I spent my actual Chinese New Year's at Morty's with Justin, James and Jackie. The original plan was to have hotpot at Leng Yue at 10PM but there were some discrepancies with SOME people. So yes, instead we ate wings and drank beer.
I went home for the weekend for my dad's 73rd birthday. On Friday night, a bunch of us RHSS-ers went to Sweet Avenue and the rest of us ended the night at Michael's house playing Mad Gab. The next night, my entire family came out to celebrate my dad/mom's birthday at Miga.
Sunday, I took my brother to Westside with me and at night, me and my parents had a Chinese New Year's feast! No not really, but we ate dinner together and pretended it was a feast. We don't really celebrate. Mike kindly gave a bunch of us a ride back and so my hectic week began.
I was at school all day yesterday from morning to night after a 4 hour nap the night before, and all I had to eat was a croissant so by 10PM I was exhausted. But for the sake of Chinese New Year's, we had to go out to Mortys! I woke up at 8am this morning after literal 1 hour of sleep and now I'm in class falling asleep... Happy days
I had a good weekend. We celebrated Kevin's bday at Morty's on Thursday, temporarily headed to Justin's house to help break into James's door and then house party at Shannon's house for a bit. Friday morning, Mike drove us home for the weekend and I spent the entire day doing my work at home (believably!). Saturday, me and Charis headed downtown because she was on a mission to buy her Longchamp bag. P.S. We totally ran into Kevin and gang on the subway for his birthday dinner number two! What are the odds. Then I headed by myself to Don Mills & Eglinton area to Memories of Japan for Seth's birthday dinner where EVERYONE showed up late! Then we headed to Seth's place after for a bit but couldn't stay too long because me and Vanoo had to catch the last Go Bus back home...
I'm going home again hopefully tomorrow night, so let's hang out people. Friday night at Sweet Avenue... be there! Ex-boyfriends with babies not invited
I really am taking this entire year in. I am appreciating everything and putting differences aside so that I am free to just be happy. I'm taking chances. I'm playing it by ear. I'm not just lucky, I am BLESSED.
Just looking back on my life... I've made a TON of mistakes and trust me, I've paid dearly all through University because of them. I've failed. I gave up on people. I dated and kissed boys I didn't like. My procastination got me in a lot of trouble. But I've learned so much, and I've grown into someone I can be proud of. This is exactly where I want to be.
Oh my lord, I feel like a tremendous burden has been lifted from my shoulders. I feel faint, tired, hungry and dizzy. I did end up sleeping, for 2 troublesome hours (drifting in and out of consciousness). Trying to wake myself up from that nap was a pain. Thank goodness I caught Ira before she left for work so that she could drop me off at Conestoga College where I wrote my Distance Education exam.
It was a 3 hr long exam. It took me 30 minutes to walk back because of the snow storm. So cold, and the wind was fiercly pushing me back as sharp bits of ice prickled my face as I lugged through the snow. Now I am faint, light-headed with a bad headache. But I am DONE, DONE with this stupid course that has been a humongous cloud over my head for a long time now.
God, please forgive me. And thank you for giving me a chance
I gots my extra large coffee and I am ready for my all-nighter. I deserve it because I went to Montreal instead of studying for my exam and so I screwed myself over. I also half screwed myself over in AIS and FAT today because I didn't participate (because I didn't prepare for class, because I was studying... slash watching Westlife videos all night. Stupid Ira! Rekindling my love for my favourite boyband 10 years ago. By favourite, I mean the only boyband I ever liked. Backstreet Boys is gay!!! That's right Ira, I said it), so I made the effort to participate in Marketing Research. But that's so easy because there's only 20 people in that class and Lisa Giguere is surprisingly awesome.
What's worse is that right after my killer exam tomorrow morning, I have to endure 3 hour of classes before I can get my nap nap. From that point on, it's freedom...
Okay, this is my third time telling this story. I warn you, please don't judge me for the things I am about to say. I am not a racist, I am a realist.
Her name is Sai.
The minute I walked into the house, she greeted me like a motherly figure and talked to me with very kind words. She is a very sweet lady. She recently came from India maybe 3 months ago I think, and she is married. Her husband lives down the street. He comes over every lunch and dinner and she cooks him meals everyday.
The place smells like crap. I love Indian people, don't get me wrong. I have Indian friends, and I've never had a problem like this before. But with her, she brought the Indian smell. My friends, it's the nastiest smell of body odour there ever is. I am not saying all Indians smell, I am saying SHE smells. And she makes the entire house smell, and it's not just because of her food.
Not only does she cook all day, but she left the place an entire mess with her food EVERYWHERE. I've yet to eat in the kitchen. Frankly, it's a place that I don't want to be right now. Do you want to hear the washroom story? Let me tell you the washroom story.
I walked into the washroom and it was flooded. The bath mat... let me quote myself, "... is like someone took the bath mat and dipped it into the ocean and just pulled it out." It's SOAKED as in undryably soaked; it looks black and it's supposed to be red. People, this is our new bath mat that me and Becky JUST BOUGHT before Christmas break... and it's really gone! There were some red stains on the toilet seat. Apparently, she has her period and she got some on her clothes so she washed them but didn't have enough coins for the drying machine. So she hangs up her damp smelly period clothing (and undergarments...*SHUDDER*) all around our tiny little bathroom for the world to see...and smell.
And why was the bathroom flooded? She told us that in the past, she's only used showers with sliding doors, but never with shower curtains. You know how you put one on the inside to seal the water? And you put one on the outside for decorative purposes? Well she puts both on the outside because she didn't know, which resulted in the flooding of our washroom. Thanks for cleaning it up!!!
Surprisingly, I am not that upset. Honestly. But some of my other roommates are not too pleased...
Check out the video I posted up of the party. Basically, me and Tania ran around Jenny Lai's mansion taking a video of people and it primarily consists of me acting like a dumbass and making a fool of myself haha. Enjoy!
Christmas Eve @ T.J.s House
Ottawa/Montreal Trip - Day 1
The trip there was pretty good considering the very foggy Silent Hill-esque travel conditions. We drove to Ottawa to meet up with the rest of Michael's friends, and explored Chateau Laurier (a fancy hotel apparently where the Queen stays when she is in town) where this Cuban janitor started taking pictures for us, giving us a tour and telling us ghost stories.
We had dinner and then headed to Montreal where we checked into our sweet hotel, The Hyatt. We played this board game - drinking game style and everyone (minus me) was basically tipsy to drunk and was acting funny until like 5 am in the morning.
Montreal Trip - Day 2
We woke up and walked past the Notre Dame Cathedral to Old Montreal where we visited Creperie Chez Suzette - the quaint place that we found last year. We briefly went to an Art Museum in front of our hotel and then walked around for a while. We had dinner at this French restaurant where I wasted 28 bucks on stupid 6 scallops and a morsel of dry pasta in the corner - disgusting. We went to W hotel where Matt & Julie were staying, drank and headed back to our hotel.
Montreal Trip - Day 3
Our last day! We had breakfast at Mike's and checked out. We spent the entire day "shopping" aka walking around all day until I couldn't walk no more around St. Catherine and St. Laurent's. We had a drink at this nice little bar, and ended the day at one of the best restaurants I've ever been to: Pintxo.
On our way home, I bought $50 worth of Montreal smoked meat at Schwartz (YUM!!!). Michael's GPS just decided to stop working, so we got really lost trying to find the highway, ended up going to opposite direction and that's when the winter storm started. We had to go to Ottawa to drop off Bob and even though the GPS told us to take the local roads, we stopped listening to it. And thank god because Mike realized the GPS was set on "walking mode" - DOH. Basically we left around 11pm, got caught up in the worst possible storm EVER (it was the scariest thing, I never want to drive under those conditions again), and by the time we got to Mississauga, it was 7:30AM on December 30th. Time to prepare for my New Year's Eve Eve party LOL.
New Year's Eve [Squared]
On 4 hours of sleep after a hectic tiresome week, I pulled off a party for 40+ people, and stayed up til 7:30AM single-handedly (with aid from Charis) cleaning it all up to perfection. It was super crowded, but I hope everyone had themselves a good time. More importantly, THANK YOU FOR DRESSING TO IMPRESSING =)
HAPPY NEW YEAR'S EVE!
New Year's Eve
I woke up at 3pm and me and Becky had a long lunch at Picklebarrel =) and I dropped her off. No one wanted to go to Nathan Phillips (first time in years since I haven't gone), so we celebrated at Richard's house. We had drinks, watched a movie, I ate a bagel, had a crappy countdown because it was kind of rushed, and then crashed soon after. It's good to know that I'm going to spend the rest of my year like this. Happy New Year
