me, vanessa and charis are going to head downtown and meet up with some people and have dinner and go to nathan phillip's square. it would have been nice to go to a nice fancy restaurant and get dressed up and everything, but no one's really been planning. we're going to hit up dave & busters sometime in between now and the end of winter - anyone is invited - again, no actual planning, just come and have fun.
i am not going to new york anymore. there were five of us and four spots, and either way we cut it, it just didn't feel right leaving anyone behind. the point is, i have no succint winter plans - just a conglomerate of ideas that i am afraid might not make the cut.
roadtrip to montreal, still sounds good. rent a car and just get lost in montreal. new year's eve spent with my best friends, i wouldn't end the year any other way (actually a new year's kiss would be nice but that's pushing it). can you believe that christmas is just a couple of days away?
every year my high school friends throw a huge christmas party, and this is my first time ever not being able to make it. our christmas dinner is on the 23rd. it's difficult, having three brothers with lives and families of their own, finding the time to get our family all together for dinner. it pisses me off that christmas is always two days before christmas, or thanksgiving is a week before thanksgiving, and that my brothers are never there on mother's day - but they show up the day before actual mother's day, but then it's not even mother's day so it doesn't count! my mother is never priority to them (it's always the wife's family who comes first every year) and she doesn't mind - but i mind. anyway, the point is, i can't go because for me, tomorrow is christmas.
that's alright, though. my break is going well so far, getting time to spend with my closest friends here and there. at least i get to keep busy and see a little of everyone everyday. merry christmas people
i am in waterloo
when i got here, it felt nice
which is a weird feeling
considering i usually call this place a shithole
but lately, i like it
maybe it's because where i live now
i enjoy walks to school in the snow
i enjoy trekking to the computer lab everyday and staying there all night
i live closer, i see people more often
as opposed to last year,
where i stayed in my room all day
i actually study
and it feels good
and now i have to go home soon
why am i not looking forward to it?
fucking fuckers didn't send in my computer for repairs as per my assumption, they only ordered a new adapter. my laptop was at bestbuy the whole damn time. idiots! the new adapter doesn't fit into the D/C pin because it's broken. idiots! where's my laptop now? in for REPAIRS... which is where it should have been in the FIRST PLACE. now i have to wait another two weeks. STUPID. stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid idiots stupid stupid stupid
*at least i got brand spanking new beautiful AC adapter for free (well, under my warranty) even when i broke it myself teeheeheeheeheee!
** one more repair = FREE LAPTOP. note: must break laptop before june
due to lurking creepers, i will not state specific seat locations... BUT IT'S REALLY CLOSE!
bwahahahahaha HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH!!!!
maybe i'll drive there... in my new GREEN car!!!
AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!
with ira and lilian, with special guest appearances by shannon, and this nice guy we met named allen cheung!
yup, it's 6AM and we're all still up (with little studying done)... because all five of us were playing team Family Feud
oh man, what a distraction but so fun! seriously...SO FUN!!!
and considering we're still up... we're going to go eat breakfast at mel's diner soon.
and maybe sleep after.
last night, me, ira and lilian went to watch identity with john cusack and amanda peet at justin's house (it was confusing) and then we played scattegories until 3am. i consider it my break from these intense days of studying at the computer lab. now, i have to focus on operations -_-
oh yeah. i'm going to new york
i am a laggard. i am one of the 16% who "avoid change and rely on traditional products until they are no longer available"
**edit
omg, the funniest thing just happened. so i'm walking across St. Mikes parking lot from home to school... and it's dark and the lot is completely empty. a van pulls up behind me and just parks in the middle of everywhere, and someone gets out of the van and starts walking behind me. since St. Mikes is closed, i can't walk through the school so i have to walk at the side where it's really dark and creepy...like an alleyway. i get out my phone and punch in 911 just in case... and then there's this big steep snowy hill so i go up the hard way (because i'm not paying attention, i'm just trying to get away from creepy person) and i end up falling and i feel so embarassed and turn around to see if scary man saw i fell.
well, scary man turned out to be this scrawny clinton-looking guy who was friendly laughing at me. then i say "shut up! stop laughing" but really i'm thinking, thank god he's not a creeper. and he's like, "well why'd you go up the hard way!" and i'm like, "because i dunno! i was scared! i thought you were following me! you're creepy!" and then he's like, "how am i creepy!" and then i said, "i thought you were following me with a gun or something. who parks in the middle of the parking lot and starts following people?" and he's like, "i wasn't following! i'm going to school, i'm from laurier!" and i'm like,"well why don't you park closer to school like normal people and not far away in the middle of parking lots!" and he says, "like normal people! i have a gold pass i can only park at certain places" and starts laughing and then we continue to have this friendly banter and then we split up at the concourse and as we're walking away from each other, i ask him his name and he's like sun-something, and i'm pretty sure he's korean although he doesn't look it, and he asks my name... and he's like, "what year are you in? second?" and i show him three fingers and he's like, "you're old!"
anyway, that was a really funny/random moment!
1. shopping tour to new york with a bunch of university students?
pros. never been to new york and i really want to go! plus, shopping on boxing day in new york = great deals!
cons. tour bus with bunch of university students i don't even know?
2. road trip to montreal/ottawa/quebec with Laurier people?
pros. fun with friends... i love roadtrips! i also want to go inside and tour the parliament buildings this time
cons. been to all these places already. montreal's nothing special anymore
3. stay home
pros. i love home and i love my parents even more... and i feel the need to be with my parents more than ever. i won't feel comfortable out having fun in other cities while my dad is old and stuck fixing cars in the garage and my mom is in pain lying in bed all day
cons. bored
i took a shower. then i made food and now my hair smells like gross. oil splashed on my face and my hands and it burns. i ran out of pasta so i have no food for myself and now i'm hungry. i'm crampy, my stomach hurts. i forgot to take my pills. i don't have a laptop so i have to study at school. it's 12am and i have 80% of course material to cover by tomorrow for the exam because i was studying for stupid finance today which just ended at 9:30pm. i'm sleepy. my eyes are burning. and i am writing these personal entries only for a fucking creep - who went out of his way to find my blog which has only been active for the past ONE year, while we stopped being in contact nearly FOUR years ago - to read for his sickening pleasure. really really sad and disappointing. does it really get better?
and it was freaking amazing.
i missed it because i was at school studying, so muneer sent me the video. i was watching it and i was really really into it and then it just SUDDENLY stopped like 30 minutes in... and i was dying to see the ending.
especially since EVERYONE was talking to me about it, and i'm like, "shut up! i didn't watch it yet." so today people were still asking me if i watched it yet and i didn't even get to finish it, and everyone's inflating my expectations of the last 5 minutes that supposedly would make my jaw drop.
okay so i just watched it. and i want to say that YOU PEOPLE RUINED IT FOR ME.
i expected too much and the ending didn't do it for me, even when it should have because it was freaking awesome.
arghh lilian i cannot believe you told me sylar got his power back!!!
nathan is dead... HIS MOM KILLED HIM
and the best of all... ahahahahaha takezo kensei is buried and he can never ever die!!! GENIOUS!!!
it seems like people always talk to you when you're preoccupied
now i feel free, friday's finally here (thank goodness), no assignments for another week, no pressure, no deadlines... with nothing to do - and it kind of sucks and it's kind of awesome
i spent nearly 17 straight hours with michael, kevin and shannon yesterday at the library and 24 lounge. we were slaving over the accounting case, while kevin was just there for moral support. thanks, bud. it was a long, long, fun night.
sushi plans scrapped... we were all dead asleep.
slept at 6:50am...woke up at 8am for class
handed in our marketing plan for "Nata" water - water infused with essential prenatal vitamins targeted towards pregnant women
after classes, slept from 12 to 3
woke up and went to accounting
ate burnt chicken at home
libraried it with shannon, mike, kev and peachy for accounting
sleep early for finance and then... more accounting tomorrow
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, oh busy life
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*goes insane*
library yesterday,
2 hr group meeting
swiss chalet *YES*
movies! we watched american gangster...
what a frickn awesome movie!
3 hours well spent
i was telling our taxi driver home, "i've never felt so satisfied walking out of a movie before"
and this includes spider-man 3. let's not even talk about spider-man 3, i'm still pissed about that
anyway i never thought i'd like a movie so much about gangsters
i <3 you ridley scott
DENZEL + CROWE brraaap!!!
okay, so it starts off with pig.
i used to like pig but now i'm not a big fan whatsoever.
i really deserve some steak, a nice juicy sirloin steak
kevin says i should focus on salad right now
but i told him, everytime i focus on salad, i just think about meat again
and that i can't be a vegetarian. if anything, i would prefer a chicken caesar salad
the best from both worlds
apparently, we didn't suck
This was our article of focus:
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2007/11/01/singapore.html
Singapore Airlines' campaign is called "Romance&Travel," advertising luxury and privacy in their first class private suites; offering full sized double beds, offering endless champagne, putting rose petals on the bed... and yet they have a "no sex" policy.
i don't have pictures from last night
why?
because what we did last night was embarassing, shameful, and sad
and we stayed up until about 4 AM doing it
it's alright if you're doing it by yourself. but as a collective group... it's a different story
you just don't do those kind of things on a saturday night
it's not something i am proud of
castaway cleared, moving onto phoenix wright 3.
then i realized i needed to get the hell out of my room away from the evils of DS to study
me and ira were at the computer lab til 3am. justin came and brought us food (YUM!!!)
drunk people kept passing by shouting, "Why are you peple studying on a Friday night?!" damn you arts students
these drunk guys came in and semi-harassed us.
at 3:30am, the fire alarm went off. we went home
why?
and all the little things. lunch here, going out there... i don't know, time flies when you're procrastinating
me and ira ate mcdonalds (but i wanted sushi!) and trekked to wholesale. it's freezing outside and i've never been there before. they have some pretty good deals. i bought a 24 pack of sour skittles -hehe. they have these jumbo packs of everything! i almost fainted in the candy aisle, i wanted to buy everything.
howard kindly gave me a ride home friday night. i came home and my entire family was there because they were celebrating mercedes's birthday. then we went to tony/lillian's condo and we were all up to 2am writing our respectful speeches (in my case, rewriting). and then lillian got stressed out about wedding things until 5am+, so basically i got 2 hours of sleep.
then lillian raced to the wedding salon in markham and we were like an hour and a half late, so i got my hair/make-up done in like 15 minutes instead of the allotted 2 hours. then we went to lillian's house to get ready and then off to the Old Mill Chapel to get married!!!
anyway, here's a buttload of pictures.
old mill chapel
the bride and groom
i think i'm laughing because i thought the way my brother said the vows were funny. for some reason, people kept thinking i was crying
aww
my heel got caught on my dress and ripped a hole right before i was about to walk down the aisle. (that was just the beginning of my dress destruction)
this is my date. her name is vanessa. isn't she hot stuff? she's also a giant
little mercedes holding my bouquet!
me, my dad & baby (my oldest brother & marcus in the background)
my dad and my youngest brother
outside. IT WAS COLD
isn't she just adorable. don't you want to pinch her cheeks?
the photographer - he was FUNNY!
the wedding party. how many friggn shots did we get of this same picture? maybe 100
look how beautiful that is. i should be a photographer
me and lover
haha, i forced vanessa to throw the bouquet in the air! 
pretty
i don't know if you can tell, but i was pretty obsessed with throwing the bouquet. (in this picture, i accidently threw my bouquet backwards and it fell off the veranda)
again, my photography skills are clearly evident
this was the stage at the restaurant
the cake with three flavours (chocolate, mocha and strawberry)
prettyful
me and daddy. btw, he drank waaayy too much that night LOL. and he went on stage and sang! it was awesome! all my relatives told me to drive him home, it was the funniest thing. i love my daddy <3
the wedding party on stage
they made the wedding party slowdance. i had to SLOW DANCE with my brother - AWKWARD!!! YUCKKK. he kept telling me i smell so i kept punching him in the face. i wonder if anyone got pictures of me doing that
PARTAAAY! 
too bad i didn't get a photo of mercedes dancing. it was the cutest thing. i was teaching her to "raise the roof"
the "vanessa, stick out your boobs!" picture
our "orgasm faces" picture. i don't know what compelled me to do that
aww, final picture of the night. what an awesome night!!!
more pictures to come at a later date! anyway, i had a great night and i was happy to see all of my relatives and family friends who i haven't seen in a while, and it was funny how i haven't seen my brother's friends since i was like 8 years old and they were really shocked to see me. i'm kinda angry that no one was listening to my speech which i worked hard on - GRRRR - cos everyone was stuffing their face with pretty good food but oh well! seriously, my dad was the funniest part of the whole night!!! i am really sad that my mom couldn't make it (because her legs were in absolute pain and she couldn't even walk or move and she was not feeling well at all) but we went to the hospital the next day, and i am thankful that nothing is serious. sunday was good because the whole family was over paying visit to my mom that night, and we brought home one of the huge ass flowers from the wedding and she loves it so much. anyway, that was my weekend =)
after h/r, went for sushi (AGAIN) and conestoga
when we were crossing the yield, a car stopped for us and the car behind it hit it! we just walked away...
anyway, pictures.
some guys on the street
me+stella walking in mud and rain
stella-ella-ira (quack quack quack)
taking a picture of a picture...of a picture
crab salad - my fave!
random sushi. don't expect me to name
(heart)
kevin, ira, stella, allen, me
kev enjoying himself
allen ordered two scoops of EACH flavour!
... and he ate it all :O
becky refused to let me post any of the other pictures i took of her, so we took one (right at this instance) and she told me to post this one up instead
p.s. SAW FOUR!
