sorbets! as if that wasn't enough, matt came for a short study break this aft b4 going to play vball at the AC. we went to dairy queen and got blizzards. it's 3 h l8r and i'm still too full to eat dinner! i think i'm gonna restrain myself from eating ice cream for the next 2 wks... these ice cream dates have got to stop!! :P let's go grocery store exploring instead. :)
i'm amazed at my productivity this wk. still lots to do though! keep persevering, everyone!
did i ever say how much i LOVE nutrition? we had a class on social marketing today and it was the coolest thing. we looked at ads and thought about the who/what/how and the remarkable/reward/relevance/right of it. the speaker came from a marketing firm that did the "love ur heart" campaign that's currently being run all over toronto. u've probably seen the ads about second hand smoke affecting ur kids, the one about fries being the favourite vegetable of 25% of canadian families and the couch potato one about how 63% of canadian women don't get enough exercise. the msg? stop smoking, trim the fat and get off the couch!! it's really cool to see everything that went into that campaign. u can send for free packages that give u tips on how to do each of those 3 things. it's GREAT! :)
check out the dialogue goin on in my gbk! :P it's a forum now! don't forget to sign/contribute on ur way out! :)
i'm currently listening to jacksoul's sleepless cd. good stuff. nice and mellow and slightly depressing. :) just right. hehe.
I should get up soon.
And start a whole new life without you, baby.
But it's not really living.
And I miss you babe.
I miss you baby.
